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Re:Spherical Snake on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @10:01PM (#46522022)
The snake movement reminds me of the video feedback tail behavior here: https://vimeo.com/487717654
Okay - but this is an art project that does not use software at all. A software project is something entirely different.
Thanks - mine too.
Here’s a question: Is the image of the photo trapped in the loop because the camera is seeing an after-image (that is, a moment where the image stays on the monitor briefly after its input has been changed) as I say in the video, or is it that the image of the photo is just in the wires at the time of the switching, so it’s displayed on the screen for just a moment before the new image from the camera comes through, or maybe a combination of both situations?
Re:Machine Creates Fractals [video] on Sunday January 12, 2025 @10:34PM (#42679816)
Yes, I understand what you're saying. And, it is the "fellow forum user who routinely points out past related links" that I am wondering about. I did look at that users past comments, and see that user is doing that kind of thing -a lot -. What I wanted to know was, is this something being done in an official capacity, or just someone being a posting-police bully.
Re:Machine Creates Fractals [video] on Sunday January 12, 2025 @09:55PM (#42679599)
Yes, I did miss the fact that I was not responding to the person I originally asked that question to, my bad there.

But - I'm merely sharing something I think people will be interested in (and have shown interest in here in the past). If people are, indeed interested, the post gains traction and sticks around, if not, the post gets buried in obscurity. That is the beauty of this democratic process here.

Re:Machine Creates Fractals [video] on Sunday January 12, 2025 @09:13PM (#42679314)
You still haven't answered my question. What is your function here? What are you trying to accomplish? Has someone appointed you to this "position" you feel you have here? Maybe best to just let people be, and mind your own business.
Re:Machine Creates Fractals [video] on Sunday January 12, 2025 @08:59PM (#42679228)
You have not answered my question. You don't appear to be an official representative of Hacker News, just someone being annoying.
Re:Machine Creates Fractals [video] on Sunday January 12, 2025 @08:44PM (#42679142)
Thanks, just did that.
Re:Machine Creates Fractals [video] on Sunday January 12, 2025 @08:41PM (#42679123)
Has someone asked you to provide this "service" or have you just decided to point out irrelevant things on your own?
Re:Machine Creates Fractals [video] on Sunday January 12, 2025 @08:29PM (#42679030)
So?
Re:Machine Creates Fractals [video] on Sunday January 12, 2025 @08:13PM (#42678922)
Not sure what the point is of this comment.
Re:Machine Creates Fractals [video] on Sunday January 12, 2025 @08:10PM (#42678891)
That's an older iteration of the device.
Re:Machine Creates Fractals [video] on Sunday January 12, 2025 @08:06PM (#42678868)
The title of this is supposed to be "This Machine Creates Fractals" (as a nod to "This Machine Kills Fascists"), but annoyingly, it is changed automatically, removing the "This."
Re:Video is a language for making movies on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @04:31PM (#41113831)
I agree the UI for Premiere can be overwhelming to a new user. Also, the keyboard shortcuts are clearly assigned by engineers and not editors.

When I switched from tape-to-tape editing to NLEs in 2005, I started a new keyboard shortcut layout that was more intuitive, and was all on the left side of the keyboard, allowing the right hand to never have to leave the mouse.

I made a tutorial teaching Premiere by way of these shortcuts (although these shortcuts work on just about every NLE, with slight variations). The tutorial is long, but if you just go through the first part, explaining each shortcut, you can get pretty far along learning how to edit with Premiere.

The video and shortcut layout download is here: https://davidblairportfolio.com/daves-premiere-pro-tutorial

This might be the only editing tutorial that uses as an editing example the editing of the tutorial you're watching.

Yes, it gives a notice like “Copyright issue, still alright to use.” It’s then not possible to monetize the video (no matter the number of views, I won’t make any money), and one or more ads will play on the video. Also, at the end of the description YouTube says what music is used with an image and link.

Sometimes there’s a notice saying the audio will be muted in certain countries, and some music would not be allowed at all (Beatles and Prince, for example).

Vimeo is much more lenient with no ads, and I’ll often have a video up on both YouTube and there.

Thanks! (but, alas no psychedelics)
Funny - after watching this video a friend had this same thought about the lava lamps and random numbers, then I had the same thought about using a fish tank to generate random numbers.

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