flower_movie

Flower Assembly

flower assembly movie frames

Challenge

Write an animation where an image assembles itself from pieces, like the Flower Assembly Movie on YouTube. Split the image into many square-shaped tiles and create a series of frames as .png images.

You need

• an image
• Python + NumPy + Pillow
• MEncoder or a similar program that can assemble several frames to an animation

With MEncoder, you need to run a line similar to the following:

mencoder "mf://*.png" -mf fps=25 -o output.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4

Hints

• start by creating a very simple animation (e.g. a square moving across the screen)
• you need about 25 frames per second
• a trick to create the assembly effect is to move apart the squares in random directions, and play that animation backwards