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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

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

I mean, I hated them killling off all three of the main characters from the OT, but I think it would be silly to retcon the sequels.   Just work around them.  There's plenty of space in the universe for that.

https://twitter.com/everyonebpup/status/2051362267560550888?s=20

What a goofy idea. Also, that last one was just the purest example of “we have no idea what we’re doing?”

Without looking that up I don't know what it means.  But the name suggests technology that can withstand the long-feared coming avalanche of data-breaches with the imminent arrival of quantum computing.  If so......that's huge?

You said "announced."  As in, they announced plans for it, or they announced it's here?  

Without looking that up I don't know what it means.  But the name suggests technology that can withstand the long-feared coming avalanche of data-breaches with the imminent arrival of quantum computing.  If so......that's huge?

You said "announced."  As in, they announced plans for it, or they announced it's here? 

Yes, it's basically that quantum computing, once mature, will be able to break today's cryptography. So we have to build stronger cryptography. 

It's here today, but only on one product. It'll be rolled out in future product refreshes to more and more of the lineup.