Simon wrote:
> Wow, that's rather impressive! so much nicer than mine :) and it has a nice 
> organic feel to it while mine was a bit clinical...

Now that you mention it, Mike's animation makes me think of the inside 
of a living cell.

He made his job easier by having a single, looping, continuous motion. 
For your image, you would need to go back and have the zooming motions 
start and stop gradually. The rotating motion of the structure makes the 
start/stop less noticeable, but we still perceive it at an almost 
subconscious level.

Long, long ago, I dumped some macros for smooth motion either under 
p.b.scene-files or similar. I'm not sure where anymore, and the file 
isn't on my computer now. :-) I could take a stab at recreating it; the 
math was pretty simple.

-- 
William Tracy
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You know you've been raytracing too long when you look at real clouds 
and criticise their media and radiosity settings.
Tom Melly

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