Official Off-Topic Thread

[.TakaM]

I thought the original sprite's filename was Guy.brush (.brush being the extension)

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Similar to Starfox's name being based off the SuperFX chip

[ptoing]

As I said, in DPaint you can store things as brushes and paint with them. I donīt think the extension is .brush, but that does not matter. The brush he was stored as was called Guy, hence his name.

[Ben2theEdge]

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Updated my member title to properly answer yours, ben!

Jad, you are the stuff of legend. 

[Jad]

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Updated my member title to properly answer yours, ben!

Jad, you are the stuff of legend. 

Let's go out sometime for pleasure, when the night is still young.

[Rosse]

I just found this on slashdot What Google Engineers do for Fun: Computerized Lego Art Project

I think the most interesting part about this is

I [...] wrote some Java code to use a simulated annealing technique to figure out a layout for Lego bricks that when stacked on each other look like the image (but also try to minimize cost of the parts, and also try to ensure the result has some structure rigidity - these images are held together only by gravity and the Lego bricks themselves - no glue.

I don't like the result very much, tho. Looks too much like generic photoshop color reduce (well, what else? He's a engineer and not an artist!). I like Monsoon2D's approach better, but I know that low-color sprites works better than reduced full-color photographies. Nevertheless I think there could be impressive results if a pixelartist would pixel a picture with the available lego brick colors as a palette and uses the program to calculate how to make the ideal picture in terms of price and rigidity.

[The B.O.B.]

I'm thinking about getting another hand-held. I've had my old gameboy advance for a while now, and am finally thinking of upgrading. Should I get a Gameboy sp, PSP, or a Nintendo ds lite? I'm really leaning toward Nintendo DS lite as we speak, but not sure if I should just hold out until Nintendo DSI comes out...

[Dusty]

DSi doesn't have a GBA slot. DSlite does though, if you're interested in playing GBA games.

[Ben2theEdge]

If you want to play new games get a DS. If you want to play old games get a PSP and hack it.

[Willows]

Off-topic, I've gotta find paintings/artwork that demonstrates compositional elements well, but I have a distinct lack of resources with which to work. In short, I've been finding all my stuff off conceptart.org and cgsociety, but I'd like to start getting less digital, more actual painting nonsense. Seeing as you guys all have opinions on good artists/painters/whatever, I figured I'd ask you for the names of some of your favorite artists, so I can look at their work and work from those.

Cheers!

[huZba]

http://www.drewstruzan.com
Today i realized he made the coolest DuckTales picture i've ever seen.