alrobin Posted May 27, 2006 Report Share Posted May 27, 2006 Just a fun experiment (with no sound). http://www.alrobinson.com/fireflies.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BarbWatkins Posted May 28, 2006 Report Share Posted May 28, 2006 Just a fun experiment (with no sound). http://www.alrobinson.com/fireflies.zipawesome!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LumenLux Posted May 28, 2006 Report Share Posted May 28, 2006 Al, you retired guys create a lot of envy in the world! I'd have to give up most my life just to keep up with you and PTE5. Sure glad you do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alrobin Posted May 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2006 Thanks, Barb & Robert. It does help to have lots of time to just play around - you never know what's going to happen, with a program like PTE.But, you think this is neat - wait until you see what Hawk (another retired bloke) has come up with, with just a simple variation on this theme! It is really awesome! I hope he posts it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bharkins Posted May 28, 2006 Report Share Posted May 28, 2006 OK Al, I looked at the pte and still don't understand how it works. No problem thougn, I'm still struggling with the "map line" task! Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alrobin Posted May 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2006 Bill,Click on "Objects and Animation", click on one of the colour objects on the right-hand side to highlight it and enable you to view it's dotted outline in the preview window, and then "scrub" the timeline by "grabbing" the cursor and moving it back and forth, and I think you will get the gist of it. The secret in is in the thin transparent rotating ellipse which gives an effect similar to that in the moving map route example. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alrobin Posted May 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2006 I have added Ralph's improvement to "fireflies", plus a little brush-up work on it, and added it to my website at this address: ellipse_Al-Ralph.zip . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronwil Posted May 28, 2006 Report Share Posted May 28, 2006 Another clever demo. Well done Al.On the subject of retirement, I have been retired for exactly 23 years and widowed for 16. One disadvantage is the content of my HD which gets bigger and bigger, as does the pile of paper. As I said to my daughter-in-law yesterday, for every two pieces of paper I put to waste I add another three. Ron [uK] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawk Posted May 28, 2006 Report Share Posted May 28, 2006 AlThanks for posting to your web site, the touch up looks great.Appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alrobin Posted May 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2006 You're welcome.It's now gone nuclear:www.alrobinson.com/nuclear.zip !!It's amazing how just widening the coloured rectangles (as suggested by Ralph) completely changes the overall effect! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedom Posted May 28, 2006 Report Share Posted May 28, 2006 Just a fun experiment (with no sound). Very nice, I love it !The idea is great !Just to experiment, I added a frame (with all your objects grouped inside) with zoom, rotate and pan motion ( ) to add a little more animation ( ) and I added this flies sound (that I found on http://www.findsounds.com in case you didn't know this site ).Really immersive. wait until you see what Hawk (another retired bloke) has come up with, with just a simple variation on this theme! It is really awesome! I hope he posts it.Can't wait to see that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedom Posted June 11, 2006 Report Share Posted June 11, 2006 wait until you see what Hawk (another retired bloke) has come up with, with just a simple variation on this theme! It is really awesome! I hope he posts it. Can't wait to see that. Up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawk Posted June 11, 2006 Report Share Posted June 11, 2006 thedomYes it is posted, Al was kind enought to adjust and post to his web site.See Al's post #7 this page.AlI have added Ralph's improvement to "fireflies", plus a little brush-up work on it, and added it to my website at this address: ellipse_Al-Ralph.zipellipse_Al-Ralph.zip click to enlarge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedom Posted June 12, 2006 Report Share Posted June 12, 2006 Yes it is posted, Al was kind enought to adjust and post to his web site. Sorry Hawk,I didn't see it before. Very impressive result anyway.Thanks ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alrobin Posted June 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2006 Thedom,Did you see the "nuclear" version? (see above). It's just the "ellipse" show, but speeded up so that the persistence in your eye makes it look "multi-ellipsed". Shows one more capability with PTE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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