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From: this is me
Subject: Fade, change opacity, etc., how?
Date: 17 Jun 2008 23:05:00
Message: <web.48587a562533b123bb43b6800@news.povray.org>
Just like at the beginning of a movie, I've created a reflective Warner Brothers
- like crest that I rotate and twist as it flies away from the camera to finally
land in a stationary position.  I've mapped an image onto a thin 'screen' behind
the camera that reflects off the crest, and the whole effect comes off looking
pretty good from beginning to end.  What I don't know how to do, however, is
make the image fade once the crest comes to rest.  I don't want to just blank
it out - I know how to do that - and it looks pretty bad.  It's a PNG image
that I'm using, so is there any way to take advantage of alpha or something
like that?  I suppose the brute force method would be to make an image sequence
that fades, and then use those, but I was hoping to avoid this approach.
Anyway, any help would be greatly appreciated.

-T.I.M.


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From: Jan Dvorak
Subject: Re: Fade, change opacity, etc., how?
Date: 18 Jun 2008 02:21:24
Message: <4858a964@news.povray.org>
this is me napsal(a):
> Just like at the beginning of a movie, I've created a reflective Warner Brothers
> - like crest that I rotate and twist as it flies away from the camera to finally
> land in a stationary position.  I've mapped an image onto a thin 'screen' behind
> the camera that reflects off the crest, and the whole effect comes off looking
> pretty good from beginning to end.  What I don't know how to do, however, is
> make the image fade once the crest comes to rest.  I don't want to just blank
> it out - I know how to do that - and it looks pretty bad.  It's a PNG image
> that I'm using, so is there any way to take advantage of alpha or something
> like that?  I suppose the brute force method would be to make an image sequence
> that fades, and then use those, but I was hoping to avoid this approach.
> Anyway, any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> -T.I.M.
> 
> 
My idea is to use an average of the image and pigment{Clear} with 
weights set by the clock.


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From: this is me
Subject: Re: Fade, change opacity, etc., how?
Date: 18 Jun 2008 11:20:00
Message: <web.48592731f98bc352dfa546470@news.povray.org>
That sounds like an excellent idea.  Thanks for the prompt input.

-T.I.M.


Jan Dvorak <jan### [at] centrumcz> wrote:
> this is me napsal(a):
> > Just like at the beginning of a movie, I've created a reflective Warner Brothers
> > - like crest that I rotate and twist as it flies away from the camera to finally
> > land in a stationary position.  I've mapped an image onto a thin 'screen' behind
> > the camera that reflects off the crest, and the whole effect comes off looking
> > pretty good from beginning to end.  What I don't know how to do, however, is
> > make the image fade once the crest comes to rest.  I don't want to just blank
> > it out - I know how to do that - and it looks pretty bad.  It's a PNG image
> > that I'm using, so is there any way to take advantage of alpha or something
> > like that?  I suppose the brute force method would be to make an image sequence
> > that fades, and then use those, but I was hoping to avoid this approach.
> > Anyway, any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > -T.I.M.
> >
> >
> My idea is to use an average of the image and pigment{Clear} with
> weights set by the clock.


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