I don't use the plain coding of POV much, so this is rather simplistic.

The Animal is just a blob, of course. To animate, I have about 1/3 of
the blobs scale by the sin function, and 1/2 of the blobs translate in
any of the 3 directions, also with the sin function. This makes it loop
nicely.

To improve, I'd like to reattach the sign to the glass, and have a
little more variation in the movement. Perhaps some blobs moving by
sin(2 * clock), to have them move twice per cycle. Also, the goo
refracts, slowing down the rendering, but is hardly noticible in the
animation. I should take this out, along with the refracting glass, or
else put in something to make it obvious

Have mercy on a newbie to animation! :)

Simon
http://home.istar.ca/~sdevet

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I like it...looks like it's breathing. It could do with some sense of surrounding
environment, rather than just black..perhaps a laboratory with colourful fluids in
jars
lit from within etc..

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Simon de Vet <sde### [at] istarca> wrote in message news:372### [at] istarca...
> I don't use the plain coding of POV much, so this is rather simplistic.
>
> The Animal is just a blob, of course. To animate, I have about 1/3 of
> the blobs scale by the sin function, and 1/2 of the blobs translate in
> any of the 3 directions, also with the sin function. This makes it loop
> nicely.
>
> To improve, I'd like to reattach the sign to the glass, and have a
> little more variation in the movement. Perhaps some blobs moving by
> sin(2 * clock), to have them move twice per cycle. Also, the goo
> refracts, slowing down the rendering, but is hardly noticible in the
> animation. I should take this out, along with the refracting glass, or
> else put in something to make it obvious
>
> Have mercy on a newbie to animation! :)
>
> Simon
> http://home.istar.ca/~sdevet
>

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