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This probably isn't something that appeals to the Hacker News community in general, but the first thing that comes to mind is large scale art projects, of the s
by arjunnarayan 10y ago
This probably isn't something that appeals to the Hacker News community in general, but the first thing that comes to mind is large scale art projects, of the sort that take weeks/months to prepare (such as the big Burning Man installations).
- mattnewton 10y agoI agree wholeheartedly, the only trick is getting those workers in a position where they can do such art projects (which are always massive money sinks in my experience)
- maverick_iceman 10y agoMaybe something we can't even imagine at this point? Think about trying to explain animation to people in the late 19th century.
- abecedarius 10y agoActually that's a pretty fun topic in tech history. You could buy short animations cheaply then, as flipbooks, and there were fancier types: viewed through a spinning cylinder, or projected. There were even 3d animations. See samples on youtube. Checking my memory just now I learned something interesting: the magic lantern was invented by Huygens in the 1600s, and he probably had a simple animation in mind -- he sketched a sequence of Death removing his own head.