Going through an old archive I found this animation I wrote 20 years ago.  I
wanted to make a few additions but couldn't believe the code I wrote.  Decided I
could do a better job 2nd time around.  The rewrite isn't finished yet so still
a work in progress.

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Attachments:
Download 'robot1.mp4.dat' (3411 KB)

"Clarence1898" <dle### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
> Going through an old archive I found this animation I wrote 20 years ago.


Looks really really cool :)
Cant wait to see Version 2.0

Ma

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Few ideas:
let the robots sometimes think a while.
or let them stop before grabbing, and choose another move.
and move the camera, maybe slowly aroud the scene, but always a tiny bit.

ma

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I tried to play this with VLC, and just got a black screen.
Windows Media Player wouldn't even play it.

However VLC has been acting strangely over the past 2 days.

First, when I opened a sound file, there was no VLC interface on the desktop -
but it was playing the sound in the background.   I had to kill the process to
close it.

Then when i tried to play your video, When I closed VLC and tried to delete the
mp4, Win said that it was still open in VLC - and yep, there was a process still
open in the background that I had to end.

- BE

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"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> I tried to play this with VLC, and just got a black screen.
> Windows Media Player wouldn't even play it.
> ...


Win or LX?

m

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"Maetes" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> "Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> > I tried to play this with VLC, and just got a black screen.
> > Windows Media Player wouldn't even play it.

> Win or LX?

Both Windows.
I haven't switched the laptop over to the linux dual-boot partition try try
there

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"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> I tried to play this with VLC, and just got a black screen.
> Windows Media Player wouldn't even play it.
>

[running Windows 10]
The download plays OK for me in VLC (my older version, 3.0.20), Irfanview, and
W.M.P.

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On 2025-10-04 16:26 (-4), Bald Eagle wrote:
> I tried to play this with VLC, and just got a black screen.
> Windows Media Player wouldn't even play it.

It played fine for me, right in the browser, even with my flaky hardware
and spotty Internet:
Firefox 140.3.0esr (64 bit)
openSUSE Leap 15.6 GNU/Linux

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"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> I tried to play this with VLC, and just got a black screen.
> Windows Media Player wouldn't even play it.
>
> However VLC has been acting strangely over the past 2 days.
>
> First, when I opened a sound file, there was no VLC interface on the desktop -
> but it was playing the sound in the background.   I had to kill the process to
> close it.
>
> Then when i tried to play your video, When I closed VLC and tried to delete the
> mp4, Win said that it was still open in VLC - and yep, there was a process still
> open in the background that I had to end.
>
> - BE

I used ffmpeg to encode the video.  Here is the command:

ffmpeg -i Robot1%04d.png -c:v libx265 -pix_fmt yuv420p Robot1.mp4

On windows 10 and 11 I use Media Player, on linux VLC.  Everything works fine.

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"Maetes" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> Few ideas:
> let the robots sometimes think a while.
> or let them stop before grabbing, and choose another move.
> and move the camera, maybe slowly aroud the scene, but always a tiny bit.
>
> ma

I like that idea,  moving the camera will be simple.  Changing its mind will be
a bit more difficult.

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