"FRAME FROM 3-D FLOWER ANIMATION" ^©

Software:  Crystal TOPAS
Platform:  IBM PC (Targa 16), Summagraphics tablet

This is a "still" from a 30- second, three-dimensional
digital animation. Something 'floral' (inspired by the night-
blooming cereus), viewed roughly from the side.

The model was created by "grabbing" individual (petal)
vector-objects from various stages of a separately
animated (petal) morph, of varying degrees of
transparency. Those (petal) vector-objects were
then loaded into a new model and attached to one another
—essentially (and sort of bassackwards)
using one animation to create the model for another.

(With great indebtedness to Burt Rumley for his time and
technical assistance in putting version #1 to videotape.)

1991-1998