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Re: ReFrame – The EPaper Camera

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Post by cestith »

whateverboat wrote: post #40

is this a trademark/copyright violation of the name? https://github.com/reframe-hpc/

It’s not the same product category and unlikely to cause confusion. Those are two of the major considerations in trademark law at least in the US. On the other hand, the rights holder has to vigorously defend the mark or lose it. That often leads to a bit of overreach rather than the opposite.

I don’t see any claim of trademark on the CSCS website about their framework. You can’t infringe what’s not claimed.

Copyright typically doesn’t cover names of things. That’s what trademarks or service marks are for.

Re: ReFrame – The EPaper Camera

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Post by tjelen »

anonymous344 wrote: post #32

that 3d print seems to be under-extruded. I always wonder how can so many 3d print be so low quality. My 6+ year old ender5 will print so nice quality

I think that's just how prints from a transparent filament usually look like, at least in my experience. What looks like under-extrusion are just bubbles of air. You can print with transparent filament (mostly) without bubbles, but it's much more tricky, see e.g. https://blog.prusa3d.com/3d-printed-lens-and-other-transpare...

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Post by d-us-vb »

singpolyma3 wrote: post #2

I don't fully understand the obsession with making less-capable devices and talking about them as though being less capable is a feature by itself.

For these kinds of project, there are a few reasons:

1. Less opportunity to get distracted by other capabilities

2. More opportunity for experimentation with a new medium

3. Targeting an aesthetic rather than a technical specification

4. Trying to escape device addiction in its various forms

5. Using arbitrary constraints to develop new forms of artistic expression

Re: ReFrame – The EPaper Camera

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Post by SoftTalker »

tedggh wrote: post #13
singpolyma3 wrote: post #2

I don't fully understand the obsession with making less-capable devices and talking about them as though being less capable is a feature by itself.

One positive aspect of a camera like this is that it forces you to slow down. Because you can’t take 10 frames per second hoping to get some keepers, you become more intentional when shooting. I took a photography class where we were asked to cover the LCDs with cardboard, so that you couldn’t get an immediate feedback and slow down a bit. Another trick is to format memory cards so that they can only store a few expo…

I thought I remembered that the first Leica digital cameras (very expensive) didn't have a screen at all. "Chimping" or checking the shot immediately after taking it was seen as some sort of crutch that "real" photographers didn't need.

But it looks like the Leicas always had a screen, so maybe I'm thinking of another brand.

Re: ReFrame – The EPaper Camera

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Post by joker99 »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #18

Its a great idea, I think they should read the papers on dithering (I've got a color e-paper display and you can get a lot less noise than that by better dithering). The interesting thing is that back in the film days you took your 12 pictures and sent them off to the lab, and two or three days later you found out if any of them were great. This gives some of that "wait for it" kind of feel back to the photography. A…

Can you give some pointers to which papers specifically? I also have multiple e-paper displays and would love less noise

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Post by gnubison »

idiotsecant wrote: post #37
Rygian wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a curiosity, "Générique" is not a name for a song. "Générique" is the word used in French for the music that plays over the intro opening credits of a movie or TV show episode. In this case, this would be the song that plays over the intro credits of "Ascenseur Pour l'Echaffaud" ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051378/ ). (Ie. Miles Davis might have several pieces of music all titled 'générique', for the various mo…

There is a specific composition from 1958 that miles davis called Générique. It was composed for elevator to the gallows.

GP’s “Ascenseur pour l’Échafaud” means “elevator for the gallows.” I think they are familiar with the composition, you might be missing the point of their comment.

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Post by ChuckMcM »

ectoloph wrote: post #28
ChuckMcM wrote: post #18

Its a great idea, I think they should read the papers on dithering (I've got a color e-paper display and you can get a lot less noise than that by better dithering). The interesting thing is that back in the film days you took your 12 pictures and sent them off to the lab, and two or three days later you found out if any of them were great. This gives some of that "wait for it" kind of feel back to the photography. A…

I really enjoyed playing with dithering to get good results from the eink spectra displays with 6 or 7 colours. They end up making good photo frames, especially for older digital photos.

Yeah, I've got one of the Seeed Studio ones (running TRML) at the moment.

Re: ReFrame – The EPaper Camera

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Post by ChuckMcM »

joker99 wrote: post #47
ChuckMcM wrote: post #18

Its a great idea, I think they should read the papers on dithering (I've got a color e-paper display and you can get a lot less noise than that by better dithering). The interesting thing is that back in the film days you took your 12 pictures and sent them off to the lab, and two or three days later you found out if any of them were great. This gives some of that "wait for it" kind of feel back to the photography. A…

Can you give some pointers to which papers specifically? I also have multiple e-paper displays and would love less noise

Not surprisingly, the Wikipedia article has a good list (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dither#Algorithms). The 'cool kids' these days tend to use something called 'blue noise' which minimizes visual artifacts. Color dithering is fun because dithering one color can interfere with other colors so you have to consider it as a color volume rather than simple binary on / off dithering.
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