Image Animations Of Die Varieties

I would love to see this effect with an over buffed reverse DMPL or PL Morgan dollar. What program are you utilizing and how does this work?

I suggest slowing it down a bit (2 sec/change?).
I spent a lot of time thinking "Wait, let me see that again".
I couldn't absorb the details quickly enough.
And coming around again didn't really help.

Possibly viewer control when switching one image to the next.

But I think you are on to something good.

This begs to become an animated .gif with about 15 cells, each featuring a slight move of the lighting source in clockwise fashion. Make the shadow circle the coin, sundial-style, and the mispunches will jump out at you.

Here's a newer overdate animation. I like this one better--it captures some interesting details, especially on the 0/9.
You lose some image quality converting to gif, but I think the information presented makes up for it.

Peru 1/2 Dinero 1900/1890

Thank you.

The reason for losing image quality is that the GIF format only supports 256 different colors. Even on a uniformly colored coin, if there is color noise in the picture, that noise will mess with the 256-color palette selection. For close-ups of varieties, I almost always convert to grayscale, as color information is at best useless when looking at pictures of varieties. Since grayscale only gives you 256 shades of gray, no further color information is lost when converting to an animated GIF.

with the rate of your most recent deceleration of the speed DV.

And as one additional option to consider offering to the viewer, would it be possible to allow one to manually browse through a predetermined series of distinct shots by conveniently tapping the 'tab' key, for example?

In this way a user could stop and study just one particular lighting angle, for instance, for any desired amount of time w/o being rushed on to the next slide etc....

Folks measuring dimensions and angles would find this type of feature invaluable and time-saving in the long run.

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