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All of the animations in this directory were created using
Mand2000's Zoom Animation facility. This is a revolutionary way to create
incredibly long zoom animations, frequently running into hundreds or
thousands of frames, with a relatively minor investment in computation and
disk space. Mand2000 does this by calculating a relatively small number of
'key frames'. Then, when you go to play the animation, Mand2000's
TweenPlayer loads in these key frames, and then interpolates, or 'tweens'
(from inbetween) to create additional frames inbetween. Because the
tweening is done in real time, as needed, the tweened frames take no disk
space, and very little memory.
Each of the different directories represents a different screen
mode, resolution and number of bitplanes. Each directory contains exactly
the same movies, just done in these different resolutions.
Each of these movies is in a separate directory, because each movie
is stored as a series of files, one key frame per file. Only one has an
icon though, and you can play the entire animation by double clicking on
that file. You can also use the TweenPlayer to select any other frame in
the animation, and it will play from that point on. Or, you can load any
of the frames into Mand2000 and start exploring from that point.
The level of magnification change that you will see in these movies
is a level that is unmatched by anything in the natural universe. The most
powerful scanning electron microscopes and telescopes can't match the
magnifying power of Mand2000. The Kaleidoscope animation, as an example is
made up of seventy eight key frames, each one with a magnification level
double the previous one's. The total magnification change adds up to two
to the seventy seventh power, which is approximately equal to sixty four
million million billion times, that's:
64,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
To put it another way, that's roughly enough magnification to
expand a millimeter (1/25th of an inch) to one hundred thousand light years
long.
Of course that's nothing compared to the 1000 zooms picture in the
special directory in the pics directory, but that's another story.
Most of the other animations don't zoom in quite that far, but
several of them do magnification changes greater than a million billion
times.
Creating your own zoom animations is quite easy. Just use the
"Make Zoom Movie" menu, and follow the directions.
The ARexx script ZoomMovie.mnd2 was used to calculate all of these
animaions in all these resolutions automatically.