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Moonbear
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That's a really adorable Thanksgiving pin.
Happy Thanksgiving to you too!
Happy Thanksgiving to you too!
ZapperZ said:Disney has certainly corrupted my brain. This http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/3534960/Disney-accused-by-Catholic-cleric-of-corrupting-childrens-minds.html" ! :)
Case in point. I'm reading an innocent article on a work related to the http://www.aps.org/about/physics-images/network.cfm" . It had a nice graphic to illustrate the complex structure of an economic system. No Disney-related stuff, right?
In the eyes of most ordinary people, that would be true. But what did I do with my corrupted mind? I said to myself "Oh my! I think there are Hidden Mickeys in here!", and spent the next several minutes looking for them (I found at least 3).
:)
Zz.
Moonbear said::rofl:
This is the time of year when I especially love Disney. Cartoons and Christmas just seem to go well together for me...both bring out my inner child. I was poking around the Disney store, and found an absolutely adorable snow globe that's part of a bigger scene, but even the sale price is beyond my budget for Christmas decorations. The details are amazing. It seems they've found a way to incorporate almost every character into it...Chip and Dale are hanging out on one side, and even Cinderella's mice are on a ribbon on the other side of the tree. It's so adorable. Maybe there will be some left and at a better sale price after Christmas.
ZapperZ said:Hum... I have to go look at that. I haven't been to a Disney Store yet this holiday season. And we got mailings to notify us that Passholders can get 15% discount at the Disney Stores this season until Dec. 15. So our annual passes are actually useful even away from the parks.
So how much was the snow globe? :)
Zz.
ZapperZ said:Please help!
I participate in a photo contest in Disney fan forum, and this week, the theme is "Disney Mountains". I think I narrowed my photos to these two, but I cannot make up my mind which one to use. Each of the photo has its good points and bad points from my perspective. I can't make up my mind!
So, maybe you can vote on which one I should use. They are both on Expedition Everest attraction.
Zz.
Moonbear said:I know I'm being an enabler here, but...
Here's the link to it. http://disneyshopping.go.com/disney/store/Product_10002_10051_1238721_-1_14857__Snowglobes-Holiday-World-of-Disney-Snowglobe
$74 is a bit much for a snow globe though. Even at 15% off the sale price, it's a bit spendy. Though, from the photos, the detail seems amazing. If I hadn't already spent a small fortune on Inge-glas ornaments (my other Christmas guilty pleasure), I might have considered it.
ZapperZ said:NO MORE ROOM FOR STORAGE!
~christina~ said:I think the first picture is the best as well. I just think that you needed to put the camera on something stable so it doesn't have camera shake blur, but it's composition is nicer than the close up of the mountain.
ZapperZ said:Er... the camera was on a tripod (with a 2 second delay) when both picture was taken.
Zz.
An Academy Award winner, DeRose discussed what earned him the award for his implementation of subdivision surfaces. Subdivision software is what makes the computer graphics in films like "Toy Story 2" and "Finding Nemo" so smooth, instead of the blocky models used in earlier films like the first "Toy Story."
During a lecture on wavelets and its applications to imaging, DeRose explained how wavelets enable the user to compress information by cutting out unnecessary details. In effect, less memory is used and not much detail is sacrificed for the sake of space. The ability to use wavelets to compress images without losing much detail in the process, can be applied to nearly all forms of communication, shortening the time to send large files.
May said that the animation department at Pixar never even considered hand-animating the balloons. But even standard computer animation wouldn't be up to the task, because of the N-squared complexity involved in the thousands of interdependent balloons. Instead, the studio's computer whizzes figured out a way to turn the problem over to a programmed physical simulator, which, employing Newtonian physics, was able to address the animation problem.
Moonbear said:I saw that in the news this morning too. When is the last time (if ever) that they've done a complete overhaul of the monorail system? With the number of passengers every day, and the number of trips every day, and the number of years it's been in service, even with regular inspections, parts are bound to fail. It may be time for them to have an extended service downtime to overhaul all the safety systems. I also think they're overdue for a makeover too...when it first came out, the monorail was very futuristic, but now it's rather dated looking, and seems the same as what you find in many airports. They need to think up some way to make it at least appear modern, if not futuristic again.