I was playing with the 'Vedutismo / Panini effect' in Gimp MathMap. I noticed the pan slider could move thru the whole image. I figured-out how to animate the pan effect and turn it into an animation filter.

I used a 2:1 ratio image (1440x720) and used the 'Wrap' setting. The perpetual loop is made by MathMap (both ends of image match). Later I resized the image to 1280x720 for video.

Very cool, though it does give you a bit of vertigo after awhile.

That's so cool. Feeling dizzy now

That's pretty funny
Earlier when you did the ghost town car animation,
I was wondering how it would look if one made a 360 panorama inside a traffic circle and used that as a seamless background scroll.

Very nice, a_masn1aT

Thanks for the likes guys.




I animated the 'BPPanini' filter exactly the same way. It's by the same author and was coded on 2008. It's simpler than the first one so I layered 2 together going in opposite directions.

'Panini' is an Italian bread and I'm not sure why it's also an effect. 'BP' are the original coder's initials. I think he now works on Hugin.

After the Vedutismo pan slide effect -- I wasn't sure which side of the chair I was going to fall from [not that that's a bad thing] -- BPPanini is positively meditative. Pleasantly meditative like an easy county-fair carnival ride where you can just relax into the world going by because you're not gripping a steering wheel. Perhaps the ride is called the Flying Pink Flamingo.

I always enjoy your animations and always look forward to them.

Pretty darn cool, Tas.

Thanks Lyle and Neuro for your comments.
I used the weird Mugl effect by Herbert Poetzl. It's an already animated filter.

I've called this one 'Picasso Goes For A Drive' during his 'Triangular Period'.

OK! Everything's fine now! Because when I do hit the floor I'll be laughing MAO at the very idea of Picasso's Triangular Period. posting.php?mode=reply&f=25&t=18349#

Love the 'Picasso'

I was trying some improvements like motion and wind blur.

"Picasso's out-and-back"

All three thumbs up!

The next MathMap filter is Quincuncial by Briec. I'm able to rotate the sphere. This could be the first stand-alone Quincincial animation.
Original image is a gold processing mill in Western Australia.
"Quincuncial implements the Peirce quincuncial projection, a conformal mapping of the sphere onto a square."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincuncial_map

Thanks Wallace and thanks gramp.

I called this 'Time Poor'. Background is animated Quincuncial, foreground animated spherical petals shaped like stars.

I think you're definitely on a roll here. To me, these effects break out of the kaleidoscope cliches that must exist in [seems like] hundreds of YouTube music videos where as soon as you see the thumbnail there's not much point in seeing the rest.

Nanorobotic liquid metal!

Thanks neuro. Some of the roll is extra down-time here in the Southern hemisphere. We are going into Winter and the days are a lot shorter.

Hi Nidhogg. I hope you are good. I came across a band from Finland called Hisko Detria. Their intro to 'On The Road Again' is awesome.
Are they popular in Finland or unknown?

Anyone familiar with GAP 2.7 and MPlayer on win 10?
Thanx