Computer art

swombat wrote: post #4

Talk about a hyperbolic title. How is this even remotely "realistic"? It's nice, but there's a million animations just as awesome made every year. Are we going to post all of them here?

Agreed, I was a bit perplexed by that too. I do like it (because I hobby in After Effects myself) but it didn't strike me as especially realistic. I presume the TNW writer was referring to the pretty degradation of the colored smoke, but I couldn't help noticing the heavy use of blur and particle systems, especially as the material got more complex on screen.

It's a very fine piece of work; maybe the blog author just got a little carried away by his emotional response to it.

Re: Computer art

#7

Post by unalone » Thu, Aug 20, 2009, 8:13 PM UTC

swombat wrote: post #4

Talk about a hyperbolic title. How is this even remotely "realistic"? It's nice, but there's a million animations just as awesome made every year. Are we going to post all of them here?

Yes, let's! Or if there are too many, let's make a nice repository for beautiful videos.

Re: Computer art

#8

Post by thenextweb » Thu, Aug 20, 2009, 8:18 PM UTC

anigbrowl wrote: post #6

swombat wrote: post #4

Talk about a hyperbolic title. How is this even remotely "realistic"? It's nice, but there's a million animations just as awesome made every year. Are we going to post all of them here?

Agreed, I was a bit perplexed by that too. I do like it (because I hobby in After Effects myself) but it didn't strike me as especially realistic. I presume the TNW writer was referring to the pretty degradation of the colored smoke, but I couldn't help noticing the heavy use of blur and particle systems, especially as the material got more complex on screen. It's a very fine piece of work; maybe the blog author just…

guilty as charged...

Re: Computer art

#9

Post by ferna084 » Thu, Aug 20, 2009, 8:18 PM UTC

can somebody make this into a Leopard screensaver?

Re: Computer art

#10

Post by henning » Thu, Aug 20, 2009, 8:27 PM UTC

The article asks for this to be turned into an iTunes visualization plugin. In general I don't think fluid dynamics like that can be done in realtime. Maybe with a GPU.