Nutcracker: New Effect, pinwheel

[smeighan]

New Effect pinwheel. You can vary
direction cw/ccw
Number of arms on pinwheel: 1-6
How thick each arms from 1 to 5 pixels.
Can fade adjust pixels on an arm to make a 3d effect
Each arm can be a palette color or a ranbow color
You can have straight arms or curved

here is first example
pinwheel Effect Settings
username   f
user_target   AA_MATRIX
effect_class   pinwheel
effect_name   PINWHEEL2
number_arms   6
number_rotations   1
lines   5
window_degrees   360
frame_delay   100
arm_spacing   1
direction   cw
rainbow_hue   n
color1   #FF0000
color2   #00FF00
color3   #0000FF
color4   #FF8800
color5   #FFFF00
color6   #8800FF
fade1   100
fade23   66
fade45   33
straight   n
show_frame   n
seq_duration   3
fade_in   1
fade_out   1
speed   1
submit   Submit Form to create your effect
OBJECT_NAME   pinwheel
batch   0



Now we will change a few things

pinwheel Effect Settings
username   f
user_target   AA_MATRIX
effect_class   pinwheel
effect_name   PINWHEEL3
number_arms   6
number_rotations   1
lines   5
window_degrees   360
frame_delay   100
arm_spacing   2
direction   cw
rainbow_hue   y
color1   #FF0000
color2   #00FF00
color3   #0000FF
color4   #FF8800
color5   #FFFF00
color6   #8800FF
fade1   100
fade23   66
fade45   33
straight   n
show_frame   n
seq_duration   3
fade_in   1
fade_out   1
speed     2
submit   Submit Form to create your effect
OBJECT_NAME   pinwheel
batch   0




Last is setting the arms to be drawn straight , like spokes of a wheel

pinwheel Effect Settings
username   f
user_target   AA_MATRIX
effect_class   pinwheel
effect_name   PINWHEEL4
number_arms   6
number_rotations   1
lines   5
window_degrees   360
frame_delay   100
arm_spacing   2
direction   cw
rainbow_hue   y
color1   #FF0000
color2   #00FF00
color3   #0000FF
color4   #FF8800
color5   #FFFF00
color6   #8800FF
fade1   100
fade23   66
fade45   33
straight   y
show_frame   n
seq_duration   3
fade_in   1
fade_out   1
speed   2
submit   Submit Form to create your effect
OBJECT_NAME   pinwheel
batch   0





Enjoy;

People with local installs this requires both
Step #5 to get latest code
Step #7 to load up a new database

sean

[smeighan]

I planned on using it with my audience

"You will enjoy the show, you will enjoy he show ..."

a couple of more  effect variations


slow it down, only use two colors.

pinwheel Effect Settings
username   f
user_target   AA_MATRIX
effect_class   pinwheel
submit   Submit Form to create your effect
effect_name   PINWHEEL5
number_arms   6
number_rotations   1
lines   5
window_degrees   360
frame_delay   100
arm_spacing   .5
direction   cw
rainbow_hue   n
color1   #FF0000
color2   #FFFFFF
color3   #FF0000
color4   #FFFFFF
color5   #FF0000
color6   #FFFFFF
fade1   100
fade23   100
fade45   100
straight   n
show_frame   n
seq_duration   3
fade_in   1
fade_out   1
speed   .3
OBJECT_NAME   pinwheel
batch   0

[caretaker]

You will send cash to Sean now at.... 

[Voltorb]

Wow, wouldn't it be great to embed some subliminal messages!  That should be the next effect!

[Jeffl]

Is the pinwheel used for something like this?

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[kgustafson]

Is the pinwheel used for something like this?

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Not necessarily.  It is a straight up effect on an RGB matrix.  This is not something that is targeted to a 'pinwheel' construction.  You could apply it to something like the pinwheel as constructed on that thread, but it would not behave as you would expect.  Think of this as 'painting' the effect on your array of RGB pixels.  Similarly if you had an RGB megatree, this would 'paint' the pinwheel pattern on the sides and front of your megatree  (assuming a 180 mega tree)

[rdebolt]

Is the pinwheel used for something like this?

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Not yet Jeff. Sean did say that he was planning on making a model for the spinners at some time this year.