Star Trek Transporter effect

[nine76evil]

New effect

Star Trek Transporter effect

The effect from TOS and/or TNG would be cool!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhODlALRGoA

[Schneegans]

Thanks for the suggestion! This would be especially cool as a window-open animation which should be supported in the future. But for now, closing a window like this would be cool as well!

If anyone wants to implement it, drop a note here - then I'll assign the issue. As soon as I start working on it, I'll put a note here as well!

[Schneegans]

To be honest, I am not really a Trekkie - and I think that this is something which should be done right, else people will complain 😉. And there seems to be a new transporter effect in each episode :D. Here are two example frames. Are those the TOS / TNG effects you are referring to?

TOS	TNG

[nine76evil]

Totally understand! I was thinking any of the effects would be cool. I would do it if I knew how!

I'm not even sure how it could work since the windows are square or rectangular?

[Schneegans]

I'll try to implement something like this now :)

[Schneegans]

It's pretty difficult to create something good here. The main difficulties are:

• The original effects (especially the TOS version) are quite slow, nobody wants to wait for more than five seconds until a window is gone. However, speeding up the effect makes it look quite different.
• There's a lot of contrast in the original effects. However, such intense flickering is also pretty annoying if you use such an effect regularly.
• The resolution of the reference footage is pretty low. In the end, most of the effect is going on in your head. Creating something which feels like the original is very challenging.

Here is what I have currently. IMHO, it's not too bad, maybe someone will improve them in the future! It's just a few lines of GLSL code.

Energize A	Energize B
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/829942/149797843-79fa2a20-b36c-4a06-8683-03c524cf93d7.mp4	https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/829942/149797865-018c4d91-d2fd-4094-9705-82237d45d88b.mp4

[nine76evil]

I think they both look amazing. Makes me want to use my laptop over my phone so much more. Bringing the fun back to Linux! Thanks!

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On Jan 17, 2022, 7:33 AM, Simon Schneegans wrote: It's pretty difficult to create something good here. The main difficulties are: - The original effects (especially the TOS version) are quite slow, nobody wants to wait for more than five seconds until a window is gone. However, speeding up the effect makes it look quite different. - There's a lot of contrast in the original effects. However, such intense flickering is also pretty annoying if you use such an effect regularly. - The resolution of the reference footage is pretty low. In the end, most of the effect is going on in your head. Creating something which feels like the original is very challenging. Here is what I have currently. IMHO, it's not too bad, maybe someone will improve them in the future! It's just a few lines of GLSL code. Energize A Energize B https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/829942/149797843-79fa2a20-b36c-4a06-8683-03c524cf93d7.mp4 https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/829942/149797865-018c4d91-d2fd-4094-9705-82237d45d88b.mp4 — Reply to this email directly, [view it on GitHub](#26 (comment)), or [unsubscribe](https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AP6THPWFJUI3WVGXYSJUVLTUWQZGHANCNFSM5LIRN5NQ). You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>