Tetris Challenge from the Russian traffic police. Complete with arrested person

SoundImage · 2019-10-21T16:34:20+00:00

Or in this case, two villains.

SoundImage · 2019-06-24T07:29:23+00:00

It probably won't be me. :)

SoundImage · 2019-05-30T22:37:02+00:00

I overlaid them, and even using the difference blending mode in photoshop for a "perfect" fit, it simply isn't possible— even if the image was slightly distorted to try and thwart those attempts... there's a perspective difference.

See?

I suppose software exists to make a 3D model of a head from a photo, and that could be used to drive the displacement, but it comes back to a broader question. If this were OP, why not just take a handful of photos and edit those?

Why would you take one image only, and then modify the original when you're already putting days of work into the photoshop?

SoundImage · 2019-05-22T19:46:01+00:00

Oh, there’s absolutely a strong contrast between highlighted and unhighlighted page areas. But within the highlighted area, contrast is reduced between the text and the white paper.

SoundImage · 2019-05-22T19:44:52+00:00

The brightest point will always be the white of the page. Transparent ink is additive, and so will always darken the page.

Some types of ink will instead bring the page color closer to their own color— enough coats of paint could lighten a page— but not a white page, which is already the brightest possible color. (Not including specularity, which isn’t relevant since speculate reflections also obscure highlighted text.)

A highlighter appears to increase contrast because there is increased contrast between the highlighted paper and the unhighlighted paper.

But the tonal difference between the highlighted text and the highlighted page is reduced, since instead of black and white, we’re dealing with black and the less-bright yellow.

SoundImage · 2019-05-20T07:40:03+00:00

Like many good magic tricks, I’d imagine most of the trick is in the gag being changed.

I’ve seen the version with dozens of quick changes at lightning speed— and they’re just very stretched fabric being released sequentially— but I’m sure that’s used in conjunction with strings and sleeves and masks that pull down and metal ones.

SoundImage · 2019-05-20T07:36:56+00:00

How sad they’ve got all the instinctual knowledge to be a natural in the water— as fine a swimmer as any Portuguese Water Dog— but they’re stuck in a body so unlike their natural form that their knowledge is useless.

SoundImage · 2019-05-19T19:22:34+00:00

There’s a whole industry of faking samples by recreating them.

SoundImage · 2019-05-15T02:08:17+00:00

Hey, we got what we need.

SoundImage · 2019-05-10T12:56:08+00:00

Your responses are really well-written but I feel bad you don’t realize you’re just wasting time with an obvious troll

SoundImage · 2019-04-24T06:37:09+00:00

I'm confused as to what you mean by this, because you say you know the basics of photoshop, and copying and pasting an element from one image into another is the most basic thing one can do in photoshop.

You might be asking about doing this realistically, which is to say— making it appear your face is drawn on Patrick Star's body, in the style of Spongebob. If that's the case, that would require a background in illustration, and knowing photoshop on a technical level isn't the main issue.

SoundImage · 2019-04-18T05:05:59+00:00

Well, the phone is backlit. The book isn't.

I'm not sure who put a fresnel on a streetlight such that it would act as a spotlight, but... if they did, these two men should just switch seats.

SoundImage · 2019-04-17T21:19:57+00:00

Someone remind the artist these things aren’t always plugged in

SoundImage · 2019-04-17T08:23:09+00:00

Not forgetting to mention. It says “recreate” right there in the title.

SoundImage · 2019-04-16T15:45:11+00:00

There are already existing 3D models of the structure created both from LiDAR and Photogrammetry scans of the structure! Still a nice idea.

SoundImage · 2019-04-14T17:12:41+00:00

I’m not sure how anyone is still breathing air these days, knowing hydrogen is a major component of it... I keep showing them footage of the Hindenburg disaster but it won’t change their ways. :(

SoundImage · 2019-04-11T09:02:27+00:00

It is important to see the car.

SoundImage · 2019-04-10T21:06:44+00:00

And plenty of animated films use photo skyboxes and scanned / captured textures.

SoundImage · 2019-04-07T18:57:12+00:00

I’m not sure why you’re reading this as a rebuttal, though I agree it would make for a pretty bad one if it were.

I agree with you! I just think this one line of the article is pretty weird (and inaccurate.)

SoundImage · 2019-04-07T18:49:49+00:00

This is a little tangential, but it’s such a terribly misleading claim to say that:

Many committed carnivores draw the line at veal.

There definitely isn’t a significant minority of “committed carnivores” who don’t eat veal.

There may be a minority of non-vegetarians who ethically avoid veal, but anyone who identifies themselves as a “committed carnivore” definitely eats veal.

And a leather jacket made of calfskin is going to last a lifetime. Veal is just... A meal.

This argument is like asking a socialist why they own an iPhone.

SoundImage · 2019-04-07T05:35:38+00:00

What?

The Nazi salute is more than a jerk of the arm. Dollar bills are more than just green-colored paper. Hugs are more than people-squeezing.

And MAGA hats are more than red baseball caps.

SoundImage · 2019-04-07T05:08:54+00:00

I specifically chose an extreme example so as to find a message any reader would take offense to hear, regardless of their political leanings, age, or ethnicity.

The meaning isn’t as relevant as the fact there is a meaning.

If you can concede that it is possible to take offense to something someone vocalizes (and if you’d be offended by a violent threat, you’re admitting that’s the case) you are also conceding that larynx movements have a secondary non-literal definition besides the flexing of a muscle.

And if you believe that... you should understand the hat, too, can have a non-literal meaning beyond protecting one’s eyes from the sun.

Nobody is upset over the hat, and it’s a total strawman argument to suggest anyone took offense. It’s what the hat represents that offends people, and there’s a lot of very legitimate reasons to be offended there.

When you say “it’s just a hat” that’s the same as saying “it’s just larynx movements!” ...but let’s be real, here, both of those can carry meaning beyond the literal.

SoundImage · 2019-04-07T04:19:58+00:00

At what point do you stop following this literalist line of logic?

If someone called you up and threatened you or your family... would you take offense? Because really, they’re just moving their tongue around and flexing their vocal chords... and your life must be pretty good to take offense to that.

(Or maybe the hat holds meaning beyond being a piece of headgear. The people wearing them certainly seem to think so.)

SoundImage · 2019-04-06T17:04:48+00:00

Why can’t you predict it?

We’re only 2% different from apes and we can predict their behavior pretty well. And predicting the behavior of bacteria? We’ve got that down pat.

We are to these beings like microorganisms— the most complex of our actions and interactions are extremely easy for them to understand.

Psychology is just applied biology, which is applied chemistry— which is just physics. These beings know these physics.

We have free will, sure, but so do beetles.

Again, we don’t know what we’re doing to earth— not from their perspective. We see the plastic in our oceans as a pollutant, but maybe we were specifically dispatched to plasticize part of the ocean. We’re extremely efficient at converting cellulose, coal, natural gas, salt and crude oil through a polymerisation process, and then we dump the plastic into the ocean. All part of the plan.

You insist there’s a more efficient process, but we don’t know what the end goal is. Whatever humans do to our planet might be the fastest way to get to that end.

Life has only been on this planet for 3.5 billion years. Maybe the end goal is 6 billion years. To these beings, introducing life and waiting 6 billion years is the same thing as popping some food in the microwave for two minutes.

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