[ubuntu-art] More Rough Sketches

[Jan Claeys]

Op vr, 28-07-2006 te 17:08 +0200, schreef Dennis Kaarsemaker:
> On vr, 2006-07-28 at 10:59 -0400, jmak wrote:
> > On 7/28/06, Niklas Weidel <weidel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Looks like one of your ideas there is a spinning friends-circle? That would
> > > be really neat if it could be done. :)
> > >
> > 
> > A 3d spinning logo would be nice. There is a way to do that; in
> > Blender or any other 3d program. You have to create a 24 frame
> > animation to get a nice smooth spin.
> 
> That could be possible, but only if the logo does not occupy parts of
> the screen where eg text or progressbar would have to be drawn. And I
> don't know whether it'll be a CPU hogging thing to do or not (that of
> course greatly depends on the size of the logo.

Palette shifting wasn't CPU-intensive on a 33 MHz i486, so it probably
wouldn't even be noticeable on any hardware that can run an Ubuntu
desktop.  Also, it's not dependent on the size of the logo.

(At least, I suppose the idea was to use this instead of a progress bar
in usplash, right?)


-- 
Jan Claeys