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MisterAibo — Lesson Learned
Published: 2013-09-02 09:03:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 8261; Favourites: 239; Downloads: 59
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"There's really no need to be nervous, you know?""I know. But that doesn't mean I'm not worried."
"I'm worried too! Poor kids - when you get into explaining something, there's no stopping you!"
Commission for ReignBeaux-XIII from August 25th. Apparently, it's Alisa's first lesson - and even though she have felt nervous, she quickly loses herself in her passion for teaching. Chaotic Note totally told her so.
This image features cinemagraphs in other cinemagraph. "Yo dawg" and all that.
Technical
Still image created with inkscape , with some background resources from MLP-SVG-Resources group. (Nobody to credit, it's all my own.)
The animations were made with aniGen pre-alpha.
When making this, I salvaged my old mouth database, created a random speech generator I'm currently expanding to actually obey the rules of spoken language, and spent about two hours doodling about magical theory on the background. It makes sense, by the way. First one to get what the mu particle would be called in real life gets a cookie!
All of those features (database access to resources, speech creation, random speech) will be available in the editor on launch.
AniGen will be out in alpha by the end of September. I might even launch it on my birthday.
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Blackboard close-up
As always, I appreciate any comments, criticisms and discussions in the comments.
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Comments: 71
It is Higgs boson. It's my head canon - I don't believe magic should be inexplicable. There's a reason behind everything, so maybe, part of levitation spell is the ability to manipulate the particle that is responsible for stuff having mass. Makes sense, to a degree.
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Hehe, well, but then the side effect would be an instant explosion as electrons lose mass and other fundamental particles don't in such a way that their orbitals expand, and that would release a tremendous amount of energy from their orbitals, not to mention making particles interact differently changing the laws of chemistry in the effected area. Sooooo, Higgs wouldn't be a good thing to change
And things experience gravity due the warping of spacetime. A "straight line" in a gravitational field is falling down it. Even light rays, which have no mass, feel gravity.
Although it violates the second law of thermodynamics (?), I like to think magic works as controlled quantum collapse to turn macroscopic thermal energy into kinetic.
Awesome chalkboard, though 
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I thought electrons were mainly held by their electric attraction, rather than gravity. Gravity works on larger scale, but it's a pretty weak force. Plus, you know, all the quantum mechanics probabilistic stuff. And of course, by "manipulating gravity" I don't necessarily mean canceling it out entirely. If you imagine "gravity" as the sum of all gravitational attractions between the given particle and all the other particles in the universe (some of which can be very insignificant, see Newton's laws), gravity-altering magic/science could be simply canceling some of those forces. The proton in a carbon nucleus in a chicken can still hold normal attraction to the rest of the carbon, and the rest of the chicken (although that's where weak nuclear forces and others would come into play, I think), but it can suddenly lose the attraction to a quarter of the planet's particles.
I don't see why changing energy from one form to another would violate the second law. In this case, your isolated system would necessarily include the source of the energy - let's say the Sun (Celestia's personal source of power, I'd wager). In that case, it's just the question of having an energy source large enough so that the energy you take from it is completely insignificant (but that's more of an ecological concern). The specific mechanism that would just "change" thermal energy into kinetic would be a bigger problem, I think. The maximum efficiency of a heat engine is pretty poor, after all.
But if you postulate that all energy has some equal meta-form that manifests as different kinds of energy, and then say magic simply has a convenient way to switch one form to the other and create energy channels, you could just cool down the room by a fraction of a degree and punch a hole through the wall.
The top right image is one of the superstring interactions, altered by the "magic particle" - basically poked to go in a slightly different direction.
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Oh, yes, electrons are held in place by their electric attraction to the nucleus, but here's the thing: electrons derive their mass from their interactions with the Higgs field. In QM, the more massive a particle, the smaller space it occupies (this is because mass is energy, and a high-energy waveform has a shorter wavelength than a low-energy wave). So, upon its mass decreasing, its probability cloud grows larger. If you make the cloud expand, on average, any given random point will be further from the nucleus, so its orbital will be larger.
Eh, I think I may have some details wrong, I'm just pulling what I can remember from The Particle at the End of the Universe. Changing the Higgs field in a random volume of space would change how the different fundamental particles interact, because only some particles get their mass from it.
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I think mu is a boson, maybe Higgs. Sadly if this is right, I didn't find this the intended way.
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Do you make commissions? Animated commissions?
I want all info, please.
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I'm closed for commissions.
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GIF doesn't exactly support sound. And its absence is kinda part of the illusion, too.
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She's explaining how the wave modulation of the magical flow works in levitation, then tells the class they should be extra careful not to launch the thing into orbit.
"Because you wouldn't want that, would you, now?"
(Class nods.)
"Good. Well, that's why you have to make sure -"
Or something like that.
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I was just ranting the other day about a need for a good SVG animation tool. Have my babies. ALL my babies.
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I don't know about good, but hey, it's something.
Well, it isn't quite yet. But it will be.
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So, which aniGen features are we seeing here? I guess Translation (book, head), Rotation (head, tail), Curve interpolation ("arm" and Magic Aura)...
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The mouth is created from database and treated as meta-animation - a group of objects that share animation timing and so on and draw their states from some predetermined list of shapes. Not to mention it was made by the first version of the random speech generator.
There's animation duplication and I used some minor functions like balancing key times, setting an animation offset and forcing loop with certain length.
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I love how natural it looks, like you really simply captured a moment in time, instead of staging one.
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That's what I aim for with cinemagraphs, although they are far more complex than they used to be.
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I bet shes explaining why all those ponies are grayscale......and that there is no cure...o.o lol nice animation
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"At any rate, that is how you cast the desaturation and high contrast spells." *looks up, smiling, looks back* "So you're gonna be good fillies and colts from now on, won't you?" *ponies nod* "Great! I'd hate to change your transparency or something!"
Thanks.
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In the book, yes. I just noticed. They are still in the horn though. A bit of an oversight - I'll try to keep it in mind for next time.
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If I understand it correctly, yes.
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Oh... that's so incredibly nice of her to have that put in. Thank you, Aibo! ^_^
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I thought so as well. Plus, I always wanted to make a cinemagraph inside a cinemagraph.
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Yeah. The blinking thing was super creepy the first time around. o_o
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That's kinda the point. When you see a moving picture in something like Harry Potter, you think it's magical and cool, but I think Rowling really missed the opportunity to have Harry freak out the first time he saw it. It's genuinely unsettling. Even when the rest of the image is animated, you don't expect a prop to be animated as well. But it definitely draws your attention to the pony, just like you probably won't just miss Luna's picture.
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I first noticed it when Luna blinked, then I wondered if my OC's portrait was blinking too. My excitement hit the roof, as well as my jimmies.
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I originally wanted her to blink with one eye at the end of each loop, but alicorns don't have a 3Q view and their frontal one looks kinda silly at times, not to mention it looked a wee bit intimidating. I wanted her to look at Alisa instead, but subtly, not have her give her some kind of pedo-stare.
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I think it would be hilarious if she had gave her the pedo-stare. xD
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