On 04/12/2014 21:34, gregjohn wrote:
> The technical society for my field,  ISTFA (failure analysis), has now twice
> held a Video Contest. The prize is a free registration (~$950) to the next
> conference.  There were 700 attendes at the actual conference, but only 7
> bothered to enter the contest. No one else did "animation": it was mostly video
> recording of metallurgical processes or FIB tools picking up TEM lamellae.
>
> Last year I got second place with a povray animation; this year I got first
> place with a stop-motion animation done with clay. I think the key feature is
> perfect matching of sound with the action. But for that, I actually used povray,
> by first making a 6 fps animation with povray-printed numbers, one per frame.
> Then I know how many frames I need to relay each sentence.
>
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI0PPfTAdCc
>

Well done, congratulations. And the animation is very enjoyable too.
Voltage contrast! Things have moved on since I worked at a chip factory. 
CMOS was the big thing, then.

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Regards
     Stephen

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