Comments on: Video: Fauxtography made even easier! http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/ The world’s first, full-service conservative Internet broadcast network Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:25:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: techno_barbarian http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-686968 techno_barbarian Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:07:09 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/#comment-686968 <blockquote>Anyhoo, if you liked that video, check out this video of SeaDragonhttp://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129. You’ll pee your pants. saint kansas on September 12, 2007 at 11:29 AM</blockquote> Fantastic link! Thanks Saint Kansas! Blows me away that such a huge amount of image data can be just thrown around and displayed so effortlessly. The linked photo thing was awesome. I love technology!

Anyhoo, if you liked that video, check out this video of SeaDragonhttp://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129. You’ll pee your pants.

saint kansas on September 12, 2007 at 11:29 AM

Fantastic link! Thanks Saint Kansas!

Blows me away that such a huge amount of image data can be just thrown around and displayed so effortlessly. The linked photo thing was awesome.

I love technology!

]]> By: slp http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-686901 slp Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:30:07 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/#comment-686901 A recent testimonial: Osama dead? No problem. Video Trace can raise the dead and bring them back to life. ---- Adam Gadahn A recent testimonial:

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No problem.

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]]> By: slp http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-686873 slp Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:15:54 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/#comment-686873 Recent purchasers of Video Trace: Reuters -- Lebanon AP Al Jazeera Recently downloaded bootleg version from internet: Adam Gadahn Recent purchasers of Video Trace:

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AP

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]]> By: MirCat http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-686837 MirCat Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:53:16 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/#comment-686837 <blockquote>Anyhoo, if you liked that video, check out this video of SeaDragonhttp://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129. You’ll pee your pants. saint kansas on September 12, 2007 at 11:29 AM</blockquote> :O That's a must watch all the way through. Now apply what that does to picutes to text and google will die overnight. - The Cat

Anyhoo, if you liked that video, check out this video of SeaDragonhttp://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129. You’ll pee your pants.

saint kansas on September 12, 2007 at 11:29 AM

:O

That’s a must watch all the way through.

Now apply what that does to picutes to text and google will die overnight.

- The Cat

]]> By: MirCat http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-686838 MirCat Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:53:16 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/#comment-686838 <blockquote>Anyhoo, if you liked that video, check out this video of SeaDragonhttp://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129. You’ll pee your pants. saint kansas on September 12, 2007 at 11:29 AM</blockquote> :O That's a must watch all the way through. Now apply what that does to picutes to text and google will die overnight. - The Cat

Anyhoo, if you liked that video, check out this video of SeaDragonhttp://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129. You’ll pee your pants.

saint kansas on September 12, 2007 at 11:29 AM

:O

That’s a must watch all the way through.

Now apply what that does to picutes to text and google will die overnight.

- The Cat

]]> By: MirCat http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-686809 MirCat Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:42:21 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/#comment-686809 Just imaging what C&C 4 will be like. - The Cat P.S. Just think of the fan films in a few years. Just imaging what C&C 4 will be like.

- The Cat

P.S. Just think of the fan films in a few years.

]]> By: snapped shot http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-686802 snapped shot Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:41:11 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/#comment-686802 <strong>The Untrustworthy Nature...</strong> ... of film, writ large: It's a recurring debate as to whether or not the technological advances being made in imaging are beneficial to the cause of truthfulness or not, and it's not one that's really all that "new" of a worry, as photo fraud ca... The Untrustworthy Nature…

… of film, writ large: It’s a recurring debate as to whether or not the technological advances being made in imaging are beneficial to the cause of truthfulness or not, and it’s not one that’s really all that “new” of a worry, as photo fraud ca…

]]> By: Video to 3D Model « What The Crap? - whatthecrap.us http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-686758 Video to 3D Model « What The Crap? - whatthecrap.us Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:20:08 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/#comment-686758 [...] Hotair] Posted in Factual Crap, Absurd Crap, Techno-Crap, Profound Crap, Hot Crap, Phatty McTight [...] [...] Hotair] Posted in Factual Crap, Absurd Crap, Techno-Crap, Profound Crap, Hot Crap, Phatty McTight [...]

]]> By: kiakjones http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-686601 kiakjones Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:33:53 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/#comment-686601 Saint Kansas that was simply jaw-dropping! Saint Kansas that was simply jaw-dropping!

]]> By: The Thunder Run http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-686567 The Thunder Run Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:10:37 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/#comment-686567 <strong>Web Reconnaissance for 09/12/2007...</strong> A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day...so check back often.... Web Reconnaissance for 09/12/2007…

A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day…so check back often….

]]> By: Ed Gruberman كافر http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-686420 Ed Gruberman كافر Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:57:12 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/#comment-686420 <strong>• Fauxtography 101 (Unbelievable Video!)...</strong> A few days ago I posted the video of the photo resizing software. Well this will make it a lot easier for the AP photogs to fake more photos… ...... • Fauxtography 101 (Unbelievable Video!)…

A few days ago I posted the video of the photo resizing software. Well this will make it a lot easier for the AP photogs to fake more photos…

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]]> By: saint kansas http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-686375 saint kansas Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:29:49 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/#comment-686375 That's super cool. However, a very, very similar app called Canoma did essentially the same thing back in 1999; Adobe bought it up, renamed it Atmosphere, and then abandoned it a couple of days later. Anyhoo, if you liked that video, check out <em>this </em>video of <a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129" rel="nofollow">SeaDragon</a>http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129. You'll pee your pants. That’s super cool. However, a very, very similar app called Canoma did essentially the same thing back in 1999; Adobe bought it up, renamed it Atmosphere, and then abandoned it a couple of days later.

Anyhoo, if you liked that video, check out this video of SeaDragonhttp://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129. You’ll pee your pants.

]]> By: JiangxiDad http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-686371 JiangxiDad Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:26:19 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/#comment-686371 <blockquote>Yeah, “Put” you there. A new paranoid the cops set-me-up defense. sunny on September 12, 2007 at 10:06 AM</blockquote> Unshaven bloggers alone in basements hardly have alibis. They can get us all in one fell swoop.

Yeah, “Put” you there. A new paranoid the cops set-me-up defense.
sunny on September 12, 2007 at 10:06 AM

Unshaven bloggers alone in basements hardly have alibis. They can get us all in one fell swoop.

]]> By: Mallard T. Drake http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-686359 Mallard T. Drake Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:21:24 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/#comment-686359 Will the NYT and other media outlets new slogan be: All the news that's <em>made to </em>fit <strike>to</strike> <em>what we want to </em>print Will the NYT and other media outlets new slogan be:

All the news that’s made to fit to what we want to print

]]> By: locomotivebreath1901 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-686358 locomotivebreath1901 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:21:12 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/#comment-686358 <strong>All your fakes are <em>not</em> belong to us?</strong> All your fakes are not belong to us?

]]> By: DaveS http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-686357 DaveS Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:20:59 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/#comment-686357 <blockquote>Not really. Hardware costs to render the scene from the demo could buy you, uhm, several thousand iPhones.</blockquote> That's nonsense. The demo only involved very low poly-count geometry on top of a 2D image. It could ostensibly be run on an old fixed-function video card (prior to the programmable pipeline... we're talking GeForce2 video cards) with only a modest machine.

Not really. Hardware costs to render the scene from the demo could buy you, uhm, several thousand iPhones.

That’s nonsense. The demo only involved very low poly-count geometry on top of a 2D image. It could ostensibly be run on an old fixed-function video card (prior to the programmable pipeline… we’re talking GeForce2 video cards) with only a modest machine.

]]> By: lorien1973 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-686331 lorien1973 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:06:14 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/#comment-686331 I dunno about anyone else, but its maddening that you cannot tell what's real and what's fake in movies or tv anymore. I dunno about anyone else, but its maddening that you cannot tell what’s real and what’s fake in movies or tv anymore.

]]> By: Alden Pyle http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-686328 Alden Pyle Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:03:07 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/#comment-686328 Nice! Now we can finally get the OJ video the jury needed. Nice! Now we can finally get the OJ video the jury needed.

]]> By: Linker Barn: Hump Day, September 12 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-686299 Linker Barn: Hump Day, September 12 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:48:28 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/#comment-686299 [...] Video: more fun with fauxtography. [...] [...] Video: more fun with fauxtography. [...]

]]> By: Nethicus http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-686272 Nethicus Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:30:43 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/#comment-686272 Who needs to spend $10 million on special effects anymore? That's incredible technology in the hands of the common man. Who needs to spend $10 million on special effects anymore?

That’s incredible technology in the hands of the common man.

]]> By: Limerick http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-686228 Limerick Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:07:22 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/#comment-686228 Texture mapping and stitching of complex 3d objects is still biggest challenge and requires big bucks for proper hardware and software to handle correctly. But it is the future folks...and every day it will get easier, cheaper, and harder to detect. Texture mapping and stitching of complex 3d objects is still biggest challenge and requires big bucks for proper hardware and software to handle correctly. But it is the future folks…and every day it will get easier, cheaper, and harder to detect.

]]> By: sunny http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-686227 sunny Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:06:51 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/#comment-686227 <blockquote>until it’s used to put me at the scene of a crime. JiangxiDad on September 12, 2007 at 9:56 AM</blockquote> Yeah, "Put" you there. A new paranoid the cops set-me-up defense. /oy

until it’s used to put me at the scene of a crime.

JiangxiDad on September 12, 2007 at 9:56 AM

Yeah, “Put” you there. A new paranoid the cops set-me-up defense.

/oy

]]> By: TheSitRep http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-686225 TheSitRep Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:05:28 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/#comment-686225 that's pretty sweet! that’s pretty sweet!

]]> By: profitsbeard http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-686223 profitsbeard Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:05:06 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/#comment-686223 Motion capture and this ease of replication should clue in the legal system that they need to demand a simultaneously- recorded <strong>parallel </strong> <strong>analog negative</strong> (celluloid and silver/dyes) for all court-bound (<em>increasingly digital only</em>) photography (<em>still or motion</em>), otherwise these images should be thrown out as unreliable. If it is all <em>zeroes and ones</em>, and no one can say what the original was, how can the digital be trusted? <em>Habeus analogus</em> should be the fundamental requirement for legal veracity. <strong>No material negative, no case</strong>. Otherwise, we risk our liberty on a manipulated fantasy. Motion capture and this ease of replication should clue in the legal system that they need to demand a simultaneously- recorded parallel analog negative (celluloid and silver/dyes) for all court-bound (increasingly digital only) photography (still or motion), otherwise these images should be thrown out as unreliable.

If it is all zeroes and ones, and no one can say what the original was, how can the digital be trusted?

Habeus analogus should be the fundamental requirement for legal veracity.

No material negative, no case.

Otherwise, we risk our liberty on a manipulated fantasy.

]]> By: km http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-686217 km Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:02:01 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/12/video-fauxtography-made-even-easier/#comment-686217 I think you just solved the army's recruiting problem -- <em>without using robots!</em> I think you just solved the army’s recruiting problem — without using robots!

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