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tconley
03-16-2009, 11:36 PM
I was wondering how difficult it would be to create a grid data entry screen.

This is my idea I want to create a grid of pixels say 8x5 or 7x6 this will grow as i purchase more through the years. but what would happen is i would map the start cell to some point in my channel count and the the system what my grid size should be. Then it can create a single grid cell for each of the pixels. Since computer generate color in RGB anyway we should be able to just paint the cells with what every color and the system write the rgb value to the correct channel.

This way you could nicely draw images and then move the time index and it should make animate this kind of display much easier.

I plan to mount the pixels into 8 to 12 inch square boxes so i create a grid display. I do realize this may generate a high channel count but i think it might be cool. especially as it gets bigger.

http://www.csc.ca/imageLibrary/dec06/Hallhome-alight.jpg

What do you think?

Example:
Cell A1 is paint with a color that is R 25 - G 110 - b 65 and it is mapped to begin at channel 100. so channel 100=25 101=110 102=65. Then you would just move second to second adjusting the draw line classic animation.

mrpackethead
03-17-2009, 01:46 AM
It is cool... My grid is 16 x 10, and you can do all sorts of magic with it..

Programming it, however takes for ever by hand! You need some kind of magic!

djulien
03-17-2009, 03:08 AM
Instead of doing it manually, could you use the LED-triks bitmap editor in Vixen, then write a little program to read the .LED file(s) and insert it into the events in the .VIX file? Eventually it would be nice to do it directly from within Vixen, but in lieu of that then maybe a utility to copy the bitmaps from a .LED file into the sequence might be a reasonable compromise for now.

don

mrpackethead
03-17-2009, 06:05 AM
I put together some perl scripts to convert an image set (from a quick time movie ) to .vix files.. An ugly hack, but theres lots of things that you can create animations in that will make quick time movies.

My personal favourite is quartz composer.

tconley
03-22-2009, 06:01 AM
i wonder if there is any way to convert the ledtriks screen to do this function