Congrats on your first place!  I agree .mpg files are smaller (in my
case about 1.5 mbytes vs. 4.5 mbytes) but the colors were dithered
(poorly so, if I may add) and the overall effect was disappointing. 
FLI/FLC (with the free Autodesk viewer, no less!) preserves the color
scheme adequately w/o dithering - and looks good even in full screen
640X480 format.

I guess, like .jpg, you get only the quality out that you're willing to
pay for with file size.  
 
Tim G.

tgl### [at] nettallycom


Thomas Willhalm wrote:
> 
> Tim Glover <tgl### [at] nettallycom> writes:
> >
> > I've recently used POVRay to visualize a groundwater flow problem --
> > even created an animation of a fly-around.  Very impressive tools.  And
> > .FLC seems so much superior to .avi or .mpg for color fidelity.
> >
> > Results are not not on the net right now. Sorry....  Anyone else doing
> > this kind of thing?
> 
> We participated in the contest A at the "Sixth Symposium on Graph Drawing"
> in Montreal this year (http://gd98.cs.mcgill.ca/). We submitted an animation
> that was rendered with POV-Ray -- and now share the first place with the
> group from Tuebingen (also in Germany). We converted the single files to FLI,
> AVI, and MPG. In my opinion the FLI is the nicest one. However, the file
> size of the MPG is much smaller (and still 60 MB).
> 
> Thomas
> 
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> http://www.fmi.uni-konstanz.de/~willhalm

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