Creativity of the day

[makvas]

Looks crap, but hey, it's just a try. I've discovered that I can hook my camera up to my computer so that I can use it as a remote control for the shutter. So I took 31 pictures from -5 EV to +5 EV and assembled them (uncleaned and stuff) into a pretty crappy HDR.

Heh, it actually looks like an airbrush painting.

[Aurora Rossa]

Just a short skit I was writing, parodying all those paranormal shows that play on the History Channel these days and its famous obsession with Hitler:

NARRATOR: Was the failed artist and later fascist dictator Adolf Hitler a monster? This question remains a source of fierce debate among historians and political commentators. In our quest to understand the truth behind the Adolf Hitler phenomenon, we have talked to believers and skeptics alike. We have interviewed first hand eye witnesses who claim to have actually seen Hitler in his natural habitat and examined reported physical evidence. We have also asked experts in zoology and other sciences to give us their take on the plausiblity of Hitler being a monster.

INTERVIEWER: As a professor emeritus with a PhD in primate zoology, what do you think of the claims surrounding Hitler and his purported monsterhood?

ARTHUR SCHOLTZ: In my estimation the evidence remains pretty thin and inconclusive. We just don't have enough substantial proof to definitively declare Adolf Hitler a monster. Until someone presents an actual physical body or at least some DNA samples, it behooves the scientific community to remain skeptical.

NARRATOR: Later we consulted conspiracy theorist Alex Beck, known for his popular AM radio show Freedom Report and his harsh allegations of fascist tendencies in the current administration.

ALEX BECK: I am fully convinced that Adolf Hitler was a monster. The evidence I've seen leads me to conclude he was a descendent of Homo Neanderthalensis or some other early hominid. It can hardly be a coincidence that the first neanderthal fossils turned up in Germany, the same place that Hitler just so happened to haunt for much of his life.

[faiuwle]

The problem with this kind of thing is that I can't tell whether you're making fun of yourself or being serious. I actually checked the post count to make sure it wasn't Xephyr-disguised-as-Eddy again.

[Aurora Rossa]

The problem with this kind of thing is that I can't tell whether you're making fun of yourself or being serious. I actually checked the post count to make sure it wasn't Xephyr-disguised-as-Eddy again.

I wasn't really making a statement about myself or being serious. I just wanted to poke some fun. No need to read so much into everything...

[dhok]

I have created a logic-gate based computer language entitled Kumquat, which allows you to define extra logic gates using any number of input bits and output bits, in addition to built-in gates like NAND and XOR. The only thing left to implement is a sort of loop function-other. The following program adds two one-digit numbers (Kumquat only deals in binary) and prints the result.

program Kumquat
:
input["Enter first digit:", j];
input["Enter second digit:", k];
ADD[j, k, n];
print["The sum is:" + n];

new[ADD]
:
[i, i, o, o] //this defines the input-output format
(0, 0, 0, 0) //this is a truth table
(0, 1, 0, 1)
(1, 0, 0, 1)
(1, 1, 1, 0)
;
;

[Cockroach]

Stuff from high school

[TomHChappell]

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[dhok]

I have created a logic-gate based computer language entitled Kumquat, which allows you to define extra logic gates using any number of input bits and output bits, in addition to built-in gates like NAND and XOR. The only thing left to implement is a sort of loop function-other. The following program adds two one-digit numbers (Kumquat only deals in binary) and prints the result.

program Kumquat
:
input["Enter first digit:", j];
input["Enter second digit:", k];
ADD[j, k, n];
print["The sum is:" + n];

new[ADD]
:
[i, i, o, o] //this defines the input-output format
(0, 0, 0, 0) //this is a truth table
(0, 1, 0, 1)
(1, 0, 0, 1)
(1, 1, 1, 0)
;
;

Cool! And creative.

I do need to implement a loop function of some sort. I think it's Turing complete, but the experts (friends who are CS majors) are divided, and anyway without a loop function adding two numbers with an unspecified number of digits will be a nightmare.

[vampireshark]

Start of a short poem that is to be worked on over break. (Guess who it's about!)

Eșt une malheuruso barbațe
Ci nè podat sa jolissa para lèir vare.
Volet tozile lèir casu valetare
Per èt une paradișu lona lèir idère.

There once was a miserable person
Oblivious to the beauty around him.
He always wished to leave his home
In search of paradise far, far away.

[Aurora Rossa]

(Guess who it's about!)

Is this a dig at me? Because I was thinking of taking a camera to school so I could take some pictures of this "beauty".

[Yiuel Raumbesrairc]

Fun with artwork.

[Torco]

your stickart-fu is improving, monsieur Lachapelle

[Yiuel Raumbesrairc]

your stickart-fu is improving, monsieur Lachapelle

I have been told that a good artist is not someone that makes good stuff, but someone that keeps on improving. Good thing then that I am (still) improving.

For the heck of it, here's all the artwork in one splash page.



And yes, his name is intentionally Xurnese, I believe I wrote his first name the right way with the syllabary.

[Yiuel Raumbesrairc]

For some contest, I did that while I was sick and bored at my parents' house :

(Clicking it will show you an enlarged version, for the details.)

I might win, then again I might not.

[Jipí]

More …

[Astraios]

^ Nice! Our snow has all gone.

[dhok]

I wrote a song for the Dwarf Fortress forums, who had a topic called "Dwarf Fortress: The Musical."

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The Fun Song
Shorast: It's been a long, long journey.
Urist: We've struck the earth too much.
Kol: We've filled our bins with treasure
Vucar: Of gold and bronze and such.

Shorast: We've engraved our halls with tales
Urist: Of burning elves and booze
Kol: By a paranoid engraver
Vucar: With a psychopathic Muse.

Shorast: And we've killed our foes with magma
Urist: And our nobles with bottomless pits.
Kol: We've built computers and pump stacks
Vucar: With the power of our wits.

Shorast: There are a thousand ways to die.
Urist: Like olms and trolls and troglodytes,
Kol: Forgotten beasts and elephants,
Vucar: And undead creatures of the night.

Shorast: But we survived them all, and yet,
Urist: Remembering the story of our kin,
Kol: Those olden dwarves inhabiting Boatmurdered,
Vucar: We knew eventually we'd be done in.

Shorast: But hark! upon this trumpet, let us charge!
Urist: The Fondled Gears into the demons ran!
Kol: And, as they dealt their slaughter, blow by blow,
Vucar: They held back Hell as only true dwarves can.

Shorast: But happiness will come unto the best;
Urist: The Happy Fun Stuff overtook them all;
Kol: And we remembered when the soldiers died
Vucar: There wasn't a protective wall.

Shorast: An emergency macedwarf named Fath,
Urist: Who'd married an axedwarf wild,
Kol: Gave birth while fighting a demon
Vucar: And defended its blows with her child.

Shorast: Alas, we were too late;
Urist: The fortress was overcome.
Kol: Our walls were covered with kitten blood,
Vucar: And a fire consumed all our barrels of rum.


Shorast: In short-
Urist: We struck the cotton candy
Kol: With no time left to run
Vucar: So we'll die with just one statement.
All: Just remember- LOSING IS FUN!

Exeunt, followed by the sound of tortured screaming backstage and the closing of the curtain.
Although the rhyme scheme is consistent, the meter isn't; I don't really feel like fixing it. I like what I've written.

[TomHChappell]

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[Christopher Schröder]

Start of a short poem that is to be worked on over break. (Guess who it's about!)

I'd guess about how you fancy studying and living abroad, I suppose.

[Morrígan]

Been working on improving the GDV layout. What goes on the back end really depends on mission parameters. Gonna have to build a simulator to determine a reasonable loadout of combat gear. Non-combat mission equipment is entirely another matter...

[vampireshark]

Start of a short poem that is to be worked on over break. (Guess who it's about!)

I'd guess about how you fancy studying and living abroad, I suppose.

Nope. I actually like (to an extent) where I live, but I just prefer being abroad more. If only they would stop deforesting the base...

[TomHChappell]

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[Morrígan]

http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~sgmccabe/i ... DV_001.jpg
Been working on improving the GDV layout. What goes on the back end really depends on mission parameters. Gonna have to build a simulator to determine a reasonable loadout of combat gear. Non-combat mission equipment is entirely another matter...

Looks cool!
What's a GDV?

The General Deployment Vehicle (GDV) is a Strategic Space Command warship design intended to supersede the older Strategic Command Vehicle (SCV) and Logistics, Support, and Command Vehicle (LSCV) because of changes in overall war strategies. It represents a move toward decentralized warfare, where each GDV is tasked to operate independently of any Strategic Space Command resources outside of those carried on board the ship (which does include combat drones and a handful of other light craft).

The vessel shown is about 3800m in total length, which is quite a bit larger than I originally intended, but that seems to have been necessary.

[TomHChappell]

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[Izambri]

*Today we are cancelling the Apocalypse*