Return-Path: Received: from mail-wg0-f43.google.com ([74.125.82.43] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 5179781 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 09:13:56 +0200 Received: by mail-wg0-f43.google.com with SMTP id z12so3240247wgg.22 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 00:26:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type; bh=F0/qEOZxDeD2HJccHupWnP9CvPTk/qpsimqv+fhx/B4=; b=t/xzctX6NcQoPLdLQzceXk2YENeWBNjjiW2npxreRmzOkVoX53OBdvstrFzXdnMZOe osaa+Zudb1UFJRZoFByFIOln+R73+aWIoT8gealgGtnHpVrGg+OiJURb6NUJDlNtJC9O 6iF1hA8Dx2RdCnnfcLTagGlhfTeWe+q3qn834Nw7sdGDj/qSg4ykRFIB5kNzI/r8lJzu hS8y9po33eGAcDaPD6ImQwORnYhW7iUPuDXt1h+7BH2GGkiFS0tWBilpgMFLAyYo7CZj 1hyF+uDVESZtenmbviFqVbuQT9EcLW7HZ8GUwZe7i8sU109tXXJ62Qpd7J+iot6WcnD8 JZcQ== X-Received: by 10.194.174.36 with SMTP id bp4mr7304362wjc.7.1376897161898; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 00:26:01 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: from [192.168.1.67] ([87.114.93.23]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id gg10sm14321841wib.1.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 19 Aug 2013 00:26:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5211C887.5060201@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 08:25:59 +0100 From: Perry Mitchell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111220 Thunderbird/9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: After Effects Mail List Subject: Re: [AE] RENDER TIMES References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------080001050601060405040103" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------080001050601060405040103 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit You forget Jim that the raindrops are falling! If you suspended one (somehow) then sure - it would bulge at the bottom, but natural raindrops are perfectly round. In earlier times, ammunition makers used this to good effect to make lead shot. They dropped molten lead from a height in a 'shot tower' and by the time they solidified (before reaching the bottom) they were nicely 'balled'. FWIW Perry Mitchell Engineer Farnham, Surrey On 19/08/2013 00:09, Jim Lang wrote: > http://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/vfx/create-a-breathtakingly-awesome-rain-scene-part-1/ > The raindrops look gorgeous, but wouldn't they be bottom heavy due to > gravity? > --------------080001050601060405040103 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit You forget Jim that the raindrops are falling! If you suspended one (somehow) then sure - it would bulge at the bottom, but natural raindrops are perfectly round.
In earlier times, ammunition makers used this to good effect to make lead shot. They dropped molten lead from a height in a 'shot tower' and by the time they solidified (before reaching the bottom) they were nicely 'balled'.
FWIW

Perry Mitchell
Engineer
Farnham, Surrey

On 19/08/2013 00:09, Jim Lang wrote:

http://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/vfx/create-a-breathtakingly-awesome-rain-scene-part-1/

The raindrops look gorgeous, but wouldn't they be bottom heavy due to gravity?

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