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- Short: Imagine anim of toppling dominoes
- Uploader: Ragnar Fyri (ragnar.fyri@daf.no)
- Author: Ragnar Fyri (ragnar.fyri@daf.no)
- Type: pix/3dani
-
- This is a WIP (Work In Progress) in the sense that I want to do more with
- it but haven't had the time or energy yet.
- In a way the story started in 1963 when I got a set of dominoes for my
- birthday. I don't remember if I or anyone played much with them, but the
- box eventually wound up at the bottom of a drawer, finally turning up again
- a couple of years back when the last member of the family was getting ready
- to leave the family's old home and everything had to find a new place to
- clutter up.
- I took the old battered box home (and found that one tile was missing...
- *sigh*) in the middle of one of my "Imagine-ary" phases where I couldn't
- look at something without starting to think about how to model it in
- Imagine. <g> A domino tile is just a plain box and not very interesting in
- itself, but making all the different ones could be either
- 1) quite a chore, or
- 2) a little programming challenge.
- I took it as the latter, and after making just one tile and six brushmaps I
- wrote a little program that uses the different parts to build a complete
- set of tiles.
- Okay, I had the complete set. Now I had two choices again: Make a still
- picture of a game in progress, or an animation of toppling dominoes. You
- already know from the short description what I found most... ah... interes-
- ting!
-
- I will probably upload the objects and the program that made them later,
- and may even include a more or less detailed description of the more inte-
- resting parts of the project. In the meantime, check out my previous up-
- loads at
-
- http://home.eunet.no/~rfyri/wontolla/DearAmy.html
-