nice one, although camera pathes are a bit rough, the rendering seems to be just fine without jaggy over/understepping
it looks you do it in realtime? moar pixels and 16:9 format i recommend for the fractals to bring out the full details
I wish it was realtime
I agree, higher resolution would be nice (and anti-aliasing). Before I rendered it, I considered that, but I didn't want to increase the render time. As far as 16:9 goes, I guess I just stuck with 4:3 because that's what my other videos are. But I am open to change (for example, my earlier videos were done with Windows Movie Maker (on XP), so they couldn't be HD, but then I moved to VirtualDub (for HD)).
In my post in the video section, I mention the camera paths problem. I wrote a 3d spline viewer so I could get a better idea of what the resulting camera paths were. Once I did that, I realized I would have been better off using uniform b-splines or Kochanek-Bartels (I used Catmull Rom because they seem very popular) but since uniform b-splines don't guarantee going through control points, I might end up going through walls, so to speak. The Catmull Rom paths ended up reminding me of transient responses from my electrical engineering days (overshooting position and then quickly getting to the right position). I tried to think of it as someone holding a video camera while flying in a spaceship - the ship might be making smooth movements, but the camera operator might jerk and overshoot (except maybe in the case of anti-shake cameras). That made me feel a bit better about the disappointing camera movements
January 22, 2009, 07:20:26 PM
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