[Squeakland] generate a movie?

Alan Kay alan.kay at squeakland.org
Tue Feb 14 09:46:57 PST 2006


Oh ... Well, Takashi Yamamiya has done this, and I think he did use Wink.

Cheers,

Alan

At 09:22 AM 2/14/2006, Randy Heiland wrote:
>No, actually, the woman/teacher who originally asked this said she'd like to
>take movies generated in Squeak and be able to put them on the web, i.e.
>play in a browser.
>--Randy
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: squeakland-bounces at squeakland.org [mailto:squeakland-
> > bounces at squeakland.org] On Behalf Of Alan Kay
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:10 AM
> > To: Markus Gaelli; squeakland at squeakland.org
> > Subject: Re: [Squeakland] generate a movie?
> >
> > But, if I read the original question -- it seems that it is about making
> > movies that are playable in Squeak from other formats, including those
> > that
> > cameras use.
> >
> > There are a variety of SW apps that can do this, and some of them are
> > free,
> > depending on which platform you have.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Alan
> >
> > -------------
> >
> > At 01:18 PM 2/13/2006, Markus Gaelli wrote:
> > >Another of this annoying "It would be nice to have but I don't have
> > >time for it right now..."-posts:
> > >
> > >The current event recorder (found in Objects Presentations) is pixel/
> > >graphic oriented
> > >and quite broken, eg. it barks on color-picking or parameter-changing.
> > >
> > >A nice feature of an upcoming squeak(land)/tweak version could be the
> > >possibility
> > >to log all user actions as high-level-commands like "open supplies
> > >flap" "drag-n-drop playfield A into world"
> > >"drag-n-drop playfield B into playfield A" "Open Viewer on B" "Create
> > >Color Changing Command of B" etc...
> > >you get the idea.
> > >
> > >To record the canonical car-demo, one still would need to log pixel-
> > >based paint-strokes of fat black tires of course...
> > >
> > >An advantage of such a more content and less pixel-oriented approach
> > >could be more compatibility
> > >between different images (be it squeakland or squeak-dev) and that
> > >one could render
> > >the log into some silent movie or latex/rtf format.
> > >
> > >If one could annotate each command with a (spoken) comment, one
> > >should be able to render
> > >the whole story into a non silent movie too.
> > >
> > >Cheers,
> > >
> > >Markus
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >On Feb 13, 2006, at 4:53 PM, Arvind Grover wrote:
> > >
> > > > I had asked a similar question before, and Kim ran it by the Squeak
> > > > development group. No easy answers. I have been using the free
> > > > software Wink (http://www.debugmode.com/wink/) to capture
> > > > animations to Flash movies. It is based on screen-shot captures,
> > > > but allows for very nice annotations during movies.
> > > >
> > > >       -----Original Message-----
> > > >       From: squeakland-bounces at squeakland.org on behalf of Randy
> > Heiland
> > > >       Sent: Sat 2/11/2006 4:10 PM
> > > >       To: squeakland at squeakland.org
> > > >       Cc:
> > > >       Subject: [Squeakland] generate a movie?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >       The presentation I gave yesterday to about 25 Indiana school
> > > > teachers on
> > > >       Squeak went reasonably well.  More to come.  But for starters,
> > one
> > > > teacher
> > > >       who had actually played with Squeak a bit asked if it was
> > possible to
> > > >       capture movies within Squeak.  I told her no, I didn't think so,
> > > > but wanted
> > > >       to verify this.  I know the Object Cataglog/Multimedia has the
> > > > mpegplayer.
> > > >       I realize that doing movie capture, in general, can be a bit
> > > > tricky - with
> > > >       multiple formats, quality and frame rate params, etc., not to
> > > > mention a
> > > >       possibly large file as output.  Still, it would be nice to, say,
> > > > capture
> > > >       frames in playfield (start/stop) in some "standard" movie
> > format.
> > > >
> > > >       --Randy
> > > >
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