legohead

18th February 2003 21:58 UTC

Kaleidascopic
Ive played with a few kaleidascopes and remixed a few of nic01's peices (Nic most were really impressive by the way).
These flow quite smoothly and are easier on the eye. They aren't the most technically advanced but the look good (which is the desired outcome right??)

anubis2003

18th February 2003 22:16 UTC

Alright presets, but they aren't true kaleidoscopes.

legohead

19th February 2003 02:26 UTC

Define a true kaleidoscope. I dares ya!

anubis2003

19th February 2003 02:32 UTC

A true kaleidoscope is a picture set back from the camera a certain distance with a certain number of mirrors perpendicular to the picture and the camera that cause a nice, multiple mirrored effect. Would be best implemented with a 3D-DM.

dirkdeftly

20th February 2003 05:04 UTC

Would be best implimented with a static movement and *maybe* a rotozoomer. Kaleidoscopes aren't 3D - the image created is planar. (A mirror placed perpendicular to a planar image will result in a mirror image that is coplanar with the original - like a kaleidoscope).

To do this you need to find out how to tile a triangular - or square - section of an image on a plane using trans/movement. The reflections of other polygons would be quite a bit more difficult to do, as they do not involve simple tiling...

legohead

20th February 2003 22:07 UTC

Well Ive made some real progress with the Kscopes. I'll upload on monday - I know they'll trip you guys out! Rotozoomers aren't the best for kscopes but work well in earlier layers. A movement filter using something like r=r*3 works very nicely - combined with some dynamic moves.

anubis2003

20th February 2003 22:30 UTC

Atero, I know that the image seen isn't 3D, but the setup of a kaleidoscope is 3D.

dirkdeftly

22nd February 2003 05:09 UTC

doesn't have to be in AVS, is my point