AVISynth needs rotate...

[poptones]

And I lack the skills to do it. I've been looking at Avery's code for "Rotate2" and have yet to fully understand how it might be integrated into AVISynth. I've also been unable to find adequate documentation on the algorithms using google. This cannot be the impossible feat it seems... any assistance at all (up to and including a promise to DIY) would be much appreciated.

Edit: I see the word "abrash." I look up abrash and find links to the black book, but only adventure game hosery in response to my clicking said link.

What I really want is a 3D plane rotation. That would make possible lots of special transition effects as well as having compositing uses. Surely someone here has experience and can suggest a place to look for something higher level than assembly and pascal routines for rendering directly to VGA adapters? I'd rather not have to load OpenGL on a machine just to do this, but I'm open to just about anything.

[dividee]

Here is a link to the black book:
http://www.esil.univ-mrs.fr/~elingsys/cours/black-book/

You should check chapters 56-58, which deals with affine texture mapping. And the whole book is quite an entertaining read :)

[WarpEnterprises]

It's really funny (are you a visionary??) - I wanted to request such a rotate function as future feature, could be really funny stuff made with.
And I can't forget the idea of making an "image stabilizer" script, because the things I've tried so far do not convince me.
(SteadyHand, e.g., has no preview,...)

[poptones]

It's not that I'm a visionary, it's just that I have always wanted this top be a package for doing more than "ripping." And it's getting very close to being what I want, save for a couple of features.

This morning I finally found a couple of sources for code that doesn't revolve around 3D and direct overlay use. Sadly, the power kicked off right about then so I now have to dig the pages out of my history... if they made it.

BTW the link to the bb seems about as iuseful as the other I found... it just sits and spins. Thanks anyway, 'tho.

[MoonWalker]

Originally posted by dividee
Here is a link to the black book:
http://www.esil.univ-mrs.fr/~elingsys/cours/black-book/


Interesting link, but all in the "cours" are in france...:(

Is it, by any chance, you know any similar url in english??

Thanks,
MoonWalker

[dividee]

@poptones
I don't understand. When I click on this link it takes me to simple html page which has direct links to the chapters in pdf.
maybe a direct link will work?
Here is the link to the pdf for chapter 56. Just replace 56 by a number from 1 to 70 to get the other chapters:
http://www.esil.univ-mrs.fr/~elingsys/cours/black-book/gpbb56.pdf
@Moonwalker
Indeed if you remove /black-book/ from the URL you end up on a page with CS courses in french, but rest assured the black book itself is in english. And there are plenty of CS courses all over the web.