pab animations

You are free to download these files for your personal entertainment and joy. Thanks for your interest.
Conceived and rendered by Peter Apian-Bennewitz

Original Tools, ca 1995: Currently all movies are mpeg-1 compressed, thanks to mpeg_encode.
Audio tracks (if available) were encoded with musicin, and combined to mpeg streams with SGI's moviemaster.
tools in 2023: ffmpeg for MP4 and WEBM conversions


work and play 1993-1995
film selector potential use of handheld stirling engine rendered with Rayshade, animation path with rshow
© Peter Apian-Bennewitz
walkthrough of FhG-ISE library
during Phd at FhG-ISE,
rendered with Radiance, animation path with rshow
note physically based rendering of reflections in Radiance, one of the first rshow animations, © Fraunhofer ISE
motion based on physical laws stepwise Runga-Kutta integration of script based, time dependant physical laws
rendered with Rayshade, animation path with rshow, time integration with 'fun' (by me)
© Peter Apian-Bennewitz

some more of 1994-1995, Weather Images, © for single frames: Meteosat/Eumetsat
film selector global (ETOT) images 1995 visible channel
0.4MB, 206 frames, © single frames Eumetsat, animation done by Peter Apian-Bennewitz
Europe (D2)
infrared channel
5.2MB, 3082 frames, some consecutive days, © single frames Eumetsat, animation done by Peter Apian-Bennewitz
Australia / New Zealand (GMSD) infrared channel
1.4MB, 448 frames, © single frames Eumetsat, animation done by Peter Apian-Bennewitz

some more of 1995-1999, work at FhG-ISE
film selector FhG-ISE new building (low resolution) 9 MB, 3235 frames
PAL TV resolution 32 MB
rendered with Radiance, animation path with rshow © Fraunhofer ISE
title sequence (low resolution) 0.48 MB
PAL TV resolution 1,9 MB
rendered with Radiance
© Fraunhofer ISE
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some more of 1997-2001
film selector demo for my animation chapter in "Rendering with Radiance" stepwise diffusion of material between cells, animation using Radiance's ambient calcs
1.0MB, 200 frames, © Peter Apian-Bennewitz
four axis gonio-photometer
rendered with Rayshade
0.5MB, animated GIF, © FhG-ISE
light scanner rendered with Radiance
0.5MB, 211 frames, © pab-opto


1999-2001
commercial work at pab-opto
film selector Shell Solar electron/hole pairs rendered with Radiance, software for physical model and assembling written by me
© Shell Solar, exposé by FhG-ISE, rendering pab-opto
webpage title
rendered with Radiance, endless loop
71KB, 61 frames, © Simulated Photon
Kimbell Art Museum part of a study of rendering programs
0.5MB, 500 frames, © Kurt Altmann & Peter Apian-Bennewitz

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If not noted otherwise, all copyrights by Peter Apian-Bennewitz.