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Cubism For CG And Movies
Aidtopia writes "Computer Graphics pioneer Andrew Glassner has a cool page on virtual cinema. The Matrix Reloaded introduced us to virtual cinema--re-rendering live action to show it in a way that would be difficult or impossible in real life. Glassner takes this much further by using unusual (and physically impossible) camera distortions, morphing multiple points of view simultaneously in single continuous image. Could this be the next big revolution in film? How long until we see a movie done like this?"
As for the LexisNexis searches that cost is probably easy to calculate because they charge for use of the service and he probably used $300,000 worth of the service without paying for it.
And I'd guess that you think the RIAA's figure of $150,000 per song is reasonable as well. Would "We overprice our service, and we expect your honor to do the same" stand up in court?
Will I retire or break 10K?
Damn Microsoft!!! This article is just more evidence that Redmond's Most Evil Corporation continues to research ways of distorting the truth!!! Give me non-distorting aspherical lenses or give me death!!!! Linux Rules!!!! Yaaarrrrgghhh!!!!!!
After being '/.ed' I think it will be quite a long time til' we see a movie done like this.
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(This is all OT, so I'm posting without my Karma bonus - another problem with moderation. I suppose I should move this to my Journal, but hey...)
I don't have a lot of experience with other moderation systems (Kuroshin comes to mind), but I know what features I'd like to see in a moderation system.
I expect that any given thread of conversation will have a bell curve distribution of rated comments, assuming no cap to the top or the bottom. That is, there are very few highly-rated comments, very few low-rated comments, and a vast proportion of comments in the middle, spread out.
I'd like to see a moderation system that reflects this. I'd like to be able to set my threshold to a percentage of the bell curve: show me the top 2% of posts. You could also set it to say: show me the top 20 posts, which would figure out what the threshold percentage should be, based on the posting distribution.
With this model, having a cap at the top and the bottom cuts off the bell curve prematurely, saying, in essence, that all posts that would have been rated above (or below) the cap should all be treated as equal.
Caps do prevent the abuse of moderation, however. No single post can be sent into the stratosphere or down to oblivion. But I thought metamoderation, as currently implemented on slashdot, is seen by the editors as being the solution to invalid moderation.
All summed up, I don't see any reason why the scoring caps on the top and the bottom should remain on Slashdot.
However, I'm willing to be convinced otherwise. Please educate me.
(I think I will mirror this to my Journal, if only to encourage other responders. Go check it out now.)