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    Image of Samiam303 Samiam303
    11/05/09

    In reply to Ask the Artist: How Windows 7's Iconic Home Screen Evolved
    Seriously, the writers at Gizmodo need to read up on the difference between "clip art" and "stock photos". I've seen the Snow Leopard cover called "clip art" so many times it makes me want to cry... I expect better. #windows7art
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    G.O.B.: Come on! promoted this comment Samiam303 was starred Samiam303 was unstarred
    Image of G.O.B.: Come on! G.O.B.: Come on!
    11/05/09

    @Samiam303: I imagine that calling it clip-art is also meant to disparage the amount of effort that went into designing the Snow Leopard box. "LOL! All they did was just open Word and slap in a pic from the clip art gallery!"

    The clip art gallery does have photos, after all. #windows7art
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    Image of Samiam303 Samiam303
    11/05/09

    @G.O.B.: Come on!: Yeah, I understand they're trying to make a point... but the same point could be made by saying they slapped a stock photo on there, and it would actually be using the right term. #windows7art
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    Image of RogueWarrior RogueWarrior
    11/05/09

    In reply to Ask the Artist: How Windows 7's Iconic Home Screen Evolved
    Looks like another lousy knockoff of an Apple concept except they're blowing their own horn with a Windows logo on it. Not a single Apple desktop image has an Apple logo in it. Why? Mac users don't need to be reminded of the machine they're using. #windows7art
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    G.O.B.: Come on! promoted this comment RogueWarrior was starred RogueWarrior was unstarred
    Image of G.O.B.: Come on! G.O.B.: Come on!
    11/05/09

    @RogueWarrior: You're right. They get reminded with the logo on their iMac's chin. Everybody else gets to be reminded by MacBook lids. #windows7art
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    Image of LessthanZach LessthanZach
    11/06/09

    @RogueWarrior: Goddamn brilliant!!! That MUST be why I never forget that I am using a PC!! Because unlike my MacBook Pro, my PC has windows logos everywhere you look! How stupid could I have been to not see this all along? Do not forget that your Mac has an APPLE logo in the upper left hand of your screen at ALL TIMES, it acts very much like the windows start button. Oh, and don't forget the Mac two-tone face thingy logo that pops up every time you start your macbook and that very same logo is used for your finder icon. #windows7art
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    Image of Mark 2000 Mark 2000
    11/05/09

    In reply to Ask the Artist: How Windows 7's Iconic Home Screen Evolved
    Blah, blah, blah! Mac Sucks! Those default wall papers all look like Tiger's default wallpaper with a windows logo stamped in the middle
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    psychonaut2021:Secrets of the Pineal Gland promoted this comment Edited by Mark 2000 at 11/05/09 3:21 PM Mark 2000 was starred Mark 2000 was unstarred
    Image of psychonaut2021:Secrets of the Pineal Gland psychonaut2021:Secrets of the Pineal Gland
    11/05/09

    @Mark 2000: FANBOYYYY!!! #windows7art
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    11/05/09

    In reply to Ask the Artist: How Windows 7's Iconic Home Screen Evolved

    Screw that noise. It didn't get any better than this. *blerg. didn't work right.
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    Image of chuck003 chuck003
    11/05/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Ha. I tried to tell MS that a throwback was the way to go but they weren't buying it...
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    11/05/09

    In reply to Ask the Artist: How Windows 7's Iconic Home Screen Evolved
    The login screens wish they had gone with a deep ocean theme. Like you know, looking up while you're drowning in the Pacific. #windows7art
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    Image of nerdtalker nerdtalker
    11/05/09

    In reply to Ask the Artist: How Windows 7's Iconic Home Screen Evolved
    Wait, why doesn't Microsoft want the pre-release wallpapers being used as... wallpapers?

    I don't get it. #windows7art
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    Pessimippopotamus promoted this comment nerdtalker was starred nerdtalker was unstarred
    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    11/05/09

    @nerdtalker: They're still copyrighted work.
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    Edited by Pessimippopotamus at 11/05/09 2:15 PM Pessimippopotamus was starred Pessimippopotamus was unstarred
    Image of negated negated
    11/05/09

    @nerdtalker: I better not let them know I saved the Betta wallpaper from the RC for my own personal consumption... #windows7art
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    Image of lankysob lankysob
    11/05/09

    @negated: So what does wallpaper taste like? #windows7art
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/05/09

    @lankysob: The snozberries taste like snozberries! #windows7art
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    Image of LessthanZach LessthanZach
    11/06/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: *licks window* #windows7art
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    Image of negated negated
    11/06/09

    @lankysob: It's digitalicious #windows7art
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    Image of Skeletor Skeletor
    10/25/09

    In reply to New Apple iMac Bares All For Wallpaper Photo Shoot
    Put some cobwebs and a dismembered finger in there and the illusion is complete. #imacinternalswallpaper
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    Image of Monty Monty
    10/24/09

    In reply to New Apple iMac Bares All For Wallpaper Photo Shoot
    Apple needs to have an LCD panel on the iMac that is a window to the components behind it when "off" and when "on" is a standard LCD monitor. Don't bother me with geeky details of why this cannot be done - surely Steve can whip his engineers until they make it happen. #imacinternalswallpaper
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    Image of Monty Monty
    10/24/09

    @Monty: This is false advertising. I tried this lovely picture as my background and while it looks pretty it still did not turn my Thinkpad into an iMac. Oh, and a word of advice, licking your carpet all day long will not necessarily turn you into a ... Once again, more false advertising. #imacinternalswallpaper
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    Image of Duckspwn Duckspwn
    10/25/09

    @Monty: Well played! #imacinternalswallpaper
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    Image of gemcosta gemcosta
    10/24/09

    In reply to New Apple iMac Bares All For Wallpaper Photo Shoot
    Should be a fantastic wallpaper if you have the 27" iMac. Hide your dock, and it's almost as if the screen isn't on! #imacinternalswallpaper
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    Image of Identity (Metric) Identity (Metric)
    10/24/09

    In reply to New Apple iMac Bares All For Wallpaper Photo Shoot
    This is now my background, thanks! #imacinternalswallpaper
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    Image of Weihovah Weihovah
    10/24/09

    In reply to New Apple iMac Bares All For Wallpaper Photo Shoot

    whoa... nice circuits!! #imacinternalswallpaper
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    Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected promoted this comment Weihovah was starred Weihovah was unstarred
    Image of Unspellable Unspellable
    10/24/09

    In reply to New Apple iMac Bares All For Wallpaper Photo Shoot
    THAT. IS. NOT. REAL.

    EVERYONE knows that computers are powered by rodents on wheels.

    (or smoke)
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    Tiger-Fever promoted this comment Edited by Unspellable at 10/24/09 1:17 AM Unspellable was starred Unspellable was unstarred
    Image of Tiger-Fever Tiger-Fever
    10/24/09

    @Unspellable: Damn, well I was sure my macbook was powered by kittens and happiness, but this sure puts that theory to rest. #imacinternalswallpaper
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    Image of MrBlahBlah MrBlahBlah
    10/24/09

    In reply to New Apple iMac Bares All For Wallpaper Photo Shoot
    do they have this for any existing imacs? #imacinternalswallpaper
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    Image of Bazooka Lukis Bazooka Lukis
    10/24/09

    In reply to New Apple iMac Bares All For Wallpaper Photo Shoot
    I had no idea that is all a microchip consisted of...

    I am so making one!

    I have dark green plastic. I have a soldering iron.

    Super-computer here I come!! #imacinternalswallpaper
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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    10/24/09

    In reply to New Apple iMac Bares All For Wallpaper Photo Shoot
    MINE!

    If only it were in 3D. #imacinternalswallpaper
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    Image of Hackintosh Hackintosh
    10/24/09

    @Software_Goddess: Yeah, but then you would need to buy/steal the GOOD plastic 3D Glasses, and not that cheap cardboard kind.
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    Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected promoted this comment Edited by Hackintosh at 10/24/09 12:47 AM Hackintosh was starred Hackintosh was unstarred
    Image of Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected
    10/24/09

    @Hackintosh: Eh, the pair that came in my Nightmare on Elm Street box set are good enough for me. #imacinternalswallpaper
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    Image of met2art met2art
    10/24/09

    @Software_Goddess: I have a brilliant plan involving hacking a Wii remote that tracks your head motion. Then you convert this image into a depth-cued bitmap that tracks the Z buffer depth relative to the horizontal motion and location of the Wii headtracker. Voila, 3D! The only problem is I'm just an artist and thinker... don't know how to hack Wii remote or program that sort of stuff. #imacinternalswallpaper
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    Image of Passa Passa
    10/24/09

    @met2art: So.. everytime you want to use your iMac, you have to wear a Wiimote strapped to your head?

    Though your idea does sound cool :P #imacinternalswallpaper
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    Image of met2art met2art
    10/24/09

    @Passa: Ideally, with some clever modding, it could be made to look slightly less dorky than that... but, honestly, the novelty would be so worth it that I wouldn't care. It'd be neat to look around corners in FPS games, too. And just think, no special glasses or monitor required! :) #imacinternalswallpaper
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    Image of ElementalDragon ElementalDragon
    10/24/09

    @met2art: don't see how it'd work though. You can't get 3D from a monitor without having two image sources offset in just the right way. theaters playing 3D movies have dual projectors, and polarized glasses only let light through at certain angles to have a different angle for each eye. 3D Monitors use two display panels layered on top of each other, with the polarized glasses to separate each layer for each eye. Shutter glasses use a single monitor, but require software to render each frame differently, and a device to time shutter movements with frame position. #imacinternalswallpaper
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    Image of Poiklpu Poiklpu
    10/24/09

    @met2art: Actually Johnny lee's done tests to use the wiimotes to track led lights This video demonstrates almost exactly what you're talking about: #imacinternalswallpaper
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/24/09

    @Hackintosh: :'( #imacinternalswallpaper
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    Image of DemanRisu DemanRisu
    10/24/09

    @met2art: Google "wiimote head tracking". There's this guy who actually had the Wiimote at his computer and wore a pair of sunglasses with IR LEDs on the sides. #imacinternalswallpaper
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    Image of nintendude nintendude
    10/24/09

    @met2art: they already have that.

    [johnnylee.net] #imacinternalswallpaper
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    Image of Graymalkin56 Graymalkin56
    10/24/09

    @Hackintosh: What I need are prescription 3D glasses. I wonder if anyone would actually make that! #imacinternalswallpaper
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    Image of met2art met2art
    10/24/09

    @ElementalDragon: The idea is that by tracking head movements, you render the frames based on the difference in parallax view. So, as you turn your head left, the tracker registers this and renders the view from that perspective, as though you're looking from the side. A combination of head tracking and rotation would do the trick. It's not "true" 3D, but it would provide a level of immersive viewing to see around objects rendered in a 3D space with Z-buffer depth cueing. The technology already exists, I was just thinking up cheap ways to do it. As it so often turns out, some really clever and capable dude already did it. :) #imacinternalswallpaper
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    Image of mmmiles mmmiles
    10/24/09

    @met2art: You would want to use facial recognition with the iSight camera.

    I can't think of any reason you couldn't do this - although the desktop background can't be animated currently.

    I wouldn't be surprised if this kind of passive dynamic art becomes popular in the next few years (including on websites and such).

    [the wiimote is just a dumb IR receiver, in itself it doesn't do any real tracking, it's all in the software]
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    met2art promoted this comment Edited by mmmiles at 10/24/09 11:51 AM mmmiles was starred mmmiles was unstarred
    Image of met2art met2art
    10/24/09

    @mmmiles: Facial recognition would be great. There are some similar Windows programs that could do the trick. Also, there are some Windows programs that use a live webcam stream as the "video" wallpaper that could be possibly integrated to achieve this effect on the desktop to interesting effect. #imacinternalswallpaper
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