Icons thread

[RayFarmer]

Excellent

🙂

[Ben]

Hi CC,

I first saw this done in this thread.Derek Steinkamp gives the first clue how to do it.

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=106760#M106760

I think Christian and tst are doing this but posting the image as an attachment and then editing the post to fix the link so that it points to the attachement once it is posted.

I would like to see this functionality built into the Exchange.

BTW: What movie is it that features the creature used in your icon? Yes, I don't get out much.

Ben

[tst]

Unfortunately, the satisfaction of seeing that frog run over wasn't enough to compensate for the feelings brought on by seeing it again. BTW, is that the train from Ray's avatar?

I must say that I think this frog is definitely a good speaker against the proliferation of 3D software.
If you want a frog (toad, actually) movie which speaks for it, try looking at What happened to Baz. Then, of course, there's always that classic, 405. In the past I actually used to do some 3D stuff myself, but unfortunately not in the last few years.

Like Ben said, using HTML tags. You can place an image by using
[img src="http://forums.ni.com/attachments/ni/BOARD/MSG/1/FILE"]
and replacing the square brackets with Less Than\Greater Than. You can look in the Forums Wishlist thread to see some more about this (about the third page) Now that you can edit, finding the address to the attachment is easy, but you can also do it without editing. I actually have this, along with a few other useful things, as a macro and it only takes a couple of clicks to place it in the reply (BTW, Molly, it would be nice if macro text was placed where the cursor is and not at the end of the text).

[Ben]

Hi tst,

I have started a new Wishlist to try to get another round of impromenents happening.

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=130&message.id=1267&jump=true

I really wish this was automated. HTML should not be required part of of vocabulary.

Ben

[chilly_charly]

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Ben wrote:...I really wish this was automated. HTML should not be required part of of vocabulary...

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This is definitely a weakness of this forum : While discussing about the ease of graphical programming, we are obliged to rely on text-based functions ! 😛

CC

[altenbach]

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@chilly charly wrote:
What tool did you use ?

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I used some freeware mpeg to AVI converter, then took the AVI it into corel photopaint where I appled the following functions:

crop to 144x144 square area, then resampled to 25% size giving 36x36 sized frames.

select a series of about 64 frame, then dropping every odd frame and halving the frame rate, leaving 32 frames.

convert the original 24bit color to an optimized palette with only 16 colors (Since there are only a few shades of blue and grey it still looks pretty good. It gets blocky with 8 colors).

save as an animated GIF.

[chilly_charly]

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@altenbach wrote:

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@chilly charly wrote:
What tool did you use ?

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I used some freeware mpeg to AVI converter, then took the AVI it into corel photopaint where I appled the following functions:

crop to 144x144 square area, then resampled to 25% size giving 36x36 sized frames.

select a series of about 64 frame, then dropping every odd frame and halving the frame rate, leaving 32 frames.

convert the original 24bit color to an optimized palette with only 16 colors (Since there are only a few shades of blue and grey it still looks pretty good. It gets blocky with 8 colors).

save as an animated GIF.

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Thanks Altenbach !
Some basic maths (that I should have done before posting !):
A 36*36 icon is composed of 1296 pixels.
16 colors are coded on 4 bits. Means that a byte can describe 2 pixels.
Accordingly 32 frames should occupy 1296*32/2 = 20736 bytes = 21 kbytes.
That fits perfectly your gif.
But mine was composed of only 8 frames ! Means that "my" colors have been coded on 16 bits, although I asked for color optimisation. There is definitively something wrong with the gif converter I'm using. I even did some unsucessfull additionnal trials.

Does any body wants to help develop a nice LabVIEW avi-to-gif converter ?

CC

[chilly_charly]

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@tst wrote:
Unfortunately, the satisfaction of seeing that frog run over wasn't enough to compensate for the feelings brought on by seeing it again. BTW, is that the train from Ray's avatar?

I must say that I think this frog is definitely a good speaker against the proliferation of 3D software.
If you want a frog (toad, actually) movie which speaks for it, try looking at What happened to Baz...

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Well, I didn't looked at the crazy frog as a paradigm of 3D animation. I just, simply, thought that it was funny. However, I can understand Ray as he is apparently overflodded with aggressive advertising. The crazy frog seems actually to turn many people mad in some area of our tiny planet. Just do a google search for "crazy frog". Clearly, the problem is not related to 3D proliferation, but to the associated sound (noise ?), very popular as a ring tone. The train was not Ray's. I found it on the web, produced by somebody (see the signature) that was desperated enough ! 😄 😄 😄

Ring-a-ding-ding

CC

[RayFarmer]

train has been stopped for "engineering works", there maybe a bus along in a minute!!!

Message Edited by Ray Farmer on 05-22-2005 09:35 PM

[chilly_charly]

Still french-looking, and better suited to my position isn't it ?

CC