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From: Jörg "Yadgar" Bleimann
Subject: Re: city buildings-- animation WIP 2
Date: 13 Aug 2017 11:14:16
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Hi(gh)!

On 12.08.2017 09:51, Stephen wrote:

> As for Floyd-Steinberg dithering. Why, other than for artistic or
> historical nostalgia is it used? To me it looks like a poor halftone
> implementation. It hurts my eyes looking at them.

Yes, Floyd-Steinberg is not the best choice for animations, 1-bit 
monochrome videos look like being played on a badly tuned ancient CRT 
b/w TV set... with YIP, I'll implement ordered dither in the future!

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: city buildings-- animation WIP 2
Date: 13 Aug 2017 12:05:23
Message: <599078c3$1@news.povray.org>
On 8/13/2017 4:14 PM, Jörg "Yadgar" Bleimann wrote:
> Hi(gh)!
>
> On 12.08.2017 09:51, Stephen wrote:
>
>> As for Floyd-Steinberg dithering. Why, other than for artistic or
>> historical nostalgia is it used? To me it looks like a poor halftone
>> implementation. It hurts my eyes looking at them.
>
> Yes, Floyd-Steinberg is not the best choice for animations, 1-bit
> monochrome videos look like being played on a badly tuned ancient CRT
> b/w TV set... with YIP, I'll implement ordered dither in the future!
>

I wasn't criticising just curious that Floyd-Steinberg is still enabled. 
Testing with Paintshop Pro I prefer stucki dithering or depending on the 
outcome, the nearest colour. Just a matter of personal taste, I suppose.



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     Stephen


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: city buildings-- animation WIP 2
Date: 13 Aug 2017 15:29:01
Message: <5990a87d$1@news.povray.org>
On 8/12/2017 8:33 PM, Kenneth wrote:
> Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:
>> On 8/12/2017 8:00 AM, Kenneth wrote:
>>> (along with those of Isao
>>> Tomita, a true master.)
>>
>> At last, someone I recognise. :)
>>
>> As for Floyd-Steinberg dithering. Why, other than for artistic or
>> historical nostalgia is it used?
>>
>
> I would say, 'Art for the sake of art', if for no other reasons. (Like the old
> MGM movie logo says, 'Ars Gratia Artis.') And it also seems like an interesting
> technical challenge on older hardware.
>
Well, you or at least I, cannot argue with that. To be kind it does 
remind me of some Op Art.

> I would guess that 'ASCII art' still has its lively practitioners as well.
>
>
There must be some recidivists around. :)

Also there is typewriter art

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/magazine-24760538/the-artist-who-makes-pictures-with-a-typewriter

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Regards
     Stephen


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From: Kenneth
Subject: Re: city buildings-- animation WIP 2
Date: 13 Aug 2017 15:55:00
Message: <web.5990ac4ec78f585a883fb31c0@news.povray.org>
=?UTF-8?Q?J=c3=b6rg_=22Yadgar=22_Bleimann?= <yaz### [at] gmxde> wrote:

>
> Larry Fast must have been massively influenced by Tomita, when it comes
> to sounds ... "The Planets" dates from 1976, so
> there very well could have been such an influence... perhaps I should
> get in touch with him once more (in 2010 we swapped some e-mail and I
> showed him samples of my own synthesizer music) and ask him about it...
>

I've always been one of those DIY guys, so back in the mid-to-late 1970's, I
built a (large!) one-note-at-a-time music synthesizer from kits made by PAIA
(John Simonton.) Tomita was my major influence to do so. The only trouble with
PAIA kits (at the time) was that they didn't use the standard 1-volt-per-octave
paradigm, that almost every other synth did. And it was purely analog; the
circuits would 'drift' slightly, requiring recalibration every now and then. But
along with my trusty 4-track TEAC reel-to-reel tape deck, that synth was an
astounding creative tool.

Sad to say, I dismantled that old synth years ago.

Now, the old synths (MOOG, ARP, and probably others) are all available in
software emulation. (And they would certainly be *easier* to use than in the old
days!) I haven't purchased one yet, but I might get the urge to
dive back into synth music in the future.


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