I love the smaller format for the zooming quilt! It makes it so much easier to do a lot of detail.

Agreed, this is fun without taking the amount of effort of the larger sizes. I would propose a limit for the context changes, though. Like you need at least 3 or 4 frames until you can draw a door, window, mirror, picture frame, snowball or whatever. I really like to Hidden Worlds quilt but I think the many context changes hurt.

What's up with the seams that pop up when this quilt is zooming? It doesn't seem to happen on the bigger zoomquilts.

The seams may be a result of the small tile resolution. Flash doesn't seem to handle subpixel resolution as well as it should. The Zoomquilt Flash code needs some work, but last time I touched it I intensively fought with the very rudimentary ActionScript reference Adobe provides. It's not easy to automatically create good-looking Flash scripts without using Adobe Flash; most examples on the Web are pretty useless if you can't use Flash itself and you have to create the scripts by hand.

When I find the time, I'll refactor the scripts and add changeable speed and direction.

Hm, I think it might be as simple as having the size of the outer tile round to the floor while having the inner tile round to the ceiling. Or maybe just all of them round to ceiling or floor.

edit: And Flash's help has always been one of the better ones out there, I thought. I mean, it's no php.net, but it does the job. Try using microsoft's msdn. Gahhhhh.

This post has been edited on 06/29/2007 14:17 CET

Yeah, I just found this page. It might be of some help.

http://www.fatorcaos.com.br/flashimagebug/

Though that page may be outdated. Seems that this one is a little more recent:

http://www.misuseit.com/bitmapbug/

This post has been edited on 07/10/2007 19:19 CET

Trying a zoom for the first time. I just had to comment on the fact that getting my shrubbery to look close enough to the ones "inside" my portion of the image is an interesting challenge, to say the least.

This is taking longer than I thought it would to ensure I got a picture that comes close to the quality of what I am trying to match.

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If I need to extend how long I've got the tile, is that a problem? What do I need to do? Just keep checking it out every day? I'm hoping to finish it tomorrow, but it will definitely be longer than the default checkout time.

This post has been edited on 08/03/2007 07:17 CET

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If I need to extend how long I've got the tile, is that a problem? What do I need to do? Just keep checking it out every day? I'm hoping to finish it tomorrow, but it will definitely be longer than the default checkout time.

Judging by how inactive we've all been lately, I really doubt anyone would mind if you took a couple extra days or so to finish the tile
But of course, sooner is better.

I've been putting off trying the zoom quilts as most of them are of very good quality, and I didn't want to mess them up. To make sure my submission is (in my eyes) good enough I wanted to make sure I took the time I needed to, but didn't want to mess things up.

I think this quilt is going along really nicely, including the shrubbery
You can extend your checkout time by cancelling it and checking it out again; and with the zoomquilts having two workable ends that's not a problem - only when we reach 10000 users we will need a waiting list.

This post has been edited on 08/03/2007 10:26 CET

heh, thanks.

btw, i notice this quilt starts in what appears to be the middle. is it a case of 'thats the first image and the rest build forward/back from there' or is it not 'starting' on the correct picture?

The quilts always start in the middle, although I'm aware that this is not the best choice. But it's easiest for now; I'll get around to automatically changing the starting point eventually.

Is there such a thing as a "middle"? I thought they looped.

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Is there such a thing as a "middle"? I thought they looped.

Yes, the quilts loop. Thematically, there is no middle. The frames do have internal numbers to maintain sequence, though, so there is a start frame (let's call it #0). When the start frame is checked in, frames #1 and #-1 get available and so on until the quilt wraps around. So the start frame #0 is in the middle of the sequence. This distinction only makes sense while the quilt is unfinished; when all tiles are checked in, the sequence has no start or end (or middle).

OK, I've uploaded my finished version. I think its lacking ... something, but I've learned the hard way not to try and put too much in to my art projects. Doing so either leads to never being done (impatient perfectionist that I am) or to overworking it and damaging what it could have been.

Unfortunately, I think the detail I included gets ... messed up a bit by the zoom process. I'm not sure what would help with that, or if its just me ...

This post has been edited on 08/07/2007 07:03 CET

I think it's good. Dunno about missing detail, seems fine to me, and the transition to the inner tile seems smooth enough.

Might just be the monitor I'm using. I've found I can see the some truly amazing color differentiation, even at 32bit color with this (E207 WFP from Dell). Stuff that I never saw on my CRT even at 16 bit color ...