Yes, but the point of these monitors is to enable film compositors to work at something approaching the contrast ratio of the final product. More and more pipelines are switching from 8 and 16 bits per channel color measured on arbitrary scales to either logarithmic or 16/32 bit per channel floating point color, thanks in large part to Paul Debevec's work with high dynamic range imaging. In this scenario, the monitor itself clamps the brightness to an unacceptably narrow range, and this monitor is a solution.
This is not targeted at the home computer user. This is a technology for high-end video gear, and a few years down the road, for high-end home theaters (assuming anything gets released to the public in a yet-to-be-determined HDR video format).
Above the contrast ratio of film or DLP projection, I'll agree it's close to useless, however. Unless some exotic sci/med visualization stuff needs it.
That's like saying "stop hiring any developers with a programming background." I damn well want the people who write the laws to have some idea how the law works.
for the 50% who really push Photoshop there is no substitute.
Which is a damn shame. Photoshop has so many hateful little ass-backwards bits (e.g. the braindead layer transparency model that hides layer alpha from the user entirely) that it's incredibly frustrating nobody's gotten it better.
I want the GIMP (or anything else) not to reach feature parity with PS, but to surpass it so I can get my work done better and faster.
Multiple layer masks/clipping paths.
Filters as adjustment layers.
nodal rather than layer-based hierarchy.
transforms saved as effects and copyable to other layers.
ALL functionality working in 16 bit/HDR/Float color spaces.
Donkey Kong was released in 1981. And Donkey Kong Jr. was the included cartridge for the Colecovision in 1982, after it had been in arcades for a while.
And that's not even mentioning Donkey Kong 3 and Mario Bros.
So Mario is only 20 years old if you ignore 4 arcade games and at least 1 console release.
If you set the DOCUMENT to use an 8.5"x11" page, that's how it should display. Then it should warn you if you're trying to print onto a different size piece of paper, or if your printer can't cover the page area at the edges.
Sure, in the '80's, the tapes were the same, but the encoding (and resulting quality) are completely different, and nobody uses regular Betacam anymore anyway.
Yes, Teflon came out of the Manhattan Project, specifically the gas uranium enrichment work at Oak Ridge, TN. Uranium Hexafluoride is nasty, nasty stuff, and Teflon was the only material they found they could make workable valve seals from.
That's just as much, if not more, busywork as grading the tests.
However, I don't think the GP is correct - nobody objects to students working in groups, etc., and I fail to see how peer-graded homework that isn't handed in constitutes part of a student's "record." Nobody would do that for a major test or final exam.
Described, yes. Rendered, no. NURBS and patches are always tesselated to a triangle mesh at render time. Graphics cards with support for implicit surfaces do this in hardware, but they do it nonetheless.
Even PRMan's patented REYES approach, which creates such wonderfully smooth curves, just takes the tesselation down to sub-pixel sizes
For something as non-accuracy-requiring as realtime, where the HDR map only needs to handle some massively overbright pixels and maybe a couple stops of exposure adjustment on the rest, 10-bit logarithmic encoding should be fine.
It'll be expanded to 16-bit or 32-bit float in graphics memory, but won't take up so much space on the disc.
I have to ask the OP, however, why all the textures in the scene need to be 2048x2048, and what graphics hardware they anticipate loading such massive textures into.
no comparison
Agreed, but you didn't see Good Morning America today, I take it, where they compared the storm surge UPRIVER to Tsunami footage. Assholes.
I'm amazed that a broke and broken USSR with tens of thousands of nuclear warheads hasn't resulted in the immolation of a major western city by now, so the prospect of the US in similar straits doesn't scare me that much. More, that is.
Of course, having many, many times the population we did 100 years ago, and much less habitat, makes that proposition unsustainable for many species when scaled up in popularity, especially birds (although more whitetail hunting would be a Good Thing for both us and them).
And there are plenty of other activities (like birdwatching) that can give you an understanding of true wildlife conservation, too.
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This is not targeted at the home computer user. This is a technology for high-end video gear, and a few years down the road, for high-end home theaters (assuming anything gets released to the public in a yet-to-be-determined HDR video format).
Above the contrast ratio of film or DLP projection, I'll agree it's close to useless, however. Unless some exotic sci/med visualization stuff needs it.
That's like saying "stop hiring any developers with a programming background." I damn well want the people who write the laws to have some idea how the law works.
Which is a damn shame. Photoshop has so many hateful little ass-backwards bits (e.g. the braindead layer transparency model that hides layer alpha from the user entirely) that it's incredibly frustrating nobody's gotten it better.
I want the GIMP (or anything else) not to reach feature parity with PS, but to surpass it so I can get my work done better and faster.
Multiple layer masks/clipping paths.
Filters as adjustment layers.
nodal rather than layer-based hierarchy.
transforms saved as effects and copyable to other layers.
ALL functionality working in 16 bit/HDR/Float color spaces.
reasonable handling of alpha channels.
and the list goes on and on and on...
Those bastards, charging $3 extra. How dare they?
Aren't you forgetting the Betamax decision? It set a strong precedent that recording for time-shifting purposes is non-infringing.
Donkey Kong was released in 1981. And Donkey Kong Jr. was the included cartridge for the Colecovision in 1982, after it had been in arcades for a while.
And that's not even mentioning Donkey Kong 3 and Mario Bros.
So Mario is only 20 years old if you ignore 4 arcade games and at least 1 console release.
If you set the DOCUMENT to use an 8.5"x11" page, that's how it should display. Then it should warn you if you're trying to print onto a different size piece of paper, or if your printer can't cover the page area at the edges.
Sure, in the '80's, the tapes were the same, but the encoding (and resulting quality) are completely different, and nobody uses regular Betacam anymore anyway.
Yes, Teflon came out of the Manhattan Project, specifically the gas uranium enrichment work at Oak Ridge, TN. Uranium Hexafluoride is nasty, nasty stuff, and Teflon was the only material they found they could make workable valve seals from.
Plus crippled openGL. Those who use windows based DCC applications like 3D animation software are pretty nervous.
However, I don't think the GP is correct - nobody objects to students working in groups, etc., and I fail to see how peer-graded homework that isn't handed in constitutes part of a student's "record." Nobody would do that for a major test or final exam.
2nd generation - Atari 2600 etc. (70s/80s)
What about the Odyssey?!
Even PRMan's patented REYES approach, which creates such wonderfully smooth curves, just takes the tesselation down to sub-pixel sizes
For something as non-accuracy-requiring as realtime, where the HDR map only needs to handle some massively overbright pixels and maybe a couple stops of exposure adjustment on the rest, 10-bit logarithmic encoding should be fine. It'll be expanded to 16-bit or 32-bit float in graphics memory, but won't take up so much space on the disc. I have to ask the OP, however, why all the textures in the scene need to be 2048x2048, and what graphics hardware they anticipate loading such massive textures into.
Three guesses which one wins and which comes in last, and the first 2 don't count.
no comparison Agreed, but you didn't see Good Morning America today, I take it, where they compared the storm surge UPRIVER to Tsunami footage. Assholes.
Get graylisting. It's the closest thing to a spam magic bullet I've seen yet. Down from 3000 junkmails a day to 20 or so.
Don't they make it up in surface area/cost to manufacture, though?
Where the hell are you paying $6.21 for a movie? It's $9.50 around here, and $11-$12 at some big-city theaters
I'm amazed that a broke and broken USSR with tens of thousands of nuclear warheads hasn't resulted in the immolation of a major western city by now, so the prospect of the US in similar straits doesn't scare me that much. More, that is.
...yeah, 'cuz all the cool kids are saying "AT Machine" and "PI Number."
You have a cormorant problem where you live? Wow.
I certainly wouldn't want to eat anything that's been bioaccumulating fish heavy metals all its life, though.
And there are plenty of other activities (like birdwatching) that can give you an understanding of true wildlife conservation, too.
Because your immune system is also responsible for you not getting weird cancers like Kaposi's Sarcoma. No secondary infection needed.
Last i checked, dark blue water was a less efficient reflector than bright white ice caps. Nice try, though. Actually, no it wasn't.