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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #450 on: February 17, 2009, 06:40:09 pm
I'm not gonna lie, I'm super-psyched about it! Didn't like the initially released screens so much but the end result is awesomesauce.
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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #451 on: February 17, 2009, 08:15:31 pm

http://www.cpczone.net/boards/viewtopic.php?f=5&p=18624
full set of these (fan-made?) cpc overscan screens, mostly from 80s action movie posters.
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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #452 on: February 18, 2009, 05:50:33 pm
Banding meaning a different thing in other sections of digital technical talk isn't a problem, or at least is asmuch as dithering meaning a different thing (it does) or even pixelation meaning a different thing (it does). We can't search for words that nobody else has ever used ever. I do not have any personal stake in the name of 'banding' at all, and it was I think Peppermint Pig who first noticed the effect and named it 'vertical breaking' but I do not use that term because it also happens horizontally, and calling it horizontal/vertical breaking is too much for me, and 'breaking' is too little, too vague.

Re: why not call banding shitty AA: because there's shitty AA that bands, and there's shitty AA that doesn't band. There's also good AA that bands, and good AA that doesn't band. I need to write a tutorial on how to approach banding, I think.
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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #453 on: February 18, 2009, 09:21:38 pm
re: shitty AA

You didn't actually have to respond to this, because it is an inherently bad idea. Saying that stuff is "shitty" doesn't really tell you why you shouldn't do it, and besides telling people that their stuff is shitty will piss them off, and they won't listen to you anymore. Please don't take my more horrible ideas seriously, I only mentioned it as a straw man against constantly referring back to AA, and possibly because I was pissed because of the sel-bri thing. I think a lot of people still don't get AA really, I think is my point. Lots of people have a good intuitive understanding of how it should work, but I haven't seen a lot of science or good explanations about aliasing in general or AA in particular.
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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #454 on: February 18, 2009, 10:19:40 pm
Well besides 'shitty' we could tell people their AA needs work, but the effect is separate and I would say requires specific consideration. Banding is not a 'secret technique'. It is an inherent effect of pixel art, a fault that is often repeated and should be looked into much more carefully than it is. People seem to instinctively learn to avoid unfavourable bands, but instinct is one thing and proper codification is another. Soon.

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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #455 on: February 18, 2009, 10:30:08 pm
I am still working on that D:
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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #456 on: February 19, 2009, 08:39:41 pm
My brother's bin rushed to hospital with appendicitis  :( keepin him over night and he's avin surgery tomorrow.

Well worried, seems pretty bad  :'(
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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #457 on: February 19, 2009, 08:54:31 pm
I hope everything goes as good as it can go, man  :(

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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #458 on: February 19, 2009, 09:55:51 pm
My brother's bin rushed to hospital with appendicitis  :( keepin him over night and he's avin surgery tomorrow.

Well worried, seems pretty bad  :'(

If it's caught early on it should be fairly safe, I don't believe the procedure it self is that dangerous, pretty routine, but the actual rupturing of the appendix could be (if it goes that far). I had appendicitis as a 7 year old. The appendix ruptured, healed, ruptured, healed, etc over the course of four-five months. This was back in '94 and left a pretty big scar that's still visible.

Hoping everything goes well!

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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #459 on: February 19, 2009, 10:37:52 pm
My brother's bin rushed to hospital with appendicitis  :( keepin him over night and he's avin surgery tomorrow.

Well worried, seems pretty bad  :'(

Ouch.   :sry:

All the best.  Wish him luck for me.
Older or younger brother, if you don't mind talking about it?