Transformer Redesign 2
I don't understand how, after scanning a vehicle, the robots manage to also duplicate the car seats. I didn't get a good look at the interior of the Bumblebee upgrade, but I assume it was black leatherette. Black leatherette and upholstery foam are nonmechanical components. So, I suppose the Allspark installs nanofactories inside whatever it animates, as standard equipment.
Well, sure, considering that the Allspark is itself probably a nanofactory on a grand scale, one for which we have to invoke Clarke's third law again, just as we do for so many things in fiction.
But then, if the damn thing is that advanced, why do the Transformers need large-scale gears and wheels and joints at all? And leatherette seats? Logically, they'd all look like T1000.
Or the Allspark just doesn't like creating things as highly advanced as itself, for which I guess it would have its own reasons.
Fashion 1, Logic 0.
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accidentprawn and I really, really enjoyed the movie. The animation was just mind-boggling. According to the wikipedia article, given that someone like Ironhide had about 10,000 moving animated parts, each animated frame wound up taking 38 hours to render. Multiply that by 24 frames per second.
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Today I'm hungry for some Jamaican patties, which are supposed to be made with Allspice, though they probably just use plain old ground pepper here.
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accidentprawn and I really, really got into this post-movie discussion about how differently people react to different sorts of web content. Specifically, we were contrasting the reactions to bad poetry vs. technical documents. In both cases, your eyes often just tend to glaze and scoot right over the text, but the emotional reaction is different.
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music. Alice Coltrane. Turiya and Ramakrishna.
Well, sure, considering that the Allspark is itself probably a nanofactory on a grand scale, one for which we have to invoke Clarke's third law again, just as we do for so many things in fiction.
But then, if the damn thing is that advanced, why do the Transformers need large-scale gears and wheels and joints at all? And leatherette seats? Logically, they'd all look like T1000.
Or the Allspark just doesn't like creating things as highly advanced as itself, for which I guess it would have its own reasons.
Fashion 1, Logic 0.
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accidentprawn and I really, really enjoyed the movie. The animation was just mind-boggling. According to the wikipedia article, given that someone like Ironhide had about 10,000 moving animated parts, each animated frame wound up taking 38 hours to render. Multiply that by 24 frames per second.
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Today I'm hungry for some Jamaican patties, which are supposed to be made with Allspice, though they probably just use plain old ground pepper here.
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accidentprawn and I really, really got into this post-movie discussion about how differently people react to different sorts of web content. Specifically, we were contrasting the reactions to bad poetry vs. technical documents. In both cases, your eyes often just tend to glaze and scoot right over the text, but the emotional reaction is different.
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music. Alice Coltrane. Turiya and Ramakrishna.