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17 May 2024 01:30:37 EDT (-0400)
  Re: grass blowing in the wind (animation)  
From: Tek
Date: 17 Sep 2010 23:20:49
Message: <4c943011$1@news.povray.org>
Looks pretty realistic to me! The camera movement's very good is it 
procedural or following a spline? I could swear it's rocking with the camera 
man's footsteps

-- 
Tek
http://evilsuperbrain.com

"Kenneth" <kdw### [at] earthlinknet> wrote in message 
news:web.4c89cc1ba3a1e657196b08580@news.povray.org...
> See
>
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3Cweb.4c89c03947870ce5196b08580%40news.povray.org%3E/
>
> for notes on this scene.
>
> 640X480, with some motion blur and camera shake. Compressed with the Xvid 
> MPEG
> compressor. Sorry for the somewhat small image size; my original animation 
> was
> actually done at 1024 X 768 (without AA), but that produced a *large* MPEG 
> file
> (MPEG doesn't seem to like all those constantly-moving grass blades.)
>
> I let POV-Ray do the downsizing (as a post-processed copying step), using 
> AA at
> that stage, plus image_map interpolation. (The whole subject of using AA 
> while
> downsizing images is an interesting one--which I'll leave 'til a later 
> date!)
> The 640X480 result was OK, but a bit 'smooth' (or a bit blurry, take your 
> pick.)
> Xvid has some nice animation 'filters' built-in, so I used 'sharpen' to 
> bring
> back some of the image detail.  Xvid has its own downsizing filter, too, 
> but I
> decided to give the chore to POV, in order to experiment.
>
> Ken W.
>


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