Pixelation

General => General Discussion => Topic started by: DarkHorizon on November 09, 2006, 12:51:26 pm

Title: Perpetual Motion Machine
Post by: DarkHorizon on November 09, 2006, 12:51:26 pm
Hi all,

This isn't mine, it came in one of those forward/joke emails sent to my fiancee the other day. I figured I would post it here as you artist-types might appreciate its complexity. :)

(http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/9376/pmmlo9.gif)

Cheers!
- DH
Title: Re: Perpetual Motion Machine
Post by: Gunne on November 09, 2006, 01:38:07 pm
and you know what the funny thing is, problably you can repeat this animation at all four sides ;)
Title: Re: Perpetual Motion Machine
Post by: Colonel Mustard on November 09, 2006, 01:57:14 pm
It's from the SomethingAwful forums, they've started a new one like this just recently, the old one was also made into an YTMND (http://blueballfixed.ytmnd.com/)

Users got to make a square part where balls entered from the top and right, and leaving to the left and bottom, then they stuck it together :P
Title: Re: Perpetual Motion Machine
Post by: goat on November 09, 2006, 02:05:14 pm
Yeah, these are cool.  The YTMND mesmerized me the first time I saw it :p
Title: Re: Perpetual Motion Machine
Post by: pkmays on November 09, 2006, 02:23:47 pm

Title: Re: Perpetual Motion Machine
Post by: pkmays on November 09, 2006, 02:43:45 pm
I'd love to see one of these that didn't have shitty art...
Title: Re: Perpetual Motion Machine
Post by: Player1 on November 09, 2006, 03:04:56 pm
Quote from: pkmays on November 09, 2006, 02:43:45 pm
I'd love to see one of these that didn't have shitty art...
That's a topic for "Challenges and activities" then:)
Title: Re: Perpetual Motion Machine
Post by: Lick on November 09, 2006, 04:17:29 pm
Zoggles used to make this kind of never-ending rubberband with balls animations in isometric (impossible) perspective. That was pretty sexy.
Title: Re: Perpetual Motion Machine
Post by: Sherman Gill on November 10, 2006, 08:05:43 pm
I'd say making a beautiful one of these would be a great challenge.

Let's do it!
Title: Re: Perpetual Motion Machine
Post by: hidden killer on December 03, 2006, 12:56:49 pm
wow that page was eating up all my cpu power lol
we cud have one similar one on pixelation too :D
Title: Re: Perpetual Motion Machine
Post by: .TakaM on December 03, 2006, 01:13:47 pm
I'd fully be up for something like this, but instead one something like those videos where lots of little things act sort of like dominos (I cant remember the name of the dude famous for these videos) but where like something will hit a ball and the ball will turn a fan on and the fan will blow a dart and the dart will hit a switch etc, and at the end it just does something like raise a pixelation flag :)
Title: Re: Perpetual Motion Machine
Post by: hidden killer on December 03, 2006, 01:22:11 pm
you mean something like that game - The Incredible Machine
u actually get to do cartoonish stuff like that in it :P
Title: Re: Perpetual Motion Machine
Post by: Soup on December 03, 2006, 01:28:42 pm
It would be hard.
Title: Re: Perpetual Motion Machine
Post by: .TakaM on December 03, 2006, 01:41:59 pm
wouldnt be that hard, say we all have to make a 200x200 animated gif, first person does someone rolling a ping-pong ball across to the right, next person makes the pingpong ball do something in his square, next person continues.
we wouldnt even have to stick them together as one gif (although we probably should so the timing works out :P)
Title: Re: Perpetual Motion Machine
Post by: Lee N on December 03, 2006, 05:49:38 pm
A fixed number of frames and some coordination between the artists regarding where the ball (or whatever) enters and leaves the image and there should be no troubles at all stitching it together.
Title: Re: Perpetual Motion Machine
Post by: Rydin on December 03, 2006, 06:16:02 pm
Quote from: .TakaM on December 03, 2006, 01:13:47 pm
(I cant remember the name of the dude famous for these videos)

Rube Goldberg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg)

It'd be an interesting activity to say the least...
Title: Re: Perpetual Motion Machine
Post by: Larwick on December 03, 2006, 08:51:30 pm
Yes, sounds neat. I suggest a member designs a default ball and splits the image into an easy grid with about the same amount going on in each. Sounds like it would be fun.  :0'