Tyrphanax

The what?

Requiescat in Pace.

I think that’s his best album for sure.

Hello new, I’m Tyr.

You can purchase the Star Wars films at any participating retail store.

Lord Haseo said:

I’ll check them out some time. Right now I’m running through Gary Numan’s discography

Love Gary Numan. You’d also probably like The Cars, Pet Shop Boys, Thomas Dolby, ABC, Spandau Ballet, The Human League, A Flock of Seagulls, Naked Eyes, The Buggles, Simple Minds, Tears for Fears, Bronski Beat… argh there are so many great synthy bands.

Hah!

TV’s Frink said:

Obviously.

Maybe Ric is the real person behind 246?

I think it would please her most of all.

TV’s Frink said:

Tyrphanax said:

TV’s Frink said:

Tyrphanax said:

Seinwave 2000

It’s been on repeat for a couple hours now. I can’t stop.

Needs more Smashmouth.

Like this?

Oh god, that’s like this but infinitely more annoying.

Oh jeez.

At least Don’t You Want Me is a decent song to begin with.

Actually. I’m kinda diggin it…

Penis Flakes.

I’m insanely excited for whatever the hell that Kojima game is.

TV’s Frink said:

Tyrphanax said:

Seinwave 2000

It’s been on repeat for a couple hours now. I can’t stop.

Needs more Smashmouth.

Like this?

Is Ric still banned guys?

And One would be a decent jumping-off point for modern German synthpop. They’re a German band, but have a lot of Depeche Mode influences, too.

I’d also suggest Beborn Beton, De/Vision, and especially Wolfsheim and Covenant.

Thing is you can easily swerve into Gothy Industrial stuff rooting around in there more than keeping with the more “pure” 80s-inspired stuff. Lemme know what you think of those suggestions!

NeverarGreat said:

Hal 9000 said:

There’s a pretty good one called “Star Wars Minute” in which two guys and a guest go through Star Wars one minute at a time.

That’s pretty cool, they’re on minute 35 of Empire, the one where I always think that Vader walks through an airport metal detector when he enters the base. Someone needs to add the metal detector sounds at that point.

And you can also re-re-reuse the “White zone is for loading and unloading only” intercom chatter because it’s never not funny.

poita said:

Okay, here goes. I didn’t spend much time on this, so far better results are possible, I didn’t have time to work out the best alignment points and settings, and these are from Tech prints, so there are some RGB alignment issues in the source. I also used raw scans, so the damage and dirt is still there, it would be better had they been cleaned up first.

I found a scene I have a few scans of. The scans are all in 1080P.

I loaded the scans into elastix to roughly align them, then exported to autostakkert to stack and drizzle the images.

The source frame was this. (right click to view at full 1080P)

After a (very rough) stacking, we get this result at 1080P

You can see most of the noise has disappeared and more detail revealed in the trooper and in the sand patterns behind him.

So to compare a before and after stacking with a close-up of our favourite trooper, see if you can work out which is the before and which is the after…

Some Split-screen compares: (right click and view the image to see them at full Rez)

The next step is to enable drizzling to try and get a super-resolution thing happening. This normally would mean a lot of experimenting to find the best settings, these were just a first guess, it could be made better.
So to scale our original frames to a stacked and super-rezzed 4K image (4096 pixels wide vs 1920 pixels wide) we get this:

The image on the left is the drizzled ‘super resolution’ image, on the right, is the original frame upscaled to the same size in Photoshop’

Finally, a full 4096 pixel wide image created via stacking and drizzling the 1080P source scans:

https://infinit.io/_/b52Jcxw

Unfortunately IMGUR reduces the image quality quite a bit, so I have linked to the file instead.

Anyway, I have probably bored everyone shitless now, even though that is a quick example, not a great one by any means, but I thought I’d share the kind of thing I’ve been messing with. As I mentioned, I’ve been doing it with astrophotography for many years, and those programs and techniques can be quite useful for image processing in general.

Whoa.

Do it up. The 80s were fantastic for it, but there’s a lot of really good modern stuff too (mostly from Germany).

TV’s Frink said:

Hahahaha, I feel so old. I’ve been listening to Depeche Mode since I discovered them in high school…in 1988.

I haven’t been on the bandwagon that long, but since at least the late 90s. I feel old but slightly less so.

You should look into Nu Wave and Synthpop, Haseo. That’s the good stuff.

Oh yeah, I’d actually heard that before.

Dek Rollins said:

dahmage said:

(jif? no, lets stick with gif)

But… it’s pronounced like “jif.” That’s just how words (and acronyms) work, man.

Yeah that’s why I got my degree in Jraphic Design. I love the jraphic arts.

TV’s Frink said:

Tyrphanax said:

If you feel like it’s what is best for you, then more power to ya, Fo.

I know I gotta step away from the Internet for awhile sometimes. I haven’t been in Politics for months and I’m happier than ever!

But you missed a good post by CatBus! And one by dahmage, I think.

Aw darn.

If you feel like it’s what is best for you, then more power to ya, Fo.

I know I gotta step away from the Internet for awhile sometimes. I haven’t been in Politics for months and I’m happier than ever!

This makes me sad.

TV’s Frink said:

Just like the gif!

This fucking thread and all of off-topic lately.