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30 Jun 2024 03:58:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Animation of WIP  
From: William Tracy
Date: 21 Apr 2007 13:02:11
Message: <462a4393$1@news.povray.org>
> That's a very revealing animation! You put a lot of work into those glasses!

I did them mainly as a challenge to see if I could do that shape in SDL. 
:-) It's going to be part of my 3D-RTC entry.

> 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.

That would probably be ideal for this, actually--when you make a big 
change in every single render, it goes by too fast for a viewer to 
really track. I've actually considered ways to duplicate automatically 
images several times so that each render gets several frames. (Maybe I 
could hack in cross-fades...Ooh!)

> And my renders are usually at different resolutions, 
> quality settings, and partial renders to tune one specific feature. So it 
> probably would look stupid.

I had to go back in and change everything to the same resolution after 
the fact, actually. (Yay Bash + ImageMagick!) Most of my renders were 
320x240, but a bunch were 640x480, and some were 800x600.

I'd like to have the script do that automatically, but I haven't yet 
figured out a good way to do that without hard-coding in an aspect 
ratio, and not everyone works at 3:4. :-(

> Though I'll still try it if you do a windows 
> version of the script!

Alright! :-)

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