Fun with Color Cycling...

Here's the clip.
Color cycling is a simple animation technique that requires very little horsepower, but can be quite effective. The definition is: In computer graphics, a technique that simulates animation by continuously changing colors rather than moving the objects.
Today I had to put some arrows on a graph and it occurred to me that it'd spice it up a bit if I showed movement along the arrows as the text typed on. I used a gradient fill for shapes, then used a gradient colorize filter. I placed a ramp on the offset parameter to continually shift the offset, thus constantly moving the colors along. If you make the ramp end value be an even multiple of 360, your animation will loop.
Oh, and it runs at 30 fps on my lowly 9600 equipped 1Ghz DMPD home system.
Here's the ColorCycling project...
Have Fun!
Patrick

You're all too young to remember "Pola-Magic." This is an antique animation system from the days of black and white plumbicons. A spinning disk of polarizer material that was placed in front of the studio camera. Polarized plastic sheets were used to create weather map symbols and other oddball but coarse graphics. it wasn't color-cycling, it was gray-cycling. My cub scout troop visited the TV station and the weather guy showed us how it worked. I can still remember some of the guys being really disappointed. But it left a huge impression on me.
Patrick, I don't know what this place would be like without your bottomless supply of inspiration and patience. Of course, you're writing the definitive Motion2 book, aren't you? I will pre-order two copies.
bogiesan

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    http://i38.tinypic.com/bjcymr.jpg 
    The top image is a (admittedly old and crappy, but it shows the problem) photo that I had previously edited and put in my portfolio. The tinypic below is the result of copying that photo from the portfolio, pasting it into photoshop, and then saving it into a jpg. As you can see, the transitions between colors and the contrast are a complete mess. 
    Thing is, my hard drive recently quit on me, and I had to install the operating system and such on a new drive. I remember having this problem with the system when I first had it, but it either went away on its own or I fixed it somehow before. Now I can't remember for the life of me how I got rid of the problem, and I certainly don't know what the problem is in the first place. I'm tempted to think it may not be photoshop itself, but the problem seems to be especially bad when I'm working with photos. 
    Anyone have any idea what the problem might be and how to solve it? 
    Edit: I also noticed it when viewing http://findae.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d1hni37 in firefox, whereas the other photo appeared to be ok before I copied and pasted it. It has extremely obvious lines of green and orange in the transition from light skin tone to dark skin tone. Annoyingly enough, this doesn't show up in the thumbnail within my gallery at all, only when I click on the thumbnail and see the fullsize image. Extremely frustrating.  
    Here's another good look at the problem while selecting a color in photoshop: http://i37.tinypic.com/2h6t7gh.jpg  All I did was screenshot it a few times, and it deteriorated to that point.

    Screen glitches like color blocks appearing where they shouldn't could indicate a problem with your video drivers.
    Go to the nVidia site and see if they've released any updated drivers; people often report that updated drivers are correcting current problems with Photoshop.
    http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7-winvista-64bit-258.96-whql-driver.html
    Note the recent (3 weeks ago) release.
    -Noel

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