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December 29th 2009

An animation

Santa has been generous and I got the animation edition of Ultra Fractal. Animations have never been a real priority; there is already so much to explore (and so little computing time...) with still images. Yet, they offer the interesting possibility of bringing to life algorithmic worlds. They also allow to explore in a practical way their parameter space, what should allow to display more of their incredible richness. I haven't made anything extremely exciting yet, but here is a small one based on 20091226-1.

The process of creating animations is pretty tedious. It is impossible to have a good idea of what the animation will look like before it is completely rendered, what takes a few hours at best. Then some of the encodings available do a pretty bad job at rendering the details while keeping the animation smooth. I tried first to embedd the video above as a flv file, but while the resolution was great, the encoding created clear periodic discontinuities in the grayish background. I still have to experiment a bit.

In case you'd like to follow me there, my YouTube account is s31415.

[Update :] Following the suggestion of Jonathan McCabe below, I tried Vimeo. The quality is noticeably better indeed. Here is my account.