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My internet was down for awhile and I got bored, so I made this. Making mazes is a weird talent of mine. I know exactly how to build them, and they actually work! I'd say this one is actually fairly easy, if you manage to pick the right starting path that is. :p I'll link the solution here sometime tomorrow, have fun!
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Yes. I used to do a lot of mazes, too. All freehand. Sure didn't look so nice and uniform via that method, though.
So, is it any wonder that one of my early favorite video games was called Maze Craze? (Still have no idea how that game worked. It was for the Atari 2600 and produced mazes super quick. Far more powerful computers of the day would have maze generators that churned out the puzzles in one to five minutes! Yet, this bare bones console produced fairly sized mazes in a matter of seconds.)
So, is it any wonder that one of my early favorite video games was called Maze Craze? (Still have no idea how that game worked. It was for the Atari 2600 and produced mazes super quick. Far more powerful computers of the day would have maze generators that churned out the puzzles in one to five minutes! Yet, this bare bones console produced fairly sized mazes in a matter of seconds.)
Or it could use a virtual thumb pad or some other cleaver interface like general region tracking. Sadly, having a lack of true buttons is the 'modern portable device's downfall. But, like I did in this video, there are always clunky ways around that. http://youtu.be/wW5zA6zYEXY?list=UU.....ezBXUZGDPhYT7w
So, you can make mazes, huh? You up for a challenge? http://youtu.be/lcinXQNStnI?t=36s
On the one hand, it's supposed to have made me a good artist; the theory is that mismatched eyes and lack of deep vision make it easier to translate the stuff you see onto a flat sheet of paper (we know from the self portraits that Rembrandt had a really bad lazy eye).
On the other hand, it's inconvenient as hell... I can't drive, for one, because of it; 3D movies make me want to vomit; do you remember those magic eye puzzles and how fucking huge they were in '93 or whatever? I have no idea what they are.
But hey, if Chihuly can navigate a glassblowing tent with one eye, I can do this. X3
On the other hand, it's inconvenient as hell... I can't drive, for one, because of it; 3D movies make me want to vomit; do you remember those magic eye puzzles and how fucking huge they were in '93 or whatever? I have no idea what they are.
But hey, if Chihuly can navigate a glassblowing tent with one eye, I can do this. X3
Yea. I know what you're talking about. Those poster pictures that look like repeating garbage or TV static or what-the-heck things. But, if you put your mind into a 'just did some pot' place and stare at some spot until you can't see straight...BOOM! This picture pops out at you. It never worked for me. Guess I was never willing to let my eyes go out of focus or something.
Kind of glad that thing was a short lived phase, actually.
Kind of glad that thing was a short lived phase, actually.
My eyes go out of focus more often than the 1990s. Actually, that might explain Magic Eye - it could only happen in a decade where it was fashionable to pop your eyes in and out of focus just to look at book and album covers, so the populace was trained.
I remember Foxtrot did a set of strips on it... and in the newspapers, they didn't even print the stuff inside the puzzles, they just assumed you knew how to do it. But for the book, two years later, they had to print the solutions upside down on the bottom of the page, because nobody wanted to do that shit any further XD
I remember Foxtrot did a set of strips on it... and in the newspapers, they didn't even print the stuff inside the puzzles, they just assumed you knew how to do it. But for the book, two years later, they had to print the solutions upside down on the bottom of the page, because nobody wanted to do that shit any further XD
Does anybody still care about any of those except maybe Jeffrey Katzenberg? Fads will be fads...
I got out this book - "Follies, Fads and Foibles" - of every stupid fad around the world from 1882-1982 (The last three entries are Video Games, the Rubik's Cube, and stuff about Cats). I've been trying to codify the stupid trends of the last three decades... Grunge, Wayne's World, Beanie Babies... And 3D crap will show up twice! I may just classify '90s graphic design as "illegible."
I got out this book - "Follies, Fads and Foibles" - of every stupid fad around the world from 1882-1982 (The last three entries are Video Games, the Rubik's Cube, and stuff about Cats). I've been trying to codify the stupid trends of the last three decades... Grunge, Wayne's World, Beanie Babies... And 3D crap will show up twice! I may just classify '90s graphic design as "illegible."
I, for one, would prefer how this trend seems to have gone. 3-D at home on TV's? I know that if the 3-D movie runs a bit too long, I walk away with a headache. And, I bet others suffer much worse. So, how would hours in front of the boob tube (how outdated a term that is, now.) with a 3-D twist cause lifetime damage? I mean, even Nintendo toned down their non-glasses 3-D to the point of offering a completely neutralized hand held.
Is the internet a boob series of tubes, then? X3
Every time people rediscover 3D, they learn why it was forgotten in the first place. Did you see Michael Eisner's tweet that "Get a Horse" was "Theme park quality?" The sad thing is he meant that as a compliment, wheras the thought makes most folk I know cringe. (His sole comment about Frozen was "Two princesses for merchandise in the same film! Why didn't I think of that?" He is not of an artistic bent.) Nintendo has a long history of taking decade old products that didn't work too well and making them work, and even 3D eluded them.
Actually, what's the word for a fad that doesn't really happen in real life, but everyone insisted it was going to be huge? Like Virtual Reality, remember when that was the biggest buzzword of all time, and then we realized the problem didn't actually exist? (I have a book on the future from the '90s, and it's hilarious - the haircuts are nineties, virtual reality is king, all the appliances are New Simplicity, and all the furniture is varying shades of dull orange and ultramarine.)
Every time people rediscover 3D, they learn why it was forgotten in the first place. Did you see Michael Eisner's tweet that "Get a Horse" was "Theme park quality?" The sad thing is he meant that as a compliment, wheras the thought makes most folk I know cringe. (His sole comment about Frozen was "Two princesses for merchandise in the same film! Why didn't I think of that?" He is not of an artistic bent.) Nintendo has a long history of taking decade old products that didn't work too well and making them work, and even 3D eluded them.
Actually, what's the word for a fad that doesn't really happen in real life, but everyone insisted it was going to be huge? Like Virtual Reality, remember when that was the biggest buzzword of all time, and then we realized the problem didn't actually exist? (I have a book on the future from the '90s, and it's hilarious - the haircuts are nineties, virtual reality is king, all the appliances are New Simplicity, and all the furniture is varying shades of dull orange and ultramarine.)
Well, I, for one, considered 'boob tube' to have an equal value to 'couch potato'. As in a major distraction that locks you in and dulls your mind by feeding you a continuous series of distractions that leave your mind dulled, afterwards. The internet does more then that. Granted, you can set YouTube to auto feed you distractions for a lifetime. But, there's so much more interactivity and things to learn and such from it that I'm not quite sure I'd place it into that category.
Not completely sure how 'rediscovered' 3-D is. Sure. Way back in the day when they were figuring out color on film, they came up with those red/blue glasses that supposedly did 3-D. All I know was when they tried it in the 80's/90's...all I ever saw was two colored tints and blur. Nothing ever coming out or sinking into the view at all. This new age version that uses super high frame rates and interacts with the glasses does work, in my opinion. But, I think it's at a cost of comfort and potential damage if used long term. There were also these electrified versions that utilized spinning discs to block the image from one eye or the other for super brief spots out of every second that supposedly worked. Not sure if that was what the home Sony TV's used, or what.
Now, I'm hearing that someone else is trying to bring back the head goggles virtual reality. Of what I caught about it from YouTube...it was making players sick after mere minutes. Sounded like the same issues with the 90's VR and why it failed so horribly.
Well...3D in the 3DS actually does work out well. It makes those Mario games really look deep and true to dimensions. Although, don't even try playing Star Fox with that motion sensor option in 3D. The pair just cancel each other out.
Hehehehehhheeee...a rule to live by is to never even attempt to predict what the future is going to make happen. We can dare to dream, of course. But, life follows it's own eddies. A better trick is to just make useful things up in science fiction and see if dedicated people turn that into reality, instead.
Not completely sure how 'rediscovered' 3-D is. Sure. Way back in the day when they were figuring out color on film, they came up with those red/blue glasses that supposedly did 3-D. All I know was when they tried it in the 80's/90's...all I ever saw was two colored tints and blur. Nothing ever coming out or sinking into the view at all. This new age version that uses super high frame rates and interacts with the glasses does work, in my opinion. But, I think it's at a cost of comfort and potential damage if used long term. There were also these electrified versions that utilized spinning discs to block the image from one eye or the other for super brief spots out of every second that supposedly worked. Not sure if that was what the home Sony TV's used, or what.
Now, I'm hearing that someone else is trying to bring back the head goggles virtual reality. Of what I caught about it from YouTube...it was making players sick after mere minutes. Sounded like the same issues with the 90's VR and why it failed so horribly.
Well...3D in the 3DS actually does work out well. It makes those Mario games really look deep and true to dimensions. Although, don't even try playing Star Fox with that motion sensor option in 3D. The pair just cancel each other out.
Hehehehehhheeee...a rule to live by is to never even attempt to predict what the future is going to make happen. We can dare to dream, of course. But, life follows it's own eddies. A better trick is to just make useful things up in science fiction and see if dedicated people turn that into reality, instead.
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