the drivel of moritz mœller
I found a surprise parcel in my mailbox this evening. As it came directly from Amazon UK, I had no idea who sent it to me.
It turned out to be a DVD of the 1966 movie Django. It apparently was a late x-mas present from Aghiles Kheffache, lead developer of 3Delight.
In honour of this masterpiece of the spaghetti western genre, the current 3Delight release 7 is named ‘Django’.
This is the movie that made Franco Nero a star. Don’t forget to watch the trailer!
If you face a problem, one way to look for a solution may be to ask people from different fields. A lot of time a solution doesn’t present itself because the knowledge you have in a specific field also acts as a boundary for your imagination.
Before I continue talking about the subject itself, let me start with a story.
Many people have commented on the ‘Liquid’ shelf system my very good friend Sascha Ulber designed, in spring 2003. As trivial as it looks, the way it was conceptualized and most things about it were about five years ahead of the curve then.
Several blogs and mailing lists I frequent linked to an article investigating the validity of Apple’s claims that the iPhone 4′s display has a ‘terminal’ resolution for the application at hand: namely a human reading its display at an ‘average’ distance (which, being unspecified in Apple’s press release, offers quite a bit of latitude for interpretation).
The article ignores several important facts.
A while ago there was a thread on the 3D-Pro mailing list that diverged from its original subject and took a turn towards a debate about copyright.
The debate resulted when someone discovered that part of an image was being used as a backdrop for another image without giving proper credit.
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