Seeming to be a popular thing to do with POV, here is my attempt at a
fire/flame animation. Anyone know how to make an animation repeat
seamlessly?

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Paul Vanukoff
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That's a nice one!

I'm not sure I like the oval limit on the flame though... the flame
itself looks like a major forest fire but the outer shape suggests
a candle... I suggest going for a good forest fire...  perhaps with
a wider base and a more ragged top line.

As for the smooth repeat, I don't know how you did this so it is
hard to say.  One guess about the method would be a rotating
wheel (you are looking at the top half as it rotates away from
you).  If this is right you need to make sure your animation runs
for exactly one revolution of the wheel.

If you are relying on randomness in any way you will not get a
smooth repeat.  In this case you might consider having the fire
start from nothing, grow large, and then shrink again... with an
obvious repeat.

Very nice.  Looking forward to more of the same :-)


"Paul Vanukoff" <van### [at] primenetcom> wrote in message
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> Seeming to be a popular thing to do with POV, here is my attempt at a
> fire/flame animation. Anyone know how to make an animation repeat
> seamlessly?
>
> --
> Paul Vanukoff
> van### [at] primenetcom
>
>
>

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Could you please post an MPG?
GIF's only play once through clunkily as they load in my reader, and I
don't get to replay them. . .

Paul Vanukoff wrote:

> Seeming to be a popular thing to do with POV, here is my attempt at a
> fire/flame animation. Anyone know how to make an animation repeat
> seamlessly?
>
> --
> Paul Vanukoff
> van### [at] primenetcom
>
>  [Image]

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"Greg M. Johnson" <gre### [at] my-dejanewscom> wrote in message
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> Could you please post an MPG?
> GIF's only play once through clunkily as they load in my reader, and I
> don't get to replay them. . .
>

Sorry. Well, I don't have an MPG encoder handy here (at work). I could post
an avi if so desired. If so, what codec should I use?


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Whenever I want to do a cyclic animation I multiply turbulence by
sin(clock*pi), so basically the amount of turbulence is cyclic as well.
You have to fiddle with it depending on what the clock variable is set
to. If it's range is 0 to 1, then the above should work just fine


Paul Vanukoff wrote:

> Seeming to be a popular thing to do with POV, here is my attempt at a
> fire/flame animation. Anyone know how to make an animation repeat
> seamlessly?
>
> --
> Paul Vanukoff
> van### [at] primenetcom
>
>  [Image]

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Josh English
eng### [at] spiritonecom
"May your hopes, dreams, and plans not be destroyed by a few zeros."

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> Sorry. Well, I don't have an MPG encoder handy here (at work). I could
post
> an avi if so desired. If so, what codec should I use?

LOL - what should you be doing?

Rick

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"Rick [Kitty5]" <pov### [at] dialpipexcom> wrote in message
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>
> LOL - what should you be doing?
>
> Rick

:) Here at work? I do on-phone tech support ... I play with POV while I'm
talking to customers ... (if they only knew) ... it's actually the only
place I can get anything done .. there's too much other stuff to do at home
...


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I know exactly how you feel. I do most everyhting here at work, until I need to
render a big file and I take it home.

Paul Vanukoff wrote:

> "Rick [Kitty5]" <pov### [at] dialpipexcom> wrote in message
> news:3897f6fe@news.povray.org...
> >
> > LOL - what should you be doing?
> >
> > Rick
>
> :) Here at work? I do on-phone tech support ... I play with POV while I'm
> talking to customers ... (if they only knew) ... it's actually the only
> place I can get anything done .. there's too much other stuff to do at home
> ...
>
> --
> Paul Vanukoff
> van### [at] primenetcom

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Josh English
eng### [at] spiritonecom
"May your hopes, dreams, and plans not be destroyed by a few zeros."

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Josh English <eng### [at] spiritonecom> wrote:
> I know exactly how you feel. I do most everyhting here at work, until I need to
> render a big file and I take it home.
>
> Paul Vanukoff wrote:
>
> > "Rick [Kitty5]" <pov### [at] dialpipexcom> wrote in message
> > news:3897f6fe@news.povray.org...
> > >
> > > LOL - what should you be doing?
> > >
> > > Rick
> >
> > :) Here at work? I do on-phone tech support ... I play with POV while I'm
> > talking to customers ... (if they only knew) ... it's actually the only
> > place I can get anything done .. there's too much other stuff to do at home
> > ...
> >
> > --
> > Paul Vanukoff
> > van### [at] primenetcom
>
> --
> Josh English
> eng### [at] spiritonecom
> "May your hopes, dreams, and plans not be destroyed by a few zeros."

I suggest You to start it from zero, then grow, then reduce to zero: lengh = T.
Restart n times, with a n/T phase shift each time.
Thanks.

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"RedGuff" <dom### [at] yahoofr> wrote:
> Josh English <eng### [at] spiritonecom> wrote:
> > I know exactly how you feel. I do most everyhting here at work, until I need to
> > render a big file and I take it home.
> >
> > Paul Vanukoff wrote:
> >
> > > "Rick [Kitty5]" <pov### [at] dialpipexcom> wrote in message
> > > news:3897f6fe@news.povray.org...
> > > >
> > > > LOL - what should you be doing?
> > > >
> > > > Rick
> > >
> > > :) Here at work? I do on-phone tech support ... I play with POV while I'm
> > > talking to customers ... (if they only knew) ... it's actually the only
> > > place I can get anything done .. there's too much other stuff to do at home
> > > ...
> > >
> > > --
> > > Paul Vanukoff
> > > van### [at] primenetcom
> >
> > --
> > Josh English
> > eng### [at] spiritonecom
> > "May your hopes, dreams, and plans not be destroyed by a few zeros."
>
> I suggest You to start it from zero, then grow, then reduce to zero: lengh = T.
> Restart n times, with a n/T phase shift each time.
> Thanks.

I think we have a new record for thread necromancy here!

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