[Sussex] Example video from povray

[John D.]

Steve Dobson wrote:

>Hi all
>
>I've been playing around with povray/imagemagick/mplayer to see how easy it
>is to generate my own ray traced film, and it isn't that hard (if you can
>drive povray, which luckly I can).  I've  made a little Blake's 7 example
>film (around 5secs long) and you can see for yourself.
>
>To get the file:
>   wget --continue http://pugwash.uthink.co.uk/video/example.mpg
>
>And to play it back:
>   mplayer -loop 0 -fps 25 example.mpg
>
>The frame rate encoded with imagemagick's convert appears to be hard coded to
>30 fps - which is not the UK standard, which is why the "-fps 25" is needed
>by mplayer - that is the frame rate is was generated for.  At this stage I'm
>not worried about the frame rate being wrong -- mencode is much more powerful
>but I haven't configured all the codecs for it yet.
>
>Anyway, what do you all think?  I was amazed how easy this task was.  If
>a number of you would like this as a Moot talk then shout too and I'll
>put it together.
>
Ha ha! well done Steve.

A slightly "picky" point i.e. not knowing how much time/effort/sweat, 
went into that, it seemed that the space crafts "zoomed" toward me at 
very high speed. I suppose it's a trick of animation to make them "seem" 
slower.

Also, I wouldn't have any idea of how complicated the actual animation 
is, but it seemed that the file size (my F/F download manager showed it 
as 2.5 megs) seemed "quite" large. Given that it runs for about 5 
seconds. Is that an "animation" thing or the way that you've "built" it 
(I think I mean about the amount of digitial info that it's taken to get 
the image(s) of that quality)??

regards

John D.

p.s. Space ships this time, next time, we want "battles"! wiv laser 
beams and light sabres please, Mr Sleipbreg :D