Date of completion : 1 January 1999
Idea behind the movie
The inspiration came from an artwork by Scott Kim in which he had played
with the unit origami theme. In unit origami, small elements are used
repeatedly to make more complex patterns. Here I have used the two right
triangles in a square as the basic unit of repetition.
The movie is a journey through 8 patterns made of this unit. In each
pattern, the basic unit is the same but the relative orientations give the
different patterns. In the movie, I have transformed a pattern into the
next using either a physical movement (rotations or moving rows/columns)
or color change in some squares. Furthermore, everytime a new pattern is
realized, the whole coloring scheme transforms into another to signify
that this is a new pattern.
How the movie was made
I wrote a Java applet to generate most of the 212 frames. I had to modify
a few frames in Adobe Photoshop. I used MooVer (made by esp Software) to
make the individual frames into a movie and then used QuickTime
MoviePlayer to add the sound track and later to compress and flatten the
movie. The low quality version was compressed with the Sorenson algorithm
and the higher quality was done with the Animation algorithm. The sound
was done with QualComm PureVoice in both versions.
Special Thanks : Alina Khasanova provided some help in the frame
capture and color combination stage.
What the movie is missing
Title : The movie as of now lacks a title. All suggestions are
welcome and if I choose to use a suggestion from you, you stand to get
$5.00 or 1% of all box-office profits (whichever is higher).
Sound Track : The current sound track is the first 35 seconds of
Crockett's Theme composed by Jan Hammer (shhh...don't tell him, as I have
not asked his permission). However, I am on the lookout for a better sound
track. Again any suggestions are welcome. Better yet, if you do any
digital music compositions and would like to compose a 35 second piece,
let me know and I will supply you with details of my ideas of what I am
looking for in sound track.
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