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Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks

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On 2016-09-15, Octavian W. Lagrange <olagrang@perch.invalid> wrote:
> Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> wrote:
>> On 2016-09-15, Octavian W. Lagrange <olagrang@perch.invalid> wrote:
>>> Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> wrote:
>> 
>> // snip
>> 
>>>> It does seem that the center is the center of the universe now. What's
>>>> the first app most people reach for these days? I'll bet it is the
>>>> browser. And you'll want that wheel, huh? I get it. Just miss the old
>>>> days when it comes to mice. 
>>>
>>> Of course it goes without saying that web browsing benefits greatly from
>>> the wheel, but the wheel is also good for scrolling in terminals that
>>> support it.  But middle-click paste is a much smoother operation without
>>> a wheel, so the idea of separating the wheel from the middle button
>>> seems like the best of both worlds. 
>>>
>>> Also, blender makes heavy use of both the middle button and the scroll
>>> wheel for separate navigation functions, and it was actually some blender
>>> forum where I first saw mention of this mouse.
>> 
>> Ah well then you have a purpose in mind. How's Blender? Still
>> interesting? 
>> 
>
> It's a fun app.  I need to alter my approach to learning it though.
> I've just been dabbling with it, thinking of "how do i do x?" then
> looking around for how to do x.  That sometimes is successful, but
> for the most part it leaves me with huge holes in my understanding
> of what's going on.  I bought a book, but finding the discipline
> to go through it and all the tutorials online is a different matter.
> It also doesn't help that it includes two different render engines,
> each with its own set of options.
>
> Also, i'm afraid it's going to take a render farm to do anything
> really fun animation-wise.  This laptop takes 10-20 minutes to
> render a single frame with anything approaching decent detail,
> so I haven't even bothered try video rendering yet.  The animated
> stuff I've posted so far was sort of a preview, and not actually
> rendered.

I used to use Maxxon Cinema 4D back in the G4/G5 era. I had to come up
with creative ways to do this. I was just screwing around with basic
shapes and started making something that looked like a Jet Engine. So I
kept at it and made a jet engine, then copied it and made a jet to go
with it. 

Anyway, I wanted to fly it but that would be a bit much on the 867 MHz
G4 at the time. I found a very nice plugin for After Effects called 
tsunami which makes the process of making fairly real water scenes
simple enough. I took a 2d picture of the San Francisco skyline such
that you're facing that. Made the water under the view. Then rendered
what looks like you heading towards the city. The water movement under
gave the perception of moving. I rendered about 30 seconds of that. Then
placed that already rendered scene back into After Effects and placed my
3D jet into the scene and simply moved it slowly giving the perception
of altitude. So the jet was only rendered once for one frame and
superimposed on a rendered scene. 

You'll have to think in those kinds of ways. How to cheat a little and
get the same result. It's fun for a while. I wanted to enter a contest
once where I was making something similar to the 20th Century Fox
spotline demo you watch before a movie starts. I had it all done in wire
frame and let a machine run for a week and it was going no where. The
contest came and went and I had almost nothing. Today I would have done
live action and superimposed the search light after. 

Again, think in those terms. Use less polygons to do the same job. Do
the minimum needed to get what you visually want. 

-- 
Marek Novotny
https://github.com/marek-novotny

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Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks Adlbifhr Mjduhgfks <am@random.us> - 2016-09-14 23:07 +0000
  Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-09-15 00:44 +0000
    Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks Adlbifhr Mjduhgfks <am@random.us> - 2016-09-15 14:53 +0000
      Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-09-15 16:19 +0000
        Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks Adlbifhr Mjduhgfks <am@random.us> - 2016-09-15 17:03 +0000
        Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2016-09-15 12:19 -0600
          Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-09-15 18:48 +0000
            Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2016-09-15 21:17 -0600
    Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks "Octavian W. Lagrange" <olagrang@perch.invalid> - 2016-09-15 15:29 +0000
      Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-09-15 16:21 +0000
        Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks "Octavian W. Lagrange" <olagrang@perch.invalid> - 2016-09-15 16:36 +0000
          Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-09-15 17:41 +0000
            Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks "Octavian W. Lagrange" <olagrang@perch.invalid> - 2016-09-15 18:08 +0000
              Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-09-15 18:47 +0000
                Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks "Octavian W. Lagrange" <olagrang@perch.invalid> - 2016-09-15 19:19 +0000
                Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-09-15 19:26 +0000
                Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks "Octavian W. Lagrange" <olagrang@perch.invalid> - 2016-09-15 19:56 +0000
                Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-09-15 20:16 +0000
                Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-15 15:28 -0500
                Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2016-09-15 14:10 -0700
                Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks "Octavian W. Lagrange" <olagrang@perch.invalid> - 2016-09-15 21:44 +0000
                Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-09-16 03:39 +0000
                Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks "Octavian W. Lagrange" <olagrang@perch.invalid> - 2016-09-15 21:21 +0000
                Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-09-16 00:27 +0200
                Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks "Octavian W. Lagrange" <olagrang@perch.invalid> - 2016-09-15 23:58 +0000
  Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-09-14 20:46 -0400
    Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks Adlbifhr Mjduhgfks <am@random.us> - 2016-09-15 14:31 +0000
      Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-09-16 20:15 -0400
        Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks Adlbifhr Mjduhgfks <am@random.us> - 2016-09-17 17:25 +0000
          Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-09-17 22:00 -0400
  Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks "Octavian W. Lagrange" <olagrang@perch.invalid> - 2016-09-15 02:01 +0000
  re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks "Drummer"<drummer@gmail.com> - 2016-09-15 07:00 +0200
  Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-09-18 14:43 -0400
    Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks Tattoo Vampire <sitting@this.computer> - 2016-09-18 14:52 -0400
      Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-09-18 16:16 -0400
      Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-09-18 20:05 -0400
        Re: Video Demo of GNU/Linux Superiority -- Essential Tasks Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2016-09-18 17:12 -0700

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