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Jenny Turpish Slapped Me: Quizzes – Better Personality

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Jenny Turpish Slapped Me: Quizzes –

For people who like to take tests….

Sunny/Dark: 3/10
drY/Gross: 5/10
Traditional/Offbeat: 5/10
Active/Passive: 2/10
You are a SGT–Sunny Gross Traditional. This makes you a John Hughes.

Your sense of humor makes you the ultimate every-person, just a – I try not to trouble nobody. You’re laid back. Like la-a-a-aid back. You might be from the Midwest.

You enjoy the occasional weird or dark humor, and the right joke out of nowhere can really make you laugh out loud. In fact, the funniest stuff for you is the stuff that takes you off guard. If you can see it coming, you don’t want to see it arrive.

You probably don’t think this site is all that funny. So it’s weird that you’re here. I appreciate it, though. Maybe I’ll cut back on the ranting and say something nice for a change.

Of the 13825 people who have taken this quiz, 29.6 % are this type.

Your Active humor score of 2/10 means you are too shy shy. Hush hush, hide-away. You could really unload a can of whoop-ass hilarity on anyone — anyone receptive to humor at all — but the sneaky thing here is you don’t really care. You don’t feel the need to be the center of attention, so you hold the big guns in reserve until the right moment. In a world full of people who think they’re funnier than they are, you’re exactly as funny as you want to be. Um, regardless of whether anybody else ever takes notice.

I have missspelt som wordz in thise libe.

I have misspelled some words in this line.

Looks like it works.

How many pixels in a 35 mm frame?

There is a lot to understand about image resolution.

If there are 3000 pixels per inch on film, that is equivalent to 118 pixels per mm. (I have heard the film can go to 4000 pixels per inch which is 157.48 pixels per mm.) I will use 3000 dpi for now.

An interesting link

19.4 mm x 29.1 mm = 7.860.655 pixels per frame. (13.9M pixels with the 4K figure)

Now the HDTV display standards call for 720×1280 ( .9M px/F) or 1080×1920 (2.1M px/F) the main difference being that the 720 rate can display a frame every 60th of a second and the 1080 rate only displays a frame every 30th of a second. There are progressive and interlaced display differences as well.

So, if a movie frame has 8 M pixels, then HDTV can display a quarter of the resolution, at best. a movie projector that is going to display a 2.33:1 picture. I need to work this out. Using a 35 mm frame, a movie director want to project a 2.33:1 ratio so that the width is over twice the height. I know I have seen a page somewhere that define how much of a frame is used for the different aspect ratios in a 35 mm frame.

I found one place that scans in 5200×3500 pixels so that is 18.2M pixels per frame. That is 1.5 ratio. for a 2.65:1 aspect ratio we would have 5200×1962 pixels or 10.2 M pixels per frame.

So lets assume that a movie needs to project 10M pixels at 5200×1962 ratio so they need to come up with some advanced projectors and not try to replicate the HDTV displays. And they will want to project at least 24 frames per second, shuttered to repeat the frame twice for an apparent 48 frames a second (this avoids a flickering effect). Although, digital projection can give the director the option of displaying more the 24 frames a second to get different effects. A 72-frame-per-second image looks different than a 24-frame-per-second image, especially if there is motion involved.

To get a 5200×1962 display, you can take an array of DLP chips (currently 1280×720) and synchronize them into a coherent display. 5 chips x 3 chips gives you a potential display of 6400×2160 ( 2.96:1 13.8 Mpx). Turn the chip sideways and an 8×2 matrix gives a 5760×2560 pixel display (2.25:1 14.7 Mpx).

Now I’ve got the “Bladerunner” theme playing with Brakhage. Incredible. The Brakhage piece is titled “Love Song”

It doesn’t work with Glenn Miller.

Elaine suggested I try other movie themes to see if they synch up since Brakhage is painting every frame separately and they are being displyed at 24 frames a second. I can see why this causes some people headaches.

Didn’t seem to work with the Strausses. Seems to work with Schuman.Deinitely works with “Aufschwang” (used in “Heat and Dust”)

Now the “Clockwork Orange” music. Beethoven’s 9th Choral works. The “William Tell Overture is not starting out well. But we haven’t got to the Lone Ranger part. It start to mesh when the storm arrives. Rossini is so derivitive. The morning breaks and the birds and flowers joyfully greet the sun? But still keeping synch. The Lone Ranger has arrived, nine minutes into the overture? It works.

Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance March #1” works right from the start. The familiar processional doerns’t snap to as muxh as the rest of the piece, but it works as a whole.

Next we have Canon in D from Pachelbel, used in “Ordinary People”. I am familiar with this piece as a bit of meditative music, but laying it over “Love Song” I think it works. A little more drawn out than the others, but in synch. More like four frames per beat instead of one or two frames per beat.

Now we come to “The Ride of the Valkeries” This will never work… I wonder if Brakhage was listening to Wagner when he composed “Love Song?

One thing I learned tonight. If you want to know if a piece of music will work as a movie soundtrack, run it against some of Brakhage’s films.