I don't think that would work due to the fact that the colored lights would just combine into one blended color, plus you would have the subjects base color altering the shadow color as well.
Maybe if you could somehow create a camera that would (using this still camera as the model to duplicate) capture 120 fps rather than 30, you could maybe get the four colored lights to strobe, so you would get 4 single-color-flash images that would be combined into 1 standard "frame" of video.
Now that I think about it, you may need to capture 150 frames, as you would need a "true-color" frame not tinted by the colored lights if you wanted the end image to not be colorized.
IANAL, but I do know that a contract has to have consideration on both sides - i.e., both parties have to receive something for it to be a contract. If PA did not get paid for their work then the contract should be null and void.
But, I'm sure they have lawyers and there's something I'm not understanding.
There is a technique to use with new books that will almost completely eliminate books breaking at the binding. I learned this in a speed reading course over ten years ago and in that time, I have never had a book binding break on me.
First, hold the book so the binding is resting on a hard flat surface (let's say a table), as if you are about to open it. Fold back the front and back covers so they are flush with the table. (end view, ignore dots)
.....||| .....||| _____|||_____
Run your thumb up and down the crease where the covers meet the binding, helping them to lie flat. Now take 8-15 pages from the front of the book and 8-15 from the back of the book and lie them flat, again running your thumb along the binding to help flatten them out. Continue this process inwards, continually flattening the pages out until you come to the middle of the book an do a final "press" down the middle.
I don't think it is nearly as unbalanced as you make it out to be. The survivability of defenders, blasters and controllers really comes down to how well the team is put together and how good your strategy is. When I team with my supergroup and our tanker who is a master strategist IMO, my controller can survive very large opponents. When in a pickup team who doesn't really know what they are doing or how strategies can affect the attacks, I die much more frequently.
I'd revisit your playstyle if your blasters, controllers and defenders are dying a lot. They don't have to.
Antz? I think you mean A Bug's Life? Antz was the crapfest with the voice of Woody Allen that Dreamworks did a two-year rush job on to get it to theater's mere months before Bug's Life. I don't remember anything spectacular or groundbreaking in that sorry waste of celluloid.
Anyone else notice that Dreamworks appears to peek at Pixar's gameplan more often (Antz:Bug's Life, Finding Nemo:Shark's Tale) than not (Shrek)
Meet the Uncanny Valley. In Shrek 2, the animators said they had to "fake up" the Princess a bit because when they did their best work, she looked "too real" and "creepy." I think it will be a long time before we can get over that valley.
Polar Express should have taken their cues from the Shrek 2 animators.
Close but not quite... (although I may not be 100% on this)
Log rolls down stairs alone or in pairs Rolls over your neighbor's dog It fits on your back It's great for a snack It's Log, Log, Log. It's Log. It's Log..
Since the official launch, can you think of something that really, really surprised you about the game? Did the players start to do things you didn't expect, or did some game mechanics/results turn out far differently than you thought it would (for better or worse)?
The shape of the signal area can already be modified to some degree. If you ever notice a group of towers together, sometimes some of those towers are being used to cancel or limit the signal in a particular direction, so it is more or less possible to cover an entire state and only have minimal leakage into neighboring states, although the number of transmitters and towers needed to accomplish this would probably be very costly and reception at the borders might be a nightmare.
That 720 lines of resolution is not all picture infomation. Some of those lines are used for closed captioning information, some is used for blanking information.
There's a binary install for Dan's Guardian and Squid available for OS X. I installed it on our family computer, but could not find the docs on how to modify Dan's. Hopefully this article will help in that respect. Currently my Mac is locked down pretty tight.
The areas on the screen you see as 'black' are areas where no light is being cast, so yes, the absence of light. That's why in most cases (except this one) the blackest black you can see on the screen is only as 'black' as the screen is. Since most screens are white, or near-white, you get the best contrast if you can make the room (and hence, the screen) as dark as possible.
There was a study done years ago on what "attractive" is. The results seemed to point to symmetry. They took photos of people, duplicated them and with the copies, they split the images down the middle and mirrored half the face. They then mixed up the "mirror" images with the undoctored photos and had test subjects rate them on their attractiveness. In most cases, the mirrored photo scored higher than the original.
The study suggested that this uniformity and symmetry was an indicator of health and good genes that the mind drew itself to increase the chances of successful offspring.
Read this Wired article that everyone is pointing too. It should explain why,
Simply put, animation and "too realistic" robots are unsettling because the brain senses that it is being tricked, and that trickery could endanger your survival. This feeling is apparently something that the human brain has developed over thousands of years and is a defense mechanism.
Paintings are in no way threatening, so we can view and appreciate fine art and realistic images in that manner. But once you try to create a realistic three dimensional model, your brain's defenses kick in. How many people do you know who would never set foot in a wax museum? My wife hates those realistic wax mannequins!
The same fear may explain such things as why some people hate clowns so much (the makeup and prosthetics "alter" the human form so it is not natural) and movies/shows where a doll/puppet/ventriloquist dummy come to life.
We may never be able to bridge this "Uncanny Valley".
Who knows, maybe someday this brain function may just save us from our self-created robot army.
It seems like there are a lot of options that further development can explore. What about sealed displays? If OLEDs decompose in oxygen, would an airtight seal around them prolong their life? What about programming in color adjustments to the red and green elements? My apple monitor can calibrate itself and make adjustments over time to compensate for degradation, so why can't the OLEDs factor in their life spans and either decrease the red and green element output over time, or "bulk up" on the blue elements and have them start off in a more diminished state and increase their output over time.
I guess that depends on what the eventual price-point for these televisions will be. No one is going to spend $1300 on a television every three years, but $400-600 maybe, if we can believe what they say about the low cost of these displays in the future.
Slashdot Mirror
Not "uh oh..."
"Oh boy!"
Since he's obviously stupid with money, maybe Zachurm can get them to perform on his island.
Yes, and follow that up with selections from this band
Wow. If I fill out that form and send in the money, I can have a Ph.D. awarded to me when I was 12!
That's DR. Howser to you!
I don't think that would work due to the fact that the colored lights would just combine into one blended color, plus you would have the subjects base color altering the shadow color as well.
Maybe if you could somehow create a camera that would (using this still camera as the model to duplicate) capture 120 fps rather than 30, you could maybe get the four colored lights to strobe, so you would get 4 single-color-flash images that would be combined into 1 standard "frame" of video.
Now that I think about it, you may need to capture 150 frames, as you would need a "true-color" frame not tinted by the colored lights if you wanted the end image to not be colorized.
IANAL, but I do know that a contract has to have consideration on both sides - i.e., both parties have to receive something for it to be a contract. If PA did not get paid for their work then the contract should be null and void.
But, I'm sure they have lawyers and there's something I'm not understanding.
First, hold the book so the binding is resting on a hard flat surface (let's say a table), as if you are about to open it. Fold back the front and back covers so they are flush with the table.
(end view, ignore dots)Run your thumb up and down the crease where the covers meet the binding, helping them to lie flat.
Now take 8-15 pages from the front of the book and 8-15 from the back of the book and lie them flat, again running your thumb along the binding to help flatten them out. Continue this process inwards, continually flattening the pages out until you come to the middle of the book an do a final "press" down the middle.
I don't think it is nearly as unbalanced as you make it out to be. The survivability of defenders, blasters and controllers really comes down to how well the team is put together and how good your strategy is. When I team with my supergroup and our tanker who is a master strategist IMO, my controller can survive very large opponents. When in a pickup team who doesn't really know what they are doing or how strategies can affect the attacks, I die much more frequently.
I'd revisit your playstyle if your blasters, controllers and defenders are dying a lot. They don't have to.
Antz? I think you mean A Bug's Life? Antz was the crapfest with the voice of Woody Allen that Dreamworks did a two-year rush job on to get it to theater's mere months before Bug's Life. I don't remember anything spectacular or groundbreaking in that sorry waste of celluloid.
Anyone else notice that Dreamworks appears to peek at Pixar's gameplan more often (Antz:Bug's Life, Finding Nemo:Shark's Tale) than not (Shrek)
Meet the Uncanny Valley. In Shrek 2, the animators said they had to "fake up" the Princess a bit because when they did their best work, she looked "too real" and "creepy." I think it will be a long time before we can get over that valley.
Polar Express should have taken their cues from the Shrek 2 animators.
Oh so true!
.5 second clip in the trailers, he looked so much like Lithgow that I was certain he would be voicing the character.
Seeing Syndrome in the
Movie's still great, but think Lithgow would have done Syndrome better. Lithgow could do just about anything better.
Close but not quite... (although I may not be 100% on this)
Log rolls down stairs
alone or in pairs
Rolls over your neighbor's dog
It fits on your back
It's great for a snack
It's Log, Log, Log.
It's Log. It's Log..
Aside from capes, what was the most challenging part/element of designing CoH?
Since the official launch, can you think of something that really, really surprised you about the game? Did the players start to do things you didn't expect, or did some game mechanics/results turn out far differently than you thought it would (for better or worse)?
we've been shown that televisions won't have "off" buttons.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089568/
The shape of the signal area can already be modified to some degree. If you ever notice a group of towers together, sometimes some of those towers are being used to cancel or limit the signal in a particular direction, so it is more or less possible to cover an entire state and only have minimal leakage into neighboring states, although the number of transmitters and towers needed to accomplish this would probably be very costly and reception at the borders might be a nightmare.
That 720 lines of resolution is not all picture infomation. Some of those lines are used for closed captioning information, some is used for blanking information.
There's a binary install for Dan's Guardian and Squid available for OS X. I installed it on our family computer, but could not find the docs on how to modify Dan's. Hopefully this article will help in that respect. Currently my Mac is locked down pretty tight.
Not sure if OS X needs iptables or not.
I think we'll all have many pipes.
The areas on the screen you see as 'black' are areas where no light is being cast, so yes, the absence of light. That's why in most cases (except this one) the blackest black you can see on the screen is only as 'black' as the screen is. Since most screens are white, or near-white, you get the best contrast if you can make the room (and hence, the screen) as dark as possible.
RTFC.
There is a screen there. Top center. It even says so in the caption.
There was a study done years ago on what "attractive" is. The results seemed to point to symmetry. They took photos of people, duplicated them and with the copies, they split the images down the middle and mirrored half the face. They then mixed up the "mirror" images with the undoctored photos and had test subjects rate them on their attractiveness. In most cases, the mirrored photo scored higher than the original.
The study suggested that this uniformity and symmetry was an indicator of health and good genes that the mind drew itself to increase the chances of successful offspring.
Read this Wired article that everyone is pointing too. It should explain why,
Simply put, animation and "too realistic" robots are unsettling because the brain senses that it is being tricked, and that trickery could endanger your survival. This feeling is apparently something that the human brain has developed over thousands of years and is a defense mechanism.
Paintings are in no way threatening, so we can view and appreciate fine art and realistic images in that manner. But once you try to create a realistic three dimensional model, your brain's defenses kick in. How many people do you know who would never set foot in a wax museum? My wife hates those realistic wax mannequins!
The same fear may explain such things as why some people hate clowns so much (the makeup and prosthetics "alter" the human form so it is not natural) and movies/shows where a doll/puppet/ventriloquist dummy come to life.
We may never be able to bridge this "Uncanny Valley".
Who knows, maybe someday this brain function may just save us from our self-created robot army.
It seems like there are a lot of options that further development can explore. What about sealed displays? If OLEDs decompose in oxygen, would an airtight seal around them prolong their life? What about programming in color adjustments to the red and green elements? My apple monitor can calibrate itself and make adjustments over time to compensate for degradation, so why can't the OLEDs factor in their life spans and either decrease the red and green element output over time, or "bulk up" on the blue elements and have them start off in a more diminished state and increase their output over time.
I guess that depends on what the eventual price-point for these televisions will be. No one is going to spend $1300 on a television every three years, but $400-600 maybe, if we can believe what they say about the low cost of these displays in the future.