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Tim Bruening

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Dec 9, 2002, 2:50:36 PM12/9/02
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Is there any way Muggle technology could duplicate the moving
photographs, paintings, etc?


Fish Eye no Miko

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Dec 9, 2002, 2:55:57 PM12/9/02
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"Tim Bruening" <tsbr...@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote in message
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> Is there any way Muggle technology could duplicate the moving
> photographs, paintings, etc?

Perhaps microchip technology that would allow the "image" to actually be a
short video clip.

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Markku Uttula

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Dec 9, 2002, 3:29:42 PM12/9/02
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Tim Bruening wrote:
> Is there any way Muggle technology could duplicate the moving
> photographs, paintings, etc?

Most definetly yes.

I imagine it'd be composed of computer generated (live) imagery combined
with a kinematogram (the sort of picture you get from corn flakes boxes
that changes depending on what direction you're looking it from). CGI
would be used to make the pictures interact with audience, and
kinematogram to make it appear sort of 3D'ish.

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Peter Lobley

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Dec 9, 2002, 6:10:10 PM12/9/02
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Well Minority Report is a film about muggles in the future - They have
moving pictures in their newspapers.

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Trond Michelsen

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Dec 9, 2002, 6:24:25 PM12/9/02
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"Fish Eye no Miko" <cath...@feablenm.net> writes:

>> Is there any way Muggle technology could duplicate the moving
>> photographs, paintings, etc?
> Perhaps microchip technology that would allow the "image" to actually be a
> short video clip.

Video clip? That's too short and repetetive. No, you have to throw some
AI into the picture (bad pun, I know).

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Michelle Smith

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Dec 9, 2002, 11:09:52 PM12/9/02
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>Is there any way Muggle technology could duplicate the moving
>photographs, paintings, etc?

Plasma screen videos is one way. Bill Gates has a setup in his home that does
something similar.


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doug

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Dec 10, 2002, 12:15:08 AM12/10/02
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Bill Gates is the last person I would associate with Harry Potter.. I
am glad the computer animation is not being done by anything Bill Gates.

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Michelle Smith

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Dec 10, 2002, 12:35:47 AM12/10/02
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>Bill Gates is the last person I would associate with Harry Potter.. I
>am glad the computer animation is not being done by anything Bill Gates.

Yeah, sure, whatever.

Toon

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Dec 10, 2002, 4:04:29 AM12/10/02
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Holograms. But they're not interactive.

yoyoyojo

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Dec 10, 2002, 1:58:20 PM12/10/02
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yes.

it's called a COM-PU-TER.

say it with me ...

COM-PU-TER

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Bill Clark

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Dec 10, 2002, 2:45:33 PM12/10/02
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they willl have them very soon for movie 'posters' (word is will nbe used for
the next Spiderman movie)... they will have short video clips that will 'see' a
person looking at them and spring to life...

>Plasma screen videos is one way. Bill Gates has a setup in his home that
>does
>something similar


Screens will soon be obsolete when LCD paint is perfected.

Tim Bruening

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Dec 10, 2002, 3:25:38 PM12/10/02
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yoyoyojo wrote:

I mean duplicate the moving pictures of Hogwarts on something that looks
like Muggle photographs, paintings, etc.


Philip Lewis

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Dec 10, 2002, 3:34:04 PM12/10/02
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Tim Bruening <tsbr...@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> writes:
>I mean duplicate the moving pictures of Hogwarts on something that looks
>like Muggle photographs, paintings, etc.

it's been answered... a computer...
to expand:

A Flat screen wall mounted monitor hooked up to a computer.

Likely Flat screen TV's will be less expensive than monitors....

you can have a computer or some other playback device put whatever you
want... including animated and perhaps interactive pictures.

One home automation use would be to change the art displayed in the
room based on the occupants and a database listing each persons
weighted preferences... it will take the people in the room and
negotiate images which are pleasing to the most people... it could
cycle through the compromise set throwing in high rated favorites of
certain people every once in a while...

If I ever have huge amounts of money to spend... this is something i
plan to do... It's easily doable with today's technology.

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Christopher Adams

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Dec 10, 2002, 4:36:03 PM12/10/02
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> One home automation use would be to change the art displayed in the
> room based on the occupants and a database listing each persons
> weighted preferences... it will take the people in the room and
> negotiate images which are pleasing to the most people... it could
> cycle through the compromise set throwing in high rated favorites of
> certain people every once in a while...
>
> If I ever have huge amounts of money to spend... this is something i
> plan to do... It's easily doable with today's technology.

That's the set-up Bill Gates apparently has in his home.

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CDriver333

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Dec 11, 2002, 8:01:50 PM12/11/02
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>> Is there any way Muggle technology could duplicate the moving
>> photographs, paintings, etc?
>
>Perhaps microchip technology that would allow the "image" to actually be a
>short video clip.

Eventually you're going to see bulletin boards and other wall-hangable objects
(like picture frames) that have moving pictures, thanks to advances in
flat-screen technology. The pictures will be loaded via a memory card slot.
(Seen at an electronics trade show a couple of years back...)

Fish Eye no Miko

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Dec 11, 2002, 8:43:13 PM12/11/02
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"Trond Michelsen" <trondmm...@crusaders.no> wrote in message
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> "Fish Eye no Miko" <cath...@feablenm.net> writes:
>
> >> Is there any way Muggle technology could duplicate the moving
> >> photographs, paintings, etc?
> > Perhaps microchip technology that would allow the "image" to actually
> >be a short video clip.
>
> Video clip? That's too short and repetetive.

I dunno... I've seen some very long video clips. I'm not sure if they
could be used in a small photo, but I could see it happening in the future.

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Fish Eye no Miko

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Dec 11, 2002, 8:44:04 PM12/11/02
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I can see this. And it's been mentioned in this thread a few times. But
what a about little pictures in photo albums and the like?

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Dec 13, 2002, 7:53:44 PM12/13/02
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"Fish Eye no Miko" <cath...@feablenm.net> writes:

> "CDriver333" <cdriv...@aol.comatose> wrote in message
> news:20021211200150...@mb-fw.aol.com...
>
>> >> Is there any way Muggle technology could duplicate the moving
>> >> photographs, paintings, etc?
>> >
>> >Perhaps microchip technology that would allow the "image" to actually
>> >be a short video clip.
>>
>> Eventually you're going to see bulletin boards and other wall-hangable
>> objects (like picture frames) that have moving pictures, thanks to
> advances
>> in flat-screen technology. The pictures will be loaded via a memory card
> slot.
>> (Seen at an electronics trade show a couple of years back...)
>
> I can see this. And it's been mentioned in this thread a few times. But
> what a about little pictures in photo albums and the like?

That would be another interesting technology.

Electronic paper.

This isn't very far off, being proposed as a replacement for e-book,
or rather a different format. The technology is similar to the
principles of LCD displays. basically turning pixels on or off. Where
the pixel is currently a bead that can be rotated by a magnetic
field.

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Richard Eney

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Dec 19, 2002, 5:47:25 PM12/19/02
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Hijacking the thread, but the name still fits.

Who has Lockhart's stuff? Is it stored at St Mungo's, or is it somewhere
in a Hogwarts closet, being dusted by House-elves?

I'm wondering because of the painting of him. Photos apparently are just
photos, though the people in them behave more or less like the people they
are a photo of. But the people in the paintings at Hogwarts seem to have
minds of their own, can visit each other, run from painting to painting
despite the disparate backgrounds, etc. Photos don't change when the
people in them die, and neither do the paintings. Therefore, Lockhart's
_painting_ of himself might still have his memory, and could be questioned
about the people he memory-charmed so that someone could go remove the
blocks and recover those lost spells.

=Tamar

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