From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>
Date: January 9, 2006 5:02:48 PM MST
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] New file uploaded to Astro_IIDC
Hi Alan;
Thanks for the kind words.
All the Mars images in the movies were taken at approximately 15 minute intervals. And each original frame represents about the best 150 to 400 frames out of 1000 to 3000 stack of captured frames in each movie. So I think that little movie represents roughly 250,000 frames of 16 bit video taken over a 5 week period.
However I tweened the frames so that it generates 4 intermediate frames for each pair of real frames (some old code I wrote before QuickTime 2 was released) - which is how I got it up to 20 fps for playback.
TTYL..
Milton J. Aupperle
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On 9-Jan-06, at 4:50 PM, Alan Friedman wrote:
Hi Milton -
I like your full disk lunar mosaic and especially the mars movie.
One gets a sense, looking at a moving sequence after seeing hundreds (thousands?) of still images of mars, what audiences must have felt looking at the first moving pictures.
cool stuff -
Alan