Shoutbox
David 1.3.0 installs well. Circular is great. Thanks
Finn Finally, there is a new ImageFlow release: http://finnrudolph.de/Blog/ImageFlow_1.3.0_-_Circular_and_Slideshow_mode
Paprikka fixed it. Thank's to reading the other comments, huh :$
Paprikka I just downloaded the latest version of imageFlow, but when I click on the index example the images won't display. I can change the options easily, modify their opacity and all, but images just wont show at all. Here's a picture of how it looks. http://i48.tinypic.com/4fv68h.jpg I didn't even touch the code before entering the index.
david I gave the wrong example... http://beatricehamblett.com/bodies/
David Hi Finn, have you thought about adding xml ? It would be great to be able to reference an external file, instead of hacking a web page.. Has anyone done this? David
G.R. I have noticed that when dragging the slider in imageFlow, it is quite easy to disconnect the cursor from it, when moving a large number of images. This small problem is worse in I.E. but it can occur in other browsers too. I always make my own slider. usually in paint.net. A nice effective way to improve this situation is to surround it with a large transparent border. Let's say I have a 30px by 30px slider. I make a transparent box in paint.net and plonk the slider as a layer into the centre of it. This gives a transparent border of 35px all round. I save it then as a gif image and change the slider width to 100px in imageflow.js. Then I change the slider height and width to 100px in imageflow.css. The cursor has much less chance of falling off, especially when using a laptop keypad. The positions of the previous and next buttons may also need some adjustment in imageflow.css. http://www.godfreyryan.com/Slideshow6.html
Catalyst It seems it is only on my development machine that I am having a problem. If I upload to my remote server, it seems to work
Catalyst All of a sudden, I am getting no images at all. I can't for the life of me figure out what's wrong. I'm hoping there is something simple that I'm missing
Ken Is there a way to dynamically create the tags with something like asp.net? I would like to have the images drawn from a database
ImageFlow, JavaScript, CSS von Finn Rudolph
There is a new ImageFlow version featuring the Slideshow and Circular mode everybody was waiting for. They come with a bunch of options that enable you to customize the behaviour of ImageFlow as you prefer.
They also "play nice" with the previous options. Which was especially tricky to achieve with the circular feature. I had to clone some of the images to make the illusion of an circular animation possible and thereby changed the number of images. That had an impact through the whole code (just search for 'my.circular' in the imageflow.js if you are curious what had to be touched ;D).
I also implemented some other options that came up in the shoutbox often: With animationSpeed you can now slow down the animation for extremely small images. And the path options imagePath and reflectPath enable you to put the reflect_.php files where you want. And it is now possible to display only one image in ImageFlow without crashing the IE. Enjoy!
GitHub, Git von Finn Rudolph
Since I started using the Git revision control system a while ago, my projects are now also hosted at GitHub: github.com/countzero
So if you want to take a deeper look into the codebase behind projects like ImageFlow and JavaScriptObject "check them out" ;D
github.com/countzero/JavaScriptObject
github.com/countzero/ImageFlow
JavaScriptObject, JavaScript, CSS von Finn Rudolph
There is a new JavaScriptObject package that comes with some code improvements and a new option called lock. If activated the rotation will be locked at the given boundaries: One can only spin the object around one time and not infinitely. Check out the locking examples and if you're interested in the codebase feel free to take a look at the github repository of JavaScriptObject.
Rare Exports, Christmas, YouTube von Finn Rudolph
After the incredible short movies Rare Exports Inc (2003) and Rare Exports: Official Safety Instructions (2005) Jalmari Helander produced yet another piece. Making-of footage can be found at their facebook page. Can't wait to see the whole thing!
"In the depths of the Korvatunturi mountains, 486 metres deep, lies the closest ever guarded secret of Christmas. The time has come to dig it up!" - Rare Exports
JavaScriptObject, JavaScript, CSS, CINEMA 4D, C.O.F.F.E.E. von Finn Rudolph
There is a new JavaScriptObject package that features two very handy scripts written in C.O.F.F.E.E. (the scripting language of CINEMA 4D). Until now it was very hard to create an animation in CINEMA 4D that rotates an object with a given step width around two axes and renders the frames. Basically this could be done with the timeline, but that would require an awful lot of stupid work - like setting 40 key frames with different H and P rotation values... by hand!
And since we have more important stuff to do I made two C.O.F.F.E.E. scripts that automatically do the boring work for us. There is a new step by step tutorial on how to install and use the scripts. It's really simple and you finally can render 3D models that can be rotated around two axes in a very high quality:
Ladybird by Gilles Tran - 400 frames (9,1 MB)