It occurred to me today that I could render a scene several times with slight perturbations and then mesh them together into a movie. It took about 15 minutes to render on a cluster at Mines, and then about a minute to stitch together with Mencoder. At 18 frames per second, here is the result. Enjoy!
I’m glad you put this all together.
To think all of the Pixar videos done in this fashion; cool.
Once I get a few more features implemented (object refraction, octrees, fixed lathe normals, and world rotation / translation), I’m going to make a clip (I’m thinking about 1-2 minutes in HD) that’s a little more involved, and really shows some of the capabilities. I do have a clip with reflections, which, when they work, are pretty realistic, but there are still some residual artifacts from erroneous normals.