On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 23:50 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: > Hi Matthias! > > Matthias Clasen wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 16:23 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: > >> I put together an xml file for the animation based on the format for > >> gnome-desktop-2.19.90-4: > >> > >> http://people.redhat.com/duffy/artwork/infinity-24/00-fedora-infinity-background.xml > > > > Nice. But I think you want a) the starttime to be midnight and b) the > > durations of the static images to be 2700 and the transitions to be 900, > > so that it actually sums up to 24 hours. > > Yeh, I screwed it up. I wasn't sure what exactly the relationships of > the numbers were and I didn't realize until I already built the package. > To be midnight the starttime's hour would have to be 0, so 12 is > actually 12 pm? Yeah, the man page says: tm_hour The number of hours past midnight, in the range 0 to 23. > Does it matter what year-month-date is there? If your animation fills exactly 24 hours, it should not, unless you care about leap seconds... > > > >> I did each one using gradients and layer blending modes in the Gimp over > >> top of the main background image. The source is here (warning: it's > >> quite large): > >> > >> http://people.redhat.com/duffy/artwork/infinity-24/00-background.xcf > >> > > > > Unfortunately, there is very noticeable banding in the images. > > Yeh. Because it's a significant amount of effort to produce them (this > set took over 4 hours of manual tweaking), I figured these are a good > first cut to make sure the colors work out and to get more eyes on the > background transition stuff. In time for test 3, I can go in > layer-by-layer (because each image is actually an alpha-gradient > adjustment layer over the original artwork in a gimp file) and manually > smooth each gradient. I thought that would be a significant amount of > time and effort to do when I wasn't sure I picked the right colors and I > really wanted something in test 2... does that make sense? Sure, makes sense. _______________________________________________ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
