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For 10 years now, I have a tradition to make a yearly version of Jingle
Bells. This year I made a version resembling the Mission Impossible Theme.
Normally it's just an instrumental mp3-file, but this year I decided to make
a little videoclip for it.
It's made in Blender, and took about 3 days to render.
Here's the result:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbJIZGyKZH4
Now, most people I've shown it to, don't seem to recognize Jingle Bells...
Apparently I've done it a bit too subtle :-/
Anyway, the video is, as the description says, actually the short version,
the full version
(http://sad.nostalg1c.org/backtrack/BaCKTRaCK_-_Jingle_Impossible.mp3) is
imho a lot better (and it's easier to recognize Jingle Bells in that one :))
Still, I hope you like it :)
cu!
--
#macro G(b,e)b+(e-b)*C/50#end#macro _(b,e,k,l)#local C=0;#while(C<50)
sphere{G(b,e)+3*z.1pigment{rgb G(k,l)}finish{ambient 1}}#local C=C+1;
#end#end _(y-x,y,x,x+y)_(y,-x-y,x+y,y)_(-x-y,-y,y,y+z)_(-y,y,y+z,x+y)
_(0x+y.5+y/2x)_(0x-y.5+y/2x) // ZK http://www.povplace.com
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Zeger Knaepen <zeg### [at] povplace com> wrote:
> For 10 years now, I have a tradition to make a yearly version of Jingle
> Bells.
That reminds me of a medley song I made a long, long time ago (which I was
able to salvage from an audio-CD where I had burned it):
http://kapsi.fi/warp/jb2.mp3
And for something completely different:
http://kapsi.fi/warp/test8.mp3
--
- Warp
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Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> (which I was able to salvage from an audio-CD where I had burned it)
Btw, this process showed me again why I like Linux so much more than
Windows.
You see, I had ripped the audio track to a wav file and wanted to convert
to an mp3. But I didn't have LAME installed. No problem. I launched the
"install software" app, waited for about 10 seconds it updated its indices,
then wrote "lame" in the search field, selected it from the list and clicked
"accept". Now I had LAME installed, and I could convert the wav file with
a simple "lame test8.wav test8.mp3".
Overall, I estimate it took me about 30 seconds from realizing that I don't
have LAME installed to being able to run it (most of the time going into
waiting for the software installation app to update its indices and then
downloading the LAME binary).
Compare that to the situation where, in Windows, you don't have any software
to create mp3 files and you want to get one.
--
- Warp
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Warp wrote:
> Btw, this process showed me again why I like Linux so much more than
> Windows.
>
> You see, I had ripped the audio track to a wav file and wanted to convert
> to an mp3. But I didn't have LAME installed. No problem. I launched the
> "install software" app, waited for about 10 seconds it updated its indices,
> then wrote "lame" in the search field, selected it from the list and clicked
> "accept". Now I had LAME installed, and I could convert the wav file with
> a simple "lame test8.wav test8.mp3".
>
> Overall, I estimate it took me about 30 seconds from realizing that I don't
> have LAME installed to being able to run it (most of the time going into
> waiting for the software installation app to update its indices and then
> downloading the LAME binary).
>
> Compare that to the situation where, in Windows, you don't have any software
> to create mp3 files and you want to get one.
You just happen to know that there's a program for doing this and it's
called LAME. If you didn't already know that, I estimate it would take a
while to figure it out.
Seems the real difference with Linux is that you get the OS in the form
of a "distrubition", which contains the OS plus an insane bonanza of
software covering more things than any normal human could ever want.
It's all in one place, you just gotta click it. (Or whatever.) With
Windows, you have to go get all the products from different places,
because nobody has gathered it up into one giant database for you. (Then
again, try installing a Unix product that isn't in your distro's package
database...)
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Warp wrote:
> Compare that to the situation where, in Windows, you don't have any software
> to create mp3 files and you want to get one.
You install winamp?
sorry, that comparison of yours was kinda... lame. :P
There are many good reasons to love Linux and dislike Windows, but
that's not one of them. Like Orchid said, you knew about mp3-creating
software called lame...
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Warp wrote:
> "install software" app, waited for about 10 seconds it updated its indices,
> then wrote "lame" in the search field, selected it from the list and clicked
> "accept".
I'm impressed at how friendly ubuntu is too.
If you type "ctags", it comes back and says
"ctags isn't installed. It's in the following packages:
blah-emacs-blah
blah-vim-blah
exuberant-ctags-blah
Type
sudo apt-get install <package>
to install one of these."
You don't even have to search, if you already know the name, and it's smart
enough to actually tell you more than the package name, so you're not left
going "OK, then what?" That was a pain in the butt on debian.
Open source folks are finally starting to recognize the benefits of user
friendliness.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Human nature dictates that toothpaste tubes spend
much longer being almost empty than almost full.
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nemesis wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>> Compare that to the situation where, in Windows, you don't have any
>> software
>> to create mp3 files and you want to get one.
>
> You install winamp?
>
> sorry, that comparison of yours was kinda... lame. :P
I can install Kate in less time than it takes you to even start the browser
and find the Notepad++ website...
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Darren New wrote:
> If you type "ctags", it comes back and says
> "ctags isn't installed. It's in the following packages:
> blah-emacs-blah
> blah-vim-blah
> exuberant-ctags-blah
> Type
> sudo apt-get install <package>
> to install one of these."
>
> You don't even have to search, if you already know the name, and it's
> smart enough to actually tell you more than the package name, so you're
> not left
> going "OK, then what?" That was a pain in the butt on debian.
Well, now in Debian you can just "apt-get install command-not-found" and get
get that same functionality :)
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> You just happen to know that there's a program for doing this and it's
> called LAME. If you didn't already know that, I estimate it would take a
> while to figure it out.
With the Yast installer, you can search on the names of files or the
descriptions of what it does, too. Probably in the other package managers
too, but I haven't found a need to do that yet. So, no, if you searched for
"rip mp3" you'd probably find LAME also.
> Seems the real difference with Linux is that you get the OS in the form
> of a "distrubition", which contains the OS plus an insane bonanza of
> software covering more things than any normal human could ever want.
> It's all in one place, you just gotta click it. (Or whatever.)
Yep. And if it's not already in the distribution, or you need a newer
version, you're usually *worse* off than you are with Windows.
> Windows, you have to go get all the products from different places,
> because nobody has gathered it up into one giant database for you.
They did. It's called "google". ;-)
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Human nature dictates that toothpaste tubes spend
much longer being almost empty than almost full.
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Warp wrote:
> Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>> (which I was able to salvage from an audio-CD where I had burned it)
>
> Btw, this process showed me again why I like Linux so much more than
> Windows.
> Compare that to the situation where, in Windows, you don't have any software
> to create mp3 files and you want to get one.
>
You make a good case for Linux, there.
I think that the biggest problem in this situation with windows is
sifting out the rubbish apps that are available.
Last week I wanted to burn a CD from flac files I had to download three
converter programs before I got one that worked satisfactorily.
--
Best Regards,
Stephen
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