At last night’s SLUG meeting I spoke with people about the challenges of animating in a Linux system. Image Magick may be the clay that I seek, to get hands-on to the code that moves pixels on the screen.
Michael Still, 2006. The definitive guide to Image Magick, Apress
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Values of visual properties, and their duration and location in time and space, can be attributed to numerical and graphical data.
Annual cycles and inter-annual trends in sea ice may be revealed through such visual music.
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Beast was reccommended for programming sound, to build sound patterns from the same data.
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See Elephant’s Dream, a 3D animated project that used all open source software.
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Cinepaint was also mentioned as a useful tool for rotoscoping.