Processing Images

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The first step to creating an animation was to edit a list of sequential images. With the help of Adobe Photoshop, image editing was a lot more efficient. Photoshop, unlike the windows paint program, formats its images with layers on transparent "canvasses" for greater control and enhanced editing. Layers allow you to drag and drop objects right on top of the background image which makes creating a list of images easier because there is no need to recreate the whole image. However in a windows paint program, you cannot move objects without having a blank white spot in it's previous location.

My first assignment was to create an animation of a knife cutting through a section definition of the Arctic Ocean, then combining 12 different graphs of the ocean temperature in that section and also turn that into an animation as well.

Fig 1. shows the sequenced images of a knife cutting through section def. 2

Fig 2. shows the sequenced data during 12 months of the temperature of section def. 2

There were a few things to keep in mind when editting the images. In order to keep the the true geological shape of Alaska, the same ratio had to be kept on the image when resizing it to fit the greatest outer dimensions from the two different original images. As a result, there were empty margins in the image but it was better for the same ratio to be kept.