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Author Topic: John P's CRAP-Coded Photo Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 09-22-2003 02:08 PM                     The revised CRAP-coded member photo of John Pytlak looks a little overcompressed, don't ya think? I hate to be a stickler for quality presentations in a member photo but surely we could expect more from Film-Tech, right? Or are y'all adding heavy compression to all member photos that originated on film in a sinister attempt to encourage more people to switch to digital cameras? I want the real story!  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 09-22-2003 02:18 PM                        If Film-Tech couldn't use the original CAP Code Kodak developed for the MPAA twenty years ago, maybe they should license the new Kodak Invisible Watermarking technology: Kodak Invisible Watermarking Kodak Data Embedding Technical Paper  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 09-22-2003 04:14 PM                        John, I'm sorry for laughing at that, but I can't help it. It looks remarkably like what I've been seeing in some movies lately, whether it's real CAP Code, or some derivative... -dave  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-22-2003 05:53 PM                        What the heck does "CAP" stand for anyway? Code Against Piracy? Crazy About Polkadots?  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 09-22-2003 06:08 PM                        Coded Anti-Piracy It is quite interesting, but I just now noticed John's pic having a lack of colors. The CAP coded pic has been online for a few days and looked good until now. WTF? By the way, Adam exaggerated the CAP code dots just so they would be noticable.  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 09-22-2003 07:08 PM                     I did nothing of the sort. That's what this new shit looks like on screen, although I have it set for .1 seconds instead of 1/24. The frequency of its appearance is almost dead-on, though, at every four seconds.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 09-22-2003 07:45 PM                        Brad told me that you exaggerated it. Even though you are the one who did the animation, I will take his word over yours. Anyone care to explain the sudden loss of colors in his pic? Manny is right, it does look unacceptably bad (looked great yesterday).  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 09-22-2003 07:53 PM                     Nope, I said the original version of the pic was exaggerated. The one that is posted looks really close to the real CAP code.  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 09-22-2003 08:32 PM                     The color loss in John's photo is probably because it's a .gif file now for the animation. Or because it's gone through a few generations of compression/optimization. He needs a new one anyway. Someone take a photo of him at ShowEast.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 09-22-2003 09:31 PM                  OK Dammit! I've been looking at John's pic for 5 minutes and have yet to see any changes! I'm sick of looking at John! What gives? >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 09-22-2003 09:48 PM                        The dots are waaaaay too big to look like the real CAP code. At least the original John Pytlak CAP code. As far as GIF goes, it is capable of 256 colors simultaneously. What is there now looks like no more than 16. GIF is also lossless, so I don't see how saving it over and over again would decrease the colors. I swear it looked better yesterday.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-23-2003 12:07 PM                        Joe - it's your Mac. Try looking at it on a Windows machine.  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 09-23-2003 12:25 PM                        i can't see it either. i've seen the crap code in movies so why can't i see john's acne? steve's c/o animation worked. oh, now i get it. y'all are talking about the mustaches in phil's pic.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 09-23-2003 01:22 PM                        I certainly can see those five huge "zits" on my face every four seconds!  |  IP: Logged Dave Williams Wet nipple scene Posts: 1836 From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 09-23-2003 02:33 PM                        They look like the same damn dots that I keep seeing in EVERY damn film I have seen this year. It seems that they wait until a bright white seen to put those dots in and BAM there they are. STOP IT DAMNIT STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dave  |  IP: Logged

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