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Comment Re:Proving what exactly? (Score 0) 59

So (debatably) was covering the whole canvas in a single color.

I dont mind that. The plain human eye (which very few real talents have) can see billions of colours. If you see a jpg of the picture though, it wont say much. Going into a gallery is a completely different experience. If you get to meet the artist too, it brings it to a completely other level. Sort of like concerts and backstage, vs mp3s and biased interviews.

The world of colors arent just red, green, and blue. Or cyan, magenta and yellow (or red, yellow, blue). Its a lot more than that.

There is affordable giclee printing nowadays. They use 8-32 dyes, and 300g paper in many different textures. (Many run-of-the-mill producers have started copying this practice, and use at least 8 dyes. Because just 4 on printer-paper make most pictures look like shit)

Could really recommend getting.. whatever picture printed by such a company. Youll get ultraviolette blues, burning reds, and seaweed-flourescent-like greens.

You dont really know unless you try it. QLEDs are similar to this spectrum representation.

If you pay the giclee company some, in doing multiple prints / dye optimisations until they get the right harmony, youll truly get "photorealistic" results. Ie, it will look so "real", as if you could "touch" it.

I have yet to see a movie (or music video), which has the picture quality, you can get with a single frame.

There was some russian, who modded a mirrorless camera to produce HDR video on the fly. Seems to have died down though. Maybe because makeup doesnt work with HDR, because.. it shows everything, everything. And theyd rather sell a new technology / resolution, than allow everyone to see beyond "photorealistic".

(Note: that reminds me, I have actually found one true HDR music video. Its Caitlyn Kochs cover of Lynyrd Skynyrds "Simple Man". She does use very good makeup in it, and it has that "gritty/dark" processing style. For people that are used to the hollywoods teknicolour, I know its hard to get used to.

And, yes, its possible to do HDR without strong colours [tekashi69 / david la-chapelle / stoopidgerl?], or lots of detail, with the "ultrarealism" style thats present in real-estate advertising. Or do you 2 styles, or all 3. Requires real good original footage though.

[This is similar to the Volume War in music. Tubes do sound better than transistors. Try "The search for everything" album by John Mayer. Of course it sounds better on vinyl, but the original signal is so pure, that even a 64kbps soundcloud stream is still good])

Comment Re:Proving what exactly? (Score -1) 59

There's a myth Picasso drew his cubist works because he couldn't draw.

He couldn't. He was too high. The same reason "popular" musicians (aka, after their first commercial record) sound like shit.

Picasso and his ilk need to burn in hell for this practice. Teachers (of any sort, any subject) are delusional that you need to "learn the rules before you break them".

What it really means, is, have mechanic "talent", get recognized, do drugs, and automagically get "original".

In music, its not like this. No one cares if you can copy another artist "realistically". Because people have this concept of "soul" there.

This means, if you do good music, you get accepted. No one gives a shit how you arrived there. If it sucks, people won't care how good you were at copying someone elses style before.

(Thankfully, most of these people are relegated to Latin America or Asia, where people care more about having "bands" which sound like a band that was popular 50 years ago, than actual creative expression)

If this includes making "realistic" (?) music, great. That's usually up to the studio though.

Comment Re: "off switch" (Score 0) 84

Theyve gone further than that. AI has viruses coded into them, so theyre self-replicating. Bigtech is in on it too. I managed to get some virus on my comp a week ago, that MS didnt want to remove. I can't recall the exact name now, but it was called something on the line of "non-intrusive spyware". I noticed Opera has gotten something similar recently, "ethical ads" (which are on by default).

Comment Re:Well ... (Score 0) 323

it doesnt matter how good it is, because macs dont have a f*cking taskbar! before os x, you had to click on a tiny popup menu in the upper right. now, youre supposed to browse through loads of icons at the bottom, of programs youre not using, to find which one to switch to. its a nightmare.

btw, i was looking for laptops with a lot of ram. my last one had 8gb (costed 400$) [bought a decade ago]. so i thought, hey, lets go for 16gb this time. ok, the pc one costed 2000$, the mac one was 4000$. no thank you.

its strange how in this case, the mac can actually be cheaper than the pc. there has to be a catch. like the taskbar thing.

Comment Re:WARNING requires reading comprehension beyond t (Score 0) 81

how would you know? and how would you know its not happening? einstein researched a lot on this. he eventually ended up in a mental hospital. like nietzsche, you know? both nutjobs, never contributed anything to the world. id rather wager we are in a dyson sphere simulation (the overlords change things as they see fit. i guess normies memory is too flawed to notice that. a black cat. keep acquiring those alcohol blackouts). elon musk talks about it like its fact. what is your explanation of 2d time? if time is just 1 dimension, why wouldnt we be able to time travel? you move in the opposite direction of the dimension. backwards. in time. how does that not make sense? it would be a problem if everyone time-travelled. just like it would be a problem if everyone had a quantum computer. (5000 transistor ones have existed for a decade. its a conspiracy theory though. thats why youtube keeps deleting it. because its a conspiracy theory. really dangerous misinformation. i mean, why wouldnt a 2^5000 processing power computer not output anything but fake news? were fine with 2^32. spyware is freedom!)

Comment Re:TFA sounds like waffle (Score 1) 81

i have an older relative who does research on multi-dimensionality. not sure if i would want to meet him. hed probably not reveal anything. i know people who can see time. (they download your fate from the akashic library. [uhm is the powerword for the third transcendental chakra. you know when people try to remember what they were gonna say? they say.. uhm.. a lot] whatever you say to them, they see it from a 100 angles. you know how some people, always "freeze" when you talk to them? they see what you say in front of them, like astral projection. depending on what you say, they can be gone for years in dreamtime, but will still respond in a sec or two in "reality" time. i know this is controversial. but i havent taken any drugs to get these insights. ive just.. thought? reflected? on things that happen. how things could happen. how people can know things. about you. about the world. my sister sara is like this. if i want to be mean, i bring up something old that she doesnt want to associate with. "remember so-and-so?" she stares into space, then replies "NO!". she understands me like no one else. i dont know why we need to talk even. i can say wrong directions or genders or colours or names or whatever, and excuse myself. she just says assuringly "i understand". i barely know anything about her. but i still know everything)

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