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13 We've never seen Jack eating, sleeping or going to the toilet. As a joke for season 5 he was filmed exiting the bathroom, eating a sandwich and wearing his pyjamas. It didn't make the final cut. |
14 What might have been: 'The original iteration of 24 was that we were going to do 24 hours in the life of a wedding ... kind of a romantic comedy series.' (Creator Joel Surnow) |
15 In the US, the Fox network had to screen adverts during season 4 episodes showing 'positive' images of Muslims, to counter charges of Islamophobia. |
16 Everyone on the programme has to sign pledges not to reveal the plot. |
17 Former presidential candidate and Republican Senator John McCain is such a fan of 24 he landed himself a walk-on part. |
18 Blooper alert! The Californian presidential primary - the backdrop to season 1 - is held in March, not June. |
19 The premiere was due to air in the US just one month after 9/11. Following the attacks, a shot of a 747 exploding was removed and the screening was delayed. |
20 Jack's daughter, Kim, has been held captive in one form or other eight times. |
21 Sarah Clarke was cast as Nina Myers on the morning filming was due to begin for the pilot episode. |
22 Glenn Morshower, Kiefer Sutherland, Carlos Bernard and Dennis Haysbert are the only actors to appear in all five seasons. |
23 To speak fluent Jack, use the following phrases often: 'Where's Kim?', 'Who are you working for?', 'Get down on the ground!' and, of course, 'Damn it!' |
24 Fox commissioned two more series of 24 in May. A feature film will begin production next year, with parts to be shot in London. |
5 July 2006 |
Hilsong Parody |
If you're easily offended - keep moving on :) |
2 July 2006 |
A better wall plug |
A new plug design, angled out from the wall to make it easier to plug things in or out. It was created by University of Notre Dame student Julia Burke, and won an IDSA award this year. |
Looks like an interesting way to try it. |
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Today is the Rev. Robert Abbott's 36th birthday. |
Happy Birthday Old Man. |
1 July 2006 |
Happy Canada Day |
Just sitting at the computer enjoying a coffee, paying some bills and letting the breeze roll in the window. An excellent day in Kitchener. |
I have to head to The Gig to clear out the sound gear so that we can clean things up to hang the lights on Monday. Might even get a chance to wash the truck. |
Happy Canada Day |
Monday, March 07, 2005 |
Print-Quality Screenshots |
For high-quality prints you need high-quality screenshots. This means very high resolution, and nice anti-aliasing. Just grabbing the screen produces rather unpleasant results (screenshot, 80 KB, 800x600 pixels). With normal OpenGL rendering you get rarely more than screen resolution, and anti-aliasing quality very muc... |
Tiled Rendering comes to the rescue. Instead of rendering the whole image at once, we render smaller portions of the scene, and then arrange the tiles into a large picture. However, just pointing the camera at each tile will not work as intended, the perspective would change from tile to tile. What is needed instead is... |
gluPerspective: fov aspect: aspect zNear: near zFar: far tile: rect |
| cotangent radians w h | |
radians := (fov/2.0) degreesToRadians. |
cotangent := radians cos / radians sin. |
h := near / cotangent. |
w := h * aspect. |
self glFrustum(rect left*w, rect right*w, rect bottom*h, rect top*h, near, far). |
So I just extended the existing gluPerspective:aspect:zNear:zFar: method with a tile argument that gives the sub-rectangle in the viewing plane, where the whole picture ranges from -1 to 1. The only problem is to hand down that extra argument into the method. I ended up copying all the methods in the call chain, adding... |
| m c f | |
m := CroquetGlobals theTeapotMorph. |
c := m activeCamera. |
f := c root snapShot: m ogl camera: c tiled: 12. |
f := f magnify: f boundingBox by: 0.5 smoothing: 4. |
JPEGReadWriter2 putForm: f quality: 90 progressiveJPEG: false onFileNamed: 'croquet-bf-4800.jpg'. |
Instead of 800x600, this renders 12x12 tiles, creating a 9600x7200 pixels image. The result is scaled down with smoothing to yield an anti-aliased 4800x3600 image, finally compressing as JPEG gives a 1.5 MB hires screenshot. |
Beauty, eh? Never noticed that guy on the bridge before ;-) |
Bernd said... |
yeah, nice detail. Looks like a soldier with his machinegun. But when it's so, there is a soldier on every treepeak...scary vision |
Anonymous said... |
Okay, I've added the tile:rect parameter to the gluPerspective and all the methods in the call chain. How is the rect passed from snapshot:tile to the lower level calls? Is there additional code that's missing or left as an exercise for the reader :) |
I'd love to be able to take hi-res shots. |
CroqueTweaker said... |
Well, TSpace snapShot:camera:tiled: calls |
TSpace snapShot:camera:tile: for each rectangle. Then it goes down like this: |
TSpace doRender:camera:tile: |
TCamera initFrustum:tile: |
OpenGL initFrustum:bounds:zNear:zFar:tile: |
OpenGL gluPerspective:aspect:zNear:zFar:tile: |
And because that is so ugly and boring I didn't want to post it. The only slightly interesting part is the construction of the sub rectangles from the integer tiles parameter: |
ext := (2.0@2.0) / tiles. |
0 to: tiles - 1 do: [ :x | |
0 to: tiles - 1 do: [ :y | |
pos := (x@y) * ext - (1.0@1.0). |
snapshot := self snapShot: ogl camera: cam tile: (pos * (1@-1) extent: ext * (1@-1)). |
Hope that helps? |
Anonymous said... |
Thanks. The missing piece was the construction of the sub-rectangles. I managed to compose the snapshots into a single Form and the result is a beautiful hi-rec picture. |
Many thanks. |
Anonymous said... |
Many thanks. |
Howard Stearns said... |
In the titled pictures, there are some discontinuities in the water. I assume these are at seams between tiles, and that they occur because each tile is rendered at a slightly different tea time? |
CroqueTweaker said... |
The particle rendering in the waterfall is hacked to take rendering time into account for speed reasons (fewer particles are shown on a slower machine). If it was purely tea-time based there should be no discontinuities. |
Wednesday, 27 February 2008 |
Walking the walk |
One of my favourite quotes from Michael Meadowcroft, the former Liberal MP who is one of the best liberal thinkers around, is that "Liberals are anarchists by inclination, but constitutionalists by necessity." |
Jo Anglezarke clearly doesn't agree. She doesn't approve of yesterday's walk-out from the House of Commons by Lib Dem MPs, in protest against the Speaker ruling that an amendment to the Lisbon Treaty calling for a referendum on the UK's membership of the EU was out of order. She questions whether she is a member of the... |
Now, on the substantive issue, I'm not convinced that a referendum needs to be held, but I think that Nick Clegg and Ed Davey are right to say that if there is to be a referendum, it should be on the whole question of Britain's future relationship with the EU, not just the rather technical points contained in the Lisbo... |
But it is absurd that the Lib Dems should be denied the opportunity to put forward their views for debate on the treaty because of arcane parliamentary procedures, especially after taking extensive advice from the parliamentary authorities about an acceptable form of wording for the referendum amendment. |
But having had their amendment turned down, the Lib Dem MPs had the choice of either sitting there and meekly accepting the situation or kicking up a fuss. Contrary to what the Sermon on the Mount claims, the meek do not inherit the earth, certainly not in a political context. I therefore think it was entirely right fo... |
Indeed, I think the parliamentary party should take action like this far more often. Our political system is far too centralised, undemocratic, inefficient and rooted in the past. And no matter how good the speeches we might make in the House of Commons against it, let's face it, nobody pays attention to those. But a c... |
I'm not saying we should do something like that all the time: it would lose its effect if we did. But if this, combined with his pledge to break the law on ID cards, is what Nick Clegg had in mind by ensuring the Lib Dems had an edgy feel about them under his leadership, then I'm all for it. |
1 comment: |
Stephen B said... |
To paraphrase Rosie Kane, I'm sure we going to be amazed at all the madness and craziness that's going to happen in parliament caused by the Lib Dems... |
Incidentally, why didn't the Lib Dems insist that the devolution referendums in 1999 should have been on the whole question of Scotland's future relationship with Britain, not just the rather technical points such as the number of MSPs or the existence of particular minister? |
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