On Mon, 5 Mar 2001 16:22:09 -0500, "Setepenaset"
<ron### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>justin -
>this is amazing! i set it on loop and watched it for several minutes. It's
>virtually hypnotic. the movement looks extremely organic. I could almost
>believe that it was a living thing.
>setep
>

Just a collection of really simple movements:

1: Glows migrate up the object once every two seconds

2: the camera rotates around the object exactly once every ten seconds
at constant speed/angular velocity,

3: the arms all wave at the same speed with the phase of each arms
offset by use of MegaPOV's frame_number and the mod() function, the
apparent ripple moves up the "object" once every five seconds.

and the most important part of why this looks like it does:

4: Serendipity- it's pure luck that the above movements co-operated to
produce an animation that looks like it's swimming in circles.

(Every now and then, the computers like to give me a present to make
up for the hell they cause the rest of my life :-)
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