{"id":628,"date":"2012-03-26T20:01:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T19:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/mik\/?p=628"},"modified":"2020-05-15T15:46:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T15:46:55","slug":"joc-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/2012\/03\/26\/joc-24\/","title":{"rendered":"JoC #24: Smoke and mirrors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. . . . The\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 ordinary objects of human endeavour &#8212; property, outward success, luxury &#8212; have<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 always seemed to me contemptible.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u2014 Albert Einstein<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One more quick one about image effects: a smoke effect to be precise. I&#8217;ll show you how to create this really cool effect just with what you know already. Hopefully, this will give you some ideas of more cool effects that you can do on your own.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Joy of Code #24: Smoke and mirrors\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vpdIYj3MmT4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenfoot.org\/static\/joc\/mov\/JOC-24.mov\">Download video<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Concepts discussed<\/strong>:\u00a0<em>image manipulation, visual effects, animation<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Download: The project can be downloaded from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenfoot.org\/book\/\">Greenfoot book website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. . . . The\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/2012\/03\/26\/joc-24\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6],"tags":[57,58,116],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greenfoot-software-tools","category-joy-of-code","tag-if-statement","tag-image-manipulation","tag-visual-effects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":967,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}