The Arts of John P Korb
"FRAME FROM 3-D FLOWER ANIMATION" ©
Software: Crystal TOPASPlatform: IBM PC /Targa 16; Summagraphics tablet
1991
This is a "still" from a 30- second, three-dimensional digital animation. Something 'floral' (inspired by the night-blooming cereus).
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 at their x,y,z coordinates—essentially (and sort of bassackwards) using one animation to create the model for another.
At the time, a souped-up 486 was "state of the art"; and at 30 frames per second, it often took an hour or more to render a single frame.
With great indebtedness to Burt Rumley for his time and technical assistance in putting it to videotape.
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