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Re: Animation: Space ship taking off
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lugnet.cad
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Thu, 8 Jul 1999 09:08:17 GMT
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Wow, I took a look. How long did it take to render?
Ben Vaughan <buster@marsbase.com> wrote in message
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> In lugnet.cad, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
> > 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 download the animation from:
> >
> > http://www.math.uio.no/~fredrigl/technic/space/space.mpg
> >
> > I'm planning to make a better presentation later on, with many different
> > downloadable files in different compression ratios, as well as different
> > formats and sizes. I'll also explain in painstaking detail how it was
> > done. But for now, I'm only interested in comments as to the movie
> > itself. What do you think?
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Fredrik
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> Absolutely incredible! The smoothness was outstanding. Congratulations • on a
> fantastic piece of work! I didn't see the head turn, but my first thought
> when I saw the smoke was, "Cool!". Great work.
>
> Ben Vaughan
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| (...) Took approx 16 hours on a 400MHz PII system. But I did not only render the 160 frames you see in the movie. I did some crude temporal antialiasing by rendering three runs offset by a small time. The three runs were averaged over and encoded to (...) (27 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Absolutely incredible! The smoothness was outstanding. Congratulations on a fantastic piece of work! I didn't see the head turn, but my first thought when I saw the smoke was, "Cool!". Great work. Ben Vaughan (27 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)
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