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Seasons 2003

An animation that has been brewing for a while. Here is a small version: seasons2003.mp4. Back in 2003, this was as much as the web could handle!! [ now in 2022, I'm tempted to go back and stretch the animations to syns with verses]. Here is the previous Seasons page (2001). Here are a few shots. To the right is an animated jiff (.gif) version. On the web is just the opening sequence.

Title: Seasons	YinYang unrolling
forsythia	The combined poems: forsythia, day lilies, maple. As recorded in the Seasons 2003 animation. a simple and beauteous thing one true sentinel of spring forsythia gold, light or bright yellow and some with a tinge of orange gone mellow rise and be risen fore the green grows push open the season now and thru time
some abstract day lilies	bunched and forthright everywhere stretching to the suns hot glare day lilies rich and orange, even reddish with stems that arc and crowns soon perish yet day after day come blossoms robustly CARPE DIEM now flourish the warmth maple's majestic red drops orange yellow leaves into bed Autumn's foliage shows season's repeat Persephone now signals her Winter retreat crunch quick thru crispy leaves gather the harvest and batten the seeds
sun behind maple	setting sun

The frames made with very rudimentary OpenGL. I should post the source code at some point, just because it is useful. Some of them were processed with Python & PIL. They were encoded into MPEG1 using mjpegtools.

I will probably get remake it in a another couple of years - wide screen with better detail & winter, or on to the 3D version? Whither then? I cannot say.

Words and Images by me, YON - Jan C. Hardenbergh 31-DEC-2003.
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Seasons 2003

The combined poems: forsythia, day lilies, maple.