[chaoscope] About the animation

From: Chaoscope <chaoscope@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Chaoscope mailing-list <chaoscope@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:59:45 +0100

Hi everyone,

If you liked the animation my advice is to take a look at http://electricsheep.org/ where you'll find totally amazing Flame animations.

to answer all your questions:

- Yes, this is something you can do with Chaoscope, with a little help from Ani4Chaoscope, which you can download from this page:

http://www.axoneman.com/Programmes%20fractals.html

Direct link (for English speakers):

http://www.axoneman.com/Ani4Chaoscope/Ani4Chaoscope2.0.3_GB.zip

Load the projects you want to display on the first and the last frame (I've attached the "Strange quarks" projects) and this program will create all the projects in between for your animation. Then point Chaoscope Batch Processing to the folder where these projects were saved and let it render them all. You will need a lot of free space because Chaoscope only knows about BMP format and hasn't heard of JPEG or PNG yet.

I created the DIVX video with VirtualDub.

A few hints and tips about creating a similar animation:

- If you plan to animate parameters, choose an equation with only a few of them. IFS is an exception. - Stretch the attractor palette as wide as possible to make manual search easier. - Run a first batch on every 10 pictures or so for a preview. - One of the hardest parts will be to choose the right Brightness, Gamma and Peak (which must remain constant if possible) for a Light/Plasma animation. You can only set Peak by editing the project manually. - The other hardest part will be to find a good animation to render. It's as hard as finding a great attractor to render times the number of frames. - Solid is the easiest mode to animate.

The PC the animation was rendered on is a P4 Northwood 2.667Ghz with 512Mb of DRAM PC1066.

Regards,

Nicolas Desprez

info {
        version "0.3.0"
        author "Nicolas Desprez"
        date "15/06/2006"
}
attractor {
        type unravel
        iterations 20000000
        parameters <0.766461808604039, 0.503072870939421, 0.513608428446005, 
-0.871817383669886,
                    -1.02985074626866, -1.10359964881475, -0.366988586479368>
}
view {
        mode light
        width 640
        height 480
        scale 1.11654954558887
        model_scale 1.63506124689002
        origin <-0.337961703538895, -0.170039869844913, -0.379162132740021>
        translation <0.000218411515108886, 5.44597525610094e-05, 0>
        rotation <0.263345569156546, -0.658718993787083, -0.704796707164376, 
1.69346378679078>
        peak 1612492.125
        gamma 1.75
        brightness 3.7
        gradient {
                variable speed
                colors <0, 1, 0, 0,
                        1, 0, 0, 1>
        }
        gradient {
                variable angle
                colors <0, 0, 1, 0,
                        1, 0, 0, 0>
        }
}

info {
        version "0.3.0"
        author "Nicolas Desprez"
        date "15/06/2006"
}
attractor {
        type unravel
        iterations 20000000
        parameters <0.766461808604039, 0.503072870939421, 0.513608428446005, 
-0.871817383669886,
                    -3, -1.10359964881475, -0.366988586479368>
}
view {
        mode light
        width 640
        height 480
        scale 1.11654954558887
        model_scale 1.63506124689002
        origin <-0.399992652237415, -0.133900970220566, -0.291865661740303>
        translation <0.4040545808706, 0.156266445341505, 0>
        rotation <0.263345569156546, -0.658718993787083, -0.704796707164376, 
1.69346378679078>
        peak 1540.56909179688
        gamma 1.75
        brightness 3.7
        gradient {
                variable speed
                colors <0, 1, 0, 0,
                        1, 0, 0, 1>
        }
        gradient {
                variable angle
                colors <0, 0, 1, 0,
                        1, 0, 0, 0>
        }
}

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