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Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :

...like an eagle til I'm free.

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BTW -- Anybody know of a quick&dirty way to slow down / stop / reverse / control the frame rate on animation such as this?

[ November 19, 2004, 10:00 PM: Message edited by: aspectre ]

Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :

I saw an exibit on minimal sufraces using soap films at the Boston Museum of Science, it was very cool...

Well, I had to do SOMETHING while I waited for hours for the LOTR exibit... [Big Grin]

Kwea

Posted by Boris (Member # 6935) on :

Man, that looks insanely fun.

Posted by HollowEarth (Member # 2586) on :

Its a gif, so just use any program that allows you to change the framerate of a gif. There should be some free ones.

Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :

That's what I'm asking about, a recommendation or some info on how to find such a program.
A way to slow down MacromediaFlash animation would be nice too.
Googling " gif animation " or " flash animation " ain't gonna get me anywhere.
And it would be nice to know that a particular program is safe to download.

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Sorry, Boris, my free link won't lead to the page I wanted but rather defaults to the homepage.
Click on MEDIA then Video Gallery and check out the other videos.

Especially check out the first jumper on the "FastestMo..." video and watch the horizontal distance he travels during the vertical freefall. "BirdMan_Eiger_s" is nice for watching such controlled flight too.
And the "5deMayo.wmv" has some nice music to go along with the visuals.

[ November 20, 2004, 01:00 PM: Message edited by: aspectre ]

Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :

Heh-- I saw an article about that in popular scienece once. very cool.

--j_k

Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :

If you have Adobe After Effects, you can import the .gif and it it to a render que. There's all sorts of settings you can fiddle around with - frame rate included.

Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :

Not exactly like an eagle, but still fun.

Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :

Why the heck hasn't Icarus posted in this thread? Huh?

Posted by DSH (Member # 741) on :

The GIMP (with the GIMP animation package installed) will let you do what you want with an animated .gif.

Give it a try.

Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :

....put your arms around me baby, put your arms around me baby.

-pH

Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :

Oh sure... Ya say that. Then fly away.

Thanks, DSH, so far the program looks like lots of fun ahead.

Can't really blame him, Tante Shvester. Ya know what happened the last time he strapped on wings. If the dolphins hadn't been around to save him, he woulda had a really Icky time.

More like an eagle's nest: If you build it, they will climb.

Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :

gulp

Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :

quote:
Originally posted by aspectre:
...like an eagle til I'm free.

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BTW -- Anybody know of a quick&dirty way to slow down / stop / reverse / control the frame rate on animation such as this?

It would be pretty trivial to import it into matlab and then do all those things.