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Post by imtringued »

WorldMaker wrote: post #111
jstx1 wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know if that's a good excuse - Neo and Trinity both died in Revolutions but Keanu and Carrie-Ann Moss are back.

(Further Matrix Online spoilers) The main storyline of the bulk of the time that The Matrix Online was, uh, online was the resurrection of Neo (or "the retrieval of Neo from the Source" if you prefer that nomenclature). Morpheus sacrificed himself as a part of that effort. From the stand point of "Morpheus sacrificed himself for Neo", that's a good story, even if very few players were around for the game event where…

If Matrix Online had an important part of the plot then Matrix 4 would include that story to catch everyone up.

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Post by ed_db »

rezmason wrote: post #65
yitchelle wrote: post #17

Who had the Matrix screen saver back in the day? I was in an open plan office at the time of about 30 desks. Every single one of the machines had this screen saver running.

Does anyone mind if I peddle mine? Runs in the browser, lots of customizability: http://rezmason.github.io/matrix http://rezmason.github.io/matrix/?volumetric=true Forks, pull requests and feedback welcome! :) http://www.github.com/Rezmason/matrix

This is fantastic, I was always intrigued if it would be possible to create a similar effect using actual code from Github rather than glyphs.

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Post by gregsadetsky »

diimdeep wrote: post #160
gregsadetsky wrote: post #153

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Yeah, you’re totally right, and “red” can also be “blue” of course I didn’t go into that but I should have mentioned it. There are also multiple resolutions for the videos…! It’s truly 1440 videos times all of the options…! Have you have been able to decode what the b, e, g and h options mean?

Is there larger resolution than 1080p ?

Someone posted a trailer they found (that has since been removed) with “7000k” in the url, so… maybe?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28448361

Having looked at it a bit more, I only see "low" and "high" mentioned as qualities. You can replace "high" with "low" in the list of URLs I included (see my gist, posted above) and they seem to work e.g.,

https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/generated/v7/lo...

There is an intriguing list in the source code though:

  ["4000k", "5000k", "6000k", "7000k", "8000k", "9000k", "12000k", "15000k"]
which ... could be a list of (pretty extreme) resolutions? Or are these color temperatures?

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Post by imtringued »

motohagiography wrote: post #102

Perhaps a bit meta, but between a new Matrix reboot, this weekend's Rick & Morty finale, and previously even Midnight Gospel among quite a number of other cultural themes about meaning, reality, good & evil, nihilism, I'm feeling a little metaversed out and wondering whether this kind of entertainment is a healthy thing to indulge in. The idea that it is good to be unmoored from our senses and experiences in favour o…

I wonder if this has to do with copyright. It's easy to get the rights on content that was created in the last two decades. It's much harder to get rights on content that was created 70 years ago. The people involved are dead yet copyright (or some other intellectual property law) still applies.

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Post by sam_bristow »

sumtechguy wrote: post #79
yepthatsreality wrote: post #47

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Disagree, the trilogy is one of the best Sci-Fi trilogies available and utilizes ideas about people and computing in unique ways. I always heard that the sequels didn’t live up to the hype and avoided them during release. It was only later that I rented them and found out I was taking advice from lowest common denominator action movie fans. I only label those fans like that because their criticism only makes sense if…

I say there are 2 good matrix movies what we got though was one good one and 2 mediocre ones. 2 and 3 were really one story, but it needed a serious amount of editing. There was a lot of fluff in there that really detracted from the story. They could have released that movie and then special editioned it for DVD release... The last 2 also suffered from a problem once you make someone superman. The stakes are just not…

Has anyone done a fan-edit of the last two films into a single, tighter version?

It worked really well taking the Hobbit trilogy down to a single watchable movie.

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Post by DonCopal »

2Gkashmiri wrote: post #22

this is kinda nice. you see guys, there is no need to look at the correct time and go and use "AI" to generate the speech and text in real time using the latest and greatest in tech. you can just as simply pre record all time 1 to 59 and then join them. much easier and i dare say, much more elegant

If you have enough space, that is. One trailer is around 13MB and there are 1440 of them so that is 18GB for all of them.

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Post by scyzoryk_xyz »

myspy wrote: post #141
EGreg wrote: post #54

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Actually, that world was also a simulation. The machines realized that some people wouldn’t accept the program that their primitive brains kept trying to wake up from. So they made an imperfect world but some people still wanted to wake up. Thus, they made a “real world” where people thought they had woken up, but where a blind neo was able to still able to sense the machines. What if you’re never really sure you exi…

At the time after reloaded came out, this was my favourite theory - that it's just another simulation - but they didn't take it into account which was a bummer.

Well, it was clear that the third part was rushed by the studio and just crammed with that awful and unwatchable Zion battle sequence with all the unnecessary side characters.

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Post by cwizou »

gregsadetsky wrote: post #164
diimdeep wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there larger resolution than 1080p ?

Someone posted a trailer they found (that has since been removed) with “7000k” in the url, so… maybe? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28448361 Having looked at it a bit more, I only see "low" and "high" mentioned as qualities. You can replace "high" with "low" in the list of URLs I included (see my gist, posted above) and they seem to work e.g., https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/generated/v7/lo... The…

15k is getting very blue in terms of temperature. Maybe bitrates? Those would also fit.

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Post by Eriks »

gregsadetsky wrote: post #153
Eriks wrote: post #138

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b, e, g, h are all 1..3 ;) https://gist.github.com/EriksRemess/62f946bda713da80c7905d1c...

Yeah, you’re totally right, and “red” can also be “blue” of course I didn’t go into that but I should have mentioned it. There are also multiple resolutions for the videos…! It’s truly 1440 videos times all of the options…! Have you have been able to decode what the b, e, g and h options mean?

b, e, g, h are random number from 1 to 3

Math.floor(Math.random() * 3) + 1

edit: b, e, g, h are different segments included. So all unique segments are in these videos:

blue-a-b1-c0000-d-e1-f-g1-h1-i 1f3dbdfd6a7c3d574b6b9eb8d07a3567.mp4

blue-a-b2-c0000-d-e2-f-g2-h2-i 241eb47071c89d8f18b0948763d6389a.mp4

blue-a-b3-c0000-d-e3-f-g3-h3-i 498ec3ba6719291e77b2a8870c744bdf.mp4

red-a-b1-c0000-d-e1-f-g1-h1-i ea2222b8b7a5c72396f76d65cf56890a.mp4

red-a-b2-c0000-d-e2-f-g2-h2-i bac726340f5486d9e02942c243e5b56b.mp4

red-a-b3-c0000-d-e3-f-g3-h3-i ce1aef26388b49562eab495b597e8fbc.mp4

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