{"id":5351,"date":"2010-12-13T20:59:32","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T01:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=5351"},"modified":"2010-12-13T21:11:04","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T02:11:04","slug":"better-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=5351","title":{"rendered":"Better butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first time I posted the butterfly-to-fractal movie, it was as an animated GIF.  That was because the program I wrote just created individual Jpeg images, and I didn&#8217;t have any conversion software handy other than <a href=http:\/\/www.gimp.org\/ target=1>Gimp<\/a>, which lets you convert a sequence of Jpeg images to animated GIFs.<\/p>\n<p>Then a friend offered to compose music for the animation, at which point animated GIFs just wouldn&#8217;t cut it.  To set an animation to music, you need something in a legitimate format like Quicktime, which lets you scrub forward and back over the animation, so you can do proper timing.<\/p>\n<p>After a little looking around, I found the wonderful free program <a href=http:\/\/virtualdub.org target=1>VirtualDub<\/a>, which lets you convert a sequence of Jpeg images to an AVI movie, and another wonderful free program <a href=http:\/\/www.oxelon.com\/media_converter.html target=1>Oxelon Media Converter<\/a>, which lets you convert an AVI movie in to a Quicktime MOV file.<\/p>\n<p>So thanks to the kind generosity of the open software movement, I am able to present you with the butterfly film as a legitimate movie, both in a <a href=http:\/\/mrl.nyu.edu\/~perlin\/butterfly-slow.mov target=1>slow one minute version<\/a>, and a <a href=http:\/\/mrl.nyu.edu\/~perlin\/butterfly-fast.mov target=1>fast thirty second version<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t decide which version I like better.  The fast\/short one is peppier, but the slow\/long one is more <i>mysterioso<\/i>, and gives you more time to look at the individual visions along the butterfly&#8217;s journey.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone care to weigh in?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first time I posted the butterfly-to-fractal movie, it was as an animated GIF. That was because the program I wrote just created individual Jpeg images, and I didn&#8217;t have any conversion software handy other than Gimp, which lets you convert a sequence of Jpeg images to animated GIFs. Then a friend offered to compose &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=5351\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Better butterfly&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5351"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5351"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5360,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5351\/revisions\/5360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}