Archive for October, 2009

Skagitrenee (Irene AKA Renee) awesome photos and art on Flickr’s Explore.

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I’m back to this script again after more than one year.
Why? Well, some update needs surfaced out of genetic-design mailing list during the last days.

First of all I’ve had the confirmation that the ‘twintrian’ Variation is currently banned; when a Flame containing this Variation is uploaded then the designer will have a surprise: the result it’ll be different cos the server silently erase it.

I’ve secondly discovered that ES (ElectricSheep) server limits to 5 the number of Variations per Transforms (XForm); I was completely unaware of it or I forgot the limitation when I firstly coded the script (I really don’t remember).

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Stop all the fucking wars right now!

Just a simple photo Post-processed to simulate a different kind of “Sepia/Ancient” style.

View it also on Flickr

Just a simple Orange Star design; 2 designs update.

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Stagger env var is another Flam3 2.8 new feature.
It permits to control how the Transforms are interpolated during the animation; every designer can use this feature to customize the animation motions.
It applies to all animation modes created by Flam3: Sheep (Loop), Edge and Morph ones.

Erik Reckase explains it this way: “Setting stagger to 0 means the same as current behaviour. stagger=1 means that each xform will interpolate one at a time instead of simultaneously. stagger=0.5 means that the second xform will start halfway through the interpolation of the first xform, and so on.” and also “Affects simultaneity of xform interpolation during genome interpolation. Represents how ‘separate’ the xforms are interpolated. Set to 1 for each xform to be interpolated individually, fractions control interpolation overlap.”

Setting stagger to 0 is like not having it at all. The Transforms are in both cases interpolated in the old Flam3 2.7.xx way.

I’ve prepared 4 small clips that visually explain the ‘stagger’ env var usage.
The first two clips represent what previously said about stagger=0 and no stagger usage: the result is the same!

Morph animation – stagger OFF

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Flam3 2.8 Beta4 release corrects the ‘animate’ mode bug; see here: Flam3 2.8 Beta3
Previous betas was unable to create Morph animations correctly; the correct ‘animate’ mode implementation is back and this release can create them too.

Thanks a lot to Erik Reckase for the fast update!

Download it here:
flam3-2.8-beta4.zip – 32-bit Windows for 1-2 core machines
flam3-2.8-beta4-atomic.zip – 32-bit Windows for 3+ core machines

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