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mahjqa
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: The Demented Side of the Fence
Insane since: Aug 2000

posted posted 01-21-2003 10:33

You might ask yourself why I made my name even less legible than usual... just wait until the gif's fully loaded and you'll find out.

I was inspired by this: http://www.pacificnet.net/~tgrupe/graphics/spt-anim.gif (the personal page of the guy is here.)

Another interesting site is http://www.ambigram.com . The design isn't that great, though.

It's nowhere near finished, I'd just like to know if anybody's got any suggestions on what to do with the shapes before I start on the fancy stuff. If you'd like to try something on your own i'd suggest drawing it with pen first. Switch between CAPITAL letters and normal letters if you can't figure it out... it's a fun thing to try.



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Skaarjj
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: :morF
Insane since: May 2000

posted posted 01-21-2003 14:22

That's great that is! It's like a rotatory palindrome!

Suho1004
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: Seoul, Korea
Insane since: Apr 2002

posted posted 01-21-2003 15:16

Wow, that's some nifty stuff! I can't imagine how I would get it to work with my name, though.

counterfeitbacon
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Vancouver, WA
Insane since: Apr 2002

posted posted 01-21-2003 15:52

Hey, I like it, I'll have to try that sometime

and, umm, how exactly do you pronounce your name, I've always pronounced it mah-qua (with all long vowels), but then I remember somebody saying that [you said] it was mahj (short a) and then qa (q pronounced like c, accented a)

Emperor
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist with Finglongers

From: Cell 53, East Wing
Insane since: Jul 2001

posted posted 01-21-2003 16:19

cfb: You know there must be an FAQ which addresses it

:FAQ:

___________________
Emps

FAQs: Emperor

mahjqa
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: The Demented Side of the Fence
Insane since: Aug 2000

posted posted 01-21-2003 21:55

the pronounciation of mahjqa

me again

once again

yup. I've played too much warcraft

And if anyone has any requests, I'll be glad to post som more

HZR
Bipolar (III) Inmate

From: Cold Sweden
Insane since: Jul 2002

posted posted 01-21-2003 22:16

Brilliant sig

Lucid Iguana
Nervous Wreck (II) Inmate

From: Columbus, GA, US
Insane since: Dec 2000

posted posted 01-21-2003 23:08

Hey, Mahj, whatever happened to the sig that I won?

Ruski
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From:
Insane since: Jul 2002

posted posted 01-22-2003 00:45



Great stuff man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you are freaking genius!!!!!!!!!!!



Slime
Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist

From: Massachusetts, USA
Insane since: Mar 2000

posted posted 01-22-2003 01:09

Well done. The motion blur reminds me of http://www.ozones.com/greywheat.html

Suho1004
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: Seoul, Korea
Insane since: Apr 2002

posted posted 01-22-2003 03:36

Micah!? Man, that's worse than Synax!

mahjqa
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: The Demented Side of the Fence
Insane since: Aug 2000

posted posted 01-22-2003 09:44

Lucid Igunana; it's coming, honest! (insert sweatdrop here)

Uhm... Suho? or anyone else... you've got any better suggestions, then? Feel free to post them, then.

MIDI
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Georgia
Insane since: Dec 2002

posted posted 01-22-2003 17:49

Could anone tell me why I'm not seeing the animation in IE6, Opera6, Mozilla1.2.1 or netscape4.61 ?
Do I have something disabled?

eyezaer
Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist

From: the Psychiatric Ward
Insane since: Sep 2000

posted posted 01-22-2003 17:54

Oh... Oh... so the Q is silent? and thas why there is no U following the Q?

or...

nevermind. That looks like it took entirely way to much time.... I was thinking about it when i was driving around this morning... and... yeesh. groovay.

                                   

Hugh
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Dublin, Ireland
Insane since: Jul 2000

posted posted 01-23-2003 02:03

sweet , very nice, your a lucky one to be able to do that with your name. I tried a wee go with mine, but couldnt , the two Hs are perfect though .. poo, or .. wait a min, when the ug are lower case it wouldnt be bad, didnt try that.. ~~ runs off the try (dont have any animator though).. ~~
.. fuck it I'll do it at home another time.
..
~~ I really didnt leave my seat ~~

oh yea, seems to me it should rotate the other way for some reason ?? prolly coz the fins on the h and the y seem like they should be dragged .. i dont know whats wrong with me..



Hugh
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Dublin, Ireland
Insane since: Jul 2000

posted posted 01-23-2003 02:29

I did it anyway, it aint animated though, but the text is the same rotated 180. Anywho its a dialup friendly 0.7kb (each)
&#0124; &#0124;




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InSiDeR
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: Oblivion
Insane since: Sep 2001

posted posted 01-23-2003 02:31

You play warcraft do ya?

Well you'll have to get in touch with me and slime, we can do a 3v3 comp some time .

synax
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: Cell 666
Insane since: Mar 2002

posted posted 01-23-2003 05:12

My name's always getting ragged on...

Suho1004
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: Seoul, Korea
Insane since: Apr 2002

posted posted 01-23-2003 06:02

Whoa... no offense was meant, mahjqa, really. I was just noting that it is pronounced quite differently from the way I would have imagined. You've got every right to pronounce your name however you want.

synax: see above.

It was the lack of a slimie, wasn't it... I forgot to put a slimie in my original post...

RammStein
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: cEll 513, west wing of the ninth plain
Insane since: Dec 2000

posted posted 01-23-2003 15:02

mahjqa .. as always great sig .. but I do have a problem with it .. the rotation of the sig makes it big .. there is a lot of dead space between your post and the border color between the sig


.::. cEll .::. 513

synax
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: Cell 666
Insane since: Mar 2002

posted posted 01-23-2003 18:26

Relax Suho You didn't offend anyone (myself included).

Suho1004
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: Seoul, Korea
Insane since: Apr 2002

posted posted 01-24-2003 01:22

Well that's good to hear. You guys almost ruined my day.

mahjqa
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: The Demented Side of the Fence
Insane since: Aug 2000

posted posted 01-25-2003 12:44

mahjqa
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: The Demented Side of the Fence
Insane since: Aug 2000

posted posted 01-25-2003 12:44

Another test...

mas
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: the space between us
Insane since: Sep 2002

posted posted 01-25-2003 12:46

wow. great work there. the rotation is very cool now. it also doesn't need that much space any more
incredible! fantastic! ass kickin! unbelieveable! MAHJQA

-THE SPACE-

mahjqa
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: The Demented Side of the Fence
Insane since: Aug 2000

posted posted 01-26-2003 00:51

Uh, mas, you okay? You sound like you're hyperventilating, man

anyway.. another way of creating those mirror images is

1) make a white background
2) add your name (or anyone's) with black on a new layer
3) merge the two layers
4) duplicate that layer, and rotate the top one 180 degrees
5) set the top layer to 'screen' and move it until you've got something that looks right. if it doesn't work, try another font or turn capslock on.
6) fiddle a bit with it until it looks right.



eyezaer
Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist

From: the Psychiatric Ward
Insane since: Sep 2000

posted posted 01-26-2003 04:18

ohkay... hokay.... thats nice. I was a bit dissapointed by your first post... it just didnt seem like a finished sig... and i am glad to see that it was not finished.

very nice addition!

                                   

mas
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: the space between us
Insane since: Sep 2002

posted posted 01-26-2003 16:55

thx, mahjqa, this works quite well =)

-THE SPACE-

mahjqa
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: The Demented Side of the Fence
Insane since: Aug 2000

posted posted 01-26-2003 17:50

Izzy, Izzy, Izzy....

quote:
It's nowhere near finished, I'd just like to know if anybody's got any suggestions on what to do with the shapes before I start on the fancy stuff.



So nyah.

eyezaer
Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist

From: the Psychiatric Ward
Insane since: Sep 2000

posted posted 01-26-2003 19:21

you had to go and put that between 2 other sentences... sheesh. being the visual type, i just read the first and last sentences of every paragraph and then skipped to the pictures.

so.... nyah nyah!

I do stand corrected though, but my "nyah's" stay.

Duck
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Stl, MO, USA
Insane since: Dec 2002

posted posted 02-14-2003 23:08

Well, I tried this out and I got the design. Now I just gotta make it spin. Are there any tuts to do this quicker, because the way that I was doing it was taking for ever.

Duck
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Stl, MO, USA
Insane since: Dec 2002

posted posted 02-15-2003 07:46

yea im having troubles spinning...

Ktulu
Nervous Wreck (II) Inmate

From: Crooktown eastside
Insane since: Dec 2002

posted posted 02-15-2003 20:55

Maaaan.... yeaah baby cool!

*huumms daddy cool*



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OlssonE
Maniac (V) Inmate

From:  Eagleshieldsbay, Sweden
Insane since: Nov 2001

posted posted 02-15-2003 20:59

Man, another cool technique from Mahjqa!

Ktulu.
?

Duck.
nice bevel :\
To rotate click ctrl+J ctrl+T rotate 45 degrees. Repeat until full spin is completed.

Duck
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Stl, MO, USA
Insane since: Dec 2002

posted posted 02-16-2003 06:22

Boom

Tips? And how do I make it smoother?

Duck
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Stl, MO, USA
Insane since: Dec 2002

posted posted 02-16-2003 06:24

hmmm Sorry I think my host is down... AGAIN!

Skaarjj
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: :morF
Insane since: May 2000

posted posted 02-16-2003 06:29

Duck, when you make it transparent, make sure your backgorund colour is RGB 43,04,04...tha'ts the matte colour for here, and it stop white-jaggies-from hell.

Duck
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Stl, MO, USA
Insane since: Dec 2002

posted posted 02-16-2003 07:22

yea i know but im having problems... Because I did matte it
[Edit] There, I had to restart my comp and redo it for some reason...[/Edit]



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OlssonE
Maniac (V) Inmate

From:  Eagleshieldsbay, Sweden
Insane since: Nov 2001

posted posted 02-16-2003 12:55

Duck.
To make it smoother just use more frames.
Divide the amount of frames with 360. now you have 360/8 = 45.
Try 10 frames (360/10 = 36 degrees = smoother motion)

Duck
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Stl, MO, USA
Insane since: Dec 2002

posted posted 02-16-2003 15:32

I guess I really only need 180 degrees though. Right?

Is there any way that I can speed it up?


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Moon Shadow
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Rouen, France
Insane since: Jan 2003

posted posted 02-16-2003 16:21

Try reducing the number of seconds and increasing the number of frames per seconds. It should works, but on slow machines it will maybe "lag".

Silence is another speech. -Me

Duck
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Stl, MO, USA
Insane since: Dec 2002

posted posted 02-16-2003 17:35

But its at zero right now.

OlssonE
Maniac (V) Inmate

From:  Eagleshieldsbay, Sweden
Insane since: Nov 2001

posted posted 02-16-2003 20:38

gah!
then increase the rotating value
(you have 12,5 right now) = less frames = faster animation!
You can print numbers intstead of rotating it by hand. Just check
the toolbar at top of the screen.

Duck
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Stl, MO, USA
Insane since: Dec 2002

posted posted 02-17-2003 05:16

Yep I used numbers.

Slime
Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist

From: Massachusetts, USA
Insane since: Mar 2000

posted posted 02-17-2003 05:17

Use higher numbers for more speed.

Duck
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Stl, MO, USA
Insane since: Dec 2002

posted posted 02-17-2003 16:31

How does this one look?


Skaarjj
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: :morF
Insane since: May 2000

posted posted 02-17-2003 16:33

better, but the white jaggies have returned with a vengeance.

Duck
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Stl, MO, USA
Insane since: Dec 2002

posted posted 02-17-2003 16:37

Yes I know... My comp is acting up for some reason. I know I matted it.

[Edit] After five trys i finally got it!!

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Duck
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Stl, MO, USA
Insane since: Dec 2002

posted posted 02-17-2003 17:07

another one I just made


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