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very old screensavers (and teapots)
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writes: [] Here, the Teapot in (f), enjoys some Gouraud shading. [] First, there was Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D. Then came Paul's Teapot in (f). -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf I'm a gay man in a woman's body - and I love it! - Sheridan Smith (actress), in Radio Times, 3-9 April 2010 |
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very old screensavers (and teapots)
On 2/23/2014, J. P. Gilliver (John) posted:
.... Also: the "pipes" 'saver used to have random teapots if set up correctly (they appeared as about 1 joint in 1000), but this was removed from XP onwards. Anyone know why? (Was it pressure from industry, who found their employees spent too much time teapot-spotting?) OK, I never knew this, which is why your reply in my Magritte subthread mystified me completely! Thanks, my ignorance has now evaporated. (OK, only *some* of it!) (Anyone know what byte or pair of bytes hold the teapot ratio, in the old .scr file?) -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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very old screensavers (and teapots)
On 2/23/2014, J. P. Gilliver (John) posted:
In message , Paul writes: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: That's definitely _not_ what I had in mind (-:! I just meant the Utah teapots in the pipes screensaver. (And from that description, I think they may be thinking of a whistling kettle: teapots don't make a sound.) Examples here. http://www.eeggs.com/items/493.html And it's an OpenGL based screensaver. That page says "Windows NT Easter Egg". Says NT 3.5 or above. But I know it's there in the Win9x version, and _not_ in the XP one (I think not in 7 either). The Utah Teapot appeared enough times in my graphics magazine, so it would be somewhat of an inside joke. [] Very much so, in that it was the first everyday object to be digitised - look it up on Wikipedia if interested. (The original Melitta teapot - now in a museum! - is taller; someone at one point reduced the vertical scale, liked the result, and saved the result.) While looking around, I found this - the humour will only appeal to those with a certain kind of programming experience, but it gave me some belly-laughs: http://bit.ly/OqusCh I wonder if they are in some danger of copyright infringement vis-à-vis Java... Thanks - I had been totally unaware of HTCPCP. -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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