Depixelizing Pixel Art (with awesome results)
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Re: Depixelizing Pixel Art (with awesome results)
#12Given the results with the Mario game cast members on the final page, this would be an excellent filter to apply (in realtime) to an old Mario game.
Yes they've done that. See the video linked from the original post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2578706
You can't because the page is cold dead.
Re: Depixelizing Pixel Art (with awesome results)
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
IIRC, scribd claims the right to (re)publish uploaded material, and will automatically put submitted material behind a paywall. It's also theoretically possible for the submitted material to rank above the author's home page, which is not necessarily desirable (if only because updates won't be available). In short, this is not as innocuous as you think.
The Google-juice argument is slightly convincing, but any right to republish the document remains with the original copyright holders, no matter what Scribd claims. (Consider YouTube in a similar position.)
Consider e.g. the people holding copyright on popular movies uploaded to YouTube. Their rights are still protected, but filing all those takedown requests is a major pain.
(Which is not to say that I agree with all of their attempts at "fixing" this.)
Re: Depixelizing Pixel Art (with awesome results)
#14It seems like the scribd-mirror has been removed. The original was posted here, but the server is not responding:
http://johanneskopf.de/publications/pixelart/paper/pixel.pdf
mirrored at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/49901/mirror/pixel.pdf
Re: Depixelizing Pixel Art (with awesome results)
#15Some questions: * Who submitted this to scribd? * Do they own the copyright? * Do they have the right to submit it to scribd? * Have they acted ethically? * Have they acted legally? Added in edit: These are, to me, legitimate and serious questions. Some time ago I posted a link here on HN to a PDF and it got automatically slurped to scribd. I didn't submit it to scribd, I don't hold the copyright, and now I find that…
This is why we can't have nice things.
Re: Depixelizing Pixel Art (with awesome results)
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes they've done that. See the video linked from the original post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2578706
You can't because the page is cold dead.
Check the link I posted, scroll down to the video.
The download starts downloading for me after a few minutes. If it doesn't you could click the comment below it to download from another location.
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#17I'm not sure how this falls ethically, but since there's no working copy online (via author, nyud.net, or scribd) and the author does give it away for free, here's a working dropbox link courtesy of Neillithan on Reddit:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1997866/_Public%20Documents/Depixeli...
Re: Depixelizing Pixel Art (with awesome results)
#18It's been deleted?
Re: Depixelizing Pixel Art (with awesome results)
#19So which SNES emulator does this?
Re: Depixelizing Pixel Art (with awesome results)
#20Some questions: * Who submitted this to scribd? * Do they own the copyright? * Do they have the right to submit it to scribd? * Have they acted ethically? * Have they acted legally? Added in edit: These are, to me, legitimate and serious questions. Some time ago I posted a link here on HN to a PDF and it got automatically slurped to scribd. I didn't submit it to scribd, I don't hold the copyright, and now I find that…
I think that in tht moment when we start caring about rights on X more than about the X itself, we have a big problem.
There's an interesting thing. The thing is inaccessible because the site it's on is dead. The thing is known to be free-to-see. Why not cache it? One definitely should.