tiefel@sunshine.Kodak.COM (Lenny Tiefel) (03/17/91)
Archive-name: graphics/visualization/kodak-movies/1991-03-15 Original-posting-by: tiefel@sunshine.Kodak.COM (Lenny Tiefel) Original-subject: free video movies Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) The Eastman Kodak Research Laboratories will be generating video movie sequences and providing these freely through anonymous ftp within the next three months. (The details will be given later.) So, to provide the world's research community with the most useful images, consider the following questions: What image format would be most useful? Example: gif What image size (pixels, lines, bands) would be most useful? Example: 256x512x3 Would monochrome be more useful than color? How many bits per pixel would be most useful? Example: 12 Would computer generated motion drawing be more useful than actual video movies? What sort of scenes would be most useful? Example: a moving car How many frames per scene would be most useful? (Assume 24 frames per second.) Example: 100 ----------------- Len Tiefel | ___ ________ | Eastman Kodak Company | | / / | | Research Laboratories | | / / | | Imaging Science Laboratory | |< < K O D A K| | Rochester, NY 14650 | | \ \ | | (716) 722-2250 FAX (716) 722-0160 | |__\ \________| | email: tiefel@kodak.com | | Standard disclaimers apply ----------------- "Productive achievement is our noblest activity" -- Ayn Rand, American author (1905-1982).