The GIF Thread, v. Do Over

[Ruba]

Waffles  .

[Nekov]

 

[jingle.boy]

DTF never fails to disappoint.

[lonestar]

 

[Orbert]

DTF never fails to disappoint.

Wait, don't you mean... ?



Oh.

[Zydar]

[hefdaddy42]

Now with Michael Bay goodness:

Glorious.

[?]

Now with Michael Bay goodness:
*gif*

[jingle.boy]

Brilliant on the TV screen.

Are those Goldfish crackers?

[?]

Are those Goldfish crackers?

Yup - look at the file name

[lonestar]

Here's the video for the TV prank, the one guy looks like he wants to beat some ass after it....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzpUpuNjgq8

[jingle.boy]

Flawless victory.

[rumborak]

Err, is that a glassless 3-D TV? Because I can't imagine anybody mistaking a 2-D image a few feet away with a miles-away landscape.

[Orbert]

Valid question.  Some of the explanations I've seen for that sound reasonable, though.  It's a "super high-def" TV, so it's like 4x or 16x the resolution of an HDTV, something like that.  Possibly so much so that your brain just assumes that the static landscape is indeed real (the whole point of the commercial), given the circumstances.  That is, you're in a job interview, possibly nervous, and don't really take a critical look at it.  You glance, think "window" and focus on the interview.

Then, when it starts moving, you look up and what you're seeing again overrides being critical.  It's high enough def to fool your brain.

[rumborak]

Maybe. Likely they also had 100 people come in, of which 97 said "oh poor guy, you have to have a huge TV as a substitute for a real window?", and only those 3 people they show actually went for it. I can honestly say I have never seen a screen in my life that even fooled me for a second as being a window.

[BlobVanDam]

Valid question.  Some of the explanations I've seen for that sound reasonable, though.  It's a "super high-def" TV, so it's like 4x or 16x the resolution of an HDTV, something like that.  Possibly so much so that your brain just assumes that the static landscape is indeed real (the whole point of the commercial), given the circumstances.  That is, you're in a job interview, possibly nervous, and don't really take a critical look at it.  You glance, think "window" and focus on the interview.

Then, when it starts moving, you look up and what you're seeing again overrides being critical.  It's high enough def to fool your brain.

I don't think the "def" is the problem. The colour and framerate of a TV look recognizably different to reality (although without seeing it, I guess they could argue it looks better than most TVs), and as rumby pointed out, it's 2D. Maybe if they didn't look too closely on the way in, and knowing they're only seeing it from the fixed point of sitting in a chair, maybe you could get away with it if they only caught it in their peripheral vision, but if they were directly looking at it at any point, it would be plainly obvious that your eyes are focusing on a point a few feet away, and not off into the distance.

I remember another ad with the same trick where they put the TVs as the floor of an elevator, and faked the floor falling out and leaving the exposed elevator shaft. Now THAT one had to have been 100% bogus, because the perspective would not have worked at all, especially as the perspective was correct for the camera filming it, and therefore not for the people viewing it (and I've programmed direct manipulation of the camera perspective matrix based on angle data to achieve this very goal, so I know that it wouldn't work the way they showed it at all).

[Sigz]

I can honestly say I have never seen a screen in my life that even fooled me for a second as being a window.

Let's be honest though, how many times have you actually seen a TV trying to be a window? The point isn't whether it would stand up under scrutiny, the point is that's it's realistic enough to not attract attention, and then when something serious happens, the person is too freaked out to notice it's fake. Of course if someone pointed it out and said "hey look at that view" they'd see it's not real.

[rumborak]

@Blob: Yeah, not only does the focusing point make it immediately obvious, then there's also the fact that they're standing up. In a real window what you're seeing through it drastically changes when you stand up. The screen will simply show the same perspective the whole time.

There's also the thing that they're all running away from the window. I find that unbelievable, the first thing you do is to see what is happening.

[?]

This is pretty awesome

[Chino]

I can honestly say I have never seen a screen in my life that even fooled me for a second as being a window.

Let's be honest though, how many times have you actually seen a TV trying to be a window? The point isn't whether it would stand up under scrutiny, the point is that's it's realistic enough to not attract attention, and then when something serious happens, the person is too freaked out to notice it's fake. Of course if someone pointed it out and said "hey look at that view" they'd see it's not real.

I have to agree here. If these people believe they are going in for a job interview, their mind is probably not focusing on the window/TV screen. I wouldn't have been fooled though. Had that been a real meteor, it would have been moving a hell of a lot faster than that.

[Zydar]

[Phoenix87x]

[lonestar]

Bringing "keeping the porn under the mattress" to boss proportions.

[King Postwhore]

I would have never left my room as a teen.

[Ruba]

[Orbert]

Science!

[abydos]

[Chino]

No way.

[Orbert]

Way.  Those burners are off but probably still hot, and thus generate rising thermals.  The paper airplane is just riding them.  It can't do it infinitely, but it only needs one loop for someone to make a gif.

[Chino]

Way.  Those burners are off but probably still hot, and thus generate rising thermals.  The paper airplane is just riding them.  It can't do it infinitely, but it only needs one loop for someone to make a gif.

Well I'll be damned. After watching this vid, it makes sense. I was wondering how it held it's circular path, but this vid covers that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z9dLXEGuxU

[?]

[Phoenix87x]

[Orbert]

Like a boss

[the Catfishman]

@Blob: Yeah, not only does the focusing point make it immediately obvious, then there's also the fact that they're standing up. In a real window what you're seeing through it drastically changes when you stand up. The screen will simply show the same perspective the whole time.

There's also the thing that they're all running away from the window. I find that unbelievable, the first thing you do is to see what is happening.

It think it's from a commercial for tv's but I'm too lazy to look up the actual commercial on youtube.

[Zydar]