You forgot another incredibly important point. Hard drive capacities are ever-increasing. There is no known way to shrink film. Of course the capacity will be used up by increasing resolution and color accuracy.
Another analogy could be porno movies with great plot, dialogue, acting, etc... and movies that only have hardcore fucking. Of course as far as I know (I don't watch them all or read reviews) there has never been a great porno movie that had all the qualities of the best Hollywood-made film.
Damn entertaining, it was. I loved the avalanche. I was wondering as I watched it if it was realistic, but having not seen much avalanche footage I had to admit I liked what I saw. Now the amount of time Triple X spent falling didn't make sense and some of the shots showed him at conflicting hights in the fall. The mountain too wasn't big enough for the avalanche to go on that long, but it was fun to watch.
On the other hand, Rosen doubts that artists or audiences will soon want to give up the unique sensory qualities of film. "If we look decades ahead, people will come to realize that digital [photography] is another way of doing things, but film will give you a different organic look," he says. "It's like oil paint and acrylic. Digital has a different texture."
I disagree with this argument. If digital videocameras and especially the projectors continue to improve it is only a matter of time before audiences prefer digital to film. The current bottleneck is the Texas Instuments projectors which are limited to 1024 or 1280 lines. Lucas filmed Episode 2 at a higher res than that but is limited by the projectors.
While film could 'fight back' by going to 70mm or using the excellent Maxivision 48 system, I think it is a loosing battle because projectors will still have jitter, and prints will continue to wear and fade.
Larger film requires more storage space as does digital. Luckily for digital, storage capabilities continue to improve as hard drives cram ever more data into their platters.
In the long view costs will come down for digital, which is another current drawback. This is assuming digital becomes popular enough for economies of scale and competition to kick in. A complicated chicken and the egg situation indeed.
When film gets scanned into an AVID system, what resolution is that? I'm assuming its as high as possible since after its transferred to film again much will be lost.
Well was the monitor on? Was a light on? Were you in the room? How long did it take? Was the room well insulated? Did the temperature outside the room increase at the same time? Please don't post with your +2 bonus when your comment doesn't deserve it.
In one of the last few episodes of Voyager a population of talaxians inside an asteroid is helped by Voyager. Neelix leaves Voyager to live his life with his own people.
You bought a GeForce 256? You wasted your money. How many games supported hardware T&L at the release of the GF? None. How many in 6 months, still none, or one. What about in a year after? A few, finally. Unfortunately the GF was only slightly faster than a TNT2 Ultra with games not supporting hardware T&L. You should have waited for the GF2 like I did, or saved $100 by getting a TNT2 Ultra.
Maybe you should have told him to turn off the fucking phone after the first 30 seconds. If you tell him loud enough that he can't hear the conversation, you're doing good. Too many people are sheep and pussies, maybe both.
I don't have an Xbox so you'll have to tell me, is there an options menu in the xbox setup to select the resolution? Or do the game makers decide? I wasn't aware of any games that rendered higher than 480p. If the game pushes every polygon it can at 480p and still gets 30fps, pushing the same number of polys at 1080i will drop the fps to 20 from 30. How playable is that?
You're quite right about the age of consent. It would seem though that hard-core pedophiles prey on pre-pubescent children, while a larger group wants children just entering puberty.
I would have a similar reaction. The internet as we know it is threatened by regional restrictions on content. If the USA is allowed to block content that violates its laws, why can't China, Egypt, and France? I don't know of any countries where child pornography is legal, but they may exist. If so there are diplomatic measures one country can take against another to hopefully get the law changed. It should be up to users to obey the laws of their countries, not the ISPs job to determine what can and cannot be viewed.
In San Francisco the fire took out most of downtown, chinatown, and north east corner of the city. The rest of the city was not burnt. plenty of buildings collapsed, but the city was far smaller then. 3000 deaths and 225,000 homeless out of 400,000 people total. http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/1906earth.html for more information. in 1906 dollars it caused $400,000,000 damage. The city was able to rebuild because Golden Gate park is huge so tent camps were set up there, and many people moved in with family or friends since half of the people still had housing. In a complete destruction of NY, where everything is rubble or uninhabitable, I don't think it would be possible to help 7,500,000 people survive for very long.
Not having visited the east coast I have to ask, where would the refugee camps be set up? Where is there room for 10 million people? Who gives a damn, as a good chunk of those 10,000,000 either die in the blast, or in the fire, or in the aftermath, with no food, water, electricity, sanitation, or transportation.
well have you looked at the pictures on the site? ? ? an eraser head would work, but a trackball wouldn't without modifying it to rest on the hand and forearm. the thumb isn't supposed to move much in the current setup
Thank you for replying. I forgot from my basic economics class how capitalism does penalize waste and that is a good thing. How do you feel about social services and programs such as welfare? Like you say I support giving every person equal opportunity. I may not have said it clearly or at all in my posts, but I'm under no illusions that all people are equal. If in my utopian future some people don't want to take part, then they don't get all, some, or any of the benefits. I don't know which.
To me welfare is good if it helps children have equal opportunity, and it gives parents a chance to get their life on track. As many states in the USA are doing, those benefits end after 5 years if the parent doesn't get on with their life. Thats fair to some degree.
What do you think of semi-socialist policies in Canada and northern European countries giving basic equal health care paid for by the upper classes?
Do you think my concerns about the environment are wrong? My figures off? Since we're both presumably concerned about the next two generations ahead of us, something ought to be done to help the planet and the lives of future generations, or are your grandchildren set for life already?
Well why don't you just demand to render reality while you're at it? Insist on calculating the molecular makeup of each splinter of wood. Really, explain to me why 1 poly per pixel is so much worse than 4 poly/pixel. I doubt even Monsters Inc. had 4poly/pixel.
What scene requires 1000 lights? Rendering spiderman swinging from a Manhattan building and every light through the windows accurately rendered? Please. In the recent/. interview with the FX guy he made it clear Hollywood uses reality when it suits them, and fakes it when it doesn't. Time and money often are reasons for fakery. 1000 individual lights is completely not needed, even the 1000 flourescent tubes in the computer lab I'm typing from could be faked easily. As for textures, RAM and Bus speed, if you read the article you'd see DX9 helps fake high poly models by combining a lower poly model with displacement maps.
Movies aren't perfect either, see the foam columns in the Matrix lobby. Rending movie quality in real time isn't about rendering a scene perfectly, its about making our eyes think its perfect. So in ten years assuming Texas Instruments doesn't have a gargantuan breakthrough allowing for 10,000 by 18,500 pixel projection, realtime top of the line could be possible.
Sony likes to hype its ass off, but the PS2 couldn't do shit for shading compared to Renderman. As this article is saying, the shading capabilities in todays AND tomorrows Renderman farms are going to be coming to an AGP board near you.
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You forgot another incredibly important point. Hard drive capacities are ever-increasing. There is no known way to shrink film. Of course the capacity will be used up by increasing resolution and color accuracy.
Another analogy could be porno movies with great plot, dialogue, acting, etc... and movies that only have hardcore fucking. Of course as far as I know (I don't watch them all or read reviews) there has never been a great porno movie that had all the qualities of the best Hollywood-made film.
Damn entertaining, it was. I loved the avalanche. I was wondering as I watched it if it was realistic, but having not seen much avalanche footage I had to admit I liked what I saw. Now the amount of time Triple X spent falling didn't make sense and some of the shots showed him at conflicting hights in the fall. The mountain too wasn't big enough for the avalanche to go on that long, but it was fun to watch.
On the other hand, Rosen doubts that artists or audiences will soon want to give up the unique sensory qualities of film. "If we look decades ahead, people will come to realize that digital [photography] is another way of doing things, but film will give you a different organic look," he says. "It's like oil paint and acrylic. Digital has a different texture."
I disagree with this argument. If digital videocameras and especially the projectors continue to improve it is only a matter of time before audiences prefer digital to film. The current bottleneck is the Texas Instuments projectors which are limited to 1024 or 1280 lines. Lucas filmed Episode 2 at a higher res than that but is limited by the projectors.
While film could 'fight back' by going to 70mm or using the excellent Maxivision 48 system, I think it is a loosing battle because projectors will still have jitter, and prints will continue to wear and fade.
Larger film requires more storage space as does digital. Luckily for digital, storage capabilities continue to improve as hard drives cram ever more data into their platters.
In the long view costs will come down for digital, which is another current drawback. This is assuming digital becomes popular enough for economies of scale and competition to kick in. A complicated chicken and the egg situation indeed.
I am really sorry I didn't finish reading the article like I should have. Question answered.
When film gets scanned into an AVID system, what resolution is that? I'm assuming its as high as possible since after its transferred to film again much will be lost.
Well was the monitor on? Was a light on? Were you in the room? How long did it take? Was the room well insulated? Did the temperature outside the room increase at the same time? Please don't post with your +2 bonus when your comment doesn't deserve it.
In one of the last few episodes of Voyager a population of talaxians inside an asteroid is helped by Voyager. Neelix leaves Voyager to live his life with his own people.
You bought a GeForce 256? You wasted your money. How many games supported hardware T&L at the release of the GF? None. How many in 6 months, still none, or one. What about in a year after? A few, finally. Unfortunately the GF was only slightly faster than a TNT2 Ultra with games not supporting hardware T&L. You should have waited for the GF2 like I did, or saved $100 by getting a TNT2 Ultra.
But you just said a comment every once in a while is okay. I'm not liking the idea that I'm taped up too for what I MIGHT do.
Maybe you should have told him to turn off the fucking phone after the first 30 seconds. If you tell him loud enough that he can't hear the conversation, you're doing good. Too many people are sheep and pussies, maybe both.
I can't ever remember wanting to hit someone really hard for putting their elbows on the table. I have wanted to do this in a movie theater.
I don't have an Xbox so you'll have to tell me, is there an options menu in the xbox setup to select the resolution? Or do the game makers decide? I wasn't aware of any games that rendered higher than 480p. If the game pushes every polygon it can at 480p and still gets 30fps, pushing the same number of polys at 1080i will drop the fps to 20 from 30. How playable is that?
You have a point, but the bigger issue for me is the lack of resolution. Playing a FPS or driving game at 640x480 SUCKS!
You're quite right about the age of consent. It would seem though that hard-core pedophiles prey on pre-pubescent children, while a larger group wants children just entering puberty.
Well if we could get all the companies TOGETHER then we could just bomb the fuck out of them cheap and easy.
I would have a similar reaction. The internet as we know it is threatened by regional restrictions on content. If the USA is allowed to block content that violates its laws, why can't China, Egypt, and France? I don't know of any countries where child pornography is legal, but they may exist. If so there are diplomatic measures one country can take against another to hopefully get the law changed. It should be up to users to obey the laws of their countries, not the ISPs job to determine what can and cannot be viewed.
In San Francisco the fire took out most of downtown, chinatown, and north east corner of the city. The rest of the city was not burnt. plenty of buildings collapsed, but the city was far smaller then. 3000 deaths and 225,000 homeless out of 400,000 people total. http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/1906earth.html for more information. in 1906 dollars it caused $400,000,000 damage. The city was able to rebuild because Golden Gate park is huge so tent camps were set up there, and many people moved in with family or friends since half of the people still had housing. In a complete destruction of NY, where everything is rubble or uninhabitable, I don't think it would be possible to help 7,500,000 people survive for very long.
Not having visited the east coast I have to ask, where would the refugee camps be set up? Where is there room for 10 million people? Who gives a damn, as a good chunk of those 10,000,000 either die in the blast, or in the fire, or in the aftermath, with no food, water, electricity, sanitation, or transportation.
Thank Jesus for sluts! More sex for women and men.
Hey, any good Christian already disapproves of sleeping around, so I'm just throwing fuel on the fire.
well have you looked at the pictures on the site?
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an eraser head would work, but a trackball wouldn't without modifying it to rest on the hand and forearm. the thumb isn't supposed to move much in the current setup
you're cute and evil. several of my friends pointed out Diablo the Satanic talking chicken could be both
Thank you for replying. I forgot from my basic economics class how capitalism does penalize waste and that is a good thing. How do you feel about social services and programs such as welfare? Like you say I support giving every person equal opportunity. I may not have said it clearly or at all in my posts, but I'm under no illusions that all people are equal. If in my utopian future some people don't want to take part, then they don't get all, some, or any of the benefits. I don't know which.
To me welfare is good if it helps children have equal opportunity, and it gives parents a chance to get their life on track. As many states in the USA are doing, those benefits end after 5 years if the parent doesn't get on with their life. Thats fair to some degree.
What do you think of semi-socialist policies in Canada and northern European countries giving basic equal health care paid for by the upper classes?
Do you think my concerns about the environment are wrong? My figures off? Since we're both presumably concerned about the next two generations ahead of us, something ought to be done to help the planet and the lives of future generations, or are your grandchildren set for life already?
Well why don't you just demand to render reality while you're at it? Insist on calculating the molecular makeup of each splinter of wood. Really, explain to me why 1 poly per pixel is so much worse than 4 poly/pixel. I doubt even Monsters Inc. had 4poly/pixel.
/. interview with the FX guy he made it clear Hollywood uses reality when it suits them, and fakes it when it doesn't. Time and money often are reasons for fakery. 1000 individual lights is completely not needed, even the 1000 flourescent tubes in the computer lab I'm typing from could be faked easily. As for textures, RAM and Bus speed, if you read the article you'd see DX9 helps fake high poly models by combining a lower poly model with displacement maps.
What scene requires 1000 lights? Rendering spiderman swinging from a Manhattan building and every light through the windows accurately rendered? Please. In the recent
Movies aren't perfect either, see the foam columns in the Matrix lobby. Rending movie quality in real time isn't about rendering a scene perfectly, its about making our eyes think its perfect. So in ten years assuming Texas Instruments doesn't have a gargantuan breakthrough allowing for 10,000 by 18,500 pixel projection, realtime top of the line could be possible.
Sony likes to hype its ass off, but the PS2 couldn't do shit for shading compared to Renderman. As this article is saying, the shading capabilities in todays AND tomorrows Renderman farms are going to be coming to an AGP board near you.