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Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)

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Re: Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)

#51

Although this is great somehow in my opinion this was the best windoze wallpaper It somehow captures my soul, perhaps because i was very young when i saw it https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....

If I'm not mistaken, wasn't this actually the installer background screen that got repurposed as an option for a wallpaper?

The linked post is titled "Background image from the windows 95 setup window"

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallpapers/comments/bicyok/backgrou...

Re: Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)

#52
Whenever I have to use Windows, I feel dirty, like Microsoft's filth is slowly contaminating my spirit through my interaction with the computer.

So, the last thing that I would want to set as a wallpaper would be a reminder of that fact that I'm using Windows.

Re: Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)

#53

To me as a photographer and as computer vision expert, this sounds wayyyyyy over-engineered and -produced. I get that there's a big vision (and budget) involved, but c'mon!

If only they had the same dedication to keep ads out of the core OS.

Re: Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)

#55

To me as a photographer and as computer vision expert, this sounds wayyyyyy over-engineered and -produced. I get that there's a big vision (and budget) involved, but c'mon!

You have to take into consideration that the default wallpaper is arguably the most seen picture in the entire world.

Re: Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)

#56
post #49

To me as a photographer and as computer vision expert, this sounds wayyyyyy over-engineered and -produced. I get that there's a big vision (and budget) involved, but c'mon!

Yea, I appreciate their dedication but the end-product doesn't equal the effort when Jane in XBox 3d effects department probably could have done this during her lunch break.

For one still sure but they have made lots of movies from that set that were used for promotion. At some point this is a lot easier to get so much much material and quick variations.

Re: Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)

#57

I hate myself for saying it, but this feels like an artistic variation on "we spent 500 hours manually perfecting React button animations" or "I built a Lisp so we can have more interesting configuration files for our ... todo list app". I guess I'm jaded. > Creative Director: GMUNK > Managing Director, Live Action: Oliver Fuselier > Managing Partner, Digital: Dustin Callif > Executive Producer: Robert Helphand > Hea…

I don't know. I think a nice wallpaper can cheer up the day and make a system more lovely. Seems relevant when it reaches so many people.

However, I have never really liked this wallpaper (the few times I have seen it as a non-Windows user). The random desertscapes and dynamic wallpapers in macOS are really much more appealing.

Re: Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)

#58

To me as a photographer and as computer vision expert, this sounds wayyyyyy over-engineered and -produced. I get that there's a big vision (and budget) involved, but c'mon!

Am neither a photographer nor any vision expert. But, what's the point of having billions if to not spend on whimsies.

Re: Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)

#60

As impressive as this looks (and is), the effort strikes me as monumentally oversized. This particular picture, with its straight lines and everything artificial, could have just as well come out of a renderer. For substantially less cost, the result would have been the same. Doesn't mean you don't need to have the creative vision first. But executing it with a camera and a light/laser/fog set and all the effort that…

> As impressive as this looks (and is), the effort strikes me as monumentally oversized

Like a lot of things in Windows (Taskbar, Settings): Measure with a micrometer, draw with a pencil, cut with an axe. /s

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