Sunday 8 April 2012

PRERETROSPECT #14 THE MATHEMATICS - PART ONE

This is where it all had to get mathematical for a few days. I hope it has been made fairly clear.

Sunrise = 6.30am
Sunset = 7.30pm

Therefore length of day = 13 hours = 780 minutes = 46, 800 seconds

If shooting a 2 minute pixilation animation at 18 fps there would have to be 3, 240 frames/photos in total
(180 x 18)

Chapter 33 of Dharma Bums = 1834 words
= 1.8 photos per word, rounded up to 2 photos per word
(3, 240 / 1834)

If a day is 46, 800 sec, then each word of DB = 26 seconds in real life, rounded up from 25.5

So if 26 seconds = 1 word, and there is 2 photos per word, then I would need to take 1 photo every 13 seconds.



The first thing I needed to find out after this was how many frames/photos would therefore be required to be between each coordinate chronologically (how the nets were formed).

PHOTOS NEEDED BETWEEN EACH COORDINATE

FORMULA:

DIFFERENCE IN                            (SECONDS PER                                (1 PHOTO
WORD COUNT             X          26  WORD OF SOC)      =    A     /     13   EVERY 13    =    B
BETWEEN POINTS                                                                                 SECONDS)