Comments on: gridlife.1

By: Epsilon

Epsilon — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:30:02 +0000

I'd like to see the .blend for this… this looks awesome.

By: JAIRO

JAIRO — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:51:47 +0000

COMO BAJAR ESTE PROGRAMA TAN INTERESANTE

By: theo

theo — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:41:22 +0000

Huy guys, thanks for all your comments. Just to let you know, a realtime version of the system, producing the spatial sound, with 2-D graphics was built in Pure-Data. The camera movements were recorded then. The camera was a physically-modelled mass, so camera-jitter was automatically produced when you moved it. All data from PureData was captured over a single 'performance' of the realtime system, and this was read by Python Scripts which then assembled Blender Scenes from the raw data.

By: spong

spong — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 05:21:03 +0000

I was mulling over how the natural camera movement could be produced.
It could be that the camera is fixed on the LED arrangement using a constraint, and then the constraint IPO is jittered / varied so that the focal point of the camera meanders from 1.0 (full constraint, locked movement) to say 0.8 (a slight amount of jitter) then you'd just add random movement IPO's to the camera and you'd have a camera that is largely focused on the object but also has a degree of free movement.

By: spong

spong — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:27:58 +0000

I'd like to see a tute just on creating the LED lights alone.
Great stuff.

By: blendercross

blendercross — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 16:46:17 +0000

See it - like it.
Kernon - i am very interest to see this tut.
The camera movements are looking absolutly realistic - great!

By: cowdude

cowdude — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 23:34:31 +0000

I personaly was impressed by real the lights looked.

By: Kernon

Kernon — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 02:50:33 +0000

@Bmud:
My next tutorial will include an extremely simple way to create a handheld camera effect from within Blender, no scripting involved.

By: steve

steve — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 02:10:18 +0000

perhaps epileptics should not watch this…

By: Bmud

Bmud — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 00:08:00 +0000

I'm very interested in knowing how the camera motions were done. I've theorized about using something like Icarus to make "hand-cam-like" camera movements for something that isn't there by just pointing a video camera at a wall with a grid on it or something… but I'm the most confused how you got the camera to 'follow' things, and furthermore it was done while manipulating time which is even more mind-boggling.

Let me see if I can guess a process here…
1. Python simulates life via scripting beyond my comprehension. This information was "baked" into IPO form.
2. You later played with the world's "time" IPO to make things more amusing at specific points in time.
3. You rendered a rough draft of the film.
4 (1). You pointed a real camera at a screen playing the film with maybe some sort of grid overlay
4 (2). You pointed a real camera at a wall and did your best to guess where you were aiming.
5. The video camera footage was tracked and the camera movements replaced the static camera.

It took me a while to understand what was going on in this film, but by the end of it I had picked up on on the rhythms and it made a strong impact on me. I'd be interested in putting this in my spring-time back yard film festival. :)