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Animated Graphics Gallery
These are trial web sample versions (usually Shockwave .dcr files) of various media such as slide shows, computer animated graphics, and DVD presentations or Quicktime videos. First time users will be prompted to download and install the Shockwave plug in. Image size and file size are given in parentheses. For a true full screen display, try the free Opera browser with the resolution set to the given image size. For other browsers, without a full-screen display, set your computer monitor to the next higher resolution and hide browser toolbars to get the image to nearly fill the screen. Warning - users with slow,dial-up connections need to allow about 3 min/MB for loading. Inquiries, comments, suggestions, and complaints should be sent to Darrell J. Woodman (woodmandj@aol.com).
Units with video segments require QuickTime. Beginning with Mac OS 10.4 some browsers may fail to play these videos, whether or not the browsers are set to open in Rosetta. Internet Explorer version 5.2 for Mac (available for free web download) seems to be one browser that successfully plays the videos off the web.
All materials copyright 2005-2009, Darrell J. Woodman, all rights reserved.
Astronomy
Hubble Deep Fields (640x480, 4.5MB) Animated tour of the Hubble Deep Field images. Big dipper diagram showing location of the original deep field, zoom to enlarged view, light-gathering simulation/zoom, pan across the deep field, overall view with prominent galaxy redshifts, close-up with stars identified, 3D "fly-thru"/zoom video animation (requires QuickTime, also see above note on browsers), Hubble Deep Field South image, Hubble Ultra Deep Field image, age of universe timeline.
Light Echo: Monocerotis (640x480, 1.1MB) Animation of the spreading light echo from monocerotis, based on the NASA images . This animation begins with a simulation of the stellar flash in 2002 and uses an iris effect to simulate continuous, even spreading of the reflection that might have been seen with more frequent images. Following the animation, a summary screen compares all eight images from May 2002 through Sept. 2006.
The Multiverse (640x480)) Animation of the flux line decay transitions of string theory creating new stable vacuum spaces with different manifolds of small extra dimensions and laws of physics. Depicts bubble growth of vacuum spaces and zooms out on a bubble foam multiverse.
Animated Abstract Art
Chalks (1024x768, 17 KB) Animation of 320 strokes to create a new chalks picture in about 35 min. - autorestarts. Every picture unique.
JungleI (1024x768, 20 KB) Our motto,"If you don't like this picture, wait a couple seconds." The endless animation takes a minute or two to get up to full speed.
Slug Painting (1024x768, 5 KB) Multicolored slime trails as dynamic abstract art - constantly being repainted by gastropods of different chromatic persuasions.
Animated Impossible Reality (Magic Illusions)
Impossible Borromean Rings (1024x768, 841 KB) Animation of a treatment of the "impossible" (if flat) Borromean rings. Which ring is closest to the viewer?
Impossible Borromean Rings 3D Animation (640x480, 2.2 MB) Animation of a treatment of the "impossible" (if flat) Borromean rings in 3D to emphasize that the rings are perfectly flat with no bends - so it is impossible, but there it is! Which ring is closest to the viewer?
Magic Aquarium (1024x768, 340 KB) Is the light or the dark blue color closer to the viewer in this animation of Escher like impossible reality?
Magic Bars 2 (640x480, 2.7 MB) Are the red or blue colored bars closer to the viewer in this second related animation of Escher like impossible reality?
Magic Triangle (640x480,1.3 MB) Video illustrates three easy ways to complete the somewhat tricky final step to construct from blocks the "impossible" Magic triangle as a true 3D object - 3D graphics don't lie.
Staircase (640x480,1.3 MB) Amazing video demonstrates that Escher's "impossible" ascending, descending staircase really can exist. Follow the ball descending all the way around - gravity doesn't lie.
Augmented Reality
Katie and Erin Meet Augmented Reality (640x480,3.8MB) Quicktine video of innocent child wielding Augmented Reality portal device.
Changing Pictures
Shapes (640x480, 18.2 MB) Deformations of rotating shapes.
Emergence (640x480, 28 MB) Surreal image with changing colors.
ErinKatie (640x480, 4.7 MB) Erin and Katie in surrealism land.
Transformation (640x480, 0.6 MB)
Landscape (640x480, 6.4 MB)
Composition (640x480, 16.6 MB) Moving surrealistic elements.
Black Holes (1024x768, 300 KB)
FlowersDahlia Show (1024x768, 8 MB) Animated dahlia pictures.
Orchid Bowl (1024x768, 1 MB) Drifting orchid pictures.
Rosebud Opening (1024x768, 3.4 MB) Sixty eight images taken over several days.
Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope III (1024x768, 0.5 MB) Rotates image of shifting, faceted, semitransparent color elements to simulate tumbling in a real kaleidoscope as it turns slowly.
Lights
(1024x768) Lights changing color in random sequence. All autostart.
Lights Disk (12KB).
Lights Disk Rotating (408KB).
Lights Sheet 8x8 (184KB).
Lights Block 4x4x4 (76KB).
Lights Globe (124KB)
Lights Block 8x8x8 (168KB)
Recursive Pictures
erinPictInPict (1024x768, 94 KB) Erin, at almost 2, looks at a picture of herself looking at a picture of herself looking at.... An animated infinitely recursive picture - nested repating images, pictures within themselves.
Science Art
DNA Sequencing Art (1024x768, 51 KB) A unique new 9 channel "fingerprint" develops with a different color scheme every 3 minutes. If you can't afford the current DNA art fad of ordering a pricey printout of your personal DNA "portrait" with a fancy frame to hang on the wall, just play this animation and lie to everyone that it shows fragments of your own DNA - who can tell?
Seattle Public Library
Seattle Public Library (1024x768, 27 MB) 30 min. tour of external, daylight views, using moving stills. Takes a long time to load. See also special instructions on following link screen.
Shapes
Lines (1024x768, 8 KB) Piling on random, colored lines.
Rings (1024x768, 8 KB) Piling on random, colored rings.
Squares (1024x768, 7 KB) Piling on random, colored squares.
Circles (1024x768, 8 KB) Piling on random, colored circles.
