Jeff Sandquist's East Coast HQ? or "Paul's Secret Project"? | The Coffeehouse

dentaku

I can't think of how his hair/antennae would look from that angle. Does anyone have a photo of him taken from that position?

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

No, that's just someone good with Photoshop.

Incidentally, this is what happens when you punch Nineguy in the face:

Ouch.

sushovande
Smiley Face Sharp

In reply to W3bbo

#Aug 4th @ 3:13 PM

Well, it is a very believable Photoshop! Well done, whoever you are!

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

In reply to sushovande

#Aug 4th @ 3:25 PM

It's a good photoshop, yes, but the simplistic shadows give it away.

A work of yours, dentaku?

dentaku

In reply to W3bbo

#Aug 4th @ 3:54 PM

It's just something I made in Photoshop this morning after coming back from a trip to a nearby beach. I have to get the shadows the right colour and more realistic looking. I keep meaning to take a photo of that building when I'm down there but I never have a camera with me but this morning it was in my car.

None of the other shadows are soft so I'm going to have to figure out how the cutouts in the building would look in real life and make nice sharp shadows with a blue-ish tinge.

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

In reply to dentaku

#Aug 4th @ 4:18 PM

I'm surprised that radome is kept in such good condition considering the cold war ended 20 years ago.

dentaku

In reply to W3bbo

#Aug 4th @ 4:19 PM

It was shut down in 1990 but the property also has a lighthouse and a weather station. It's about as far South as you can get in Atlantic Canada.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFS_Barrington

jeffsand
Inch by Inch

Very cool. I printed this out and posted to our team wall. Here's a question for you all:

I was only able to print it out at 11 x 17 (which is the largest paper size the colour printer in this building will use). Anyone know of an application that creates multiple images from a large original (say 48" wide) so the user can then print the pictue out using multiple sheets of paper?

Make sense?

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

In reply to jeffsand

#Aug 5th @ 2:44 PM

Acrobat lets you scale up PDFs to print on multiple sheets (File > Print > Page Scaling > Tile Large Pages).

jeffsand
Inch by Inch

In reply to W3bbo

#Aug 5th @ 2:52 PM

Nice. I don't have Acrobat. Smiley Any other software that does this?

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

In reply to jeffsand

#Aug 5th @ 3:18 PM

You're kidding if you can't grab a copy of Acrobat from the central software repository on Corpnet Tongue Out

In the meanwhile, use this.

exoteric
I : Next<I>

Speaking of secret projects. What about Beckmans secret project which would supposedly ship before the Rx framework. There was an earlier interview with Beckman where he mentions a time-travelling debugger in a previous project. Maybe that was the project since we now have that in VS2010. Presumably these two projects will ship simultatenously although maybe shipping means being first to publicly beta a feature. What say you?

CannotResolveSymbol
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In reply to jeffsand

#Aug 5th @ 3:18 PM

Paint (on XP/Vista or 7) can do it: open the image file in Paint, open page setup and tell it how many pages to fit the image to. Note that it maintains aspect ratio no matter how many pages you tell it to use, and that it scales images up if they're not big enough (and scales them down if they're too big).

jamie

In reply to CannotResolveSymbol

#Aug 5th @ 4:23 PM

err... coreldraw!

jamie

ps - dont listen to w3bbo ( just this once) it fooled me! good work!

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

In reply to jamie

#Aug 5th @ 6:44 PM

It fooled you?

I thought it was real, seriously; I just googled around for "spread photo over multiple pages" and that popped up, I hadn't actually tried it.

What happens?

jamie

In reply to W3bbo

#Aug 5th @ 7:09 PM

no idea... but that top pic looked real to me. i say - good work Smiley

* ok maybe a bit darker shadows on the head - but kemon!

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

Rasterbater (that w3bbo mentioned) is pretty great. Last time I tried it it only did black and white, but it's pretty awesome, you can make gigantic, wall-sized printouts with it.