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Macs Do Star Wars Dirty Work
bfl writes "The BBC is running a story about Lowry Digital Images and how they used 600 dual G5s and 400 TB of storage space to clean the dirt off of the old Star Wars reels, and upgrade the resolution to get them ready for their DVD release."
The MACS made Greedo shoot first!
I CANT WAIT! for the super extended hyperspace collectors addition where they replace Han with a pink bunny named Lulu Astro-whiskers and replace all the blasters with walkie-talkies!!!
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Dude, that old article about the 378TB is so Sept 12. Now it's 400TB. Ergo: new article.
man, when it comes to Apple, too much is never enough ;)
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No, it's a conversion rate thing. 378TB American = 400TB UK.
Or better- get working now on those funny Porky's movies. Or Manos, that's another gem that needs improvement.
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And here I would just have used some photo-wash. At least, that's what you use when you develop film :)
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Well you see back when Mac and PC were growing up (they are brothers) PC would always be studying his math and science for school. Mac played with dolls. We discouraged this, but he'd just started kicking and screaming if we gave him a math problem. One day he found art and worked feverishly on it. It was the day of the big art show and Mac had his favorite painting on display. Unfortunately on a whim PC had decided to draw a picture the night before and it was just as good as Mac's, despite all the effort.
It's ok though, because Mac is special.
I'm very glad to hear that this technique of using the data in several frames of footage really does exist today. However, where can I get my paws on it? I've at many times wished for higher quality in various clips I've DLed, and found myself annoyed at knowing that in the sum of the data of a scene the information is there, but I can't access it. With whatever they're running at LDI, I could access it.
Also, imagine if you will what you could learn by running this on the footage of the JFK assassination? Or all those UFO sightings? This could be the conspiracy buff's dream. =)
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This just in, story released about re-release of Star Wars has been re-released for /.'ers to re-read.
Can't you realize that redoing the same posts over and over again is easily recognized by frequent readers of this news repository. Comments often respect that the editors are only human, but such a repeat of a mistake makes most redears reluctantly repeat the same jokes that they made the last time this was reposted.
My apologies....really!
The real litigious bastards...
Greedo shoots's first, greedo shoots simultaneously, deleted scene jabba 1, deleted scene jabba 2, greedo first + jabba 2, greedo first + jabba 1, jar-jar on tattoine, jar-jar + greedo 1 + jabba 2, boba fett vocie 1 + jar-jar 2 + pink lightsabre + jabba 2, ad infinitum.
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...here he is!
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. - William Shakespeare
The real story is (from the Apple article): "...we need access to memory, because these frames are all computed while they're in RAM. Mac OS X gives us the ability to use virtual memory if necessary to swap around."
Wow, what amazing technology!
You must be new here.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
What operating systems do you run on your VAX?
How do you make it fit? First you convert the analog to digital "1"s and "o"s. Then you take the "1"s and lay them parallel starting from the inside of the disk. Then you put the "o"s down nearer the outside of the disk where there is more room. Any more questions?
If only they could have made the sailbarge scene dirtier....mmmmmmm....
to fix all the bad acting in the films... that seems like it would be a worthwhile investment for film restoration.
Does that mean there is a super-high resolution version of that pool scene from Fast Time at Ridgemont High out there somewhere?
The 1's fit together nicely, but this raises an even better question.
.'s: ..........
.'s to one 1.
Why do we still use 'big' characters, like 1's and 0s? Why not use a . and a , for example. These would take up a lot less space than 0's and 1's would.
Illustration: 10 1's:
1111111111
10
You can probably get about 5
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Thank god that the dirt particles removed from the original prints showed Greedo firing first.
Totally clears Han as being a bad guy.