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And from the “doing things the hard way” department…

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To foster a bit of post-holiday spirit, and promote safe food-handling all year round, I thought I’d try to animate something like salmonella bacteria. Salmonella can grow on turkey, and can survive months in plain water at room temperature, and looks like this:

So, in After Effects, I made some that are slightly stylized.

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A Photoshop script was composed and executed to perform Gaussian blur. Over and over. And over. Random characters are stamped from time to time. A slightly cool effect is achieved!

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Sometimes you’re just toodling along trying things out, and you commit a blunder like this:

I was working on a color picker… and brought up a modal dialog with no Ok or Cancel buttons, inside the ExtendScript editor. All menus greyed out, can’t click the stop button. Oops!

How would it end? Would I have to kill the process? Maybe unplug the computer and reset the P-RAM?

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