A Little "Comet" Animation

[Lin Evans]

Fiery comet - it's been close to the sun - hey it can in my imagination - LOL. About two comets a month collide with the sun. As they approach, they "melt" and if large enough, the explosion is quite a spectacular event....

http://www.lin-evans...comet/comet.zip (PC about 7 meg)

http://www.lin-evans...et/cometmac.zip (MacIntosh Native Executable - about 7 meg)

http://www.lin-evans...comet/comet.htm (video for 1024x768 resolution display)

http://www.lin-evans...t1280/comet.htm (video for 1280x720 resolution display)

EXPANDED 11/14/11

Here's the story - the white dwarf seen left and above Saturn implodes (vaporizes) and the pulse which resulted takes out neighboring celestial bodies and forces the flaming comet into Earth (all off screen). Explosions result destroying the moon and sending projectile pieces of asteroid size hurtling toward Earth... end of story - HA!

Colin wanted an explosion at the end, so I expanded the original show and the updated version can be seen here:

http://www.lin-evans...er/disaster.htm (Video for 1280x720 resolution monitor or greater)

http://www.lin-evans...24/disaster.htm (video for 1024x768 resolution display

http://www.lin-evans...in/forcolin.zip (Windows zipped exe version - about 17 meg)

Lin

[Ken Cox]

SMOOTH

KEN

[colin hill]

Lin,

Ran smoothly on my pc, nicely done. How about a big explosion towards the end?

Colin

[Lin Evans]

Hi Colin,

Let me think about how that might work - maybe I'll come up with something later today.... LOL

Lin

Lin,

Ran smoothly on my pc, nicely done. How about a big explosion towards the end?

Colin

[Lin Evans]

Hey Colin,

For you! The white dwarf seen near Saturn in the field of view vaporizes and sends a pulse across the universe which forces the flaming comet into the Earth (this happens out of sight). Other celestial bodies explode and one huge explosion takes out the moon and sends pieces of moon and other debris flying toward Earth.... Of course complete with sound effects even though there would be no sound for an observer in space (he/she wouldn't last long without warp speed and Kirk at the helm to escape the destruction),,,,

http://www.lin-evans.org/colin/forcolin.zip

Best regards,

Lin

Hi Colin,

Let me think about how that might work - maybe I'll come up with something later today.... LOL

Lin

[colin hill]

Hi Lin,

Sat watching with bated breath and then BOOM, the heavens exploded. That was magnificent. I loved the rocks flying through the air.

I am amazed at what can be done and achieved with PTE.

Thank you,

Colin

[Ken Cox]

great show - -wow

ken

[Lin Evans]

Hi Colin,

LOL - the end of civilization as we knew it! No doubt, PTE is a fantastic tool which lets us combine the outputs of disparate tools into a very integrated whole.

It's going to become even more powerful once we have Alpha Channel capability with video. Right now, work-around's are required to get some of the effects possible by combining video and various types of still image animations, but in the future with planned features, PTE will become a tool of choice not only for the AV enthusiast, but I believe it will also become a part of many animator's tool kits.

Some things are so much easier to accomplish with PTE than with Photoshop - especially dealing with layers, opacity and especially "movement." It's definitely a fun learning experience to probe the possibilities.

Best regards,

Lin

Hi Lin,

Sat watching with bated breath and then BOOM, the heavens exploded. That was magnificent. I loved the rocks flying through the air.

I am amazed at what can be done and achieved with PTE.

Thank you,

Colin

[Lin Evans]

Hi Ken,

Fun to blow things up eh? LOL. Probably would have been better if it had been further from our solar system.... HA!

Lin

great show - -wow

ken