RE: capture images in the animation loop

• To: "'Iulian Musat'" <iulian@xxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: RE: capture images in the animation loop
• From: "Wilson, Andrew, J" <andrew.wilson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:29:45 +0000

In case this is of any help, there is some documentation on
how AVS does keyframe animation at

http://help.avs.com/Express/doc/help/books/vizcons/06VTanimat
ion.html

I'm hoping this may help you when wondering about how to
design the widgets and the user interaction etc. However it
seems like a big step to build something like this in a
weekend.

For me it would be a great start just to extend
AnimationWidget to have a button that says something like
"Capture to MPEG". That would give me 80% of the solution
with just a small fraction of your effort.

Andrew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Iulian Musat [mailto:iulian@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 11 February 2003 18:28
> To: Wilson, Andrew, J
> Cc: visad-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: capture images in the animation loop
> 
> 
> Checking the weather forecast it seems the funniest think
to do, so I 
> plan to work on it this (long) weekend :-)
> 
> If you have any ideas and extra documentation, please throw
them in.
> 
> For the playback module I was thinking to start with a
widget 
> providing 
> some simple controls, like start/stop recording, playback,
render to 
> movie file, etc. When this is attached to a display it
listen for 
> changes in the projection control of that display and
record them 
> together with timing information. From this info I can
replay 
> everything 
> and capture the display content - display possibly loaded
with a more 
> complex scene (more data references, or data containing
more samples 
> etc.). It sounds simple and I did it once - worked fine, 
> provided that 
> the user is willing to wait long enough for rendering and 
> saving every 
> single frame.
> 
> That is the starting point. Any thoughts?
> 
> Cheers,
> -iulian
> 
> P.S.
> idea: I'm not sure I'm not just dreaming, but it may be
possible to 
> "save" the display to a RTP stream (using JMF) so we can
have a 
> broadcast server - people can watch a live demonstration of
your 
> application using a common rtp player, like realplayer.
Need 
> to check on 
> this and do some testing :-)
> 
> Wilson, Andrew, J wrote:
> > In case someone is going to work on this, I mention that
> > there is some code here
> > 
> >
http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jmf/2.1.1/solutions/J
> > pegImagesToMovie.html
> > 
> > that will convert a collection of JPEG images to a movie
to
> > .avi or quicktime using JMF. I'm guessing that starting
from
> > this it would very quickly be possible to get the same
> > functionality as offered by visad.data.qt.QTForm
> > 
> > I also have some suggestions for a more sophisticated
> > playback module. In the past I have used keyframe
animation
> > systems in order to generate movies where individual
frames
> > could not be generated in real time. I think that if such
a
> > system were to be implemented well for VisAD then this is
> > potentially "killer" functionality that would draw users
and
> > developers like a honeypot.
> > 
> > Regret I have neither the competence nor time to build
this
> > myself but I can provide info on how it has been done in
> > other systems and I will also volunteer to so some user
> > testing.
> > 
> > Perhaps the best key frame animation system I have seen
was
> > inside AVS: why not reverse engineer this approach? 
> > I can probably find some documentation on this if that
would
> > help.
> > 
> > Andrew
> > 
> > 
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Bill Hibbard [mailto:billh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> >>Sent: 10 February 2003 21:10
> >>To: Iulian Musat
> >>Cc: visad-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>Subject: Re: capture images in the animation loop
> >>
> >>
> >>Hi Iulian,
> >>
> >>
> >>>If anyone interested I can actually spend couples of
days
> >>
> > ( 
> > 
> >>week-ends
> >>
> >>>;-) ) on :
> >>>1 - VisAD file form for JMF supported media types
> >>>2 - a simple playback module - useful for presentations
> >>
> > (design
> > 
> >>>suggestions are more than welcome)
> >>
> >>As Curtis said, a VisAD file form for JMF, or for any new
> >>format, is always very welcome. If you have one and want
> >>to serve it, we would like to add a link from the VisAD
> >>web page. We could also add your code to our source
> >>distribution, as long as it works and conforms to JDK
1.2.
> >>
> >>Cheers,
> >>Bill 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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