05-09-2003, 06:56 PM | #761 |
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Are you talking about a fish-only pack? I'm certainly not planning any. The idea is for the Creature Paks to contain two or three invertibrates, a couple of unusual fish, and maybe four regular fish.
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05-09-2003, 07:22 PM | #762 |
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Yeah thats what i was talking about,guess i heard wrong.Have you decided what unusual fish and regular fish you will use?
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05-09-2003, 08:49 PM | #763 |
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Nope.
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05-09-2003, 09:26 PM | #764 |
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will there be a school of fish?
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05-10-2003, 12:33 AM | #765 |
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A school of 3 small fish will count as 1.
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05-11-2003, 08:01 PM | #766 |
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Will starfish be able to stick to the rocks?
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Hopefully it doesn't stick to anything.
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05-13-2003, 11:16 AM | #768 |
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Er, wading through this thread is a little intense (about 2+ years of notes, right?). How about perhaps re-starting it or at least summarizing the main points somewhere?
As to fish suggestions, being mainly a Caribbean diver, I'd like to see more Caribbean species, of course. Sargeant Majors would be neat as would blue chromis, and... well, all of Paul Humann's Caribbean books (gotta include the invertabrates and corals, of course) would nice, please. A couple of details which, I suspect, are easier to ask for than to complete but... 1) a small amount of "whale snot" (general floating debris) in the water would help give a better illusion of depth of field; 2) even in a relatively shallow (i.e., "front to back", not "top to bottom") tank, fish further from the viewer are ever so slightly faded compared to closer fish, adding this effect would also help with the illusion of depth. Someone touched on the bubble sound being repetitive. IMHO it's pretty good at avoiding repetition unless you listen closely but... perhaps mixing multiple bubble tracks so the "seams", where they repeat, don't always match up predictably would help here. The brain is pretty good at picking out patterns (even where they don't really exist); enhanced randomness in the sound track is the goal here. Finally, beware of the truck-sized Swiss Army knife! I worked with a group that developed an astronomical image enhancement program (Registax - uses wavlet processing - ask me about it off-list, pls) and the greatest challenge was avoiding adding so many features (hence the term "truck-sized Swiss Army knife") the program would only run on the biggest and fastest of PC's.
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05-13-2003, 12:39 PM | #769 |
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Michael has taken a few passes through this topic and gotten all the major fish and creature requests for which people posted photos.
The features page is on my To Do list once I get some other PHP projects done. As for the voting, we had some discussions about this last night. This will be an unusual situation because more fish and creatures will be added and it will be nice if people can come back a month later and the page remembers their vote, instead of their vote counting as a new person. A cookie for the wishlist voting is starting to sound like the only sane way to do this, short of asking for everyone to enter their e-mail address before voting.
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Um, maybe worrying about "ballot stuffing" really doesn't matter that much. If "sperm whale" spikes off the chart for votes but the general chatter is for "herring", perhaps the vote is skewed. But in general I think you'll find the results will track general chatter and putting a vote validation control in place isn't worth the effort. After all, I'm sure there're other user input streams with their wish lists, etc.
I'd be very surprised if there weren't some definite themes to requests. My guesses are "dangerous" fish (sharks to morays to sea snakes to...?), "pretty" fish (various colors, markings, etc. depending on whether someone's experience is keeping fish, diving, or cruising public aquariums), "odd" fish (frogfish? stargazers? flying gounards?), and while we're at it, how about vertibrates like... mammals (how hard can a seal be? ).
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Fade in, Fade out...
Here's a thought... why not fade in both the video and audio at the start of operation and then fade back to the desktop at the end of operation. For some reason, the start and stop of the audio, in particular, seems rather abrupt, possibly because it literally begins with a pop.
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Sounds like they skimped on a capictor for the sound card when making your laptop.
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Flying Gurnard
This is what you would like to see in the aquarium?
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05-13-2003, 08:09 PM | #774 |
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Re: Flying Gurnard
Originally posted by GreenHsiF Sure! TNX for the image.
This is what you would like to see in the aquarium?
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Has anyone mention the cuddlefish. I don't how differcult it would be to do, or if it would be compatiable with the other marine life in the aquarium. Just a thought, did not see it in the wish list.
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05-14-2003, 05:39 PM | #776 |
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Yes, cuttlefish will probably be part of the first Creature Pak.
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05-14-2003, 06:17 PM | #777 |
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Added!! Thanks for the photo Marian.
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Most Welcome
The wishlist photo page is moving along nicely, keep those emails and posts coming.
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Speaking of cuttlefish...
Originally posted by Marian Nichols ...I saw three while snorkeling in the BVI. Two just basically hovered in the water with their tentacles extended in front in a loose grouping. But one clearly had spent its youth either watching Star Trek re-runs or watching Woodstock far too often. The Trekkie or hippie wannbe carried his (or her) tentacles in a definite V. I was getting either "Live long and prosper" or "peace, man". This lasted for maybe five minutes until I dove down for a closer look and the group moved away from the big wriggly pink thing coming towards them.
Has anyone mention the cuddlefish. I don't how differcult it would be to do, or if it would be compatiable with the other marine life in the aquarium. Just a thought, did not see it in the wish list.
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