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T-CUT

30th March 2002 11:50 UTC

APE collection
All ape's that i have:

amoeba.ape
avsgrapper.ape
conway.ape
flame.ape
flock.ape
fyrewurx.ape
ifs.ape
pfavs.ape
saver.ape
slideshow.ape

are there anything else?
please post!

Montana

30th March 2002 19:31 UTC

the tv.ape, visfrac.ape, 3d.ape

Nic01

30th March 2002 21:18 UTC

Where do you get all those?
All I have are Firewurx, TV, Amoeba, and 3d...
(AVSgrabber - I already know where to have it, I just don't need it =) )

Oh yeah, some more APEs are in UnConeD's Whacko IV AVS pack, and Fluid (just remembered I have it) is from JC's 7th pack (TheSinCityBrainClumps)

geozop

31st March 2002 09:41 UTC

webcam input
I do not know the location, but I found about an ape that takes the input from a webcam. There aren't that many options, but you can make an effect list with ignore input and whatever output you want. Additionally, it's a bit buggy, but closing the AVS and reopening it fixes the problem. You should be able to search for it within the AVS section...

T-CUT

31st March 2002 12:03 UTC

Re: webcam input

Originally posted by geozop
I do not know the location, but I found about an ape that takes the input from a webcam. There aren't that many options, but you can make an effect list with ignore input and whatever output you want. Additionally, it's a bit buggy, but closing the AVS and reopening it fixes the problem. You should be able to search for it within the AVS section...

This is the pfavs.ape

if someone needs a ape just mail me

Yathosho

31st March 2002 14:44 UTC

how about putting a .zip file of them here?

ryan

1st April 2002 02:33 UTC

yeah post em on here....

T-CUT

1st April 2002 11:33 UTC

So here they are!
The file also includes the new 3D ape's from Unconed!
It was to big to post but you can download it from:

AVS.ZIP

UnConeD

1st April 2002 15:09 UTC

Dang... now people don't have to download WA-IV anymore to get them :)

I was planning on releasing the APEs as a separate ZIP, but after a week or so to provide people with an incentive to download the pack first :).

ryan

1st April 2002 20:36 UTC

I downloaded it the first day UnConeD =)....

[OFFTOPIC]BTW - - What does color reduction do?[/offtopic]

UnConeD

2nd April 2002 14:23 UTC

Color reduction sets the 'n' lowest bits of the color value to 0. A little more detail:

In 24-bit colour mode (or 32-bit), each color channel RGB is an 8-bit number (range 0-255). Color reduction reduces the accuracy of this number, so it introduces color bands and destroys gradients :). It was needed for the cartoon effect.
You could already do this by the way, by putting a few "Darken" fast brightnesses, followed by a few "Brighten" fast brightnesses. Every time you darken it, you reduce the range "0-255" to "0-127" to "0-63"... then, you multiply again, but of course because of the rounding errors, you won't get the original picture back again.

Suppose you have a nice gradient that can be represented by the numbers:

[ 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23 ]

Divide by 5, round it off, and then multiply by 5 again:

[ 5, 5, 5, 10, 10, 15, 15, 15, 20, 20 ]

That's how it works, except it uses binary, because that's waaaay speedier on CPUs. The effect is only noticable when enough bits are 'destroyed' (and there are fewer color levels left). Because the effect needed to be fast, the code had to be simple. The resulting image is always darker than the input image (and white is never truly white).

ryan

2nd April 2002 20:20 UTC

Hehe that took a few readings to get but i think i got it... heh I wish I had the math skiilz of you..
Ok Homework lets see 2+2=5

ryan

2nd April 2002 20:21 UTC

Yay I have been promoted from "Junior Member" to "Member" wait wasnt i a member to start with?...

BlurPak2k1

5th April 2002 00:17 UTC

missing ape's
no 3d.ape w/ its 3d shapes counter-components (ex: sphere, cube, etc:)

Adasha

17th April 2002 12:55 UTC

there is also a fluid dynamics APE by Ryan Geiss that you can get from his website, geisswerks.com. Its experimental, but still cool - smoke in AVS!

mucks

17th April 2002 14:12 UTC

didn't find the smoke ape you talked about
i browsered these pages for about 20 minutes and didn't find any apes..mayby you should deliver the ape's page link or givin simply the link to download location

hun about 3d ape..(i don't know if justin's got a beard bit if he was probably laughin in when he took it to production....

i'm not well imformed in 3d rendering else that it's incredibly easy to make a teapot........huh........it were probably asked before..
did someone make a 3ds to 3d.ape-in converter?

the builder build best when all tools are in front of his two hands and eyes.....and depending on the tool he must take care to his feets..ape's not so heavy...so if the tutorials were simply draged and droped in a txt file with download links writen black it'd be a good step in toolkit.........................................................................................

that's what i normaly do so then my mind's got a securepoint......
huh that's all......:)

T-CUT

17th April 2002 16:52 UTC

Originally posted by T-CUT
So here they are!
The file also includes the new 3D ape's from Unconed!
It was to big to post but you can download it from:

AVS.ZIP

Mucks can you read?

mucks

18th April 2002 00:39 UTC

sorry buddy
hum.....i did explain a bit like a nut......i was speaking about the smoke fx (i got this zip yesterdat)

Adasha

19th April 2002 16:03 UTC

the url is...
www.geisswerks.com/ryan/fluid.ape