A while back, I posted sequences from Mariner 6 and 7. I wasn't fond of them as a movie at the time, but they have grown on me - they have a turn-of-the century nickelodeon look to them.

Mariner 6

http://www.strykfoto.org/mariner69/mariner6approach.gif

Mariner 7

NAC

http://www.strykfoto.org/mariner69/mariner7approach.gif

WAC

http://www.strykfoto.org/mariner69/m7approachWAC.gif

The reason for the lack of rotation in the WAC approach sequence is the fact that it only spans about 35 minutes, while the NAC sequence spans more than three days.

Ted,
Very cool! Have you considered registering the images so they stay centered in the animation?

Yes, I am working on it, but I am about to go on vacation, so it could be a while. If anyone wants to take a crack at it, be my guest! (I cleaned these images, but registering them has proven a big pain.)

If anyone wants to take a crack at it, here are the images I cleaned up.

www.strykfoto.org/Mariner69/mariner6.zip
www.strykfoto.org/Mariner69/mariner7.zip

SO glad that I took the time. You are right about it feeling like an old tyme movie. Very cool and stylish. I will be posting this on my blog as well. Thanks for the work leading up to it.

hmmm… i think USF doesn’t let me post files? too junior i suppose?

Oh… the file was too large.

i just increased the lossy on the gif and it went from 5M to 550K. Big diff.

that is pretty freakin awesome ted… i love it. glad to have something to do with it.

i posted too:

http://wanderingspace.net/?p=375.

i also have it higher res if anyone is interested, i can email it.

similar really

Bravo mgrodzki!!

thanks so much