"Vahur Krouverk" <vah### [at] aetecee> wrote in message
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| Hmm, light travels to sun 8 minutes = 480 seconds, in your movie it
| travels in 3 seconds, so speed is 480/3 = 160 c. Pretty impressive, I'd
| say.

The last one I animated and uploaded (470KB now) to my web space:
http://hometown.aol.com/persistenceofv/solaride.mpg
 is 480 frames at 24fps but it plays here in MS Media Player just 14 seconds,
not 20 as I had expected.  Anyway, it's now about 36 * c average (starts slow
and ends fast) travelling a distance of 155.5 million kilometers.  If this
were to play for 20 seconds like it was supposed to then that would make 26 *
c instead.  Although, I'm not certain of this "average" speed due to the
acceleration involved.
That's still incredibly fast, but I have to admit the animation is getting
boring.

Bob

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