What is interesting about his approach is how CHEAP it was. Rather than trying to reproduce color images, he reproduced black and white plates that would be projected with colored light.
He avoided the problem of movement between exposures by using three lenses, each with a red, green or blue filter. I'd like to see how a closeup still life would come out. Each color would have a slightly different perspective on the situation, causing some strange distortion, This is known as parallax and can be an issue in rangefinder (non "through the lens") cameras - what you see through the rangefinder isn't quite what you capture through the film when close to an object.
Variance between the different projectors, light sources, and the varying qualities of color filters would, however, make it nearly impossible to get consistant results.
These images definitely have their own feel to them. Strangely, the website doesn't say anything about a real life exhibition of them. Perhaps they didn't make prints. seeing them in person, up close, would reveal more about how the results of the process.
Man, last time I post a straight faced joke on Slashdot. It is apparently taken seriously, marked "Insightful" and "Interesting". I respond to my own post, clarifying it as a joke. My clarifying post is marked down for being off topic!
There are many cool people at Stern and I apologise if i offended any of them.
Oh the other hand, I feel justified in taking pot shots at Microsoft and NYU. : )
...moderators, would you mind marking my post, the post i'm refering to, DOWN?
As an NYU student studying to get my BFA in Photography and Imaging at Tisch School of the Arts, I can verify nearly all people associated with that school down the block (Stern School of Business) are, in fact, bloodsucking money grubbers. Of course they are teaming up with The Borg. NYU is taking over Manhattan (specifically, the village and union square), Microsoft is taking over your desktop.
Or maybe i'm just jealous that I won't be making six figures after I graduate and paying back $40k in student loans. I'm an artist, I can starve.
Do you expect a university to have Linus Torvalds give a speech on economics to students who are paying nearly $35,000 to learn how to shake hands? No, these are students that attach WORD documents to emails, because "Microsoft is the standard." As far as they are concerned, the exchange of money is what makes the world go 'round. Every machine running linux is another Microsoft employee out of work.
Or, its seems that people always forget that you can write postscript files by hand. : )
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Not to difficult to get into X right now. If you have physical access to teh machine, all you have to do is hit the re-start button on the front and hold Command+S while booting.
Um, if i'm not mistaken, Linux and nearly every other unix based OS has single user mode as well. For most people, this is a GOOD option. The number of people who might lock themselves out of their machine is greater than the number of people who are likely to be hacked by someone with physical access to the machine. I'm sure those who see single user mode as a threat will find a way to turn it off.
When W Bush spouts about the impending energy crisis, I wish he'd fund programs that push alternative energy sources rather than building more refineries. After reading up on the www.biodiesel.org website, I'm quite convinced that we are not facing an energy crisis, but an inevitable energy industry shake up. (Which, for a former executive in the oil industry, is just as bad.)
If www.biodiesel.org is correct in its claims, then vegetable based energy sources solve MANY of our energy problems. They can be used in existing, unmodified diesel engines. It costs very little to make - a 1:3.24 energy production ratio. Its clean burning. Its safe.
The problems - not many people use diesel engines. But a significant amount of industrial equipment does. It would be a relatively easy conversion in the market place to produce more consumer diesel vehicles. It smells like McDonalds french fries. Annoying? Yes. Is regular exhaust particularly pleasant? No! Distribution - its hard to buy. But hasn't this been a problem with any other new type of fuel? We won't get past this until we're forced or someone invents a miracle fuel.
I'm not worried about the future supply of energy. If we run out of oil, we'll find something else. And I won't have pity for the oil industry either.
Curating a multimedia show is difficult. It tends to "day" rather quickly. Even if the project is burned to a CD which can last for 30 years, the platform it is built on is unlikely to be around in five years. Because of this, all of NYU Interactive Telecommunication Program thesis' are recorded to VHS. Sure, you lose a hell of a lot putting a digital project on video, but its better than losing everything.
A lot of multimedia work falls through the cracks. It disinterests both engineers and traditional artists. It also tends to be installation work. This means that the museum piece is not wrapped up in a form useful in your PC.
As for suggestions... The Whitney Museum of American Art is featuring a show called BitStreams and Data Dynamics. This is one of the largest showings of multimedia art. Blue Man Group is probably the only long running theatrical show heavily based around multimedia. Beyond the eye candy, it makes lots of commentary about the art world and the digital world. Oh yeah, they do those Intel commercials as well, but I always figure that they just confuse the average home viewer. : )
Explore NYU'S Interactive Telecommunication Program site. MIT's Media Lab and NYU's ITP are the two top programs in their field. The Media Lab does things because they can. NYU does projects on a much more human level. Rhizome tends to be a center of net based art.
And there's no way you can pass up the old standard - Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan. While it was written well before "multimedia" its commentary on more traditional media is easily extrapolated to digital media.
Publishers have a history of being rather unconcerned with compensating writers. This is most obvious on college campuses. When professors put together a course packet for students to buy at the local copy store, the copy store is legally obligated to pay the publisher of the works. (Some copy stores may simply ignore this, but it isn't uncommon for pubishers to threaten copy stores with lawsuits.) However, the publisher does necessarily own the work! Even if the copyright is held by the author, the writer will never see a dime.
One of my professors organised the photocopying of a large course packet so her students could avoid the $80 fee. Whenever she includes her own work, she must battle the copy stores to NOT send money to the publishers of her own work.
Who will win? Publishers have lots of lawyers. Authors have few.
Major people are banking mega bucks into this technology which in my opinion will be something like firewire, useless to the typical person.
Kind of like 1 Gigahertz processors? And USB?
Bluetooth, as a goal, is a noble idea. The implementation, thus far, sucks. Microsoft has proven time and time again that pouring millions of dollars into bad technology can eventually produce usable technology.
I'm not sure I trust the XP login procedure. Does anyone know the details about this? Does it register your password on the net with Microsoft Password? How does it give you "an instant login" to hotmail and msn.com?
Um, was it Apple's decision? NO! This is a company that has taken the motto "Rip Burn Mix." Why wouldn't they want to do this with video as well?
Its a first generation product. Who else is letting ANYONE make DVDs? Perhaps its not a perfect implementation, but it is far beyond what anyeone is currently doing.
I suppose you also blame DVD players for following region encoding rules. Is their their choice?
I think we should take bets on how long it will take for someone to get around the copy protection on those things. I'm not aware of anything preventing someone from decoding a disc and encoding it without the region locking. (the only way it will burn.)
It didn't even render under Netscape for the longest time.
Actually it has been just the opposite on the Mac. For the longest time I had to use Netscape to look at their site because the font rendered too small on IE. (My guess is that they were using "size =-1" to scale down the larger 120 dpi PC fonts.)
The problem with 8 CPUs on one die is that if one CPU has one tiny flaw, you have to chuck the whole die.
WRONG!
With 8 CPUs on a die, you can deactivate the damaged CPU. This is often done with level 2 cache and I beleive its even done with memory. Sell it as a 7 CPU chip? 4?
Obviously this can't be done with LCD displays since you can see which pixels would be deactivated.
Perhaps this is good. Some political actions, no matter how popular, are still a bad idea. Politicians will work furiously for these short sighted goals to serve a short sighted public.
Remember prohibition? It was a good idea - remove all social ills through the banning of alcohol. This bill has similar good intentions.
Personally, i'm disappointed with the kind of coverage that BattleBots has gotten. ITS NOT SPORTS! Its pure geek! I want engineers commentating, not half assed comedians. However, the large breasted women are fine, although they'd get my attention a hell of a lot more if they knew what they were talking about!
As a photography major in college, I've been through this debate plenty of times.
1. Digital CCD's do not have the dynamic range of film. You will lose shadow and highlight detail. This does not matter for most studio shooting, since you have precise control over the lighting. However, almost all outdoor shooting and uncontrolled shooting LOVES high dynamic range.
2. Where do you think you're going to put all those ones and zeros? 16.8 million pixels in a single frame requires quite a bit of bandwidth in order to take a quick picture. You also need some place to store that picture. Going to store it on a little card? Not likely - at least not soon.
3. How do the CCD's respond to light and color? Photographers learn the way different films respond to color. Will the CCD yield a good looking shot?
Everything else in the process is taken care of. You can get digital images printed as regular color prints. (This has caused a bit of confusion in the art world.)
Carding kids to buy video games only makes it more rewarding for them to get their hands on. Utimately, even young kids will grow bored of silly violence.
This simply puts violent video games in the same class as cigarettes, alcohol, and porn. We all remember how exciting it was to first get our hands on those objects!
This also creates a class of consumer who is old enough to buy the game, yet young enough to be persuaded to buy it for those not old enough. He's the momentary middleman. He (it is usually a he) tends to be one of the first kids in his class to have facial hair.
I'm sure that selling this machine will be no different than how most people sell their old home machines.
Put an ad in the newspaper asking for a bit too much. Put it on ebay with a high reserve. Maybe someone will offer you something for it, but not enough to make it seem worth getting rid of.
Why not try giving it away to a local church or school?:)
For all those who are sayting that this shouldn't be done - it really isn't bringing back the tiger.
First, it wouldn't create a large enough population to sustain itself. Second, this is a long way from introducing them to the wild.
However, there is a value of preserving these creatures in captivity. Perhaps they may be particularly useful for studying a certain biological phemonenon. Outside of that, they should be preserved in recognition of the ultimate worth of biological diversity.
As you'll notice, NOWHERE does it say that Motorola is removing Altivec in future chips.
The lag in processor speed is due to several factors. First, the G4 chip is not very scalable mhz-wise due to its shallow pipeline. IBM seems to have overcome this, however legal agreements are preventing IBM from producing the chip without Motorola's blessing. Future PPC designs include deeper pipelines to make scaling to higher mhz easier.
At first, IBM was refusing to add altivec, wanting to focus on mhz instead with the ppc line. What has resulted is that IBM is simply more prepared to produce faster chips that Motorola right now.
In all, its really a shame that this fiasco has occured. The PPC has a much cleaner design than the x86 based chips. Its a marketing miracle that Apple hasn't been held back by this. (What looks faster? Bodini blue or beige?:) )
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What is interesting about his approach is how CHEAP it was. Rather than trying to reproduce color images, he reproduced black and white plates that would be projected with colored light.
He avoided the problem of movement between exposures by using three lenses, each with a red, green or blue filter. I'd like to see how a closeup still life would come out. Each color would have a slightly different perspective on the situation, causing some strange distortion, This is known as parallax and can be an issue in rangefinder (non "through the lens") cameras - what you see through the rangefinder isn't quite what you capture through the film when close to an object.
Variance between the different projectors, light sources, and the varying qualities of color filters would, however, make it nearly impossible to get consistant results.
These images definitely have their own feel to them. Strangely, the website doesn't say anything about a real life exhibition of them. Perhaps they didn't make prints. seeing them in person, up close, would reveal more about how the results of the process.
The post says they will compensate copyright holders with a 60 cent CD-R tax.
How well would that go over in the US?
Imagine RIAA members getting 60 cents everytime you backed up your por^H^H^H hard drive.
Man, last time I post a straight faced joke on Slashdot. It is apparently taken seriously, marked "Insightful" and "Interesting". I respond to my own post, clarifying it as a joke. My clarifying post is marked down for being off topic!
There are many cool people at Stern and I apologise if i offended any of them.
Oh the other hand, I feel justified in taking pot shots at Microsoft and NYU. : )
...moderators, would you mind marking my post, the post i'm refering to, DOWN?
As an NYU student studying to get my BFA in Photography and Imaging at Tisch School of the Arts, I can verify nearly all people associated with that school down the block (Stern School of Business) are, in fact, bloodsucking money grubbers. Of course they are teaming up with The Borg. NYU is taking over Manhattan (specifically, the village and union square), Microsoft is taking over your desktop.
Or maybe i'm just jealous that I won't be making six figures after I graduate and paying back $40k in student loans. I'm an artist, I can starve.
Do you expect a university to have Linus Torvalds give a speech on economics to students who are paying nearly $35,000 to learn how to shake hands? No, these are students that attach WORD documents to emails, because "Microsoft is the standard." As far as they are concerned, the exchange of money is what makes the world go 'round. Every machine running linux is another Microsoft employee out of work.
I hope Apple sees the value of including Samba in Mac OS X. Apple should help out the project, at least in some small form.
Lets embrace and extend SMB! : )
PHP 4 does include PDF functions.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdf.php
Or, its seems that people always forget that you can write postscript files by hand. : )
Um, if i'm not mistaken, Linux and nearly every other unix based OS has single user mode as well. For most people, this is a GOOD option. The number of people who might lock themselves out of their machine is greater than the number of people who are likely to be hacked by someone with physical access to the machine. I'm sure those who see single user mode as a threat will find a way to turn it off.
When W Bush spouts about the impending energy crisis, I wish he'd fund programs that push alternative energy sources rather than building more refineries. After reading up on the www.biodiesel.org website, I'm quite convinced that we are not facing an energy crisis, but an inevitable energy industry shake up. (Which, for a former executive in the oil industry, is just as bad.)
If www.biodiesel.org is correct in its claims, then vegetable based energy sources solve MANY of our energy problems. They can be used in existing, unmodified diesel engines. It costs very little to make - a 1:3.24 energy production ratio. Its clean burning. Its safe.
The problems - not many people use diesel engines. But a significant amount of industrial equipment does. It would be a relatively easy conversion in the market place to produce more consumer diesel vehicles. It smells like McDonalds french fries. Annoying? Yes. Is regular exhaust particularly pleasant? No! Distribution - its hard to buy. But hasn't this been a problem with any other new type of fuel? We won't get past this until we're forced or someone invents a miracle fuel.
I'm not worried about the future supply of energy. If we run out of oil, we'll find something else. And I won't have pity for the oil industry either.
Curating a multimedia show is difficult. It tends to "day" rather quickly. Even if the project is burned to a CD which can last for 30 years, the platform it is built on is unlikely to be around in five years. Because of this, all of NYU Interactive Telecommunication Program thesis' are recorded to VHS. Sure, you lose a hell of a lot putting a digital project on video, but its better than losing everything.
A lot of multimedia work falls through the cracks. It disinterests both engineers and traditional artists. It also tends to be installation work. This means that the museum piece is not wrapped up in a form useful in your PC.
As for suggestions...
The Whitney Museum of American Art is featuring a show called BitStreams and Data Dynamics. This is one of the largest showings of multimedia art.
Blue Man Group is probably the only long running theatrical show heavily based around multimedia. Beyond the eye candy, it makes lots of commentary about the art world and the digital world. Oh yeah, they do those Intel commercials as well, but I always figure that they just confuse the average home viewer. : )
Explore NYU'S Interactive Telecommunication Program site. MIT's Media Lab and NYU's ITP are the two top programs in their field. The Media Lab does things because they can. NYU does projects on a much more human level.
Rhizome tends to be a center of net based art.
And there's no way you can pass up the old standard - Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan. While it was written well before "multimedia" its commentary on more traditional media is easily extrapolated to digital media.
Publishers have a history of being rather unconcerned with compensating writers. This is most obvious on college campuses. When professors put together a course packet for students to buy at the local copy store, the copy store is legally obligated to pay the publisher of the works. (Some copy stores may simply ignore this, but it isn't uncommon for pubishers to threaten copy stores with lawsuits.) However, the publisher does necessarily own the work! Even if the copyright is held by the author, the writer will never see a dime.
One of my professors organised the photocopying of a large course packet so her students could avoid the $80 fee. Whenever she includes her own work, she must battle the copy stores to NOT send money to the publishers of her own work.
Who will win? Publishers have lots of lawyers. Authors have few.
Kind of like 1 Gigahertz processors? And USB?
Bluetooth, as a goal, is a noble idea. The implementation, thus far, sucks. Microsoft has proven time and time again that pouring millions of dollars into bad technology can eventually produce usable technology.
Stranger things have happened.
I'm not sure I trust the XP login procedure. Does anyone know the details about this? Does it register your password on the net with Microsoft Password? How does it give you "an instant login" to hotmail and msn.com?
I think this was people, not computers, going over images for a long time.
I find it difficult to imagine having the patience to do that, but no doubt such people are employed by the government.
Interns.
Um, was it Apple's decision? NO! This is a company that has taken the motto "Rip Burn Mix." Why wouldn't they want to do this with video as well?
Its a first generation product. Who else is letting ANYONE make DVDs? Perhaps its not a perfect implementation, but it is far beyond what anyeone is currently doing.
I suppose you also blame DVD players for following region encoding rules. Is their their choice?
I think we should take bets on how long it will take for someone to get around the copy protection on those things. I'm not aware of anything preventing someone from decoding a disc and encoding it without the region locking. (the only way it will burn.)
Actually it has been just the opposite on the Mac. For the longest time I had to use Netscape to look at their site because the font rendered too small on IE. (My guess is that they were using "size =-1" to scale down the larger 120 dpi PC fonts.)
The problem with 8 CPUs on one die is that if one CPU has one tiny flaw, you have to chuck the whole die.
WRONG!
With 8 CPUs on a die, you can deactivate the damaged CPU. This is often done with level 2 cache and I beleive its even done with memory. Sell it as a 7 CPU chip? 4?
Obviously this can't be done with LCD displays since you can see which pixels would be deactivated.
Perhaps this is good. Some political actions, no matter how popular, are still a bad idea. Politicians will work furiously for these short sighted goals to serve a short sighted public.
Remember prohibition? It was a good idea - remove all social ills through the banning of alcohol. This bill has similar good intentions.
my favorite government website is www.whitehouse.com
Love the design and quick access to information.
Personally, i'm disappointed with the kind of coverage that BattleBots has gotten. ITS NOT SPORTS! Its pure geek! I want engineers commentating, not half assed comedians. However, the large breasted women are fine, although they'd get my attention a hell of a lot more if they knew what they were talking about!
--Matt
As a photography major in college, I've been through this debate plenty of times.
1. Digital CCD's do not have the dynamic range of film. You will lose shadow and highlight detail. This does not matter for most studio shooting, since you have precise control over the lighting. However, almost all outdoor shooting and uncontrolled shooting LOVES high dynamic range.
2. Where do you think you're going to put all those ones and zeros? 16.8 million pixels in a single frame requires quite a bit of bandwidth in order to take a quick picture. You also need some place to store that picture. Going to store it on a little card? Not likely - at least not soon.
3. How do the CCD's respond to light and color? Photographers learn the way different films respond to color. Will the CCD yield a good looking shot?
Everything else in the process is taken care of. You can get digital images printed as regular color prints. (This has caused a bit of confusion in the art world.)
Carding kids to buy video games only makes it more rewarding for them to get their hands on. Utimately, even young kids will grow bored of silly violence.
This simply puts violent video games in the same class as cigarettes, alcohol, and porn. We all remember how exciting it was to first get our hands on those objects!
This also creates a class of consumer who is old enough to buy the game, yet young enough to be persuaded to buy it for those not old enough. He's the momentary middleman. He (it is usually a he) tends to be one of the first kids in his class to have facial hair.
Here's to a new form of rebellious fun!
I'm sure that selling this machine will be no different than how most people sell their old home machines.
:)
Put an ad in the newspaper asking for a bit too much. Put it on ebay with a high reserve. Maybe someone will offer you something for it, but not enough to make it seem worth getting rid of.
Why not try giving it away to a local church or school?
--Matt
Yes, I'm posting in response to my own post.
Do people on slashdot understand sarcasm?
For all those who are sayting that this shouldn't be done - it really isn't bringing back the tiger.
First, it wouldn't create a large enough population to sustain itself. Second, this is a long way from introducing them to the wild.
However, there is a value of preserving these creatures in captivity. Perhaps they may be particularly useful for studying a certain biological phemonenon. Outside of that, they should be preserved in recognition of the ultimate worth of biological diversity.
For info on the G3/G4/G5 roadmap look here:
m ap.pdf
:) )
http://www.maccentral.com/news/9909/24.g5.shtml
http://www.mot.com/SPS/PowerPC/overview/newroad
As you'll notice, NOWHERE does it say that Motorola is removing Altivec in future chips.
The lag in processor speed is due to several factors. First, the G4 chip is not very scalable mhz-wise due to its shallow pipeline. IBM seems to have overcome this, however legal agreements are preventing IBM from producing the chip without Motorola's blessing. Future PPC designs include deeper pipelines to make scaling to higher mhz easier.
At first, IBM was refusing to add altivec, wanting to focus on mhz instead with the ppc line. What has resulted is that IBM is simply more prepared to produce faster chips that Motorola right now.
In all, its really a shame that this fiasco has occured. The PPC has a much cleaner design than the x86 based chips. Its a marketing miracle that Apple hasn't been held back by this. (What looks faster? Bodini blue or beige?