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mwvdlee ·
You youngsters wif' yer newfangled luminescense emittin' diodes, liquid crystaline displays and yer seven segmamentation ... that ain't retro.
THIS is retro:
Nixie tube digits.
From ye olde days before LED's, LCD's and 7-segments; shaped filaments in vacuum tube. It'd be cooler if the images faded and had a flicker to 'em, but I like them as is.
trogluddite ·
Beautiful!
stw ·
really nice... 🙂
tor ·
mhmmmmm... now thats what I call retro! Can almost smell the heat 😉
Dell ·
Nice One!
Jay ·
very nice! i take it this the gif taken from wikipedia and converted? looks cool 😀
what did you use to break down the gif?
I have never seen a real nixie tube! they should bring them back!
Best Regards
tor ·
http://www.sphere.bc.ca/test/nixies.html
to break down the gif just install gimp if you dont have it already (it free) open the file an the frames appears as separate layers. i guess it behaves the same way in photoshop.
http://www.gimp.org
mwvdlee ·
It's indeed little more than a broken down gif animation. I used the excellent IrfanView image viewer to extract the frames, but there are probably dozens of programs that do the task equally well.
bootsy ·
nice!!
Jay ·
Thanks for the info mwvdlee! i had used GIFexplode to do this before but, the resulting frames end up looking grainy.
Will give IrfanView a checkout 🙂
Best Regards
tor ·
I got inspired and made a glowing tube from this picture:
Here is the osm:
Note: You need to rectify the audio stream. Range 0-1.
I have added two black lines because i want to use this myself first. If anyone is interested in this without the lines we might agree somehow. PM me if so.
🙂
MegaHurtz ·
nice 🙂
mwvdlee ·
Cool idea. It looks a bit off at lower levels though. I think there should always be a little bit of glow, just like a dimmed lightbulb.
trogluddite ·
mwvdlee wrote: I think there should always be a little bit of glow, just like a dimmed lightbulb.
He He, I've always been amused by the 'poetic licence' taken with 'virtual tubes' - in a real one the heater coil runs at 'full temperature' all the time - the audio signal just goes to the 'invisible' grid voltages (not as pretty to watch though). Supposedly, the first computer 'geeks', using valve computers to break encrypted German transmissions during WWII, always worked stripped to the waist even in the middle of winter because of the huge amount of heat kicked out by the coils of the 2500 valves in the Colossus computers they were using.
MegaHurtz ·
Something about burning digits and tubes that make me wanna curl up by the fireplace with a hot cup a coco. hmm wintersynthesis.
mwvdlee ·
MegaHurtz wrote: Something about burning digits and tubes that make me wanna curl up by the fireplace with a hot cup a coco. hmm wintersynthesis.
Maybe it would be fun to have a christmas-themed S|M competition. No prizes, just enternal glory from the start of christmas until new years' day.
MegaHurtz ·
Hehe I got this idea.. Dont have any graphics progs installed right now. So Id love it if anyone would like to skin it..
Here`s my idear, A direct digital line to santa, 2k proof 🙂
tor ·
Mhmmmmm 🙂
tor ·
Desided not to use the tube anim. So you guys can have it. Merry X-mas 🙂
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