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DAZ Gallery and lack of search results / GIF animation, multimedia in general

Roman_K2Roman_K2 Posts: 1,252
edited August 2021 in The Commons

I happened to look at a wonderful "tableau" sort of image in the Gallery today - a picture of an old man surrounded by rolls of parchment and dusty books and astrolabes and other bric-a-brac by "Peter" somebody IIRC. A totally wild, waaaaaay over the top candlelit image. Total information overload. Straight out of Nostradamus and H.G. Wells and (possibly) N.C. Wyeth, heh.

So this was on a computer at my friend's place early this morning, and I'm not there right now and so I cannot go back to look in my browser's "history".

I commented on the Gallery image, suggesting that it would be fun to make various "Time" inappropriate objects appear and then disappear, perhaps using GIF animation and timed loops and layered HTML.

Presto, today there is a... similar graphic in the New York Times, animated and it literally PILES ON LOTS OF STUFF, bits of imagery and text. An illustration of issues related to a busy family with children. And as you SCROLL DOWN in your browser the amount of things displayed INCREASES!

Any idea how this was done? A graphic with (literally) time built-in! Just curious. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/31/opinion/sunday/deliberate-parenting.html

P.S. Google's site:search doesn't work for the new DAZ Gallery. I love the complex "tableau" images of things like a medieval tavern. sad

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Comments

  • akmerlowakmerlow Posts: 1,124

    Eh, this is TWO threads in one?!

  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,186

    For the first point, you can go to My Gallery, and click on the "pages with [Roman_K2]'s comments", and you'll be able to find it.

    For the second point, I can't see the image because I'm not a NYT subscriber, but it sounds like some fairly typical HTML5 page design, although you could accomplish the same thing with a GIF.

  • Roman_K2Roman_K2 Posts: 1,252

    Ah. I guessed I haven't been to "My Gallery" since the change... and for sure I had never scrolled all the way down. Thanks.

    That's weird that they wouldn't let you see the image. About doing it with a GIF (or GIF's) it would be a big assembly, and you wouldn't have the size of the image tied to a user's scrolling down. smiley

  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,186

    I was trying to find other examples of the kind of thing you're describing, and it seems like they may be past their prime. They used to be unavoidable, especially on product description pages, but now I'm having trouble finding one.

  • Roman_K2Roman_K2 Posts: 1,252

    I'm not saying that having lots of stuff in an image or on a page is always desirable. I wouldn't want to read War and Peace superimposed on a yellow background with black polka dots.

    FWIW here are three screenshots of that New York Times illustration. If you keep moving the slider with your mouse or touchpad on their web page then more and more stuff is piled up on the page. Supposed to be about "parents with children leading busy lives".

    P.S. Another thing you can't see without subscribing is their "Times Machine" (sic), a database of articles that goes way back.

    nyt-graphic1.jpg
    1366 x 768 - 161K
    nyt-graphic2.jpg
    1366 x 768 - 239K
    nyt-graphic3.jpg
    1366 x 768 - 401K
  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,186

    Yeah, that's pretty basic HTML5.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,583
    edited August 2021

    a video is probably easier

    (I too cannot see the NYT one so just guessing what you mean)

    if just time lapse the renders can be a slide show with fades

    those Visual Novel type softwares could do a more interactive scene where you mouse over, click on stuff etc

    Unity 3D could do it too (but don't ask me how, I just know it is apparently far better than Unreal at doing 2D games)

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