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
@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
@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
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
@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
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
@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
@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
@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
@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
@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
@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
@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
@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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The clip art gallery does have photos, after all. #windows7art
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Screw that noise. It didn't get any better than this. *blerg. didn't work right.
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I don't get it. #windows7art
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whoa... nice circuits!! #imacinternalswallpaper
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EVERYONE knows that computers are powered by rodents on wheels.
(or smoke)
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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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If only it were in 3D. #imacinternalswallpaper
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Though your idea does sound cool :P #imacinternalswallpaper
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[johnnylee.net] #imacinternalswallpaper
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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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