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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;messydesk, post: 2757910, member: 1765&quot;]The thunderbolts are holograms in the metal of the coin.&nbsp; Lighting these things is tricky, and it took some experimenting to get the light path I wanted that showed the medal reasonably well and made the thunderbolts pop and change color and &quot;position&quot;.&nbsp; I used a total of 15 images for this to make the thunderbolts smoother.&nbsp; The GIF file has 29 frames, because I play it forward and backward.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>6 images (11 frames in the GIF) for the Morgan.</p><p><br /></p><p>One additional thing about the animated images is that you don&#039;t need a really large image to convey a lot of info about the coin, which is good, since the file size would be nasty otherwise.&nbsp; When I look at a coin in hand, it&#039;s first without magnification, and I wobble it in the light to see how the luster looks.&nbsp; You also can see surface imperfections like scratches, hits, or cleaning hairlines pop when you do this.&nbsp; Still no magnification.&nbsp; Doug touched on this when mentioning that the right lighting angle can hide or reveal problems.&nbsp; If you use all lighting angles, you get to see everything.&nbsp; I&#039;d guess that most people would feel more comfortable about an image-based buying decision with a 600x600 animation of the 82-S Morgan than with a 1500x1500 static image.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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