That's a very revealing animation! You put a lot of work into those glasses!

I'd certainly like your tool purely for archival purposes, at present I only 
hang onto the renders when I have the presence of mind to make a copy. I'd 
love to make an animation like that but I tend to be very sporadic with my 
renders, i.e. I write a lot of code, then do lots of test renders which are 
almost identical. And my renders are usually at different resolutions, 
quality settings, and partial renders to tune one specific feature. So it 
probably would look stupid. Though I'll still try it if you do a windows 
version of the script!

-- 
Tek
http://evilsuperbrain.com

"William Tracy" <wtr### [at] calpolyedu> wrote in message 
news:46269060@news.povray.org...
> Here's my recent project: A script that grabs a copy of each render you
> make, and ferrets it away in a special folder. When your image is
> finished, you have an image of each and every render you made of said
> image (including every mistake you made, and every render you made while
> trying to "find" a misplaced object...) all in a format that ffmpeg
> understands. :-)
>
> It still has issues--it's fairly Unix-specific right now, and it gets
> confused if you render at different sizes while you work (like I do). I
> have to run a quick bash script with ImageMagick to resize everything to
> the same size.
>
> On this animation, I tried to add a little fade-out at the end, and I
> don't really like how it came out. :-P Blah.
>
> Anyway, if there's any interest, I'll work on a new, more flesible
> version of the script that can also handle Windows/Mac.
>
> -- 
> William Tracy
> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
> |a|f|i|s|h|i|o|n|a|d|o|@|g|m|a|i|l|.|c|o|m|
> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
> |w|t|r|a|c|y|@|c|a|l|p|o|l|y|.|e|d|u|
> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
> You know you've been raytracing too long when you can't leave the house
> until you've started a long trace going ("Hang on, I'll be there in a
> second, I just need to move this last spotlight a bit...")
> Dylan Beattie
>

Post a reply to this message