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I dunno, it seemed like a good idea at the time. The time being in the middle of the night. So when I got up this morning I made this thing in Moho Pro. It is not all I’d hoped for, but it does work.

Guilloché

Later I added another set of points, “C”, yielding the below:

“After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven”

–Revelation 4.1

² ….and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.

³ And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.

–Revelation 4

I don’t even have 3-D animation software, let alone 4-D, but I wanted a tesseract cycle. This is the product of studying videos and doing a lot of fiddling in 2-D Moho Pro to approximate one.

12 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:

² And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.

— The Apocalypse

Another sign of the Apocalypse.

I used to do stuff like this in Macromedia Flash. Now I’m using Moho Pro.

All these “suns” are made from this little flame shape, which took me a good while to figure out. Animating wave shapes is very challenging for me. Now that I have it (on a 24-frame cycle), I can use it for lots of things.

Working on new tessellating animated gif tiles led me to revisit my older tile experiments, and repurpose for website backgrounds. I originally made these animated mosaics in Macromedia Flash 8 for my section of the feature film The Prophet.

I tried recreating the mosaics in Moho, but quickly became frustrated. Moho’s masking is very unlike Flash’s; in fact Moho’s everything is very unlike Flash’s, and where Flash excels at this type of mechanical construction, Moho favors the organic. Rather than figuring it out anew, I fired up the ol’ 2007 PowerMac and dug into my old ...

I’ve been collaborating with Alex Gleason on a new social media website, and he proposed a background of the animated fish from Seder-Masochism:

But how to scale it up for a full background? The gif above is 1.6 MB, it can’t be any larger without significantly slowing loading times (and eating up data on mobile devices). I thought I could maybe make a tessellating animated gif tile, and so did Alex, but it turned out to be much trickier than I’d anticipated.

In a way, a looping gif is a tessellation of time: it seamlessly begins ...

Every girl’s dream

Ütérûs is a fake-European short arthouse film, so it has fake-European film titles. It’s one of those fake multi-country collaborations.