:-)

Check out these christmas card photo images:

:-)

Image by The hills are alive (back for a bit....)
This morning bought a wonderful surprise with a beautiful hand-stamped card and another - hand made card - from dear Helena. Such wonderful treats! Christmas is here :-)


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Texture layer from SkeletalMess
www.flickr.com/photos/skeletalmess/4281393073/
Snow brushes by Faeth-design @ deviantArt
faeth-design.deviantart.com/art/Snowflakes-Brush-71012097

Both used with many thanks.

Syon Park Enchanted Woodland Christmas Pop-Up Card / e-Card Video

Image by Dominic's pics
Duration: 23 secs.

Card may pop-up more smoothly on YouTube or Vimeo.

Now in 3D anaglyph ("two colour glasses") versions:
Red/Green-Cyan Colour
Red/Green-Cyan Monochrome
Amber-Yellow/Blue Color
Amber-Yellow/Blue Monochrome

For a few evenings each winter the private gardens and woods of Syon House are transformed with coloured light...

A 3D video montage (see full credit details at the foot of this description and in the first comment).

Many more excellent photos - also by other flickr contributors - can also be seen presented here:

Syon Park Enchanted Woodland (Gallery 1 of 2).
Syon Park Enchanted Woodland (Gallery 2 of 2).

Originally the site of a medieval abbey, Syon was named after Mount Zion in the Holy Land.

For about the last 400 years it has been the London ancestral home of the Duke of Northumberland.

See also:

Syon Park Interactive Panorama
[360 Cities - Use the mouse to "pan and tilt" and "peer around"]
Syon Park Panoramas Search
[360 Cities - List of all the Interactive Panoramas for the Park]
Syon Park
[Official Website]
Syon Park Enchanted Woodland
[Woodland Official Website and Gallery]
Syon House and Park
[Wikipedia]

The "mechanics" of the card is the standard v-fold mechanism. CGI-ists should note that (although not obvious) the v-folds do not rise from the card in linear proportion to the rate at which the card is opened. I calculated/positioned the card at a number of "keyframe" positions between open and closed, and then smoothed the angle rotation tangents. The result looks convincing, although it is not wholly accurate.

Using angles that each range between 0° and 90° - as the card moves from closed to open, and as the v-folds move from flat to upright - the relationship between the angles is:

tan A = tan B /√2 - (when the upright "spread" of the v-fold is 90°)

- but I wasn't smart enough to program this into my CGI package automatically. Without taking into account this relationship, however, the two halves of the pop-ups do not exactly meet except when fully closed and open.

The images contained in the card are used under Creative Commons licenses. Certain usage is prohibited by some creators, except by specific permission. It's complicated.The copywrite holders are listed in the comments section below, together with links to the individual images which each have licensing details.