On 16 Apr 2004, at 16:05, Aaron Sloman wrote:
> Thanks Adrian,
>
>> Nice little mention of Poplog on Lambda the Ultimate:
>
> Never heard of that.
It's an interesting little site, I find it supplies lots of interesting
little titbits.
>> http://lambda.weblogs.com/discuss/msgReader$11880
>>
>> Aaron - they liked the sheepdogs mpg :-)
>
> I have always thought that getting a number of graphical demos
> available
> online would be the best way to accelerate takeup of pop11
That and having an easily installed cross-platform version of the
language ;-) I've been considering trying to target Pop-11 at Parrot
when the Spare Time Fairy eventually gets around to visiting my house.
> I have to find a way to produce more compressed movies.
>
> At present I have make the code frequently dump images to disk, then
> run
> a program to merge them into a movie. The resulting files are huge --
> especially as nowadays I have to add several copies of each dumped
> image
> (thanks to a script provided by Mike Lees in Nottingham) to slow down
> the movie when shown on a fast machine.
>
> There must be a better way.
[snip]
Yowza. Yes their must! What are you using to do your conversion to mpg?
Take a look at imagemagick <www.imagemagick.org> which, at the very
least, will allow you to insert appropriate pauses between frames
rather than repeating each dumped image several times!
Cheers,
Adrian
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