Vortex Swirl

Here's something a little different to my normal submissions - an animation. I thought I'd do something different instead of photography for a change.

After I made Test Swirl, I had the idea to animate the swirling object floating around my head, but it was only recently that I decided to actually go ahead and make it. I experimented with various ways to animate it and this is the one that I found the most artisically appealing. Tomorrow I'll upload my uber-psychadelic version of the same; it's so colourful you'll think you're being hypnotized!


Full-view is recommended, as otherwise you're just getting the uber-low-bandwidth preview version.


Also note, it's highly recommended you /don't/ view this in Internet Explorer or any standard Microsoft-made programs. They have some rather poor .gif parsing libraries which will mean it will slow doesn to a crawl. Whilst Firefox or an actual image viewer program (not XP's quickviewer, that's a MS-made product and has the same flaws) have absolutely no trouble keeping up with all the data parsing on my computer, because so many people will just ignore my recommendations and use Internet Explorer anyway I've had to decrease the size of it drastically. The original animation I was planning on using looks much better but unfortunately, I have to cater to the majority of viewers. It's not worth it looking great for 10% and unwatchable for 90% of people, when I can make it alright for 10% and mediocre for 90% of people. So, sorry to all you alternative browser people; if we can convert more people over then the scales will shift more and it'll be worth doing things to W3C standards and not Internet Explorer Standards