I am UTTERLY unable to trace the source of this animation to even ascertain its copyright status or ask the author to release it:
http://www.livejournal.com/userpic/52702236/8731015
Seeing this was the *first* time I understood how sewing machines do what they do.
So. Anyone think they're good enough with drawing and animation to create a definiltely free content version? Preferably larger.
- d.
2007/1/19, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
I am UTTERLY unable to trace the source of this animation to even ascertain its copyright status or ask the author to release it:
http://www.livejournal.com/userpic/52702236/8731015
Seeing this was the *first* time I understood how sewing machines do what they do.
So. Anyone think they're good enough with drawing and animation to create a definiltely free content version? Preferably larger.
I'll try to bite it with Orem, maybe we will be able to make some nice SVG/animation work :)
AJF/WarX
On 19/01/07, Artur Fijałkowski wiki.warx@gmail.com wrote:
2007/1/19, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
I am UTTERLY unable to trace the source of this animation to even ascertain its copyright status or ask the author to release it: http://www.livejournal.com/userpic/52702236/8731015 Seeing this was the *first* time I understood how sewing machines do what they do. So. Anyone think they're good enough with drawing and animation to create a definiltely free content version? Preferably larger.
I'll try to bite it with Orem, maybe we will be able to make some nice SVG/animation work :)
Oh, are SVG animations live in MediaWiki on Wikimedia? I thought it used a restricted subset of tags to avoid active content dangers. Do we have any animated SVGs on Commons as yet?
- d.
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David Gerard wrote:
Oh, are SVG animations live in MediaWiki on Wikimedia? I thought it used a restricted subset of tags to avoid active content dangers. Do we have any animated SVGs on Commons as yet?
You can't really use animated SVGs comfortably at this time; SVG images are rasterized to flat, solid, unmoving PNG images for display inline.
You could of course upload an animated SVG as source if you can convert it to something else that will actually display inline usefully (animated GIF? ;)
- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org)
I was thinking about some important frames in SVG and animated GIF/MPNG :)
AJF/WarX
I too would welcome this, as I hadn't the foggiest idea how sewing machines actually sewed anything until seeing that.
I haven't anything approaching the skill to recreate it, but if somebody does, could they consider making it run a bit slower than that version (if such a thing is possible) to make it even clearer what is happening.
Chris
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, David Gerard wrote:
I am UTTERLY unable to trace the source of this animation to even ascertain its copyright status or ask the author to release it:
http://www.livejournal.com/userpic/52702236/8731015
Seeing this was the *first* time I understood how sewing machines do what they do.
So. Anyone think they're good enough with drawing and animation to create a definiltely free content version? Preferably larger.
- d.
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''For a taste of thing to come:''
http://sandbox.dbc.wroc.pl/~warx/anim2.gif
It has some mistakes and need adding of threads, but I think it would be sufficent :)
Any comments before finishing would be nice
AJF/WarX
Generally very good, although it could do with perhaps being slightly more colourful.
The thread appears to slip back very slightly just as the v-shaped end of the rotating thing approaches the needle.
Chris
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Artur Fijakowski wrote:
''For a taste of thing to come:''
http://sandbox.dbc.wroc.pl/~warx/anim2.gif
It has some mistakes and need adding of threads, but I think it would be sufficent :)
Any comments before finishing would be nice
AJF/WarX
When I say "thread" I do actually mean "material" (doh!)
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Chris McKenna wrote:
Generally very good, although it could do with perhaps being slightly more colourful.
The thread appears to slip back very slightly just as the v-shaped end of the rotating thing approaches the needle.
Chris
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Artur Fijakowski wrote:
''For a taste of thing to come:''
http://sandbox.dbc.wroc.pl/~warx/anim2.gif
It has some mistakes and need adding of threads, but I think it would be sufficent :)
Any comments before finishing would be nice
AJF/WarX
2007/1/20, Chris McKenna cmckenna@sucs.org:
When I say "thread" I do actually mean "material" (doh!)
I see it, but it's error of rendering in ImageMagick - gqview doesn't show this 1px shift - it's only ugly antialiasing (maybe someone knowing better IM magic will be able to generate animation from source SVGs)
AJF/WarX