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What the heck is that?

This is probably off thread, but I don’t know where to ask except in video or maybe photography.

We’re just off the cruise ship Celebrity Reflection, where the entertainment to keep the passengers who are waiting for a table in the Blu dinning room, consists of a “painting,” which–depending on what part of the cycle you begin to view it–transforms from a blank “canvas” to something wild. The device is large a flat screen TV or computer monitor with very high resolution, and features a woodsman who appears in the lower left corner where he shines a flashlight on the dark canvas, which grows to become what looks like a renaissance painting of a forest. The guy then ambles around, jumping over rocks and stuff, while he gathers firewood, with which he builds a fire. As he fans the flames, the fire grows until it consumes the entire picture area–kinda like the flames used to burn up the map on the TV show “Bonanza.” The whole “show,” which takes about 2-3 minutes, is obviously computer and possibly Photoshop generated, but I could find no details on the ship, or by Googling, as to who the aritist is, how he did it, etc.

Any ideas?

Computer-generated imagery

Yup, H-G, that’s sure what the “painting” on the ship looks like. For sure, the forest scene is CGI. As for the woodsman, I’m not sure. It may be a video of an actual person, superimposed on the CGI image. Anyway, captivating. And entertaining. Plus it keeps the folks waiting for a table from getting too unruly :slight_smile:

BTW, the technical jargon and terminology in that Wikipedia link on CGI is waa-yyy above my head.

Sorry, I meant HJ, not HG, or H-G. H.G. (Wells) wrote “War of the Worlds,” and is considered to be the “father of science fiction,” says Wikipedia.

Joe Rusz said:
H.G. (Wells) ... is considered to be the "father of science fiction," says Wikipedia.
With all due respect to Wikipedia,

But being myself of the Gallic persuasion, I beg to differ, by some forty years:
Jules Verne, Sci-Fi Writer (08 February1828 - 24 March 1905)
Herbert George “H. G.” Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946)

How, I wonder, could Wikipedia have overlooked M. Jules Verne?
Any other steampunk fans out there?

While Verne is considered the father of what we now call Science Fiction writing, HG Wells is considered the father of modern science based science fiction, as opposed to Verne’s oft more Victorian era romanticism.

Heh, heh, heh. See, it’s possible to have an on-line dispute without arousing the hall monitor, as long as you make it so esoteric he won’t notice.

Oh, hi Bob. How’s yer trains? :slight_smile: