Just for fun
<-Stefano
P.S. basse: When we were tolking of the tropical flyby I was rendering this, now it is over I can switch to that 
<basse_> holy sh*t ! thats’s incredible!
:o
i can only begin to guess how it’s done, except ofcourse the filename that gives some hint… but still, I have no clue how to use those.
I suck. and you don’t.
.b
Very, very nice Stefano. :o
Negative metaballs I presume?
Excellent animation.
BgDM
really great!
Martin
Wowwa Wha Wee!!! :o
Great animations!! Very Fantastic use of what I cannot yet comprehend!!
BTW/basse;just because you suck at metaballs doesn;t mean you suck in general! I’ve seen things here you didn’t suck at.
S68; You are a good MetaBallEr 
!!
Oh My good funky god. WOW. :o :o
Any chance, Stefano, of converting this into a screen saver? Please, please.
God I wish my computer wasn’t packed away in a cupboard whilst I move house, I realy need to try and recreate this effect. Python or modeling skills with Metas and an animated texture?
As per usual, you never cease to amaze us,
Sonix.
Pretty good! I really like the effect
I think it’s one big metaball…and multiple litle negative metabal that appear here and there
Negative Metaball? Is there something I’ve missed?
Sonix.
hehe select your metaball and go in the edit button menu and click negative they make “morphing hole” instead of “morphing ball”
Thanx 
Yup, metaballs, more details below
No it’s the other way around 
Sure
Naa, is 90% Blender 10% me
Thanx, have a look at the manual, online at www.blender.org
Tell me how I can convert an AVI to SCR or whatever and I’ll do… with another 25 frames or so the ball goes bach to spherical and you can cycle.
Exactly.
Ok time for explanations.
Make 1 Metaball, make it big.
Place three spheres (UV) inside, make them emit particles, one 100, one 200, one 300 particles.
Parent three negative metaballs, one to each sphere, and use duplivert
Make the 100 dup metaball quite big, the 200 medium and the 300 small
That’s all
Oh, yes, the ball is an ONB material
Stefano
S68 once again you blow me away. Excellent. Takes good imagination to even come up with something like this. Uh and what is OMB material.
Well done.
Paradox
Thanx
ONB -> Oren Nayar Blinn ?
Stefano
oh, btw, what does that mean? or, is it the name of the creator? poor sob if it is…
"hello mr Oren Nayer Blinn, your table is ready.
you will be dinning tonight with mr Lambert and mr CookTorr, they are already waiting.
oh, and miss Phong called, she will be joining you later… "
.b
Basse this time you really made me laugh.
And thanks Stefano, I realized what it meant after I logged off. I’ll post a avi tomorrow using your technique, thanks for explaining. I never even realized there were negative metaballs and even what that meant.
Paradox
Looks pretty but I reckon it’d be a lot more interesting if the camera was moving…what does it look like inside the…electrical blob ? And how long did it take to render with those 600 metaballs ?
Thanks for the info about the technique, I also never knew there were negative metaballs.
bump im curious as h*** to see that animation Stefano!
Your link seems dead, any chance I get to see it ?
To create a windows screen saver from a video you can use the exelent program “Bink Video”
http://www.radgametools.com/bnkmain.htm
I can´t see the video 
Because the topic is old?
yeah i know, but that dosen’t change the fact that I’d really like to see the animation.
link down?