2012
03.14
03.14
I’m not sure why I held on to this so long, but I finally uploaded the Earth Explosion animation I made for this onto the youtubes. Check it out!
Elysium 3d
Life, the Universe, and Everything… CG.
2012
01.25
01.25
I’ve learned much snake-speak since starting at Green Grass. Now that I’ve spent almost 2 years developing some proprietary software for the studio, I felt I could start providing some quick little Python examples for people wanting to do crazy and silly things. The first is using Python and the Python Imaging Library (PIL) to get the average color of an image. I used this to add some extra GUI flare to our project management software and, in a more advanced state, used it to perform color blending as a neat animated trick.
An extra note is that this script also takes into account images with an alpha. If you have an image with, say, a drop shadow and only 50% of the image has an alpha of 255 (opaque), you risk muddying up the average color with unnecessary values of 0,0,0. While it is a true average of the ‘pixel colors’, aesthetically, it’s not very pleasing. Code below!
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from PIL import Image image = "image.jpg" def analyze(): ###Open the image with PIL img = Image.open(image) ###Grab the width, height, and build a list of each pixel in the image. width, height = img.size pixels = img.load() data = [] for x in range(width): for y in range(height): cpixel = pixels[x, y] data.append(cpixel) ###Setup our R, G, and B variables for some math! r = 0 g = 0 b = 0 avgCount = 0 ###Run through every single pixel in the image, grab the r, g, and b value. ###Then test if the image has an alpha. If so, only average pixels with an ###alpha value of 200 or greater (out of 255). for x in range(len(data)): try: if data[x][3] > 200: r+=data[x][0] g+=data[x][1] b+=data[x][2] except: r+=data[x][0] g+=data[x][1] b+=data[x][2] avgCount+=1 ###Get the averages, and return! rAvg = r/avgCount gAvg = g/avgCount bAvg = b/avgCount return (rAvg, gAvg, bAvg) r, g, b = analyze() print r, g, b |
2010
10.20
10.20
A good deal of fume, particle flow, and general animation can be seen in the CG recreation of the crash of Uruguayan Flight 571 that airs tonight in the documentary “I Am Alive” on the History Channel.
We spent a pretty good chunk of time on this project, as it was pretty spread out; but we were glad to finally get it out of the studio. We’re pretty proud of the work, and for once, our names will actually be in the credits!
Look for it tonight on the History Channel at 8pm Central!