Good one! Very alive.
focus!
Actually, Bill, no one yells that in theaters anymore. One, because everyone knows in the multiplex the projectionist is out having a cigarette, people are generally too passive to take remedial action, and/or due to declining standards of quality most of them don't recognize there is something wrong with the image.
thanks guys. I like the out of focus one better. But I HATE it at the movies. Seems especially bad in Imax theatres. The more money you pay, the bigger the blurry screen.
actually i was hoping youd play hokus pokus by focus. but seriously, its a beauty sally, the real one with the soft focus that is.
There's an optical illusion that surprises me, where the ball looks as if it's bulging outwards. I didn't expect to see that in the hard-edged version too.
little search lights in tunnels.
funny you should mention tunnels. I am having a problem rendering a vortex and I need advice. I can get the effect that something is coming at you, but I can't get the effect that you are moving through something. What I have so far is here.
Well, everything on your tunnel has to move together. You've got bits that stay put and bits that move. I was going to draw something, but that would take work, and then some part of my brain remembered that the best way to show the effect would be to look at endoscopy footage, and then I went looking for some and then....well, let me say that I am not easily freaked out, but I was literally staring at my computer with my hands over my mouth, going "oh my god....oh my god" when I found this. Really.
You dont see something like this every day. Ladies and gentlemen, I present for your viewing pleasure: Swan Endoscopy:
http://mcdb.colorado.edu/courses/2115/units/Other/Swan%20neck%20endoscopy.mov
thanks rob that was very helpful.
Here's a nice optical illusion tunnel. Not what you need but it might give you some ideas.
http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/mot_kde/index.html
I've looked at both animations obsessively since you have posted them, (you know the drill, if it moves ...I stare at it) Anyway, I am a sucker for both of them, and relieved that I am not the artist making the choice.
I am also compelled by what you think is a failed vortex. It's lack of satisfaction as a literal illusion is fascinating to me. (there is something else there, can't put a finger on it right now)
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- sally mckay 4-22-2005 5:35 pm
Good one! Very alive.
- tom moody 4-22-2005 6:10 pm
focus!
- bill 4-22-2005 6:50 pm
Actually, Bill, no one yells that in theaters anymore. One, because everyone knows in the multiplex the projectionist is out having a cigarette, people are generally too passive to take remedial action, and/or due to declining standards of quality most of them don't recognize there is something wrong with the image.
- tom moody 4-22-2005 7:16 pm
- sally mckay 4-22-2005 8:15 pm
thanks guys. I like the out of focus one better. But I HATE it at the movies. Seems especially bad in Imax theatres. The more money you pay, the bigger the blurry screen.
- sally mckay 4-22-2005 8:17 pm
actually i was hoping youd play hokus pokus by focus. but seriously, its a beauty sally, the real one with the soft focus that is.
- bill 4-22-2005 8:24 pm
There's an optical illusion that surprises me, where the ball looks as if it's bulging outwards. I didn't expect to see that in the hard-edged version too.
- sally mckay 4-22-2005 8:28 pm
little search lights in tunnels.
- thom (guest) 4-22-2005 8:46 pm
funny you should mention tunnels. I am having a problem rendering a vortex and I need advice. I can get the effect that something is coming at you, but I can't get the effect that you are moving through something. What I have so far is here.
- sally mckay 4-23-2005 2:33 am
Well, everything on your tunnel has to move together. You've got bits that stay put and bits that move. I was going to draw something, but that would take work, and then some part of my brain remembered that the best way to show the effect would be to look at endoscopy footage, and then I went looking for some and then....well, let me say that I am not easily freaked out, but I was literally staring at my computer with my hands over my mouth, going "oh my god....oh my god" when I found this. Really.
You dont see something like this every day. Ladies and gentlemen, I present for your viewing pleasure: Swan Endoscopy:
http://mcdb.colorado.edu/courses/2115/units/Other/Swan%20neck%20endoscopy.mov
- rob (guest) 4-23-2005 6:44 am
thanks rob that was very helpful.
- sally mckay 4-23-2005 7:19 am
Here's a nice optical illusion tunnel. Not what you need but it might give you some ideas.
http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/mot_kde/index.html
- joester 4-24-2005 9:58 pm
I've looked at both animations obsessively since you have posted them, (you know the drill, if it moves ...I stare at it) Anyway, I am a sucker for both of them, and relieved that I am not the artist making the choice.
I am also compelled by what you think is a failed vortex. It's lack of satisfaction as a literal illusion is fascinating to me. (there is something else there, can't put a finger on it right now)
- L.M. 4-25-2005 9:34 pm