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Some of the animated .gif earh animations files are also available as quicktime movies. The quicktime movies preserve photo-realistic colour, while the .gif animated versions of the same files are in less than 256 colours. Gif file formats do not retain full colour as well as the quicktime movies, but they are more universally supported than quicktime files. Gif can be played on mobile cell-phone screens and embedded in webpages as an animated graphic file. The animated gifs are generally made from the quicktime looping movie files of the rotating spinning earth.
Access to Heretic Press .gif animations and Quicktime movies is by a subscription through Paypal. Below each gif animation a payment link grants access to that animation. The Gif files are charged for individually, as low as $2 for thumbnail sized animations and up to $6 for large or long looping earth globe animations which are up to 1,800 frames. Usernames and Passwords are sent to subscribers by email.
After paying the access fee for a mobile cell-phone gif animation or mp3 ringtone, an email will be sent to you confirming your username and password with a link to the full mp3 sound or gif animation you paid to access. Passwords will be sent as soon as possible, depending on the time of day, please allow up to 12 hours for the password to be emailed to you. After accessing the password protected page, wait until the entire animation or ringtone loads and then Right click the file and save it to your disk: upload it to your phone.
You may use one copy of any artwork, animation, ringtone or cell phone sound for your own personal use only, any Commercial use, resale or redistribution is hereby expressly prohibited © Heretic Press 1994 - 2007. Please do not redistribute passwords they will only remain valid for one IP address. Using the same username and password from a different IP will be blocked and denied access.
N.B. Please note that downloads of screensaver and alert ringtones are not sent to your phone, you need to be browsing this page with your WAP web enabled phone or able to connect your phone to your computer.
Mobile Cell Phone Screen sizes. Computer screens generally preserve a 4:3 aspect ratio. Computer screens are wider than they are tall. Mobile cell-phone screen are usually the opposite, being narrower than they are tall.
Check you mobile phone screen size to see which size animation suits your phone. If you use an animation smaller than your screen, some phones will allow you to center the animation. Some common sizes are:
128 × 160
176 × 182
176 × 220
240 × 320
352 × 416
Nokia Bugs.
Nokia emulator.
Animated gif display for phones.
Animated gif file formats and troubleshooting.
Transparent movies are indicated by Transparent Generally, they require a dark background to add contrast. They can be played over background pictures in webpages. Please respect the copyright and sales agreement not to use these images in any commercial webpages, or package them with any phones.
Licences to use graphics on commercial sites are related to the number of page views. The price for the commercial use of Heretic Press graphics is:
$300 US a month for under 1,000 page hits a month
$500 US a month for over 1,000 but under 10,000 hits a month
$900 US a month for over 10,000 but under 100,000 hits a month
$1,400 US a month for 100,000 to 1,000,000 hits a month
$2,500 US a month for unlimited use on commercial sites
Most of these larger animations with many frames were made with vintage 3-D software Macromind 3-D™ that allowed you to mathematically define the orbits of objects on their own axis and around each other. Formulas were calculated for the orbit of planets from mercury to Saturn and its major moons. The path of the planets could not be shown in real time, Saturn would hardly move in its 50 year cycle around the sun compared to Mercury Venus or Earth. The orbits of the outer planets were speeded up and the inner planets slowed down. Each planet had its own rotation around itself and around the imaginary sun which would loop back to the starting position in 360, 480, 1,200 or 1,800 frames.
Texture maps were then made in Photoshop™ of the earth and planets with a flat mercator projection where the top and bottom edges were the same colour as were the left and right edges. Each texture map was wrapped around a planet at frame one. The rendering of frames took months of raytracing.
Even more tedious than rendering, In some movies, each frame has been saved and worked on individually with special effects like glowing edges. The preview animations are limited in the number of frames they contain. Thanks again to Heretic Press for excellent error free XHTML.
Tim Anderson
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