Graphics Programming and Tool (the band)

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26 comments, last by minus4th 10 years, 7 months ago

I don't understand that uncanny valley thing, but I suck at understanding stuff.

Anyway, my relation to music is so intimate that I never cared if I couldn't share it with anyone.

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I am always around the forums, and love graphics.

Love the band. Saw them live in 2006, front row of the pit crowd. (the pit was kind of scary)

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The uncanny valley is a hypothesis in the field of human aesthetics which holds that when human features look and move almost, but not exactly, like natural human beings, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers. Examples can be found in the fields of robotics,[1]3D computer animation,[2][3] and in medical fields such as burn reconstruction, infectious diseases, neurological conditions, and plastic surgery.[4] The "valley" refers to the dip in a graph of the comfort level of humans as subjects move toward a healthy, natural human likeness described in a function of a subject's aesthetic acceptability.

You like yes, king crimson, and pink floyd ( I imagine), so we are like brothers,... but you don't care for tool, and so now our closeness in musical taste seems like a great schism, if you well, in light of that fact.

I am always around the forums, and love graphics.

Love the band. Saw them live in 2006, front row of the pit crowd. (the pit was kind of scary)

The last time I saw tool, the pit was seated, as the night before someone was trampled to death at their show in Calgary. I paid 60$ for floor seats and ended up in folding chairs zapstrapped together. I pledged then and there to smuggle in some wire cutters next time just in case.

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I listen to a lot of Nine Inch Nails, and when I put that on Pandora, Tool comes on. They're kinda similar I guess.

This topic sparked a vague memory, had to look it up again to make sure: the "trippy" Tool artist Cam de Leon apparently works with Nvidia on some stuff http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems3/gpugems3_ch14.html

To answer the question: I like Tool, but I don't particularly enjoy graphics programming any more than any other type of programming.

Yes to both. Own most Tool albums and I've seen them live a few times. One of my favorites.

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