Art of Illusion Examples
F or each of the first ten chapters of Extending Art of Illusion I have created a video that demonstrates some aspect of it. One of the things I found when writing the book was that it is difficult to demonstrate animation on the printed page. In chapter 7 I give code for a tracker object that will rotate an object or objects so that the object is always pointing at one of the other scene objects, no matter where it is located in the scene. In the book I tried to show this with a sequence of still images taken from the animation. But in the video I have been able to show the video of a head with eyes that follow an object as it moves around the scene. Not only that, but it is possible to show that these changes are occurring even as the scene is being edited. Below is the list of videos: Chapter 1: Use a Script to Add a Cube to Art of Illusion Chapter 2: Storing and Loading Chapter 3: Position Objects on Floor Chapter 4: Point at Objects Chapter 5: Resting One Object on Anot...