[Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of 2D Cut-Out Animation System

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Robert Edele <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
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Package: 2D Cut-Out Animation System
System name: animate
This package wants to apply for inclusion in the GNU project

My project is a program that uses text-based code to generate a 2D ray-traced 
cut-out animation (a la South Park) available under the GPL license.

The major difference that sets it apart from commercial animation programs is 
that it\'s text-based and uses a data+code structure to make this practical 
(data and code are mixed together, and all the data+code for a polygon stays 
together ... there is also the linking system, which is fully recursive and 
makes most natural motions easy to code).

Animations are coded with a special-purpose pseudo-assembly language. Source 
animation code can be had on my site.

It is available at http://128.226.155.101:1650/programs.html but I\'m looking 
for another place for it ... it is only accessable when my university is open, 
and even then, my university has been screwing around with my webserver, 
causing a lot of files to cut off partway through for some users.

It consists of 2 core programs, the assembler (convert.cc) and the renderer 
(animate.cc). An animation is first assembled, and the output of the assembler 
is then fed to the renderer.

The output consists of a bunch of sequencially numbered .bmp files. These files 
are then linked into a video file by an outside program (BMP2AVI.EXE works well 
on Windows32 systems, and is free)