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"What is remarkable about it is not the production values - it is actually a rather dull piece of work - but a process that involved AI at every stage."
Eclipse will not win any awards for creative film-making, and its director won't be snapped up to make a Hollywood blockbuster. But AI is advancing every day - and a decade from now, actors may find a computer sitting in the director's chair shouting: "Cut!"
'Cut!' - the AI director
Watch: "Jaron Lanier: You Are Not a Gadget"
Jaron Lanier;
"FUNDING EDUCATION OR CULTURE THROUGH ADVERTISING IS LIKE TRYING TO GET NUTRITION BY CONNECTING A TUBE FROM YOUR BUTT TO YOUR MOUTH"
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"When it comes to science, technology and innovation, the “anyone-but-Harper” mantra holds especially true. Canada is unquestionably dumber in many ways than it was 10 years ago, and that’s a real embarrassment."
"Watching a movie, whether in the cinema, or on a monitor is really quite different to normal sight."
John Clark;
We still tend to assume that the camera somehow mimics the eye and brain, while a projector is basically a camera in reverse, which was indeed sometimes the case in early cinema and for amateur film-makers who could adapt their cameras to project their film after processing. However, for Digital Cinema the Digital Light Projector ticks along at 144fps, whatever the official frame rate of the movie, with individual frames described as being 'flashed' more than once to fill the available time (though the very concept of 'frame rate' and 'flashing' shouldn't really be applied to 3-chip DLP's, whose 'micro-mirrors' oscillate 50,000 times a second with information up-dated in a modulated form to change each mirrors' pitch). This remarkable technical achievement is quite different to the traditional 'maltese cross' light/dark approach to match the stop/start motion of a print as it moves through the projector, or the scanned lines of a monitor. The notion of 'persistence of vision' building a perceptual bridge between one frame, or half-frame and the next need no longer apply.
What is the "cinema feel"?
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