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flam3-animate vs flam3-genome

Submitted by macbony on Mon, 2008-08-18 22:05.

I was wondering what the difference is in how flam3-animate interpolates between keyframes/genomes vs. how flam3-genome interpolates between two genomes. Flam3-animate doesn't appear to have an option for outputting the genetics of tweened frames, so I'm going off some basic tests I've done.

I quickly commented out the flam3_rotate lines from spin_inter in flam3-genome.c and recompiled to run on a a test I had done. There still appears to be some difference beyond the rotation, unless commenting out those two lines wasn't enough. The specific animation I'm looking for is the fade-in and out of a julian xform. With animate, a ring sweeps over the fractal. With genome, the image seems more static. I've got 4 videos of the same loop done with flam3-animate, flam3-genome, my version of flam3-genome, and one of my version with the inverse relationship between the size of the linear variant and the size of the julian variant on the phasing-in xform. The final one is the most dull.

https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/82350/flam3-animate.x264.avi
https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/82350/flam3-genome.x264.avi
https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/82350/flame-genome-norot.x264.avi
https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/82350/flam3-genome-norot-nolin.x264.avi

The specific effect I'm looking for is in this longer video at around the 18s mark. https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/82350/bigbang.avi

What exactly would I need to do in spin_inter to get the same control points to pass to interpolate? I'm sorry, not much of a programmer.

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every image written has its

Submitted by spot on Mon, 2008-08-25 02:36.

every image written has its genetics in the metadata so you can check that if you want.

what do you mean "how flam3-genome interpolates"? because it has a bunch of sub-commands that do different things, see the wiki. do you mean the sequence operator?

it would help if you posted the genomes and commands you used to generate the videos.

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The genetics I was using are

Submitted by macbony on Mon, 2008-08-25 17:45.

The genetics I was using are here.

I think I figured out my question. Since I was messing with polars in Apophysis, I was seeing polar rotation when previewing and the flam3-animate, with frames further apart, was just using linear coordinates and looked different. When I tried to get the genomes output, I was assuming using genome would output similar to flam3-animate as I didn't really understand what was going on prior to the flam3_interpolate call I saw in flam3-genome. I see what you mean by the methods it uses and see what my issue means.

Also, thanks for the tip on the genome being in the metadata. I didn't realize that.

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