I think you saw the movie more or less correctly. The activity is based
on what colors are in the image, and a lot of the most dramatic color
activity happens to take place within the first few seconds in this
particular image. The 80% you mention of nonactivity is actually not
empty, but what is there is extremely subtle and might not be seen very
well unless you take the movie and stretch it to the maximum size you
can.
I tried making the size of the image smaller in various ways, but it
wouldn't make the size of the file smaller for some strange reason. You
would think..., but no.
thanks,
m
On Aug 20, 2006, at 5:28 PM, Martha Deed wrote:
This is an interesting concept for a video. I wasn't put off by the
size of
the download, because I assumed that each frame would have many data
points,
and that causes compression problems.
Re size of file, if you can bear to make the size of the image
smaller, you
can probably reduce the file size significantly. But, for me, the
larger
problem was that after the first 20% of the video, I could see
nothing. I
am using Firefox Mozilla -- Did you test on that? I realize that with
Quicktime, it shouldn't make a difference which browser you use. . .
And I still think you have a good idea.
Martha
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From: "mwp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 6:27 PM
Subject: Landscape Movie 01
Landscape Movie 01
2006
Here’s a movie I finished today which represents an attempt to think
about how one might animate a still image in some fashion, in this
case
one of Monet’s famous paintings of water lilies circa 1920. It
basically treats the spectrum of colors in the digitalized painting as
a 3rd dimension along which the head of an imaginary scanner moves
from
red to yellow to green to blue etc. at a fixed rate.
Sorry about the size, but I couldn’t find any compression method that
was acceptable for this. Indeed, some of the compression methods
actually made the file significantly LARGER. Ideally, in the right
setting, the movie should resemble a semi-abstract galaxy of colors
swirling about.
http://mwp.jaycloidt.com/MPMOV2006/LHD2.mov
26.7MB. Quicktime format, silent.
mwp
