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by commieneko 14y ago
I'm using the terminology pretty loosely, trying to match the tone of the discussion here. This is a casual comment. And really too long a one at that. When I'm saying anti-aliasing I'm really meaning super sampling and weighted assignmen
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by commieneko 14y ago
As someone who has been creating digital graphics for broadcast for over 20 years, typically at resolutions that are far lower than anything we have to deal with now, it's interesting to see all this activity lately on HN. There are times a
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by commieneko 14y ago
Interestingly, I can fantasize about winning the lottery and spending all that lovely, lovely money too. All without buying a lottery ticket.
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by commieneko 15y ago
Taste depends on expectation and convention. There's no absolute standard to apply, only local and traditional practices. As others have pointed out, the Star Wars transitions are part of the conceit of the movies. As an old fart, I grew up
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by commieneko 15y ago
I always tell my media technology students that everyone should learn to sketch and learn to play a musical instrument. You don't really do this in order to be able to draw something to hang in a gallery, or to perform in front of others,
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by commieneko 15y ago
Here is a link to a drawing by the artist I mentioned in my reply: http://art.wmmhs.org/marrero/drawing_class/silverpoint/denni... This would probably be considered a "Not Safe For Work" image, so be aware. The photo really doesn't do jus
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by commieneko 15y ago
Most of that stuff is in storage in another state. I'm not sure how silverpoint would scan. It would probably just look like a pen or pencil drawing. Basically it is drawing with a piece of silver wire. The mark is very faint, especially on
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by commieneko 15y ago
Your fingers don't have that kind of accuracy either. What you do have is precision in your finger/hand/arm system. Moment arm dynamics are far more important in precise drawings than addressable accuracy. The best digital drawing tools
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by commieneko 15y ago
I would be willing to bet they are doing some kind of inertial modeling in their stroke dynamics right now. There is some kind of "Dynadraw" algorithm in their now that is smoothing and adjusting stroke thickness. Some it seems to be based
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by commieneko 15y ago
I'm a lot more interested in stroke dynamics and zooming than I am in resolution and pressure sensitivity. I don't mean to say that those features wouldn't be welcome, but no real world tool can do everything. And limitations are often t
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by commieneko 15y ago
Bought this this morning. I'm a figurative artist, for over 30 years, and this is a very nice tool. Especially for a version 1.0. The stroke dynamics are very good, and I'm running this on a first generation iPad. I've been sketching with
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by commieneko 15y ago
What middlemen in any transaction usually provide is a pre-existing customer base and fulfillment. In the past you could arrange to purchase your novels, magazines, newspapers, whatever, directly from the creators, with each setting up a
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by commieneko 15y ago
The original Star Wars was a mish-mash of everything George Lucas liked when he was a kid, and some of his later adult obsessions. Old movie serials, children's stories, space opera science fiction are in there as well as a ton of refe
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by commieneko 15y ago
I would disagree that programming is the only interactive art form. Drawing and painting are quite interactive when you take into consideration the interpretation that the audience must perform, and, more importantly, the back and forth of
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by commieneko 15y ago
The paintings for the first movie were pre-production visualizations done well in advance of filming. In fact, well in advance of the story. In the painting of Luke on the cliff looking down on Mos Eisley, you may notice that "he" seems a
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by commieneko 15y ago
One system that some drawing programs on the iPad use is to completely hide the UI most of the time. Gestures and hot spots cause the UI to manifest itself when needed; most of the time the screen is empty except for the painting. I can ima
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by commieneko 15y ago
You just cause an exception in the Deathnote implementation code and crashed the universe...
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by commieneko 15y ago
Normal people hate hierarchies. I've spent a lot of time trying to teach non-programmers to us them in their work flow. There is no question that they are useful, but people resist them fiercely. Many developers have a hard time dealing wit
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by commieneko 15y ago
Might as well wish for a Deathnote that was Touring Complete. The story emphasises that Deathnotes are fairly literal, and that if you try to push it you'll just get a heart attack death.
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by commieneko 15y ago
Art, like science, is not necessarily a profession. It can be an avocation. There are many important artists and scientists that did not support themselves with their art or science.
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by commieneko 15y ago
Except the supposed behavior alteration in women is increased social activity, attention to appearance, neatness, and aversion to the smell of cat urine.
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by commieneko 15y ago
Let's consider it a somewhat free transcription and translation. Aliens who are astounded at the notion of thinking meat aren't going to be communicating in English.
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by commieneko 15y ago
"Answer" is one of my favorites as well. Brown specialised in short shorts. Somewhere I have a collection of his where every other story is one of those. My favorite being, in it's entirety: "The last man on Earth sat alone in a room; there
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by commieneko 15y ago
I'm curious as to how old you are. This is not a slam or being patronizing; I'm looking to add a data point. I'm in my 50s and I haven't subscribed to a newspaper in 10 years. Most of the young people I know, in their 20s do not read phys
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by commieneko 15y ago
Nature has widely enhanced brain functions. There is variation in intelligence. But since traits are selected for against usefulness and not toward an abstract goal or destination you don't see much variation above or beyond that needed t
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by commieneko 15y ago
If you are going to measure genius as only pertaining to math, science and engineering, in the modern senses of the word, then sure. In addition to art you are now excluding music, literature, history, politics, warfare, philosophy, finance
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by commieneko 15y ago
Actually it would never have occurred to me to directly compare Newton and Da Vinci's specific works. If you will look back to the dawn of the thread, I was comparing Da Vinci to Steve Jobs; specifically their achievement in changing the na
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by commieneko 15y ago
Can't see where I didn't respond to what you wrote. If you mean I didn't break it down into quotes, an anal compulsive check list of points and responses then, yes, I didn't respond to what you wrote. I took what you wrote as a whole and co
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by commieneko 15y ago
What Da Vinci did is common knowledge as well. I can't help that you don't seem to value it. Sorry. Most of the world seems to disagree with you on this. You don't offer to explain in detail what Newton did; but don't bother on my account.
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by commieneko 15y ago
The writing was on the wall long before 2006. Browser marketshare was only one metric for winning. Controlling the way browsers worked and how people used them was much more important. "Embrace, extend, extinguish" never got much farther

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