IN THE COMMENTS: Unknown said:
I think it's actually computer generated. No, I'm not kidding. I don't see smoke - it's low res, the sound is exactly synced (they could have altered it afterward, but...). As a software developer with a lot of experience in computer generated images, it looks totally fake to me.Aw, too bad! I looked it up and found, at Hoax-Slayer, "'Japan’s Fireworks Best in the World' Video is A Digital Simulation."
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Gee, it's almost like fireworks were invented in Asia or something...
Wow!!!
Oooooh - - ahhhh - - oooooowwwww.
That is just right for End of the World. The new world starts now.
Makes me proud to be an American!
Do they go sideways out or out like a globe?
it would be cool to have something like that written in our national anthem
I think it's actually computer generated. No, I'm not kidding. I don't see smoke - it's low res, the sound is exactly synced (they could have altered it afterward, but...). As a software developer with a lot of experience in computer generated images, it looks totally fake to me.
Cool.
I hear they're working on miniaturized fireworks that you can carry in your wallet.
"I think it's actually computer generated. No, I'm not kidding. I don't see smoke - it's low res, the sound is exactly synced (they could have altered it afterward, but...). As a software developer with a lot of experience in computer generated images, it looks totally fake to me."
Oh, no!
Was I duped?
I, too, think this looks CGI'd.
The trick is to keep them from all going off at once.
Yeah, it is fake.
Will do an update.
I agree. Fake. Spheres are too perfect, with edges too crisply defined, and they grow to a certain size and remain there. I wish they could make real ones like this, though.
fake, but Acura
Turning Japanese-a!!
Well, they actually do have some awesome fireworks.
Was I duped?
You, with your new eyes!
Not a very good fake. At a minimum the author should have calculated the effective distance of each explosion and included a delay between the flash and the report based on the speed of sound.
The sudden, perfectly symmetrical, fades of rings is a good sign of a fake too.
That was pretty obvious.
I have some friends in the CGI class. It is really hard to do shadows and smoke.
There are some video game developers that did a much better job than this.
Leland said...
The sudden, perfectly symmetrical, fades of rings is a good sign of a fake too.
The best CGI stuff lightly randomizes the fade effects.
I think it's actually computer generated. No, I'm not kidding. I don't see smoke - it's low res, the sound is exactly synced (they could have altered it afterward, but...)
Good catch. I watched with the sound off but wondered what they'd have to do to make heart shapes rather than ovals, and thought they might have had chips in each rocket ... while falling for it.
Fun fact: the guy who started Adobe was an early researcher into simulating particle systems.
"'Japan’s Fireworks Best in the World' Video is A Digital Simulation."
As far as oohs and aahs go, a digital stimulation is more in my wheelhouse.
Now do WaPo.
Hey I made it on Althouse! Now I can retire. :)
This is actually a terrible fake- it is possible to do this better.
Hey I made it on Althouse! Now I can retire. :)
You didn't get a tag. Back to work.
What a bunch of crap. 2012 San Diego fireworks display was the GOAT and will likely not be matched in our lifetimes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndVhgq1yHdA
This is exactly what happened to me when I was introduced to my now wife (AKA the Princess of Uisneach) after she spoke a few innocuous words.
Tachycardia.
Then my head started exploding. A once in a lifetime experience!
The feeling wasn't reciprocated.
But, as my mother was wont to tell me when I was young, "You're a persistent bugger".
You didn't get a tag. Back to work.
I have low standards. Except when it comes to digital fakery...
When I lived in Japan in the late 80's/early 90's the city of shimoda held the Shimoda Black Ship Festival which celebrated the arrival of ADM Perry's "black ship fleet" to Japan and the opening of Japan to Western civilization. Shimoda held the Black Ship Festivali in May, and its fireworks spectacle served as a demonstration/advertisement of what might be available for the other Japanese fireworks displays in the summer and the fall, i.e. it was spectacular because the fireworks companies were showing off their wares. To this day I believe Shimoda had the most amazing fireworks of all, and the spherical fireworks depicted in the video are likely a continuation of the Shimoda event. No one does fireworks like the Japanese.
Well look at that, a new tag! Unknown
Congratulations on the retirement! Now go out there and fill that tag!
Very one-dimensional; obviously fake.
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