Virtual Insanity !!

TJ- · Nov 13, 2005, 10:37 PM

The Blue Ball Machine

SSXeon · Nov 14, 2005, 08:32 PM

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Originally Posted by [zi0n]aXe

The Blue Ball Machine

OMFG i could watch that for hours

SSXeon

**dj_stick** · Nov 14, 2005, 10:07 PM

that's awesome

Judas · Nov 14, 2005, 10:36 PM

indeed.... keeps my eyes entertained for awhile...

incredible machine anyone?

Ev!L-aLphA · Nov 14, 2005, 10:39 PM

thats crazy!

Spazite · Nov 14, 2005, 11:17 PM

LOL that was badass!

**dj_stick** · Nov 15, 2005, 04:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Judas

indeed.... keeps my eyes entertained for awhile...

incredible machine anyone?

ahhh that game kept me entertained for hours at primary school - bugger work, speaking of which, so did the original space quest

BWX · Nov 15, 2005, 05:01 AM

Pretty cool... but I was more impressed before I realized it was just a small portion of the animation repeating..

Edit-- although by the name of the link I thought there would be a pic of some bitter guy's g/f there.

CDsDontBurn · Nov 15, 2005, 05:08 AM

lol.....wtf? hahaaha....funny though

BWX · Nov 15, 2005, 05:14 AM

Ha.. if you save the gif it is this--

Rayder · Nov 15, 2005, 07:33 AM

http://blueballtragedy.ytmnd.com/

pr0digal jenius · Nov 15, 2005, 09:30 AM

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Originally Posted by BWX

Ha.. if you save the gif it is this--

That should so be Zardon's new avatar!

CDsDontBurn · Nov 15, 2005, 01:42 PM

don't give him any new ideas!!!! lol

Sandok · Nov 15, 2005, 01:50 PM

That's just crazy... Must have taken years!

BWX · Nov 15, 2005, 03:50 PM

Took 0.002 seconds to resize it to avatar size..

edit- clearer pic of above--
http://img431.imageshack.us/img431/3...mall1309xp.gif

edit- clearer pic of above- http://img431.imageshack.us/img431/1...llsmall0ku.gif

Switch to pureheaven theme to see it clearly.. I need to put a background on it - it is transparent now.

There are only 30 frames in the gif- still needs to be optimized for it t be an allowable size in kb.

Sandok · Nov 15, 2005, 03:55 PM

Somebody as gotta use that an avatar!

Once the size prob is fixed

SSXeon · Nov 15, 2005, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Sandok

Somebody as gotta use that an avatar!

Once the size prob is fixed

I saved it, i might try to do it once i get 500 posts, god i need to stop watching it

SSXeon

Sandok · Nov 15, 2005, 04:13 PM

Ya but dude, it's like 100 kb... I forgot the limit but it's like WAY less...

SSXeon · Nov 15, 2005, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Sandok

Ya but dude, it's like 100 kb... I forgot the limit but it's like WAY less...

Photochop it to size

Yeah its ~840kbs

I might not, i have some ways to 500

SSXeon

BWX · Nov 15, 2005, 04:16 PM

The thing is kind of like a fractal in that it repeats itself, but in doing so gives the illusion of more complexity than it actually has. The entire thing is made up of only 30 frames.. then when you duplicate the image and line the clones up in a row and on top of each other simultaneously the illusion caries over to the connecting images because the exit and entrances of the blue balls on the sides and top of the gif line up with the bottom and opposite side of the gif.

Also on the inside of the gif to make the illusion of more complexity than is there- after 30 frames the blue balls all meet up with other blue balls in some way to give the illusion they are still moving, even though they are just "starting over" from the beginning.

Quite ingenious really.

SSXeon · Nov 15, 2005, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by BWX

The thing is kind of like a fractal in that it repeats itself, but in doing so gives the illusion of more complexity than it actually has. The entire thing is made up of only 30 frames.. then when you duplicate the image and line the clones up in a row and on top of each other simultaneously the illusion caries over to the connecting images because the exit and entrances of the blue balls on the sides and top of the gif line up with the bottom and opposite side of the gif.

Also on the inside of the gif to make the illusion of more complexity than is there- after 30 frames the blue balls all meet up with other blue balls in some way to give the illusion they are still moving, even though they are just "starting over" from the beginning.

Quite ingenious really.

precisely

BWX · Nov 15, 2005, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Sandok

Ya but dude, it's like 100 kb... I forgot the limit but it's like WAY less...

Yeah I saved it on the highest quality level-- you would have to be gold member or mod to use it even if I saved it on the lowest quality- but still, at the lowest quality you wouldn't be able to see it. The entire background is an alpha channel (or layer?) that is transparent and needs to be colored white so it doesn't have all the artifacts on the sides.

I think it might have to be done frame by frame.. but maybe not.

BWX · Nov 15, 2005, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by SSXeon

precisely

Exactly! LOL

look at it in reverse...

Edit-

see- here are all the frames with the frames before merged.. that's all it is.

http://img487.imageshack.us/img487/5...at3giff8dl.gif