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Cobble_stone – The texture of your childhood (2021)
- droptablemain 4y agoBaldur's Gate went outside of the box a bit. Its cobblestone streets were photos of coffee beans.
- freetime2 4y agoI never noticed this at the time, but seems pretty obvious now! https://i.redd.it/84z06qkxmij81.png https://i.redd.it/84z06qkxmij81.png
- coppolaemilio 4y agoReminded me about this amazing video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsCN0Yx2Vbs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsCN0Yx2Vbs
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- stravant 4y agook zoomer
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- megmogandog 4y agobecause your childhood is still ongoing lol
- Quillbert182 4y agoI know this is a joke, but Minecraft was initially made public 14 years ago, and the 1.0 release was 12 years ago.
- seanw444 4y agoAnd, believe it or not, more than just 9 years old play Minecraft.
- rpmisms 4y agoMinecraft is the tip of the iceberg here. Little bit too popular to have secrets.
- thom 4y agoI notice this more with sounds than graphics. Sometimes a film will have the goblin sound from Elder Scrolls: Arena, or that one futuristic door opening sound that exists and I’m transported back. Although somehow I’m annoyed every time I hear the Wilhelm scream.
- messe 4y agoThe two that I notice these days are a pottery breaking sound[1], and the creak of a wooden door opening[2]. [1]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8-HUM65Wwig&t=564s https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8-HUM65Wwig&t=564s [2]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8-HUM65Wwig&t=2991s https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8-HUM65Wwig&t=2991s
- kimbernator 4y agoPretty interesting that I knew precisely which sounds you meant before even clicking the links
- sidpatil 4y agoYou might enjoy this video (specific to Doom, but that game uses a lot of those sounds): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bgFpss0YFE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bgFpss0YFE Many of those very familiar sounds have their origin in Sound Ideas' The General Series 6000 library: https://www.sound-ideas.com/Product/42/General-Series-6000-Sound-Effect-Library https://www.sound-ideas.com/Product/42/General-Series-6000-S... .
- smcl 4y agoTip for anyone who enjoyed that particular type of video - scroll through that user decino's videos looking for thumbnails with bright yellow backgrounds. Those are the ones where he digs into tech behind Doom and Doom II, usually with some really nice, simple, visualisations. He also played through a few interesting wads - Going Down and Overboard were two of the most creative I've seen (by same author iirc)
- bombcar 4y ago
- tinglymintyfrsh 4y agoReminds me of the DOOM II sfx noise that's used all over in TV shows.
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- johnxie 4y agode_cbble instantly comes to mind with its medieval architecture
- gverrilla 4y agonot sure if it's the same texture but not mentioning it would be a crime, indeed. they even named the map in homage to cobblestones! de_cbble: https://liquipedia.net/commons/images/thumb/8/8e/Cs_cbble.jpg/600px-Cs_cbble.jpg https://liquipedia.net/commons/images/thumb/8/8e/Cs_cbble.jp...
- rileyphone 4y agoLink doesn't work
- abbeyj 4y agoTry https://liquipedia.net/counterstrike/File:Cs_cbble.jpg https://liquipedia.net/counterstrike/File:Cs_cbble.jpg
- buildbot 4y agoThis sorta feels like the start of Vernor Vinge's concept of "Software Archeologists" Very cool!
- robertheadley 4y agoThis is an amazing share. I knew about this texture before but this github is a wonderful resource. Thank you.
- quadcore 4y agoReminds me of plateox2.jpg https://images.app.goo.gl/FNwMxMw7vfPB4iin8 https://images.app.goo.gl/FNwMxMw7vfPB4iin8
- giantrobot 4y agoIt's infuriating how Google Images links just destroy the back button on browsers.
- alanh 4y agoAre all of these really the same? Some examples look quite different
- kristopolous 4y agoAgreed. These could be rotated and arranged in different patterns, maybe. But I'd need to see that case built. About a dozen years ago someone made the case for their being only one cloud icon, I think a lot cleaner https://www.hanselman.com/blog/there-is-only-one-cloud-icon-in-the-entire-universe https://www.hanselman.com/blog/there-is-only-one-cloud-icon-... I've noticed this to hold over the years, almost always. I actually end up laughing a bit when I see cloud depictions in design specs these days because it's the same damn cloud every time. I actually wrote something about 12 years ago where I caught the Debian swirl on this music label https://www.discogs.com/label/144485-Balance-Alliance https://www.discogs.com/label/144485-Balance-Alliance And someone pointed out that it's a Photoshop brush pattern. Although I'm not so sure that's the connection. It was sometimes just straight up Debian red https://www.discogs.com/release/1841959-Various-Balance-Essentials-EP-Volume-1/image/SW1hZ2U6MjgwOTU1Mw== https://www.discogs.com/release/1841959-Various-Balance-Esse... Here's the old post with link rots and everything https://kristopolous.blogspot.com/2011/11/what-nice-logo.html https://kristopolous.blogspot.com/2011/11/what-nice-logo.htm...
- sublinear 4y agoThey're not all the same. They're just trying to pad their list. This story about finding assets in common across various forms of media is so old and it's always the same examples despite there being way more out there. The only people lazier than those who used these assets are the ones parroting stories about them almost word for word.
- emmanueloga_ 4y agoWhat's a good modern solution to introduce some noise in the texture? (to make the repetition less noticeable)
- adzm 4y agoDiffusion models are great at tessellation, generate larger textures and multiple textures that go together
- isoprophlex 4y agoFor lo-res pixel art, check out Wavefunction Collapse. https://robertheaton.com/2018/12/17/wavefunction-collapse-algorithm/ https://robertheaton.com/2018/12/17/wavefunction-collapse-al...
- EamonnMR 4y agoWith the release of DiscMaster I embarked on a similar quest for the sound effects of my childhood, though I've been far less successful.
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- permo-w 4y agoam I wrong in reading that they were unable to find out where the photo was taken and who took it?
- hyperhopper 4y agoIt doesn't necessarily have to be a photo
- permo-w 4y agoit looks like a photo
- planede 4y agoIsn't this perfectly tiling? It's unlikely to be a photo.
- permo-w 4y agohttps://camo.githubusercontent.com/fe64b00571ee02e7bc2f1f33a94dab97158a6069524ae9fdd4c2cc9d0d5d16ba/68747470733a2f2f692e696d6775722e636f6d2f675131344250512e706e67 https://camo.githubusercontent.com/fe64b00571ee02e7bc2f1f33a... from this you can see that it tiles somewhat, but by no means perfectly
- planede 4y agoOh, OK. I wonder why it is used so much as a tiling texture then.
- twelvechairs 4y ago> This is cobble_stone. Doesn't seem that interesting, does it? It is just a bunch of bricks after all Bricks and stones are different things. I don't know why they are conflated here.
- stevage 4y agoThe texture of your childhood...if you're aged 25-35 maybe?
- gnulinux 4y agoI'm 25 and don't have any memory of this texture. Maybe more like 30-35? Although I didn't play a lot of games growing up, but these graphics older than what I was playing when I was young enough to feel nostalgic for. I don't know any of these games.
- jimmaswell 4y agoLooks like Silicon Graphics was bought by a company that was then bought by Hewlett Packard. Does that mean HP owns the copyright now, and it's probably impossible to buy or license?
- mrpippy 4y agoSGI sold Alias in 2004, and then they were bought by Autodesk in 2006.
- freetime2 4y agoI think the modern equivalent that every kid growing up now will subconsciously recognize for the rest of their lives will be royalty-free music from YouTube. Like this banger "Spring In My Step" by Silent Partner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5uBZQKi47Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5uBZQKi47Y
- ngomez 4y agoIt's not just the kids growing up now. I'm sure plenty of millennials who watched YouTube when AudioSwap was a thing will recognize "Dreamscape" by 009 Sound System: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKfS5zVfGBc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKfS5zVfGBc
- LoganDark 4y ago> "Dreamscape" by 009 Sound System Say no more. I'll go get Unregistered Hypercam 2.
- sambapa 4y agoI thought this was about Minecraft. Lets just say that I had different type of childhood.
- didntreadarticl 4y agome too
- pavlov 4y agoAm I crazy to be nostalgic for UI color schemes like this? It's the article's screenshot of Alias/3, a 1993 modeller on SGI IRIX: https://camo.githubusercontent.com/18e1b1dc60d23f72852f2a844c584bc1c8d475eb353c27ce5f700adbade6ae8e/68747470733a2f2f692e696d6775722e636f6d2f497974554b546c2e706e67 https://camo.githubusercontent.com/18e1b1dc60d23f72852f2a844... Ok, the non-proportional fonts gets an unqualified thumbs down. But the warm beige and teal — I could chill out to this instead of the endless cool expanses of 100% white and 98% white featured in today's desktop operating systems. The computer where this application ran probably looked like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Onyx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Onyx Black and purple for the hardware, beige and teal for the software. Perfect 1990s contrasts!
- ASalazarMX 4y agoI think I am the crazy one, because that UI looks more futuristic than some of the ones we got right now, with look like a kindergarten.
- stevefan1999 4y agoSeeing "cobble stone" and "childhood", I thought it was about Counter Strike. Set in a medieval castle, Cobblestone is one of the oldest Counter Strike map, dated back in CS Beta 6.5, and is also one of the most iconic map in Counter Strike, that not only this map spanned across the whole CS competitive scene, but that this map is also designed by David Johnston, who is otherwise more well-known for his work in de_dust2, the most iconic map in CS.
- sharken 4y agoHere is a link where he talks about de_cbble aka. Cobblestone map. https://www.johnsto.co.uk/blog/cobbles-and-castles/ https://www.johnsto.co.uk/blog/cobbles-and-castles/