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That is the kind of metric that got Trump elected....
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” — H.L. Mencken
Dont disagree :-)
My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary
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>> This is about the worst methodology you could possibly use here. By the contrary. It is the absolutely best methodology. I am surprised you cant see why. You should do the same for hotel reviews or amazon products. Its about the CONTENT and nature of the bad review. The best way to judge a movie, hotel, or product is often to read the negative reviews first, because negative reviews reveal the failure modes. A pos…
A movie which doesn't satisfy your specific tastes and expectations in science fiction hasn't "failed".
Again...dont confuse taste and quality:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47519704
Re: My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary
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>> This is about the worst methodology you could possibly use here. By the contrary. It is the absolutely best methodology. I am surprised you cant see why. You should do the same for hotel reviews or amazon products. Its about the CONTENT and nature of the bad review. The best way to judge a movie, hotel, or product is often to read the negative reviews first, because negative reviews reveal the failure modes. A pos…
> A negative review tells you what can go wrong, and whether that problem matters to you. You accidentally made my point here. "Whether that problem matters to you" is a matter of opinion . You apparently find the smattering of negative reviews to match your opinion; that's fine! But they don't match mine, or everyone's. Opinion-wise, the movie seems to be doing just fine. This weekend we'll get the actual metric tha…
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Would you recommend reading the book first?
As a general rule, always read the book first. In this case, that holds true - there was too much in the book to cover completely in the movie. It's a pretty quick read as well - you could probably bang it out in a long afternoon, if you were inclined. That said, I never read Harry Potter and can't imagine going back and reading it now. So, YMMV.
I watched the Harry Potter movies first and then read the books and thoroughly enjoyed the books, and the movies didn't spoil them at all.
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> Do you believe in the concept of objectivity? When it comes to the concept of entertainment? No. Is the 2003 movie The Room (written/directed/produced by Tommy Wiseau) "objectively" good or bad? * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Room If it is "objectively" 'bad' why do (many) people have such a good time watching it? Are they "objectively" happier after watching The Room ? Are people "objectively" happier after w…
>>When it comes to the concept of entertainment? No. You are confusing taste and quality.... If there is no objectivity....then you would have no basis to explain why a film is better or worse than another, A student first iPhone short would be equal to The Godfather. A child banging pots would be indistinguishable from a Symphony. The moment you say something is good or bad, we can talk about craft, skill, storytell…
> If there is no objectivity....then you would have no basis to explain why a film is better or worse than another, A student first iPhone short would be equal to The Godfather. A child banging pots would be indistinguishable from a Symphony.
What is the purpose of "art": in general and/or particular works of it? What makes (a work of) 'art' 'good'?
Is PHM 'good' in its purpose? Is The Room? Was 2023's Barbie? When a child is banging on pots, is he accomplishing his purpose in his 'creative act'? Is Schoenberg's atonal music objectively 'good'?
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJg4XbzSV9Q
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atonality
> I think Michael Bay sometimes sucks (“Pearl Harbor,” “Armageddon,” “Bad Boys II“) but I find it possible to love him for a movie like “Transformers.” It’s goofy fun with a lot of stuff that blows up real good, and it has the grace not only to realize how preposterous it is, but to make that into an asset.
Re: My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary
#106This is incredible and wonderful news, huge congratulations! As someone who works at the intersection of design and engineering, the detail about delivering "starless versions" so the credit typography doesn't compete with the bright stars is exactly the kind of invisible technical problem-solving I love reading about on here. On a personal note, I find it very refreshing to hear that a major studio opted for real ca…
I'm curious how the starless versions are created. From the steps at the end, I couldn't see a 'this is how stars are removed' step. Maybe it's part of stacking (but most stars would remain present?) or the calibration process treating stars as noise?
>> I'm curious how the starless versions are created.
Its done with using dedicated astrophotography software (StarXTerminator). Example: https://astrobackyard.com/starnet-astrophotography/
So these are more artistic photo works than real science photos...
Rod Prazeres the Astrophotographer, has given this interview where he talks about the process: https://www.astronomy.com/observing/the-astrophotography-of-...
Re: My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary
#107This is incredible and wonderful news, huge congratulations! As someone who works at the intersection of design and engineering, the detail about delivering "starless versions" so the credit typography doesn't compete with the bright stars is exactly the kind of invisible technical problem-solving I love reading about on here. On a personal note, I find it very refreshing to hear that a major studio opted for real ca…
I'm curious how the starless versions are created. From the steps at the end, I couldn't see a 'this is how stars are removed' step. Maybe it's part of stacking (but most stars would remain present?) or the calibration process treating stars as noise?
Traditionally (pre-ai) you would use another image of the same part of the sky and negate the items that you want to remove from the image
As an example terrestrial telescope mirrors get dusty. You're not going to break down the scope just to clean up the dust as this is a many days operation in most cases. So instead you would take "flats" that were of a pure white background and thus showed the dust in its full, dusty, glory. When you take your actual images, you negate (subtract from the original image) the flat and thus any noise generated by the dust. You can use this same method for removing brighter stars from an image that would otherwise saturate the ccd and wash out the background. Turns out it doesn't work for planes. Ask me how I know!
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#108Dude, amazing! The images are beautiful and it's 1000 times better when you know they're real and not CGI/AI.
They are not real ...
https://astrobackyard.com/starnet-astrophotography/
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#109Incredible work, OP. What a proud feeling you must have. Congrats!! My wife and I saw the movie this weekend, we thought it was great. I adored the book, yet I recognize a book can’t be perfectly translated to the screen. I thought the directors did a good enough job at translating the sci-fi into something the masses would enjoy. Kudos to you
Would you recommend reading the book first?
I watched the movie and then read the book.
I tend to prefer movies as a storytelling medium, and enjoyed watching the story unfold that way. I ended up just wanting to know more about things that were implied in the movie but not explained, and the book filled in those gaps well.
So if you want to do both, and want to get something new when you do each, then, having done it that way, I would recommend it.
Edit: reviewing my app history, it took me somewhere between 10-11 hours to read the book, and I do not read fiction especially fast.
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#110That's really great news. For anyone looking for the astrophotography equipment, this is from one of his posts:
Telescope: William Optics UltraCat 76 Mount: Sky-Watcher Wave 150i Camera: ZWO ASI2600MM-Pro