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On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 09:33:01PM +0200, Patrick Fehr wrote:
Indeed, your idea is nice, but that's definitely too much work for me at the moment. But just out of curiosity: How could you do the "almost realtime" animation? eg. updated all 2 seconds but in the meantime fading from one picture to another, so you don't have to heat your cpu up to death. And how would you realise that in gimp? Can't really imagine, how you make the connection between gimp-pictures and the animated daylight accurate background.
If you look closely at the animations, you see it is build up of several layers that move at different speeds. Also weather changes often, but not really every 2 seconds. a 30 minute or even 1 hour time in between should be enough. You could also build a database of different pictures and work from that, wich will be less CPU intensive and also less correct. So what you do is have a mountain sight, a hill sight and a tree sight going round and round in different speeds and you have movement. Classic animation trick they use in cartoons.
An other way would be just to connect a webcam. Ain't it crazy that just looking outside is not really an option for the true nerd?
Well I thought about that too, but that would involve eye- or even head-movement, and I don't want to exhaust my body :)
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