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Tuesday 27 February 2018

The life of a space jellyfish



Yesterday's jellyfish is allliiiiiiiive !
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2 comments:

  1. Tim Stoev27 February 2018 at 12:52

    can you slow it down. At this speed it feels like throwing a drop of paint into a liquid

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  2. Rhys Taylor27 February 2018 at 15:58

    Unfortunately no - we only have 60 timesteps. Slow it down as any more than this and the frames begin to show.

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