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For those unaware, this line is from the movie Terminator 2: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ4Ol9Tb1D0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ4Ol9Tb1D0 * https
by throw0101a 4mo ago
For those unaware, this line is from the movie Terminator 2:
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ4Ol9Tb1D0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ4Ol9Tb1D0
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_2:_Judgment_Day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_2:_Judgment_Day
- armcat 4mo agoThat movie has aged incredibly well!
- account42 4mo agoResolution-wise it hasn't due to the extensive use of early CGI.
- renegade-otter 4mo agoThat CGI looks quite OK, and even surpasses much of "modern" CGI. Have you ever seen "Flash"? This is considering the effects were done in 1990. Edit: a lot of what people think is CGI in T2 is actually NOT. https://www.facebook.com/StanWinstonSchool/videos/bullet-hit-devices-for-terminator-2/3001556280069315/ https://www.facebook.com/StanWinstonSchool/videos/bullet-hit...
- b112 4mo agoSome confuse style with quality. There was a lot of cartoon animation done by hand in the 1930. Frame by frame drawn, far superior to modern animation. However the styles are different, and some prefer one style of animation over another. https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1q986z8/the_animation_for_the_first_superman_cartoon_was/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1q986... I've just noticed in the 'full version' linked to in the reddit comments, it's a poorly done 480i -> 480p, and the interlace fields are reversed. If you watch the panning in the original star-scape at the start of the video, you'll see it jittering back and forth as it pans. Sad. If properly converted to 480p, that scene would be super-smooth too. (It's less apparent elsewhere, unless there is side-scrolling)
- kinematikk 4mo agoWhat do you mean? The cgi is great, even today. They obviously put a lot of work and effort into it
- stephenhuey 4mo agoT2 and Abyss were trailblazers. I remember on the T2 director’s commentary how they were so amazed when they got the effects back months later because they’d never seen anything so good.
- carra 4mo agoCareful! Some of the scenes you would think as CGI are actually using practical effects. Even a couple of scenes with liquid metal on screen were using models.
- iamacyborg 4mo agoThe ILM documentary on Disney+ talks about the techniques on that movie, super interesting documentary in general.
- alecco 4mo agoAs a story, yes. But Terminator failed on a basic premise: Skynet becoming self-aware. The future seems more like Blindsight [1]: hyper-intelligent, completely unconscious systems outperform, out-manipulate, and out-compete human beings purely through automated efficiency. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)
- BLKNSLVR 4mo agoIsn't that Accelerando?
- speed_spread 4mo agoA major difference is that Blindsight is actually readable and enjoyable. Also, vampires in space.
- askvictor 4mo agoOof; I loved both books, but Accelerando was much easier to read.
- warumdarum 4mo agoThat thing is a bastardization of singularity sky for the masses
- ubermonkey 4mo agoWeird. I found Accelerando to be both.
- lelandfe 4mo agoI'm reading it now and am enjoying it!
- schnitzelstoat 4mo agoI haven't read Accelerando but I found Blindsight really difficult to read and like visualise what is going on. It felt like he tried to jam way too many story threads into what is a reasonably short book too. The vampires are a good example of that.
- mr_toad 4mo ago> That movie has aged incredibly well! Except for the titular event not happening!
- danparsonson 4mo agoYou know that's true of most films, right? "Aging well" doesn't refer to howly closely it matched reality.
- tim333 4mo agoyet...
- lizknope 4mo agoI clicked on the post expecting it to be something from T2 and wondered why I was reading something about emulation.
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- scotty79 4mo agoI have strong affinity for having references popping into my mind when doing something not obviously related. Sometimes the connection is obscure, sometimes the source of the reference is obscure. I highly doubt people would get many of them. One of my favorite ones is "Third turtle lies.". When people wonder how something reported could have been possible.
- ahazred8ta 4mo ago"The third turtle lied" seems to be from a collection of logic puzzles called "Mathematical Circles". (although that was not in a 'turtles all the way down' context)
- scotty79 4mo agoPutting it in a book with legitimate math puzzles was quite devious by the authors.
- mrandish 4mo agoWhen I saw the headline I immediately knew the reference. Then I skimmed that article and saw no connection to T2?