"Sander" <san### [at] stolscom> wrote in message
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> In article <3b182220@news.povray.org>, david sharp says...
> > I think this is the first time I ever posted any animation,
> > and I don't know if GIF is frowned upon for some
> > reason (I mean since I see few here).
> >
> It is cute: but difficult to visualize what happens. And also a fairly
> short animation, in fact.
> GIF as an animation format has the inherent lack of colour depth of the
> GIF images: IIRC 256 or less.
> Why not try MPG?

Aside from color count I think they can look pretty good because of
sharpness.  Less distorted than when another, lossy, format is used.  File
size is not easy to keep as low as MPG or AVI or MOV though.
Also, most controversial thing might be explained at:
http://burnallgifs.org/

I have never even looked at the parametric object before, will now.  I see
it can apparently do a helical shape in your animation.

Bob H.

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