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MikeDeTiger

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Re: OT: Tech Nerd Thread
« Reply #518 on: April 08, 2026, 12:46:18 PM »
While resetting the router in the hall closet this morning, I noticed one of the failed hard drives for my NAS that I intend to replace when I rebuild the array.  I was curious who the manufacturer was, and sure enough, it is a company that @betarhoalphadelta  may or may not work for.  

It's pretty old though (I think), so I don't know that its failure says anything about them as a company, one way or the other.  At any rate, it's 2TB and I probably need to pick up a couple of 4TB drives when I do it, so I'd be looking at replacing it anyway.  
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Re: OT: Tech Nerd Thread
« Reply #519 on: April 28, 2026, 04:12:58 PM »
Referencing Tron on the TV/Movie thread, for some reason, reminded me of these old videos from the 90s.  Hand-coded animation and rendering, before 3D graphics accelertation.  Were any of the rest of you into these?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw17c70uJes


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Re: OT: Tech Nerd Thread
« Reply #520 on: April 28, 2026, 08:01:24 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on April 28, 2026, 04:12:58 PM
Referencing Tron on the TV/Movie thread, for some reason, reminded me of these old videos from the 90s.  Hand-coded animation and rendering, before 3D graphics accelertation.  Were any of the rest of you into these?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw17c70uJes
Oh hell yeah. I remember that video specifically; to the extent that going "viral" was a thing then, that particularly video went viral. I was in awe of anyone who could code that. 

I think I resurfaced it somewhere in the mid-2000s (or even 2010s) and may have a DOS-bootable USB stick with the executable on it laying around somewhere. 

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MikeDeTiger

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Re: OT: Tech Nerd Thread
« Reply #521 on: April 29, 2026, 10:38:16 AM »
Never saw that but it's neat, though I don't understand the graphics technology the way y'all do.  

OT but related, there is a separate stream of tech nerdom here that immediately jumped out at me, that being the soundtrack.  Ever since I got interested in synths in 2019 I have a lot of appreciation not just for the musicality of artists who do stuff like this, but for the sheer sonic nerdery that has to be present to create these sounds from the pre-digital-synth era.  Actually, some form of digital synths were around in 1993, but I suspect that's not how the creators made this.  These days you can pretty much buy patches of whatever you need and load it into a DAW as long as you've got the right plugins.  But making the sounds from scratch requires you to go through the tedious process of learning the ins and outs of sine waves vs. saw waves vs. square waves vs.....   And the thousands of combinations of things you can do to those raw waves to make them into all the cool stuff you can imagine.  It's just a nerd masterclass in sound wave manipulation wizardry.  It can take quite a lot of time and effort to be great at making awesome synth sounds, no different than learning to be great at playing an instrument.   

I was motivated to find out about the music for this Future Crew video, and it lead me to two of the main composers, Purple Motion (Jonne Valtonen) and Skaven (Peter Hajba).  I found this video below about video-gaming music that features both of them and is interesting to me.  I'm working my way through it but haven't finished it yet.  @betarhoalphadelta and @utee94 , I think y'all would get a kick out of this if you can find time to watch it.  I don't think you really need to be into the inner workings of music, per se, to find this entertaining.  



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xswbw18DPWM
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