POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.animations : Fish Swimming : Re: Fish Swimming Server Time
19 Jul 2024 15:23:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Fish Swimming  
From: Gergely Vandor
Date: 26 Aug 2002 16:40:05
Message: <web.3d6a90b8e75f190ab78e044d0@news.povray.org>
Tony LaVigne wrote:
>I have linked this mpeg as it is very large and I'm trying to get it
>smaller. I don't know how to make quality mpegs that are managable in size.
>http://www.xenomechanics.com/POVRAY/swimfish300.mpg  (1315 Kbyte)
>I took one of the fish models from
>http://www.toucan.co.jp/product/3ds/3dsFrameSetE.html
>(Gilles Tran posting "Free Fish and plant Models" Aug 2)
>and made a  macro that adds a sine wave to the y axis.
>Each fish has it's own scale, frequency, phase shift, and
>amplitude of sine, however some are too closely matched.
>
>Tony
>

Looks pretty good, but to me it seems that the movement the fins make is to
weak, it's like if the fish were pulled by some string or a current. So I'd
vote for more agreessive fins. :)

Gergely

ps: (Another late reply, I should check the group more often, sorry.)


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