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File contents
!Gallop
This demo runs in mode 15 and needs 345K for the animation file.
The animation can be controlled with the mouse and the control panel.
The demo shows what can be done with the
'Animal Animator' suite of programs (and with Render Bender).
Animal Animator can be obtained from Archimedes World, and Render
bender is available from Clares Micro supplies.
Animal Animator (formerly v4.0 of Chromium Dinosaurs) contains a new
image-blurring program, as well as many improvements to the
previous programs. It contains a few new dinosaurs and 10 modern
species (8 mammals and 2 birds) in a variety of gaits. For
instance, horses are shown in a very slow walk, a walk, a trot, a
pace, and a gallop.
So why not buy it?
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This demo was produced in the following way:
1. A sequence of photographs showing a galloping horse was found
in Muybridge's 'Animals in Motion'.
2. One of these pictures was enlarged and photocopied on a clear
acetate sheet.
3. With this picture anatomy files were produced for the body, a
hind leg and a front leg. This was done using the anatomy
programs in the 'Animal Animator' suite of programs.
4. With the aid of Muybridge's book movement sequences were
defined for the legs and body with the appropriate movement
programs.
5. An animal animation was made, and then transformed from 20 to
30 frames to ensure a reasonably smooth animation.
6. With the 'Render Bender Filer' option, this 30-frame animation
file was used to produce a series of 30 image files in the Render
Bender format.
7. Thirty ray-traced images at 1/4 screen size were made with
Render Bender.
8. These were saved as screens, and the 1/4 part of the screen
showing the ray-traced picture was each time resaved as a sprite.
9. Appropriate texts were written with !Edit.
The large title was made with FontFX. With !Paint
sprites of the texts were made. With these sprites and the 30
horse-sprites 30 screens were made and saved.
10. These 30 mode 15 full screens were transfered to Render
Bender, and were used to produce an animation file, using the
instructions supplied with Render Bender.
11. An application was written around this animation program.
( The animation contains two bugs: the horse moves faster than
the ground does, and the horse's body is less smooth than it
could be. Both these bugs have been rectified.)
J. Gert van Dijk
Aert van Neslaan 442
2341 HR Oegstgeest
The Netherlands
Tel. (0)71-171525
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