NikFromNYC

victorko2

LizaTydeus

cad3

thePav

Hahahaha!!!!!!!!

dead_red_eyes

Vagabum

Maybe if I did the same thing again it would be different - but several IT folk cannot beat that Xi price - with same cores, RAM, FSB and disks, etc.

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phimuskapsi

doing the same thing 2 x 3.2GHz Quad / 32GB RAM / 2 x 500GB HD / NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 on the link (XiComputer) you provided makes a $13K computer vs. the Apple being $17K machine. a big difference but not the $5.5K vs. $15K you quoted. not even close.

anybody who knows anything knows you never buy Apple BTO RAM. going 3rd party (macsales.com) would save you $5950 in RAM costs alone. bringing the $17K Mac down to $11K. doing the same in the Xi would save you $2350. bringing it down to... about $11K. seems to be a wash to me. either way you are getting a pretty awesome machine with one having the ability to run OS X *or* Windows.

care to post the exact specs you used to get the $5.5K vs. $15K price comparison?

x23

You're still wrong, because originally you said that the screensaver could do it in real time, and now you admit that you need other software, including Quicktime, to do it (and it will be FAR from real-time at that). Impreza never said you CAN'T do it on a Mac; he/she just said the screensaver cannot do it all by itself, and he/she is right.

Really, Macs have no advantage over PCs in this process anyway. Avinash used AndreaMosaic to both extract the movie frames AND combine them into a mosaic (once he figured out he could use the program to extract the images also, that is). You just admitted that Macs need TWO programs to do this job: Quicktime to extract the images and a mosaic program to combine them. Avinash used an image editor to edit the mosaic's details, and so would a Mac user. Mac has no single program that would do all of this and output a mosaic at the same level of quality (not just resolution, mind you) or better than this one, which is basically what you claimed when you said the screensaver can do it.

I just don't understand why there's all this fighting over computers and which ones are better. Is this work of art worth less because he did it on a PC? No. Is art made on a Mac worth more because it was made on a Mac? No. Do we care what brushes Leonardo da Vinci used to create his paintings? No, we don't.

Slick

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TheDeadPuppet

we were checking them out for something called Vray that does use the cores.

still doesn't explain the difference - and BTW you'd be a fool to blow money without going for 64 bit - even though we both know we can't use that either....

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karnak

nutbastard

I just got one for 5.5K from Xi similarly equipped.

check em out - many universities swear by em.

[www.xicomputer.com]

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singlecoilpickup

Sup. I don't think that screensaver crap can import 6 full length films, crop out specific frames from each automatically

Joseph

heroineworshipper

markarian

Ypoknons

I still feel like a very similar result could have been achieved just by the computer alone.

lladnar

you sir, are an idiot.

no no wait, an iDiot.

nutbastard

As a complete aside:
I'm more and more shocked by the commenters on this website. There are a whole group of really excellent commenters who contribute funny, meaningful, insightful information to posts. But increasingly the threads are full of people denigrating EVERYTHING. If you could have done it better, then go and do it. No one likes an arm-chair critic (I'm looking at Uberfu, Joseph, and Ghede in this thread)

wikkit

Sup. I don't think that screensaver crap can import 6 full length films, crop out specific frames from each automatically, and use this for the basis of a 24,168 x 10,864 pixel image, let alone accomplish this rendering feat in what, the 15 second screensaver interval?

Mac-ignorance fail.

impreza

chopstickhero

Slartibartfast

Thomas Palmer

SSRPaulO

twilight-arc

an1m3fr33k

ninjatales

I didn't quite know how to explain to him that although I did love him, and I did love Yoda, I also really liked getting laid.

jetexas

James

too funny.

Accordion

Jesus Diaz

If it took actual pictures based on their content and fit them to make a picture, that would be cooler, but you would need a wider and more varied image sample to do so.

Ghede

Goddamnit. Watch that Southpark Mac vs. PC video on youtube.

All computers suck. Cry about it.

MastaFalse

yeah - nut to manipulate this kind of image you have to drop say 15K on a Mac strong enough whereas your Xi Skulltrail 8 core can do it for around 5K.


Its just an example of someone doing real work using a PC for the compute per dollar factor so he gets it done faster.

most studios have similar situations - a bunch of Macs for fiddling and some strong boxes for the grunt stuff.

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Uh oh......you don't want to be called "haters" now......HAHAHAH!
Haters, haters, haters, haters! HAHAHAHAH!

Actually, I am forced to use Macs fairly regularly and from my experience this would have been one of the very few times where I would probably want an apple.

Unless I'm manipulating graphics, video or other tangible media, the apples I use are fairly useless.

Out2gtcha

Apple > System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver > Select a Photo Album > Display Style: Mosaic. DONE!

+ Watch video

@AndersonBMX: Apple FTW. AGAIN!

Joseph

CubFan81

sumosamkawasaki

Way too much free time tho_

@mtopper: I don't know about all of that - but the black space along the left is there_ It reminds me of an older version of Gizmodo and also the comment/psoting buttons have been screwy for the past several days_ Seems again like they've reverted back to an older or maybe "default" version_

Namely the Quote and +/- buttons and I think there was one more that is missing now_

uberfu

Y2KGTP

uberfu

Joseph

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Anyway - first he needs to find someone to print that capable of at least the 3Gb File_ You never need to print something uncompressed at the 40Gbs - that's just a waste - you just have to compress it correctly_

Second - 120-pixel full quality JPGs are an oxy-moron_ JPG use as much compression as they can handle and throw out as much information as they can_ Therefore no such thing as a full quality JPG_ So his output versions no matter his setttings are going to be low quality_ He should have gone with TIF or as he mentioned putting everything into a RAW format - he should have gone with RAW straight off instead of converting from a JPG to a RAW_

Third - Using RAW instead of a Photoshop file is irrelevant_ He must be using Photoshop version 6 or 7 or something_ As CS introduced .psb file format which is Photoshop's Large Document Format_ This is capable of well over anything he would have needed for this project_ Secondly even if he was using an older version of Photoshop - the TIFF format is capable of 4GB capacities_

Fourth - his AMD 64-bit dual-core processor there gave him no significant advantage doing anything related to Photoshop as Photoshop is only 32-bit and does not recognize the added abilities of the processor he was using except in using a wider allocation space to take advantage of larger file sizes in the newer versions__ Further more the version of Windows Avinash was using either was 32-bit or 64-bit only_ In either case the 64-bit version again would not have given any advantage to the Photoshop usage and as well the 32-bit version of Windows merely would not have recognized the 64-bit processor and would have only cranked things out in a 32-bit mode_

So on all accounts [aside from the Matlab crunching - which there's no way to tell what he specifically used from the above article] - your boy did himself a disservice running things on a 64-bit Windows system_

uberfu

uberfu

davidm

barrelb

thesilentnight

This could go on and on...

SigmundTheSeaMonster

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Then, we killed all the penguins.

BasicBlack

mtopper

artdonkey

ANoel

Geisrud

discounteggroll

MrMaestr0

Viva La Volvo

f0rge

Viva La Volvo

True because a Mac would have done it in half the time at twice the resolution. So not as much work good call.

WilCon

Rain-man

mcdonnr

forcetrainer

Lego Addict

Samifumi

AndersonBMX

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