CIS 410/510 Final Project: Movie
With this version of the final project, you will make a movie.
While you can use whatever technology you want, I will lecture on doing so
with VTK and with VisIt.
There are two ways to make the movie:
- Render a bunch of images and encode them into a video format
- Make a program (likely in VTK) or a script (likely for VisIt) that will create your animation when you run it.
Either of these two forms are fine.
Your movie should animate things in the data set: isovalue, colors, camera position, etc. It will be graded on how polished the movie appears, and how
well you convey the nature of the data.
Data:
- Aneurysm data set (and others) can be found here.
- Some climate data sets can be found here.
- The IEEE Visualization conference has a "SciVis" contest, which is a good source for data. Here are the last three years:
Other links:
- Here is an online tutorial on VisIt.
- Here is a YouTube video of me running a VTK program that animates the camera. Here is the example VTK program I run in that video.
- Here is a YouTube video of me running a VTK program that animates the camera and creates images, and then me running ffmpeg to make a movie. Here is the example VTK program I run in that video. Some notes on running ffmpeg.
- My ffmpeg command: ./ffmpeg/ffmpeg -f image2 -i image%04d.png -vcodec mpeg4 -r 10 -b 18000000 movie.mp4
YouTube QandA from Thursday March 5th:
Scripts from Thursday March 5th:
Making a movie with effects:
Example movies from Winter 2022:
Example movies from Winter 2020: