Why do they all have instagram filters applied to them?
[QUOTE=Sharker;48851872]Why do they all have instagram filters applied to them?[/QUOTE]
No idea, hopefully I will find a better album.
[QUOTE=Sharker;48851872]Why do they all have instagram filters applied to them?[/QUOTE]
Dramatic effect
What units are participating?
Estonian if we're going by the poster's flag and the "Police and Border Patrol" on that helicopter.
[QUOTE=Viper123_SWE;48852244]What units are participating?[/QUOTE]
Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Finnish, German, French & American units. [url="http://news.err.ee/v/defense/eeb8d0bb-9dcb-4fcb-a2a1-71a9da4875cb/international-counter-terrorism-training-held-in-estonia"]More Info here[/url]. [url="http://uudised.err.ee/v/eesti/9d051da8-a1c9-4ce3-ab58-a3ef56702ad9/pealtnagija-jalgis-louna-eestis-enneolematut-eesti-ja-euroopa-eriuksuste-suuroppust"]Also a video about it[/url].
[vid]http://i.imgur.com/AGkpM45.webm[/vid]
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[del]fug how do i embed webm, i only ever embedded youtube before[/del]
[url=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8478604/Nordlys%20Kabelv%C3%A5g.jpg][img]https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5732/22036570481_91f1ecc6f9_h.jpg[/img][/url]
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Auroras tonight were bright as shit, I had to take some photos
We didn't need a flashlight to walk around since the ground was lit up by the aurora.
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Update: Straighened the horizon and fixed a stitching error
[QUOTE=paul simon;48853713][url=http://puu.sh/kCdan.jpg][img]https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5732/22036570481_df594bae81_h.jpg[/img][/url]]
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Auroras tonight were bright as shit, I had to take some photos
We didn't need a flashlight to walk around since the ground was lit up by the aurora.[/QUOTE]
the one time the aurora is clearly visible and im in the fucking city
[QUOTE=Qaus;48852434][vid]http://i.imgur.com/AGkpM45.webm[/vid]
[editline]7th October 2015[/editline]
[del]fug how do i embed webm, i only ever embedded youtube before[/del][/QUOTE]
that is really cool to watch.
[QUOTE=Zeb Brown;48853978]that is really cool to watch.[/QUOTE]
I've played that game before, except it was more like Breakout with a small paddle.
[QUOTE=godfatherk;48848919][t]http://k14.vcmedia.vn/thumb_w/600/5288defc03/2015/10/06/43-51c4e.jpg[/t]
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[t]http://k14.vcmedia.vn/5288defc03/2015/10/06/48-51c4e.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
This reminds me of the friggin $14 toll I have to go through to get into NYC
[t]http://i.imgur.com/srcIVIa.gif[/t]
[img_thumb]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BjZf7xipoqo/UuXqhasGxoI/AAAAAAAAfw8/2Rn8ja1yL-g/s1600/IMG_4460.JPG[/img_thumb]
President McKinley had a monument dedicated to him at the Antietam Battlefield. If you look closely, it shows him [b]bringing freaking coffee[/b] to the firing line during the heat of combat, which he did do during the battle. This moment was immortalized by this lavish monument by Burnside's Bridge.
[img_thumb]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yN20PHa-Rd4/U4nXAX0g9yI/AAAAAAAAATI/nFB_zZUMBhw/s1600/June+9%252C+2010+029.JPG[/img_thumb]
Some aviation pictures. [url="http://www.genvagula.com/Collections/Aviation/"]More over here.[/url]
[t]http://www.genvagula.com/Collections/Aviation/i-7PTbDxW/0/X2/_GEN3153-Edit_Gens-MacBook-Pro.local_Oct-08-012801-2015_Conflict-X2.jpg[/t][t]http://www.genvagula.com/Collections/Aviation/i-s7Fzk6M/0/X2/_GEN4712-Edit-X2.jpg[/t]
[t]http://www.genvagula.com/Collections/Aviation/i-sCwJZXn/0/X2/_GEN4742-Edit-X2.jpg[/t][t]http://www.genvagula.com/Collections/Aviation/i-LgfFz8B/0/X2/_GEN4694-Edit-X2.jpg[/t]
[i]Of all the 3D models created in the history computer graphics there is no object more famous, more commonly used as an example as the Utah Teapot.[/i]
[img]https://josh320.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/674x501_471395_378508_1338416860.jpg[/img]
The original model was created in 1975 by Martin Newell. Its mathematical model derives from a teapot he and his wife Sandra Newell owned at the time. The teapot shape contains a number of elements that made it ideal for the graphics experiments of the time: it is round, contains saddle points, has a genus greater than zero because of the hole in the handle, can project a shadow on itself, and looks reasonable when displayed without a complex surface texture.
[img]http://s7.computerhistory.org/is/image/CHM/102672453-03-01?$re-zoomed$[/img]
The mathematical data was publically released and quickly grew to become a graphing and rendering standard object that modellers could use ti simply the design of other objects. Most if not all modern graphics packages use the teapot as a callable reference and numerous graphical libraries have instructions specific to the generation of teapots.
In modern times the teapot has been the leader of in-jokes at various film studios. Pixar is famous for their use of the teapot and legend has it that every movie they have made for the silver screen has contained a teapot visible somewhere.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/TFFw3Bk.jpg[/img]
The original teapot still exists today. Martin donated it to the Boston Computer Museum in 1984 where it remained until 1990. It now sits on display in a dedicated exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View California, formerly the home of the graphics giant Silicon Graphics Inc.
[img]http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8207/8260074539_80dff7c180.jpg[/img]
I remember reading that the 3D model is shorter in height than the real object due to some conversion error or some such, though i don't remember the details of it
[QUOTE=godfatherk;48854942][t]http://i.imgur.com/srcIVIa.gif[/t][/QUOTE]
Something tells me this doesn't adjust for inflation.
The expenditure for the United States alone is about [URL="http://cironline.org/sites/default/files/legacy/files/June2010CRScostofuswars.pdf"]4 trillion dollars when adjusted for inflation.[/URL] That is just US figures. The war as a whole is quite possibly the single most expensive event in human history.
So yeah, you're gif is a bunch of lying bullshit.
[QUOTE=BananaFoam;48858742]So yeah, [B]you're[/B] gif is a bunch of lying bullshit.[/QUOTE]
aaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAA
[QUOTE=paul simon;48858156]I remember reading that the 3D model is shorter in height than the real object due to some conversion error or some such, though i don't remember the details of it[/QUOTE]
The Tektronix terminal he made it on wasn't native 4:3 and when used everywhere else the image squished a little. He liked it that way so he ended up saving that.
Speaking of Tektronix. Their graphics terminals initially were VERY unique. the CRT's themselves were used for image data storage, allowing for a number of really cool effects and the creation of vector images using minimal computing power.
[img]http://s7.computerhistory.org/is/image/CHM/102648993p-03-02?$re-zoomed$[/img]
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=jOYqXlsgo78[/media]
How do you use a crt for storage???
[QUOTE=Tmaxx;48859447]How do you use a crt for storage???[/QUOTE]
[quote=Wikipedia]Storage was accomplished by striking any suitably long-lived phosphor with electrons with energies just above V_{cr1}, and erased by striking them with electrons above V_{cr2}. There were any number of varieties of mechanical layouts used to improve focus or cause the image to be refreshed either internally to the tube or through off board storage.
The easiest example to understand are the early computer memory systems as typified by the Williams tube. These consisted of World War II surplus radar display CRTs connected to a computer. The X and Y deflection plates were connected to amplifiers that converted memory locations into X and Y positions on the screen, in most cases such that positions along the X axis represented individual bits within a word, while Y locations were different words. To write a value to memory, the address was amplified and sent to the Y deflection plates, such that the beam would be fixed within a line on the screen. A timer then set the X deflection plate to increasing voltages, causing the beam to be scanned across the selected line. The gun was set to a default energy close to V_{cr1}, and the bits from the computer fed to the gun to modulate the voltage up and down such that 0's would be below V_{cr1} and 1's above it. By the time the beam reached the other side of the line, a pattern of short dashes was drawn for each 1, while 0's were empty locations.
To read the values back out, the deflections plates were set to the same values, but the gun energy set to a value above V_{cr2}. As the beam scanned the line, the phosphor was pushed well beyond the secondary emission threshold. If the beam was located over a blank area, a certain number of electrons would be released, but if it was over a lit area, the number would be increased by the amount of electrons stuck to that area. In the Williams tube these values were read by measuring the capacitance of a metal plate just in front of the display side of the tube. As the reading process also erased any stored values, the signal had to be regenerated through associated circuitry. A CRT with two electron guns, one for reading and one for writing, made this process trivial.[/quote]
Not that i understand a lot of this but it's a damn interesting piece of technology.
The way it wrote and "painted" pictures reminded me a lot of the computers in the Alien movies, though it should've been the otherway around. :v:
[video]https://youtu.be/e3fqE01YYWs?t=127[/video]
[QUOTE]Sound waves emitted from Jupiter that were picked up by Voyager and translated into audible sounds. Credit to the guy who made the video.[/QUOTE]
... Jupiter emitting soundwaves?
[editline]9th October 2015[/editline]
I don't think that's how space works?
[QUOTE=lekkimsm;48865476]... Jupiter emitting soundwaves?
[editline]9th October 2015[/editline]
I don't think that's how space works?[/QUOTE]
radio waves converted to sound waves
[QUOTE=lekkimsm;48865476]... Jupiter emitting soundwaves?
[editline]9th October 2015[/editline]
I don't think that's how space works?[/QUOTE]
yeah it's more like "vague signal converted into sound sounds kinda cool"
Wasn't it something to do with "hearing" the magnetic field of Jupiter? Same with other planets, I'm pretty sure I've seen/heard several of them on Youtube.
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