Posted on February 5, 2000

• Thanks everyone for your feedback regarding “In Bloom”. Most of you thought as Jessie did, that the version marked #2 was better than the rest. Actually, I felt the same, but I guess I didn’t want to admit it. You see, version 2 was the first one I did (put together in about 3 hours), and then I went back and added various things to make versions 1 and 3. I should have left it alone I guess. Oh well. All three versions are still up for display in the Pickle Jar, so you can take your pick. I will be posting version 2 in my permanent 2000 collection (when I’ve put a few more complete projects together).

• My second “water test” is now up for your review. This one employs “Digital Nature Tools” from Dynamic-Realities (which came in the mail on Wednesday). I wanted something in the upper half of the image, so I whipped up a “flying oceanliner” in Lightwave. The wallpaper is called “Two Ships Passing” and you can view it on the new images page or in the Pickle Jar.

  If you like the “static” version, check out these two animations I created of the scene. The first is a 320 x 240 movie showing the two ships passing by each other. ([an error occurred while processing this directive] AVI) The second clip is at 480 x 360 and it shows one ship doing a sort of turnabout. ([an error occurred while processing this directive] AVI) Both animations are 8 seconds in duration. There is also a smaller (320 x 240) clip with just the water and waves. ([an error occurred while processing this directive] AVI)

  I’ve also added a 480 x 360 flythrough of “To Be”. ([an error occurred while processing this directive] AVI)

  Hope you like! If you have comments I’d love to hear them.