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ITT: We post the A E S T H E T I C
adj.
giving or designed to give pleasure through beauty; of pleasing appearance.
noun
a set of principles underlying and guiding the work of a particular artist or artistic movement.
a e s t h e t i c: verb:
> trendy euphemism for being a douche and failing @ " neghits " with womyn
>>53720028
You must be fun to have at parties.
>>53720059
You must not be invited to parties
>>53720080
You got me.
Feelsbadman
Hey this is a cool thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IZw2CoYztk
Dump
>>53719995
More
>>53720511
Oh shit, I need to do that.
More dump
Even more
>>53720530
Looks like it would be hard, but worth it.
Put in some black lights and that shit would be cash.
Dump
>>53720639
>>53720635
>>53720606
>>53720584
>>53720583
>>53720561
>>53720529
>>53720511
This is some good shit.
>>53720158
Where can I find that wallpaper? Looks sexy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eedXpclrKCc
>>53720677
Thank you, there's more where that came from as well
>>53720708
Aww man, I remember this.
>>53720714
As pleasing that 3D rendered burger looks, that's not A E S T H T I C
>>53720733
Have another one.
Love me some vaporwave
>>53720733
>bigmac
>not aesthetically pleasing
>>53720768
Trying to post these as quickly as possible
Moorree
Mirodick is superior when it comes to aesthics.
But only because we all sucked it as child.
inb4 >>>/v/
>>53720903
>>53720989
/thread
>>53721028
Actually this ends the thread.
>>53719995
HOW COULD YOU NOT LIKE THIS?
>those icons
>that desktop
>that THEME
oh god i'm orgasming right now
Looks amazing.
>>53721188
>Internet
>>53720768
That logo was the shit. What happened Microsoft... what happened.
>>53719995
>that led watch
dick is diamond
>>53721262
Do you know what watch that is? I'm quite interested.
>>53721188
Watercolor could've been amazing with a little bit of antialiasing and higher-fidelity icons. It wouldn't have taken much to make it feel as modern in a timeless way. Instead, we got the mess that was Luna.
>>53721309
Whistler was the XP beta, right?
>>53721188
Yes indeed, sir. Whistler was the pinnacle of Windows design. I'm glad somebody agrees with me.
>>53721328
Indeed it was.
>>53721350
Great minds think alike.
made in GIMP(pepper)
>>53720766
every thread, and I don't even mind
>>53721387
dumping some microsoft papes
POSTING MORE OF WINDOWS WHISTLER
>>53721432
>>53721188
God damn, that's pretty slick
I need to download win98 or 95 and use it . Also great thread.
>>53721449
I'm on Debian here, will the original icons work if I extract them from M$?
>>53721481
theres plenty of win2000 icons out there for gtk
https://youtu.be/HL0RH3x7Zzo?t=7m
First At&t animation to locate satellite orientation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RocLdMyUG-4 [Embed]
Star Trek movie, and product design
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RocLdMyUG-4 [Embed]
Early 70s face morphing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPMFhcC4SvQ [Embed]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5seU-5U0ms [Embed]
>>53721503
I think he's talking about windows whistler icons, anon.
>>53721455
>>53721503
That would trigger my OCD. Either the pure original icons or nothing. ;_;
More windows whistler
>>53721534
People might still think of it as somewhat modern but OS X 10.0 is 15 years old now.
Postan control panel
>>53721574
What was the BEST Windows and why was it 2k?
>>53721597
>>53721621
It's not. It's Windows Whistler that's the best.
Holy shit you faggots are all vaporwave jits. Y'all niggas would get fucked up IRL, no code knowledge having faggots. Get off my board.
>>53721328
>>53721350
>>53721381
you idiots realize that windows is still built around the design of windows 95, right?
that would definitely make windows 95 "the pinnacle of windows design" fucking morons
>>53721621
Win2K is superior, because XP was the first Windows that phoned home (as in being botnet), but the NSAkey was found also in Win95 - but well, what the file actually does is till today a mystery.
POSTAN MORE WHISTLER
>>53721635
>>53721650
It's windows XP with the HmmXP visual style installed. Obviously.
>>53721721
>>53721727
>>53721742
>>53721721
last one
moar whistler
>>53720639
You don't download the wave, you catch it.
>>53721794
fuck off
>>53721809
no
I love that retro computer vapewave style! I have no knowledge of actual computers but will look up guides to make my modern OS look super classic! My dream is to one day own a retro computer but not really use it, only for cool boy points. BTW I just got out of highschool :^)
>>53720814
Arizona green tea edition
>>53721621
2000 master race
>>53720876
Only when Microsoft had Susan Kare working for them. The aesthetic for win 3.x and 95 was god tier.
Now it's garbage tier metro bullshit
>>53721830
>I love going on threads and posting irrelevant shit
oh ok
>>53720814
I would love to have of these.
AESTHIC was pretty much killed by 4chan's /wg/ normies. When someone mentions vaporwave, people think of pictues of synthwaved roman statues, topped with weeb runes.
REE
What a theme!
>>53721949
This. So much this.
>>53721949
Alright then, some real fucking aesthetic coming through.
Prepare yourselves for minicomputers.
>>53721992
>>53721992
>back in my days, 50 megabytes filled a whole room, son
>>53721992
Computers will never be that sexy
>>53722022
Windows Whistler goes Luna!
>>53722033
My grandpa had a Nova 800 when he worked at kodak back in the early 70's, he had 1.4MB of storage and it filled 1/4 of a rack. Used it to make a god dam digital camera, just so he could then test some insane idea he had, using a computer to make an image clearer, image sharpening I think he called it.
>>53722036
Just you fucking wait, I'm hunting down the schematics.
(All I can find is the technical stuff, not the designs for the housings/racks. Shit.)
This piece here. This thing. Guys. Guys!
>>53722100
Cue pics of the Pi based clone.
Where's my fucking Nova 800 to copy from?
>>53722127
>please insert disc 52 to continue
>>53722100
wait wait step the fuck back, tell us more about your grandfather.
>>53722127
Best piece of tech comodore ever delivered.
>>53722219
cd32 was pretty much fail
too early, too much data for too poor machines
>>53722240
The world just wasn't ready yet.
>>53721387
How did you get GIMP to do glitch art?
This is now a nostalgia thread.
Post nostalgia.
>>53721592
Somewhat modern? The whole thing looks super dated, it's not quite the big grey buttons of win 95 but it's got gradients, needless texturing, and 3d buttons galore.
>>53722288
Hard mode; manual editing.
But I made also some small scripts to glitch pictures (pic related), if you're interested and on GNU+Linux, I'll share.
>>53722348
I'm on GNU+Linux. I'd love to see your scripts.
>>53722065
I miss the wizard.
MORE WHISTLER!
A O L
>>53722421
I miss this fucker.
>>53722586
He was my best friend.
Postan more WHISTLERRR
>>53722619
This.
It was like having a digital pet.
>>53722389
It's pretty simple: ImageMagick plus SED.
Previous pic was generated using:convert rms.png bmp:- | sed 's/$/07/g' | convert bmp:- rms_glitched.png
The SED part is the interesting one; different replacements for different effects.
Just play with it:| sed "s/$((RANDOM%10))/1001/g"| sed 's/1/0/g'| sed 's/0/2/g'
Pic related is (obviously) a sed gitch of: >>53722297
Happy hacking.
>>53722693
That is glorious. I'm not bright enough to think of that.
>>53722693
Cool. I always did it via manual modification.
>Converted image to JPEG
>Opened using text editor
>Switched random shit and typed new stuff
>Saved as JPEG
>Get this
>>53722191
I'll see if I can find some of my posts in the archive, just a sec.
He worked at kodak as a research guy back in the 50's-80's, after solving a couple of massive problems for them they basically just kept him on hand for when something went really bad, and in his spare time they gave him whatever he wanted to play with. They got a fair few patents out of him.
(I've been wanting to film him telling his stories to put online, hope he's happy with the idea)
Ah, here's one, someone asked how they got images back from satellites back before digital cameras:
Shit, too long, I'll respond to this in a sec.
>>53722810
Try this: convert to bmp and import into audacity, then add some random effects like echo etc, export as bmp and convert back. Results are pretty nice too.
>>53722839
In the good old days they took a film photo, developed it on device then scanned it with a video tube and sent the result digitally.
My grandfather actually made a digital camera in his, well, kodak's lab in 1972.
Not to build a digital camera, he'd already seen them over in the US, but so he could write image sharpening software.
He used a Data General Nova 800 minicomputer with a 1.5MB hard disk, enough for just about one photo 1000x1000 pixels in size. He used a modified camera tube that he got the electronics boys to make a ADC for so he could pipe the image data into his computer.
He said if he started a photo before he left work it'd usually be done by the morning when he got back.
Anyway, by 1975 Kodak had patents for digital cameras and image sharpening software, but they decided that digital cameras would hurt film sales so they suppressed them. Then some idiot sold the patents to Fuji for utterly nothing, thinking "What's the harm? What are they gonna do with them?"
Anyway, the minicomputer's what interests me. No OS, not a boot loader, the thing didn't even come with a language. He did everything in raw assembly for whatever architecture that thing used. Something that talked to the lab boys ADC to get a pixel, to copy it to memory then to save it to disk.
Also something to display the picture back on a screen. Glowing prosperous, so it only did a couple lines a second, but they held and you could see the image. No frame buffer or anything, heh, god knows how he even got a screen working on the thing.
And then the image sharpening software. Took a couple days to process an image.
Oh, and all this in about 16k of RAM.
The most surprising thing is it all actually worked.
>>53719995
>>53720529
from here down is where thread died
>>53722846
Thanks.
I was also thinking of corrupting movie files by changing the file into a JPEG, lowering the quality, then converting it back. Is it possible if I can do this?
WHISTLERRR
>>53722912
if i want a whistler i just go see your sister hahahahahah straya cunt
>>53722855
Some random posts I've found:
"The first my grandfather used was a PDP-something. Second a Data General Nova 800.
Actually, he might have used a mainframe before the PDP, but everyone was pissed that his calculations where taking him too long so they bought him a mini.
Looking back he must have cost the company (Kodak) quite a lot. Then again, he did a lot for them."
Having a giggle posting as if I where him:
"Fucking newfag, worked on a Data General Nova 800, had a 1,500kByte hard disk, and 16K of RAM.
Got the boys down in the lab to wire me up a ADC so I could connect a camera tube.
Made a 1MP digital camera with the thing back in 1973.
Not even to make a camera, but to wright image sharpening software. Running at 200KHz.
Took all night to take a photo, a week to sharpen it.
Then Kodak went and sold the fucking patents to Fuji."
">40 x 40 x 15 cm
>15cm
>Big
You young punks, don't know how big a true mini is.
Wish I still had this thing. Fucking kodak suppressing digital because "It'll hurt film sales, huur".
Fucking steamrolling their whole building in 2003.
I want my nova back."
>>53722976
Cont grampsposting:
"I'm not a fucking toilet scrubber, I worked for Kodak back in the 50's-70's.
Was a farmboy, decided chemistry was more fun than cows, so I went into the big city to go to uni.
After, kodak hired me as a chemical engineer.
Worked on a couple things, different mixes for developing solutions/film itself.
Solved a few problems, an example, kodak not being to get glue for slides into my country from the US, so I had to work out a formula from local chemicals.
Every slide in my country from the mid 60's onwards was made with my mix.
This make Kodak happy.
After that, I noticed the US-built machines to place, cut out and stamp film into slides was horribly slow, I revamped the design so it's place film more accurately, but more importantly that rather than the operator (Usually an unskilled woman) manually placing the film, then checking if it's good, and if so pressing a button, all she had to do was press a stop button every time the film WASN'T aligned.
When the Americans heard about some little chemical engineer in Aus fucking with their machines they shipped me over, I showed them my design, and after much yelling on both sides they replaced every machine in the world with my design (Once they could find someone who made suitable motors en masse).
Wait a year, things got a little more automated, but the (America) software on some machines where shit, so I decided to rewrite it from scratch. Cue more angry Americans.
"How the hell did some random chemist rewrite this program we payed some guy a million dollars to write for us, and how is it possibly better?"
Back in the plain with my stacks of tape and punchcards.
I got back, and at this point management basically changed my job description to "We'll just pay you anyway, do whatever you want but what you make is ours".
They kept me around to fix the occasional thing.
Cont..."
>>53722890
Never tried it, but would be pretty cool.
>glitched.gif
If you try it and it worked, please report back on /g/.
>>53722810
Doesn't seem to work for me. I open the .jpg in a text editor (Gedit) and add in a few words then save and bam, nothing will open it. Error about it not starting with the proper stuff a jpeg starts with.
What's up with all that grandpa pasta?
Is this the new meme? Asking because tl;dr anything of this.
>>53722994
"Every now and then, management would change and would be confused as to why they where paying me for nothing. Then something would go to shit, everyone would freak out, I'd come in and fix it, and management would be happy again.
The government was trying to work out how to get color TV working in Australia (Never the Same Color Twice and whatnot), but by the time the signal got from Melbourne to Syndey the color had shifted horribly.
They asked me to fix it, so I tried running some calculation on their mainframe.
I was hogging the things too much, so they decided to buy me my own machine.
Was a PDP or something. After a while we just said bugger it and adopted PAL.
Every TV in Australia for the next 50 years used PAL, because of me and a couple other guys.
Anyway, I was fed up with the PDP or something, I forget, so I got them to buy me a Data General Nova 800. Didn't want the 1200, I wanted FAST.
So after playing around with my new toy for a bit I decided to try and make software that sharpened an image. Only problem is I didn't have an image to sharpen.
We did have some phototubes lying around from the TV thing, so I got the nerds in the labs to build something so I could connect it to my computer.
I originally used it to scan photos taken on film, but it could take photos if I wanted. It would just be limited to my lab.
Took about a million points, or pixels today, I could take in color by doing 3 separate scans, one in each color.
Took up the whole 1.5 disk up.
Color was kinda pointless because I could only display on a persistent phosphorous screen.
Still was useful for sharpening.
Took a week to sharpen one photo.
16k of ram, had to hold the program and any data I was sharpening in this.
Wrote the entire program for capturing, sharpening, and displaying the image in machine code.
Had to go through the full Megabyte of data.
Also, naturally, had to write all the drivers myself.
Didn't even have raw disk access.
Everything was done manually.
Cont"
>>53723014
read the fucking thread you lazy cunt
>>53721574
The Brian Eno Win 95 startup sound:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUbjTapNImM
Composed on a Mac
Aesthetic
noun
>the study of the nature of sensation
OP, get fucked
>>53719995
Here we go
>>53723021
">>Some guy
It was another world. Everyone was a kernel developer. Every program you wrote was an operating system. Every program you made started with the same 30 punchcards for the disk drive and screen.
Cont.
Well, no.
That was basically the end.
Kodak patented all my work, paid me a hefty fortune, everyone switched to micros and I retired at 55. Here I am, 30 years later."
And that's all my grampsposting. Nice to see I'll only have to look in one thread now.
>>53719995
>>53722860
triggered
>>53723143
>triggered
>>53722890
Wouldn't that just give you compressed looking movies?
Actually no, image compression independent of previous and next frames would look very different to video, Imma try that.
http://youtu.be/pJON-nUg4eA
>>53723237
Nice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki-fATpXa00
thread theme
(its not even really vaporwave)
>>53723360
>>53719995
WTF IS WRONG WITH HIS RIGHT HAND
![snapshot_05.30_[2016.02.14_12.47.03].png](https://i.imgur.com/BPEJ4hP.jpg "snapshot_05.30_[2016.02.14_12.47.03].png")
>>53723352
super nintendo set the standard of the controllers (also aestetic)
>>53721621
last aestetic design of windows
>>53723407
>1896x1080
wtf
>>53723202
>>53723476
It's /wg/ stuff, they're not autistic enough to post correct resolutions.
I just made this
>>53723407
fixed
>>53723508
suck my dick
>>53723534
BUT I AM ALLERGIC TO SHRIMP
>>53723565
is this some /wg/ memery we're missing out on...?
>>53723587
not me >>53723534
>>53723587
>he doesn't get the reference
>>53723600
You ain't me
>>53723534
saved
>>53723400
I don't see it?
>>53721756
svensk alltså, hå hå
>>53721756
POST MORE XP THEMES
>mfw control panel
>>53722890
>>53722998
Working on this, compressing gives jack shit noticeable results, I need something I can run in bulk on about a thousand jpg files.
Anyone got a script or something?
>>53724140
>unlocked taskbar borders
I always always locked that fucker right away on a clean install so the taskbar would look right
>>53724154
this CONTROL PANEL is FUCKING RAD
>>53724292
>that dithering
yes
carrying the old windows 95 tradition
Why does Whistler look so much better than XP?
>>53724182
convert -delay 10 pictures_of_stuffs_* -loop 0 output.gif
>>53721517
whistler used windows 2000 icons though, it didnt have XPs icons or a hybrid of them
HOLY FUCK
NOW THIS LOOKS NICE
>>53724437
optional in the windows 2000 professional edition, they were added with one of the updates when xp was released
theyre not unique to whistler, whistler was just windows 2000 with a better UI and extremely fast process management (honestly, it made svchost a good idea), most of its resources came directly from win2k
>>53724490
hmm, never knew that i guess
thanks!
here's another WHISTLER
>>53723507
>falling edge
Triggered
>>53721863
Those dot matrix printers were pure displeasure to hear. Had an old Okidata printer as a kid. You could put ream after mangled ream of paper through it and almost never have to change the cartridge, but hell if you couldn't hear thing from an entire floor away.
>>53722860
That's a toy compared to the mighty Tektronix 555 vacuum tube scope with over 100 tubes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvbNBZX6kNE
Sorry honey. Nothing beats XP's Zune theme.
>>53724341
That's not a Windows 95 tradition. That's a PC that doesn't have APM or ACPI (I think) support. Windows needs one of the two to shut off the power.
The Moog Keith Emerson facsimiles are analog things of beauty, executed down to the level of mil-spec potentiometers and hard to find parts in the original modules hand assembled. Only $150,000 and one can be yours.
>>53724182
>>53724367
Shit, should have clarified, I'm looking for a way to fuck up the images so they look cool, not to rebind them.
Although compressing them to .gif's might be fine.
>>53727958
Actually, it looks kinda good just as JPG.
I'll rebind and upload.
>tfw I'll never track one of these mother fuckers down
>>53722139
I want a PDP minicomputer. Though they're hard to find and expensive. I might have to settle for a raspi clone
>>53728538
I doubt I'd ever be able to bring myself to learning how to use the dam thing.
I mean, I'd turn supergenius overnight if I actually worked it out, but right now my only option is building a clone, and to do that I'd need to know more than what I'd learn from using it.
Might just stick to a nova themed SAN for now.
New bread when?
>>53728538
You see later MicroPDP-11s from time to time that are I guess somewhat plentiful in comparison to the full on racked minicomputer models. Of course, you lose out on some of the charm.
There was one for free about an 8 hour drive away from me once, I still kick myself for not jumping on it.
>>53728557
It's not really too difficult, just start it up and toggle in the address of whatever disk pack/tape/storage device you're loading the operating system from. There's also simh if you want to brief yourself on it, or plenty of videos on YouTube from collectors.
>>53728614
>Operating system
You having a giggle m8?
From what I remember of my grandfather remembering, there was no OS for the Nova 800, no disk drivers, nothing. You wrote it all yourself from scratch. You loaded your own stack from punchcards.
>>53728661
There were a lot of operating systems for PDP-11s, 10s, and even 8s, some I can list off the top of my head (whether the names are correct I can't tell you) for the '11 are RT-11, RSTS/E, UNIX, and BSD, TOPS-10 and its descendants were very popular on the '10, for the 8 I can only think of OS/8, though there were likely more. While a lot of customers especially in the '60s and early '70s were running their own programs without any OS whatsoever, these platforms were still in use well into the '80s, and a computer's still a computer no matter how you program it.
>>53728607
got you senpai
New thread here:
>>53728662
>>53728662
>>53728662
>>53722890
>>53722998
>>53723210
>>53724182
Fuck it, here.
Shit, image limit just when I’m done.
>>>/wsg/1009344
Original from >>>/wsg/1007657
>>53728699
Nuigga I'm a Nova guy.
What's the fun if you're just using something mainstream like a PDP?
>>53720511
Nice screensaver
>>53720748
There is a man who actually used this
>>53730805
probs just kidz
>>53732586
No need to bump the thread anymore. But thanks for trying.
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