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Re: Animation: Space ship taking off
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Date: 
Mon, 5 Jul 1999 09:12:51 GMT
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Fredrik Glöckner skrev i meddelandet ...
> I've made a short animation.  It features a space ship taking off.  It's • [snip]
> 
>    http://www.math.uio.no/~fredrigl/technic/space/space.mpg

[snip]
> What do you think?

I think it's very good!!! My two boys liked it too. "Daddy, why haven't you
made anything like that??" Sigh...

> 
> And can you see that the pilot turns his head slightly before the canopy
> slams?  And is the smoke too cheesy?  I didn't get around to work too
> much on that part.


I must confess, I cannot see the head move, but my youngest boy immediately
said: "His head is moving too!", so I'll believe it.

I think it would have been equally impressive without the spherical 'smoke'
balls! Perhaps you could use a bounded fog, wagging the bounds? In POVRay 3.0
I used a spherical 'halo' to produce explosions and smoke ('The Sinking of
Regina Maersk', stills only), in 3.1 I think one must use 'media', which I
haven't read up on yet...

Happy raytracing,
--
Anders Isaksson, Sweden
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(...) Yes, I think so too. If I can't manage to make any better smoke, I'll just drop the whole thing. Those smoke bubbles just look too cheesy. (...) Your son is a very clever boy! :-) Anyway, I'll make the visir transparent in the next version, (...) (27 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)

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  Animation: Space ship taking off
 
I've made a short animation. It features a space ship taking off. It's 160 frames, 128x96 pixels per frame and approx 5 seconds. (24 frames per second.) I've used the MPEG1 compression standard, which achieves a nice total size of 100KB. You can (...) (27 years ago, 2-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)

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