fireflies

[alrobin]

Just a fun experiment (with no sound).

http://www.alrobinson.com/fireflies.zip

[Guest BarbWatkins]

Just a fun experiment (with no sound).

http://www.alrobinson.com/fireflies.zip

awesome!!!!!

[LumenLux]

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.

[alrobin]

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.

[bharkins]

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

[alrobin]

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.

[alrobin]

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 .

[ronwil]

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]

[Hawk]

Al

Thanks for posting to your web site, the touch up looks great.

Appreciated

[alrobin]

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!

[thedom]

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.

[thedom]

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.

[Hawk]

thedom

Yes it is posted, Al was kind enought to adjust and post to his web site.

See Al's post #7 this page.

Al

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

ellipse_Al-Ralph.zip

click to enlarge

[thedom]

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 !

[alrobin]

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.