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Residents angry and upset over large scale content loss [UPDATED]
Second Life Insider
May 23rd 2007 1:51PM Oh dear, Ratt will be devastated. The geysers has been on ongoing project of his for ages now...
@Kei: Sorry to hear this Kei, i guess we ought to make a big fuzz of this since huge fuzzes seems to be the only thing LL is responding to nowadays :(
Oclee
Honest improvements?
Second Life Insider
Sep 2nd 2006 3:59PM Prok, by your tacit consent, by your silence, by your propping up of the whole sickly BLOGGING experience, you ARE guilty of providing support of the genocide in dafur, kosovo, rwanda etc...
welcome on my private ignore list, hope you enjoy it...
you really need to get a grip on reality
Blame it on Aimee
Second Life Insider
Sep 1st 2006 10:50AM Quit griefing Aimee Prok... you might end up on some master ban list :)
Theft in SL
Second Life Insider
Jul 31st 2006 4:31AM "I'd like Philip to put his money where his mouth is and rip off someone's skin texture and reverse engineer it convincingly though. I for one don't think that can be done, despite his protests."
I've done a lot of photoshopping over the last couple of years... It's important to realize that flattening layers is a destructive process. Pixels underneath other pixels are lost in the process. Nevertheless I do think that a psd can be reverse engineered.
In the case of a skin for example one would need the original photo sources but those can be gotten hold of in most cases. There’s 2 ways of going about this, one could do the reverse engineering manually but that would be an extremely tedious process and hardly worth the trouble. Or one could automate the process.
I’m not an expert in image manipulating algorithms (my field of expertise lies in stock replenishment & consumption forecasting algorithms) but to quote King Philip: “The math works”. I’m pretty sure one could come up with an algorithm that constructs layers based on color ranges. There’s one big flaw with this though. It would produce a layered image that is constructed in awkward way. It simply wouldn’t be a natural way of organizing layers.
But than again there’s no law against organizing layers in an awkward way. One would simply claim; hey, I’m an awkward person and so are my layers. So I guess in the end it boils down to a matter of likeliness and I don’t think that’s a firm enough basis to resolve copyright disputes over…
