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Oh lord, quit your belly-achin', brits :P I love UK humour as much as the next guy, but they've leveraged a popular name and created something new with it that honestly turned out hilarious. The problem is that people are attempting to view each one as an international duplicate of the other, character for character, but that's not the case. People are almost *always* going to gravitate towards whichever one they got used to first. As such, I greatly prefer the American one, but I'm not going to say it's 'better'.

However, the American remake of Oldboy IS going to be an abomination that the creators should die for. Will Smith. That's all I need to know. Will Smith.

More incentive to come to PAX

'Nother reason not to go, as if I needed one, more liek

fanfellatio alternative -

Oh, that's great, but I'm not really into Pokemon.

At 8/22/09 06:35 PM, NegativeONE wrote: However, the American remake of Oldboy IS going to be an abomination that the creators should die for. Will Smith. That's all I need to know. Will Smith.

It gets worse. Word is they're planning a remake of Joint Security Area. On the US-Mexican border. Because, you know, the DMZ between North and South Korea is analogous in every possible way to the US-Mexican border :/

Park Chan-Wook has all the luck

At 8/22/09 07:56 PM, Paranoia wrote:

Park Chan-Wook has all the luck

I presume he's to be played by Samuel L Jackson in this one? Le sigh.

I ran 11.5 miles yesterday after getting lost on a University of California campus. I'm tired :(.

Female counterpart had her Bachelorette Party last night instead of running with me. She has survived the night and made it the bridal shower, which was full of bakeware. So much bakeware.

Have a good evening :)

Recreating Images with Evolutionary Algorithms

Sorry for the assholery of that title, I couldn't think of writing it another way.

I made a pointless little flash which recreates an image by adding a randomly coloured, positioned and sized box onto a bitmap data. If this box means that the bitmap looks more like the picture its meant to, it's kept. If it looks less like what it's meant to, it's reverted to what it was originally.

At the moment the boxes are random between 0-20 pixels wide/long. Bigger boxes = less accurate but quicker.

Pointless, but quite fun to make :D

Gunna leave it over night to see what it'll look like in the morning.

At 8/22/09 09:22 PM, trig1 wrote:

Gunna leave it over night to see what it'll look like in the morning.

why don't you check 100 boxes per frame instead of 1 then?

Back from my looong break

Time to write stuff no one gives a shit about:

I've been on a break from life and Flash for the past 2-3 weeks. Been very unproductive.
Working on Power of Three game.
Luis is gonna kill me when I go on aim :)

I also started learning OOP. Managed to work my own cheap ass method so far. No more frame coding at least !

Also this.

holy mother of moses, that's one ugly mona lisa >.<

You should all go and see Inglorious Basterds! What a fine piece of filmmaking, much better than I anticipated. Also reached San Francisco, the end of my roadtrip/vacation. I can't wait to get back and start working on my projects again, I'm filled with inspiration and all sorts of crazy ideas.

Lowest rated day ever or lowest rated day ever?

At 8/23/09 02:58 AM, Josh-B wrote: Lowest rated day ever or lowest rated day ever?

obviously there was some foul play

At 8/23/09 03:04 AM, Magical-Zorse wrote:

At 8/23/09 02:58 AM, Josh-B wrote: Lowest rated day ever or lowest rated day ever?

obviously there was some foul play

Or could we say, FOWL play.

Someone shoot me. Ducks aren't even categorised in the 'fowl' line of things.

At 8/22/09 09:22 PM, trig1 wrote: At the moment the boxes are random between 0-20 pixels wide/long. Bigger boxes = less accurate but quicker.

Pointless, but quite fun to make :D

Gunna leave it over night to see what it'll look like in the morning.

Thats really cool. The only thing i can think of is that it will never become accurate enough to show much detail because of the 20 pixel boxes. I had it so that there was a good defined nose going on, but then a big plain coloured box decided it was more suitable and so covered it all up. I think it would work better if the boxes started off big, but then over time the size of the new boxes gets smaller and smaller until each one is just a pixel. Its kind of like how when painting the mona lisa you'd use a big paintbrush to start with, but then when you've got the basics down, you'd use a smaller paintbrush for all the detail.

Also, theres a pale line on the bottom and right side from where half the box is off the photo area and it averages some white pixels too.

At 8/22/09 09:22 PM, trig1 wrote: Recreating Images with Evolutionary Algorithms

Here's my attempt (made in about 5 minutes)

http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/230809/4 2886_evo.php

Boxes start off at somewhere between 1x1 to 55x55, reducing over time to somewhere between 1x1 to 5x5

At 8/22/09 09:19 PM, jmtb02 wrote: I ran 11.5 miles yesterday after getting lost on a University of California campus. I'm tired :(.

Female counterpart had her Bachelorette Party last night instead of running with me. She has survived the night and made it the bridal shower, which was full of bakeware. So much bakeware.

Have a good evening :)

Hopefully when you have your bachelor party, we get to hear all the details :D

At 8/23/09 12:08 AM, zrb wrote: Also this.

I like it, nice colours :)

Cant wait to see Will Smith cut his own tongue off :)

I wanted to get your opinion on this facial test animation I did with Jack Black.

http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/230809/3 4930_Tenacious_D.swf

At 8/23/09 09:44 AM, Keith wrote: I wanted to get your opinion on this facial test animation I did with Jack Black.

http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/230809/3 4930_Tenacious_D.swf

FAR TOO LOUD btw, i was like ARGH and had to turn down speakers right down when that started up

Sorry for the double post but here is an updated version

http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/230809/3 5168_Tenacious_D.php

At 8/23/09 09:45 AM, dELtaluca wrote:

At 8/23/09 09:44 AM, Keith wrote: I wanted to get your opinion on this facial test animation I did with Jack Black.

http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/230809/3 4930_Tenacious_D.swf

FAR TOO LOUD btw, i was like ARGH and had to turn down speakers right down when that started up

wait, ignore me; it seems it was just because i was watching a very quiet video beforehand :P

At 8/23/09 09:45 AM, dELtaluca wrote:

At 8/23/09 09:44 AM, Keith wrote: I wanted to get your opinion on this facial test animation I did with Jack Black.

http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/230809/3 4930_Tenacious_D.swf

FAR TOO LOUD btw, i was like ARGH and had to turn down speakers right down when that started up

That's cause that part of the song is LOUD and it's not that loud.

At 8/23/09 09:46 AM, Keith wrote: Sorry for the double post but here is an updated version

http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/230809/3 5168_Tenacious_D.php

It looks good but if feels too... rigid. I think that's a good description.

Please watch Tarboy. It's really fantastic!

At 8/23/09 10:38 AM, El-Presidente wrote: Please watch Tarboy. It's really fantastic!

(forgot to add my own thoughts :P)

The song / songs flow well together, and it's awesome how the artist was able to mix together the very cartoony style with some really amazing graphical effects in the fires and things. Think it was all done in Flash?

(forgot I could just add submissions like that)

Tarboy, by jameslee03 Type: Movie Rating: Ages 13+

At 8/23/09 09:46 AM, Keith wrote: Sorry for the double post but here is an updated version

http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/230809/3 5168_Tenacious_D.php

In-between it, that'd be cool

At 8/23/09 11:20 AM, Zyphonee wrote:

At 8/23/09 09:46 AM, Keith wrote: Sorry for the double post but here is an updated version

http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/230809/3 5168_Tenacious_D.php

In-between it, that'd be cool

What do you mean?

and

what do you mean by rigid?

i have 6 submission this year does that count

At 8/23/09 06:56 AM, dELtaluca wrote:

At 8/22/09 09:22 PM, trig1 wrote: Recreating Images with Evolutionary Algorithms

Here's my attempt (made in about 5 minutes)

http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/230809/4 2886_evo.php

Boxes start off at somewhere between 1x1 to 55x55, reducing over time to somewhere between 1x1 to 5x5

Thats well good. You should make it so it starts off so less squares are made every frame though because otherwise it starts looking like the picture too early in my opinion.

At 8/23/09 12:29 PM, CybexALT wrote: Thats well good. You should make it so it starts off so less squares are made every frame though because otherwise it starts looking like the picture too early in my opinion.

It does :P as the squares become smaller, it does more per frame since the smaller ones are less intensive to work on, but i keep it as high as possible so that you don't need to wait ages.

At 8/23/09 08:44 AM, Jimp wrote: Cant wait to see Will Smith cut his own tongue off :)

Oh as if they'll keep that. I can only imagine Hollywood's idea of ruining that scene. A formal letter of apology, I imagine.