I think the wallpaper is minimalistic, elegant.. and boring, which is why I usually end up using a wallpaper from KDE Plasma.
Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
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Re: Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
#72They made a video showing off how it was made: https://youtu.be/ewmXizBqjl0
Re: Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
#73I don’t want to be a fanboy but the wallpaper is so soulless and industrial. I like how Apple always tries to bring nature to computing with wallpapers and screensavers. For example https://iso.500px.com/iphone-6-milky-way-wallpaper-interview... Also the Ariel videos of nature and cities for Apple TV and Mac is another example. Windows feels so corporate and boring tbh
Yeah I do kind of love the current dynamic "different every time" Mac OS wallpaper / splash screen. It's corporate Apple but still great, and infinitely better than MS's Borg-like contentless flatness.
The Windows login screen has been showing dynamic landscape photos for a loooong time. Of course, the part where you accidentally click on one of the search labels (?) and it opens Bing in Edge (previously IE), which is one of the three hundred ways you can accidentally open Edge/Bing in Windows, is not cool at all.
Re: Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
#74Shame they went a little overboard with the smoke and post fx really. A cleaner sharper image would have been nice
Re: Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
There was definitely a kind of warm, optimistic vibe that came with the Windows XP wallpaper. The whole UI language of the OS was similar too, with bubbly blues and greens everywhere. I suppose it captured a kind of positive cultural attitude towards computing.
I suppose it captured a kind of positive cultural attitude towards computing. It was a time when MS was about giving users tools to do whatever they want, and not trying to coerce them down a path to be milked for $$$. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34021851
Yes but also it was the same exact time when MS dominated and stagnated. IE6 shipped with Windows XP
Re: Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
#76(2015)
Added above. Thanks!
Re: Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
#77Whenever 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.
I don't know about you, but more often than not I have maximized windows covering the background image. The thing which reminds me I'm using Windows is the start button. Not to mention.. everything else.
Re: Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
#78I hope someone will one day talk about me the way corporate america talks about its logos.
Re: Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
#79To 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!
Gmunk was working on visual graphics for the web back in late 90s / early 2000s with Vir2L.
If they wanted to, they could have easily banged out half a dozen wallpapers in an afternoon using Maya or whatever, but they chose the physical route.
Re: Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
You have to take into consideration that the default wallpaper is arguably the most seen picture in the entire world.
Yup... but, if everyone thinks it's a rendering, and you could have saved tons of money by actually rendering it instead of doing what these guys did, it's still a waste of money if you ask me...
You must not be a fan of https://youtu.be/_ve4M4UsJQo?si=99yLl7V2hisVp0zT then.
(That commercial literally had Honda execs complimenting the team on the quality of their CGI when they first saw it. Needless to say they were blown away when they found out it was real.)