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And Curse of Christopher Lee's Weird Shirt.

Yay for blender!

I've never used this effect, I've always been worried that there'd be too much chance of the actor sharing colours/tones in common with the background. Let me know if it works out!

You could try "Difference Key" but I'm not sure.

A scene I don't remember from Barbarella?

[bandwagon] I don't know how she does it? [/bandwagon]

This is completely off topic, but a friend just posted me it:


I thought a scan of it would be appreciated by a certain AGSer who will remain dualnameless.

Last year at Marienbad? Lolita?

The Big Lebowski?

It's the wrong kind of balloons for M... The fairground could be Strangers on a Train?

The lighting looks a bit like Blood Simple, but the everything else doesn't...

Bah! I was hoping Gilliam & Greenaway would lead this thread in an art-house direction, and away from horror films I haven't seen.

You tricked me Buckethead!

Bah, so quick.

Yes, that's a picture of the the eponymous wife and cook. Well done!

I would have suspected Brazil even if it hadn't been Dualnames...



That's imageshack... is it visible?

Brazil?

EDIT: Though I must admit, I don't remember a line of gunmen. However, all the dream sequences were lit like that so I'm sticking with my guess.

I'm feeling guilty that this is the only day of the year when I ever post in this thread... but many happy returns to Dave & strazer!

I think this is highly possible, as Google search alone can crawl inside pdf files. To make it a little bit safer, maybe said email portion could be made by using a bitmap picture instead of text (provided you have control over the pdf creation process).

If you convert it into a picture, you can make a vector graphic as well (with some "turn text into path" function in a vector graphics program), would look nicer (ideally indistinguishable from normal text) in a pdf.

Thanks guys... The bitmap technique is what I'm using on the site itself, but it's nice to be able to copy and paste an email address so I didn't want to do the same in the PDF if I didn't have to.

If I have a  .PDF on my website, will email-harvesting web spiders (who'd have thought that would ever become a real thing?) be able to read an email address in it?

I'm sure it's possible, but do they go to the trouble?

Since same question was horribly derailed with irrelevant notions last time, but I'm still wondering, I ask again:

setting:

let's assume that you're... God. Or Neo, and world is fully implemented Matrix... or whatever.
Anyway, it is important that you see everything, you hear everything.
And you can "zoom in" to any scale in the universe. For example, to flea level and see flea in "full size" and hear every sound it makes, etc.

Well, and you can zoom in to atomic level. See atoms close up, how they act etc.

case:

A brick wall stands in the wind. You zoom in to atomic level. You can actually see air molecules impact with the ones of materials bricks are made.

questions:

* How would it look? Would it be equivalent to sky raining asteroids, with "explosions" everywhere, some of the air molecules binding with ones of whatever-brick-clay-consists-of, atoms flying apart from impact, etc?

Logic - slight wind for us is a hurricane to an ant. How about an atom?

* Would you see surface of brick decaying endlessy all the time and simply the super minor scale of this happening causes bricks to last... seemingly forever for us? Or are things much more stable even in so microscopic world?

* How would it sound? I believe there is no sound where is no friction, and everything around us makes noise, even though we don't hear even fragment of it... But atoms are all about friction and impacts... imaging you "zoom" so close, would there be hell of a "noise" with billions of impacts happening every second? Or is there some physics law that kills sound at some point?
Well, sound is movement of air, right... Would wind blowing against brick wall cause enough force to actually make airwaves?

I could wait for a physicist answer that but I'll have a go in the mean time.

The concept of looking and hearing are not relevant at the atomic level. I don't think light beams are small enough to look at atoms, and although we use electron microscopes to look at very small objects, atoms are very much smaller still. Sounds are made when vibrations travel through the air, and there is no medium for 'atomic sounds' to move through.

The depictions of atoms we're used to are visual representations which help us to understand them. I believe they are mostly made of nothing, a bit like the solar system.

I'm trying to convert a 24 frame AVI into 24 images. I tried using VirtualDub but it's not working. I'm using Windows 7. Does anyone know any program that can convert an avi to images. I don't care about the images as long as it doesn't get necessarily converted to jpgs.

RAD Video Tools should do it, and is free:

http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm

[MashPotato]

I haven't seen her around for a while, but a happy birthday to MashPotato all the same!