"I have personally shown my commitment to fight and, if necessary, sacrifice my own life to defend your right to make these kinds of statements. But that doesn't mean I have to like it!
SO SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU UNGRATEFUL PRICK!"
Talk about contradictions.
First, you say you are ready to sacrifice your like for the almost unrestricted freedom of speech.
Second, he's exercising that right (what he's saying is irrelevant) but you're asking him to STFU (restrain himself from using that right) !!!
Like you said, you may not like it but you can't ask him to shut up about it.
Well, I used to do NLE at my father's studio before I started school.
We used a PIII with a DPS perception (and later velocity) with Speed Razor Mach III software.
The benchmarks compared here are outputting to AVI and such with different codecs. We used to work with broadcast quality video stored on the device-dedicated SCSI drives (barring a filesystem driver provided later, you couldn't see them from Explorer). Now the full-length Perception and Velocity can do a lot of 2D and 3D DVEs in pretty much real-time. And AFAIK, they don't work on Macs.
When using these kind of solutions, I'm guessing the processor speed doesn't make a lot of difference since the effects/transition processing as well as playback is handled by the card. I would like to see a comparision between Apple and PCs each sporting such dedicated hardware.
"Drag two images into the First Image and Last Image areas."
That is from the first line of the Usage section on Morph X webpage.
Again, if I understand the submission correctly, this is not what is wanted.
The submitter does not want to morph between two images (of faces or anything else)
Rather, what the submitter wants is a software capable of taking the picture of a face, recognising it as a face, then being able to manipulate facial structure and expressions to create new faces. Morph X is just an image-morphing program where you need the source and result.
What I proposed in my post above is to convert the image to a 3D model which can then be manipulated at will.
If I understand you correctly, you plan to take a raster image and then "morph" those images to new faces. Kai's Power Goo does this (in a crude and primitive way).
An alternative method (not sure how viable or expensive for you on a Mac) might be to take the image in a 3d animation package (like 3dsmax, XSI) and then create a 3D model based on the displacement. There are tutorials and even more specialized tools that show you how to do this. dvgarage.com has some info about them.
This 3D model should then be much more flexible to model your new face than an image.
The drawbacks of this method is that your model will need to be tweaked to be a more accurate model of a face. After that, it shall have to be textured and shaded. Depending on your skill and tools, it might not be photo-realistic enough for your subjects or whomever shall be seeing these new faces.
I don't see a prob here.
Your company was offered the domain. The
COMPANY refused and thus said it did not want
the domain
(the question of 'not now' doesn't arise since a registrar can't be expected to reserve a domain name forever just because its trademarked and especially after the company DECLINED it..)
Now if another company took it. Your COMPANY
can't complain. ("err, our finances were low,
$20/yr was stretching our budget")
yeah, but nothing prevents the buyer from giving it away for FREE..so not really feasible for someone to "sell" the software..unless u're charging for *support*
"How about "Nobody will use my software if it's too hard to operate?""
Yeah, but who says your s/w has to be so hard to use. Let it be easy enough for ppl to start using it, but hard enough for them to also require service now and then. That's possible.
Slashdot Mirror
Finally !
Thank God soemone brought this up.
I have the same watch. I HATE getting all those Yahoo Sports udates when I don't even friggin care about any of the American sports leagues.
I went to mobile.yahoo.com and made sure all the sports checkboxes were unchecked. I still get them.
if anyone knows how ?
"the same WILL be said about BS"
Depends. Duran Duran sort of reinvented itself with the -- Duran Duran : The Wedding Album --
All their 80s stuff sucks. But the songs I mentioned sounded good then and do so now.
BS, OTOH, sucks now and will continue to suck in the future unless she reinvents herself (yeah,right) .
"ever hear of Flock of Seagulls, Duran Duran or Poison?
the good acts will ALWAYS be drowned out by the more commercially viable acts."
What ??
You can't compare Duran-Duran to Britney Spears !!
They actually have some __good__ songs. Ever heard of 'Come Undone' or 'Ordinary World'
"I have personally shown my commitment to fight and, if necessary, sacrifice my own life to defend your right to make these kinds of statements. But that doesn't mean I have to like it!
SO SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU UNGRATEFUL PRICK!"
Talk about contradictions.
First, you say you are ready to sacrifice your like for the almost unrestricted freedom of speech.
Second, he's exercising that right (what he's saying is irrelevant) but you're asking him to STFU (restrain himself from using that right) !!!
Like you said, you may not like it but you can't ask him to shut up about it.
Well, I used to do NLE at my father's studio before I started school.
We used a PIII with a DPS perception (and later velocity) with Speed Razor Mach III software.
The benchmarks compared here are outputting to AVI and such with different codecs. We used to work with broadcast quality video stored on the device-dedicated SCSI drives (barring a filesystem driver provided later, you couldn't see them from Explorer). Now the full-length Perception and Velocity can do a lot of 2D and 3D DVEs in pretty much real-time. And AFAIK, they don't work on Macs.
When using these kind of solutions, I'm guessing the processor speed doesn't make a lot of difference since the effects/transition processing as well as playback is handled by the card. I would like to see a comparision between Apple and PCs each sporting such dedicated hardware.
Actually, that does look like a "warm" image.
Try loading any image and set your monitor gun to below 5500K
I meant Digital UNIX
Yup, Alphas were good. I would have gone with them for NLE, if they weren't so expensive and if they could run something other than NT/AIX
I guess 2 things contribute to that feeling.
1) The Earth's our home. Nothing like a subconscious "geo-Oedipal" complex.
2) We might have missed out on some very good terrains on those massive and far planets. Will have to wait for 2-3 decades for better photography.
"Drag two images into the First Image and Last Image areas."
That is from the first line of the Usage section on Morph X webpage.
Again, if I understand the submission correctly, this is not what is wanted.
The submitter does not want to morph between two images (of faces or anything else)
Rather, what the submitter wants is a software capable of taking the picture of a face, recognising it as a face, then being able to manipulate facial structure and expressions to create new faces. Morph X is just an image-morphing program where you need the source and result.
What I proposed in my post above is to convert the image to a 3D model which can then be manipulated at will.
If I understand you correctly, you plan to take a raster image and then "morph" those images to new faces. Kai's Power Goo does this (in a crude and primitive way).
An alternative method (not sure how viable or expensive for you on a Mac) might be to take the image in a 3d animation package (like 3dsmax, XSI) and then create a 3D model based on the displacement. There are tutorials and even more specialized tools that show you how to do this. dvgarage.com has some info about them.
This 3D model should then be much more flexible to model your new face than an image.
The drawbacks of this method is that your model will need to be tweaked to be a more accurate model of a face. After that, it shall have to be textured and shaded. Depending on your skill and tools, it might not be photo-realistic enough for your subjects or whomever shall be seeing these new faces.
I don't see a prob here. Your company was offered the domain. The COMPANY refused and thus said it did not want the domain (the question of 'not now' doesn't arise since a registrar can't be expected to reserve a domain name forever just because its trademarked and especially after the company DECLINED it..) Now if another company took it. Your COMPANY can't complain. ("err, our finances were low, $20/yr was stretching our budget")
Coroilis force perhaps ? ...or something like that
Well, Softimage XSI is being ported to Linux too. ...and I respectfully disagree with
"Maya is quite possibly the best 3D program out there"
I think initially it was first released on Mac,
then with increasing popularity, maybe PC took
first priority
yeah, but nothing prevents the buyer from giving
it away for FREE..so not really feasible for
someone to "sell" the software..unless u're
charging for *support*
Look at the message, not the messenger.
(btw, I'm not the one whom you're replying
to)
"How about "Nobody will use my software if it's too hard to operate?""
Yeah, but who says your s/w has to be so hard to
use. Let it be easy enough for ppl to start using
it, but hard enough for them to also require
service now and then. That's possible.