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Title: ifs morphs
Post by: lycium on November 30, 2006, 08:23:06 AM
i thought i'd enter some of my early parameter-space morphing animations; they're made with my 2d ifs app (ham and mustard, current release available here: http://www.fractographer.com/binaries) using interpolated keyframes selected from batch renders of random points in the high ifs dimensional parameter space.

between contract work, getting 4 wisdom teeth removed and neverwinter nights 2 i haven't had much time to work on it, but the early results are still nice to watch i think. there are a few more animations in the wip/ folder too.

entry 1: http://www.fractographer.com/wip/test5.avi

edit: replaced entry 1 with some earlier ifs experiments:

entry 1: http://www.mysticgd.com/thomas/slinkyspace/lexi%20(abstract%20fractal%20art).wmv9.avi
entry 2: http://www.fractographer.com/wip/test6.avi
entry 3: http://www.fractographer.com/wip/test7.avi

that's kinda in reverse order of coolness i think ;)


Title: Re: ifs morphs
Post by: David Makin on November 30, 2006, 02:46:08 PM
Hi - I have a fully up-to-date MediaPlayer 9 but do not have the codec for these !


Title: Re: ifs morphs
Post by: lycium on December 01, 2006, 02:50:02 AM
rather use medial player classic, btw :)

the videos are encoded using xvid, and probably a relatively recent version (for 64 bit support), some links:

mpc: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303&package_id=84358
xvid: http://www.koepi.org/XviD-1.1.2-01112006.exe

you don't need mpc but it's strongly recommended, and i really hope that xvid  works - let me know pls :)


Title: Re: ifs morphs
Post by: alan2here on December 04, 2006, 04:52:31 PM
I think they are probbebly divx video's


Title: Re: ifs morphs
Post by: lycium on December 04, 2006, 04:59:58 PM
I think they are probably divx videos.

while divx may be capable of playing 2/3 files (entries 2 and 3), those were encoded with xvid. the 1st entry is encoded with the wmv9 codec, and should be playable in any recent windows media player.


Title: Re: ifs morphs
Post by: bradorpoints on December 12, 2006, 05:54:44 AM
I'm confused why the only posts were regarding the file format..  The animations are incredible - by far the most unique I've seen a long time.  The motion blur is fantastic.  This is a look Ultra Fractal could really use - it can blur "camera motion" (zooming and panning) but not parameter morphing.  Keep them coming.


Title: Re: ifs morphs
Post by: lycium on December 12, 2006, 02:30:51 PM
well i'm glad someone likes them! :P

cheers mate, and the next bunch of animations should be much better btw ;) and you're quite right, there's a wonderful nonlinear relationship between interpolated parameters and the images they produce.