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notaninnocent

{Eigth Song} {Audio}

Jun 04, 2009 19:51

Oh, these dee-vee-dees are amazing, especially A Christmas Carol! I would never have believed that plays and the like could have been captured in such a way. The actors really are very talented... though I do wonder about some things. I watched one in which some people were rather grievously wounded, and I can't quite imagine how they managed it ( Read more... )

can has help?, oooh modern stuff, dee-vee-dees, from the 19th century okay

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/ping missmimmi June 4 2009, 23:37:33 UTC

You have been watching movies, Johanna?

notaninnocent June 5 2009, 19:40:45 UTC

Yes, I have. They're amazing! I would never have imagined such thing were possible.

missmimmi June 5 2009, 20:19:34 UTC

There are movies where I am from, but they are nothing like the ones I have seen on the ship.

[Of course, she never saw a movie before back home]

electroniccrane June 5 2009, 18:18:35 UTC

In older films, a combination of makeup, models made to look like the actors, and copious amounts of fake blood. In newer ones, computer-generated imagery.

notaninnocent June 5 2009, 19:43:49 UTC

[Hey, good going, Major! Almost all of that was understandable.]

Computer-generated imagery... Are computers like televisions, then?

[She's aware that she might not get the explanation, but she's curious.]

electroniccrane June 5 2009, 19:53:47 UTC

[Hmm. How to find the proper analogy?]

A computer is a machine that can perform certain tasks much faster than a person.

A person can paint a picture so perfect you might mistake it for a photograph--a daguerreotype?--but it takes them a very long time. If you program a computer to perform the same task, it will do so very, very quickly, making it economical to use computer-generated pictures instead of props.

notaninnocent June 7 2009, 16:20:46 UTC

[Oh, that makes complete sense!]

So a computer in a mechanical person that does things much better and faster than people can? That's fascinating.

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skyion June 6 2009, 01:57:41 UTC

I love the movies too! They don't have them where I'm from!

notaninnocent June 7 2009, 16:19:38 UTC

They don't exist where I'm from, either. At least, not yet. If I understand right, people from my world will create them in the future. It's rather an exciting thought.

skyion June 8 2009, 02:19:32 UTC

Indeed...my home just has magic rather than technology, and we haven't gotten that far yet!