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by Daub 4y ago
The computer in question was a Silicon Graphics workstation (pictured in the article). What the image does not convey is the sheer gargantuan size of SG machines. Desktop computing it may have been, but in some cases people actually used th
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Nice to hear this story. I teach in an animation program. We tell our students over and over that animation is not like the movies: re-=shoots, pick-up shots, multiple take etc are simply not possible. That is why the bloopers reel in Toy S
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by Daub 4y ago
My life was significantly improved when I discovered control shift paste, which pastes just text without format. But un-desired formatting of text remain the bane of my life.
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by Daub 4y ago
Also spoken heavily where I used to live. However, a lot of the time it was used by non-Hokien speakers for its rich collection of curse and swear words.
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by Daub 4y ago
I agree that as a practical space HSL is limited. Indeed, HSL was supported in the first two versions of Photoshop, but was abandoned as being too inconsistent. A conversion to and from HSL resulted in a mess. However Photoshop, like all de
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by Daub 4y ago
Thank you for introducing me to the Rule of Tinctures. Essentially a FG/BG contrast principle several hundreds of years old! Nice.
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by Daub 4y ago
I too am a bit surprised. I could never address a problem of color perception without cycling through the relevant HSL values. As a designer, colour models like RGB, Lab, CMTK and hex are of instruments of application. All well and good, bu
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by Daub 4y ago
Hue is a surprisingly non-linear phenomenon. The maximum saturation occurs at a different lightness value for each hue. Blue is most saturated when it is dark, and yellow is most saturated when it is light. It is for this reason that some p
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by Daub 4y ago
My poor old eyes. Read this as ‘Our mom has been slowly drifting away from Earth over the past 2.5B yrs’
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by Daub 4y ago
> "It's a CQD, old man!" Yes, you are perfectly right. My bad.
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> Where can I learn about the mad-ass angry part? Bruce MacEvay know more about colour theory and history than any man alive: https://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/wcolor.html Also Color space and its divisions (Kue
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by Daub 4y ago
My father, who is an expert in matters relating to early wireless, was asked by the National Geographic to recreate the SOS message sent by the Titanic. This has historical significance as it was the first time that the SOS was used. In ord
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by Daub 4y ago
My father, who my entire family suspects is autistic, used to communicate with me at mealtimes using whistled more code. I learned a bit but have forgotten it all now, just as I have forgotten the Spanish that my mother taught me.
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by Daub 4y ago
Exactly. It is hard to forget that abstract expressionism was (by their own admission) heavily funded by the CIA, in order to broadcast the idea of America as the land of creative freedom. K-pop music was funded by the Korean government for
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by Daub 4y ago
Actually, from reading the article, it seems yes. I have a vested interest in this era of European art. At the time, Colour science was torn between the empirical (Newton, Chevreul) and mad-ass angry mystics like Goethe and Itten. The later
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by Daub 4y ago
Apparently is the key word here. At that time Europe was awash with art vaguely inspired by spiritual gurus. As the article mentions, Theosophy (the likes of Mdm. Blavatsky) and Anthroposophy (Rudolph Steiner). Kandinsky evolved to be the m
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by Daub 4y ago
Language should be task-appropriate. I teach computational aesthetics which would be impossible with the same bucket of words I use to go shopping for apples.
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No shit?
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> All of you who want to sound either more "well read", or more native, this website will lead you astray. I wholeheartedly agree that excessive and unnecessary verbiage can be a tiresome impediment to the clear transmission of
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by Daub 4y ago
I can offer some practical advice: 1. Ensure you always have to hand a means to record ideas. For a visual artist, this can be drawing in a sketchbook, but can equally be lists of things in a note to self via SMS or anything. Both ‘Yesterd
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by Daub 4y ago
> Trying to come up with an innovative idea out of the blue is a fool's errand Though I agree that all ideas come from somewhere, some of the best ideas come from places completely tangential to the final outcome. Examples: - Richar
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by Daub 4y ago
Common understanding of these matters says no it isn’t. So long as it is black coffe with now sugar. However, when I fast, the coffe I drink can have an adverse effect on my stomach.
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by Daub 4y ago
L systems underpin the incredible Paint Effects of The 3D program Maya. It was used as the basis for the forest in the animation Shrek. It is also mad fun to play with, and very easy to learn.
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The difference between an iPhone and everything that preceded it was not the hardware, but the deals that Jobs struck with the carriers, specifically AT&T, to upgrade their network.
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Yep. A bloodbath is certainly on its way. Our illustration program will be first in the figuring line. We think that there may be some room for our students as 'high class' art directors. What will give them unique merit is their
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I have great fun explaining what a PDA is to my students. 'so it's a phone?' 'no because it isn't. Also because it does not have internet connectivity' 'so it's basically a brick? A smart brick?'
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by Daub 4y ago
Office hours for academic consultation is the norm. Apart from anything else, making teaching points via email or any chat app can be a royal PITA, take twice as long and is more open to misunderstanding. Teams and Zoom can be a bit better,
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by Daub 4y ago
I agree, they are nice results. But Joseph Beuys is better known for performance art. In his most famous piece, he covered himself in gold foil, and explained art to a dead hare (below). To my mind, it makes little sense to apply this metho
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by Daub 4y ago
I lecture in painting, and to me some of these are truly impressive. Not surprisingly, those artists is not predominantly painting (e.g. Josph Beuys) or is predominantly linear (Audrey Beardly) do not fare so well. There is a lot of talk in
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by Daub 4y ago
I worked on an eye tracking project that compared the difference between the way artists and non artists look at images. Very interesting. Non artists tends to dwell on faces, hands and other evidently interesting things. Artists find inte

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