>> ^budzos:
This is my life, so often. It has honestly contributed to my social anxiety, which is pretty much peaked right now. Increasingly for years I could not go to a party or accept a dinner invitation without being shuffled into the home office to fix some vague problem like "my computer is slow"... especially in the dark malware-ridden days of XP's mid-life in 2003-2005.
Over the past five years I've gone from freely helping anyone who asks, even offering in many cases, to downplaying my computer skills, telling them "I don't know" or "I can't help you" even if it's a lie, and most satisfyingly of all: simply saying "No, I'm too busy" or "Sure, $100 per hour" or "If I were a race car driver would you want me to fix your car? For free!?" .. depending on the relationship. Immediate family and like-family friends are of course excepted.
The level of computer "skills" in the average home or workplace is really pathetic. I have clients who can't absorb the concept of cut-and-paste. I always get messages from them saying "the client says the link is broken" because I've sent them a complex URL which they re-typed manually into a word document instead of just forwarding or at least using cut and paste.



It's ok...one day soon these people will be dead, and we'll be the ones calling our younger co-workers over to help us use our virtual reality gloves on our augmented reality projectors.

"No you have to grab the file with your left hand and shake your right index finger to paste your selections," they'll say with a disgusted look on their face.

...and their music? Their music will just be a solid wall of noise and pitches with strange mumbling. We'll have to tell them about real music that talked about things like slappin' hoes and fuckin' bitches.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Doesn't Universal Studios still have a 'Waterworld' stunt show? Why not close that down instead?


Not sure they still have the Waterworld stunt show. But it doesn't matter really, because when they replaced Back to the Future with the Simpson's ride it was because both were simulator rides, so they could probably reuse some of the old IMAX screens and projectors, and the hydraulics machines.

So does this have a name?

Here are some suggestions:

CArt (coin art)
G-CArt (graphical coin art)
PCGI (projector-coin generated imagery
SMCPNCBIRLPBA (stop motion coin placement non computer based in real life picture based awesomeness)
LTNSFBARGDCPCGBOARGCPS (long time no see friends but awesome result geek driven coin placement color guided based on a real game coin picture show)

Personally I'm leaning towards the last one, I think it's very catchy.

Me? I'm diggin' the overhead sushi projector on the dash.

In grade school they showed this to us at least five times on the big projector. The only film they showed more than PtoTS was Ryan Larkin's Walking:

http://videosift.com/video/Walking-brilliant-animation-by-Ryan-Larkin

AFAIK, Keynote (and iWork) won't run on windows (your only option with Sony)
You can run windows apps on Macs using Parallels, VMware Fusion, or VirtualBox. (I've used all of them, the newest parallels is about the best feature wise, but costs money where virtualbox is free. Vmware has a free Player for other OS, but not for mac). You can also dual-boot a mac to windows, but this is less convenient.

The macbook air has a max memory limit of 4GB. This might limit your work in Matlab, depending on the toolboxes you use and the datasets you create. Also, the macbook air does NOT have a firewire 800 port, so if you want to use an external hard drive, you are stuck with USB 2.0. I also heard the new Airs have some technical problems, so I agree that you should wait a few months.

I would suggest a Macbook Pro, but this has 13" screen, and is over 3lbs.

So if those are both "must have" requirements, then the only thing you can get is the 11" MacBook Air. Those only have an SSD option, and between the OS, AutoDesk, and Matlab, will start to quickly fill that 64 or 128GB capacity (more like 120 after formatting).

Don't forget to buy the $29 mini-displayPort to VGA adapter if you are going to use this for presentations - most places still have VGA connections on projectors. (monoprice has one that is slightly cheaper and also works fine)

I didn't even look at the tags so I wasn't even looking for anything. Bought it all right up till the crash, .5sec of shock then laughter. Honestly coolhund its like your trying way to hard.

As for the points about the hud and whatnot, it wouldn't really be that difficult to have a small projector in there that can relay information from some wireless transmitter in the bike. Can't say how practical it would be or anything, just saying its genuinely possible and without wires or any noticeable power supply.

@volumptuous

Interesting stuff concerning the projector. This is all new to me.

The live video, though, which I have linked uses the same visuals as this, and I think it looks even better because you can tell it's actually projecting onto the architecture. The stuff here's a bit too crisp and bright which is what got me wondering.

I guess they have to create a crude 3D model of the architecture in the first place in order to create the visuals, which is why they can go ahead and make this simulation video using the actual scenery.

It's all pretty cool, imo.

>> ^Drax:

Ok, not to steal any thunder but this is a simulation.
At 1:55'ish a green ball of light seems to bounces -behind- a person walking in front of the church. In other words, the person walking didn't light up, so the projector would have to be behind them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu2e9uulMPA


Yes and no.

I have a projector at my house that can shoot an 80inch square onto a wall from only 10 inches away. It has an enormous lens on the front that's almost an orb, and calculates distance and makes necessary adjustments accordingly.

But yes, most of these were simulations, although the real deal is barely any different.

Check out urbanscreen.com's website for examples of real applications of this type of archetectural projections.

http://www.urbanscreen.com/usc/41

Ok, not to steal any thunder but this is a simulation.

This is the first I've seen of this and I was trying to figure out where the projectors where. At 1:55'ish a green ball of light seems to bounces -behind- a person walking in front of the church. In other words, the person walking didn't light up, so the projector would have to be behind them, but I can't see any (not to mention most people walking by didn't seem all that interested in what should have been a very distracting event).

Here's a real demonstration of the tech by the same crew...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu2e9uulMPA

Awesome stuff!

No TV either. Purely torrents for now, and buy box sets of shows I really like. Once I move out I'm saving for a projector straight out, not even going to bother with buying a TV in the interim.

>> ^lwi:

doesn't Grayson have a laptop, a projector and powerpoint? the cardboard slides seem so anachronistic..


This was on the floor of congress, and I don't think they're allowed to do anything else but use placards.

Wow.. as a canadian, I never heard of that... horrible stuff.

on a lighter note: doesn't Grayson have a laptop, a projector and powerpoint? the cardboard slides seem so anachronistic..

on the money side of things not that its the most important aspect of annything .

i always found it strange with comunity websites like twitter , deveant art , sites that are esentualy dependent on the comunity for just about eveything how the users are esntualy making the site owners realy ritch for there work ,

realy the profit should be spred evanly over the users but in reality who ever set the page up makes the cash .

imgin if u had a cinima open up and fair enoughf it took in a sum of money for the actual service it offers , staff , projector seats what have you , but the film / actual content was created by sumone else , if the cinima just got that for free and that was allso there primary atractoin for its customers then the film makers would be realy pissed off.

maby there will be some sort of revolutoin on the internet where all the users of these comunity bassed sites will go on strike and just join sites that give them a fair cut of the profits.

at the moment its not happend , a good example is video websites , most dont realy give the users back mutch and manny of the users of sites that do pay dont evan exsploit it.

allso im pritty sure the ammount of free blogs or people doing things online for free , evan things that are earning others allot of money far outniumber the amount of users actualy getting a shair of money for there time spent.


oh well rant over ,

yeah. you just need to match the exact projector position (and lens data) in your modeling software and match "CAD World" and "Real World" and it should work.

Still. There's a couple things they did to make it look so good. They put an ND filter over the projector to cut down on the light spill, and stuck with mostly primary, highly saturated colors to make the dynamic contrast pop. The system contrast is probably really high, like 20:1 or something. The physical objects "screen" gain also has to be pretty low. .15 or .2 at least.

It's really well done, and I've seen dozens of these surface-projected systems.