{"id":81,"date":"2002-02-15T11:18:00","date_gmt":"2002-02-15T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2002\/02\/15\/pre-lunchtime-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2002-02-15T11:18:00","modified_gmt":"2002-02-15T11:18:00","slug":"pre-lunchtime-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2002\/02\/15\/pre-lunchtime-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-lunchtime thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Macintosh SE gathering dust in my office is currently worth about $15 bucks on the open market. It was a $3700 system when it came out (thank Ghu I didn&#8217;t pay that.)<\/p>\n<p>To prove my geek credentials, I got the <i>Tron<\/i> 20th Anniversary DVD a couple weeks ago. If that movie had nothing else (and many would say that it did have nothing else), it had great visuals that drew you in when the &#8216;story&#8217; and &#8216;acting&#8217; couldn&#8217;t. The art director for the film makes an interesting comment on the DVD, claiming &#8220;If we&#8217;d had the technology then to produce the realistic effects we can now, I&#8217;m not sure that the visual style would have been as memorable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes artistic beauty springs from limitations.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also amused that the Light Cycle contest, a sequence took weeks of pre-rendering at the time, can now be rendered on the fly as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gltron.org\/\">playable game<\/a> by any competent desktop computer.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/elfie.org\/~mikail\/journal\/gltron_screen.jpg\" alt=\"glTron screenshot\"><\/p>\n<p>Ahhh&#8230; the technology curve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Macintosh SE gathering dust in my office is currently worth about $15 bucks on the open market. It was a $3700 system when it came out (thank Ghu I didn&#8217;t pay that.) To prove my geek credentials, I got the Tron 20th Anniversary DVD a couple weeks ago. If that movie had nothing else [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,30,18,34],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-apple","tag-movies","tag-technology","tag-videogames"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xCb9-1j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}