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Re: A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface

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Post by reaperducer »

rsync wrote: post #68
camkerr wrote: post #18

If anyone is interested, here's a post about the original graphics and interface design from the movie by jt nimoy: https://www.talisman.org/~erlkonig/misc/tron-legacy-effects-...

I feel that the 'Tron: Legacy' and 'The Martian' interfaces ar the high water marks in this category ... Here is a full treatment of the Martian screens/interfaces: https://territorystudio.com/project/the-martian/

Someone once made a HAL 9000 screensaver for the Mac.

The author spent an incredible amount of time matching the fonts and animations to the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Unfortunately, he was too good at it, and got a nastygram from the people who own the rights to the film, so it's no longer available.

But I still have my download that I run on my machine, and it's very impressive in a very retro-cool way.

Re: A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface

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Post by laumars »

reaperducer wrote: post #81
rsync wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel that the 'Tron: Legacy' and 'The Martian' interfaces ar the high water marks in this category ... Here is a full treatment of the Martian screens/interfaces: https://territorystudio.com/project/the-martian/

Someone once made a HAL 9000 screensaver for the Mac. The author spent an incredible amount of time matching the fonts and animations to the film 2001: A Space Odyssey . Unfortunately, he was too good at it, and got a nastygram from the people who own the rights to the film, so it's no longer available. But I still have my download that I run on my machine, and it's very impressive in a very retro-cool way.

That’s my worry about this shell too. Disney aren’t exactly known for being passive about intellectual property (even though half of their iconic movies are based on stories in the public domain).

Re: A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface

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Post by joopdevries »

tyingq wrote: post #65
the_af wrote: post #52

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I suppose they don't realize it. To be fair, I can only tell when it's computer-related nonsense, but I absolutely cannot tell if (for example) medical dramas such as Grey's Anatomy are at all realistic, barring reasonable artistic licenses to make a scene more dramatic. The surgeons could be doing something as silly as "hacking the same keyboard" and I wouldn't know. The computer-related scenes in medical dramas are…

My mother, a nurse, likes House. She says there's plenty wrong, but enough right that it's not too distracting.

Wasn't there this trivia that comedy hospital series Scrubs was actually the most technically correct medical show?

Re: A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface

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Post by koko775 »

Bluestrike2 wrote: post #47
tyingq wrote: post #39

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Painful, but I watched it to the end. Urgh. "DOD Level 9 Encryption" and pretty sure their "fix" was unplugging the monitor.

I wonder if the actors realize just how dumb these sorts of scenes are when they're filming them.

Yes- IIRC NCIS self-consciously tried to see how ridiculous they could make it.

Re: A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface

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Post by evgen »

koko775 wrote: post #84
Bluestrike2 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder if the actors realize just how dumb these sorts of scenes are when they're filming them.

Yes- IIRC NCIS self-consciously tried to see how ridiculous they could make it.

The interesting thing is that in the first few seasons NCIS got a lot of the computer tech mostly right (modulo some dramatic license regarding easy access to every possible data source the government might have) but as they relied more on Tim the IT guy as a convenient oracle for moving the plot along it quickly dove into "enhance, enhance, enhance..." mode.

Re: A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface

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Post by Zardoz84 »

reaperducer wrote: post #81
rsync wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel that the 'Tron: Legacy' and 'The Martian' interfaces ar the high water marks in this category ... Here is a full treatment of the Martian screens/interfaces: https://territorystudio.com/project/the-martian/

Someone once made a HAL 9000 screensaver for the Mac. The author spent an incredible amount of time matching the fonts and animations to the film 2001: A Space Odyssey . Unfortunately, he was too good at it, and got a nastygram from the people who own the rights to the film, so it's no longer available. But I still have my download that I run on my machine, and it's very impressive in a very retro-cool way.

Oh man ... I remember the time that I was thinking seriously about doing Plymouth theme of HAL9000. The idea was having a little window showing dmesg at boot, and random HAL900 stuff on the other fake screens.

Re: A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface

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Post by Doxin »

tyingq wrote: post #39
teekert wrote: post #37

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But... Can it take input from two people hacking on one keyboard? [0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ

Painful, but I watched it to the end. Urgh. "DOD Level 9 Encryption" and pretty sure their "fix" was unplugging the monitor.

I'm fairly sure NCIS is doing stuff like this on purpose. Like the caf-pows that are always empty to the point of making slurping sounds fresh from the store or that time gibbs didn't know how to use an usb drive so he tried putting it in his mouth.

Re: A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface

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Post by nailer »

lostgame wrote: post #46
SmellyGeekBoy wrote: post #40

Aww, why was the title changed? Copyright concerns? That's a real shame if so.

The previous title was also inaccurate as I believe it actually labelled it as something like 'TRON OS' - the issue with that, of course, being, this isn't an OS, but an application.

No, I wrote the title, it uses 'interface' or 'UI'.

It's inspired by edex as well as Tron:Legacy but I wanted to keep it short.

New title is less relevant and needless meddling.

Re: A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface

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Post by sandos »

rsync wrote: post #68
camkerr wrote: post #18

If anyone is interested, here's a post about the original graphics and interface design from the movie by jt nimoy: https://www.talisman.org/~erlkonig/misc/tron-legacy-effects-...

I feel that the 'Tron: Legacy' and 'The Martian' interfaces ar the high water marks in this category ... Here is a full treatment of the Martian screens/interfaces: https://territorystudio.com/project/the-martian/

The Martian in book-form is very impressive, it describes patching, in binary form, a bug in wxworks regarding priority inversion.

I worked with people a few years ago who had done the exact same thing, which felt a bit weird. Not on martian rovers or anything but on production systems for electrical networks.

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