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Switched on Bach is one of my favorite albums of all time.
You should take a listen to Tomita as well then! There is so much beautiful music in the world
These seem to be made by artists trained on traditional drawing. All drawings show knowledge of cross-hatching or pointillism, correct use of values, perspective, and so on. That’s why it looks great today, these qualities are independent of how advanced the digital medium of the time was.
How do you even do that? Zoomed out it looks like a nearly photorealistic street scene, zoomed in I just see seemingly meaningless patterns of black and white. Magic. Unbelievable.
These seem to be made by artists trained on traditional drawing. All drawings show knowledge of cross-hatching or pointillism, correct use of values, perspective, and so on. That’s why it looks great today, these qualities are independent of how advanced the digital medium of the time was.
Look at this one for example - my mind is blown: https://blog.decryption.net.au/images/macpaint/lesson3d.png How do you even do that? Zoomed out it looks like a nearly photorealistic street scene, zoomed in I just see seemingly meaningless patterns of black and white. Magic. Unbelievable.
Dithering, for one. The parent also suggests pointillism, which was also a popular modern art technique for making detailed portraits using small, low-detail components.
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Western classical music had a strong tradition of taking advantage of cutting edge technological advances, especially in metallurgy but also advanced woodworking techniques like lamination making large soundboards possible and pushing the bounds of acoustic amplification. It wasn't until I think around the advent of recorded music and electric amplification that it settled into a fairly stable set of instruments & so…
Settled, or ossified? Sure, there’s modern classical with more adventurous instrumentation, but that’s not what the moneyed retirees down at the opera house want to hear. The music of the classical canon is unbelievably fantastic, and it deserves respectful treatment, but the genre has lost the audience for cool new sounds. It’s very unfortunate.
This annoying behavior does not win me any friends but remember that the great classical composers were the rock stars of their day.
Then we should probably mention http://macpaint.org (From page HTML source) Does anyone even remember why Netscape 4 was bad?
> Does anyone even remember why Netscape 4 was bad? Netscape 4 is a broad set of releases over several years. It also wasn't necessarily "bad". It was just largely not mindblowingly better than Netscape 3 (for normal users) while using more CPU and RAM. I also imagine in this context it's incomplete CSS support is problematic. Netscape 3 will ignore properly commented out CSS (mostly) while 4 will try to interpret wh…
At the end, there was something like acceptable variation in page view for different browsers.
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You have no idea on how charming these games look.
Or I do, because I played them? But that was my not well received point about nostalgia ..
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Western classical music had a strong tradition of taking advantage of cutting edge technological advances, especially in metallurgy but also advanced woodworking techniques like lamination making large soundboards possible and pushing the bounds of acoustic amplification. It wasn't until I think around the advent of recorded music and electric amplification that it settled into a fairly stable set of instruments & so…
Settled, or ossified? Sure, there’s modern classical with more adventurous instrumentation, but that’s not what the moneyed retirees down at the opera house want to hear. The music of the classical canon is unbelievably fantastic, and it deserves respectful treatment, but the genre has lost the audience for cool new sounds. It’s very unfortunate.
The last (well only) time I was in an opera house the retirees were listing to Blue Öyster Cult.
