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[Teebor]

Soooo Bored at work

Anyway, 3rd picture (see attached)

Guy on the left is definitely running towards us

Two girls are walking towards us covering faces

Guy behind the girl is for some reason stopped and looking in the other direction and covering his face, I think he may have only just turned around as the picture is taken though as his left leg is slightly bent, kind of like he has turned around but was originally walking towards us.

[kzanth]

The Pulsing Pictures

[Blue K]

Are my eyes playing tricks on me, or is that Monica Lewinsky and Peggy Bundy in the Smoke Pic?

[birr]

[tinag222]

Rotation

[Teebor]

I'm not denying that they do tick and pulse becuase I can get them to do it as well almost without failure.

There are calls to what I am guessing is a random number generator or some sort of random pattern creator and I have assumed this is for the initial page generation. I've left all my materials at work but I will take another look as soon as I get the chance (just posting this whilst my home PC is working during a rebuild and upgrade, so I won't get to work on this any more)

I firmly believe though from looking at it (and I hope someone can prove me wrong) that it is just a remnant of a calculation that is causing it to keep moving. Think of it as the remainder of an equation and inevitability if you will.... oh hold on wrong film sorry
But seriously it looks more like the calculations have a leftover of motion once a picture is moved and it eventually calculates that it is a move, ie keep adding 0.001 and 0.001 and eventually you get a 1 which could be a degree of movement for rotation, which could also explain the pulsing as its the picture ready to move but the calculation moves it back again as its not quite a whole number required for a move (rounding if you will from a 0.9 and then realising its mistake and correcting it, it could be the maths behind it is imperfect)

Again speculation though as I can't see exactly what the randomizer is doing yet.

[Tkar]

In regards to 1-18-08.com and the pics

I know that they changed something in the code when they showed the new pic, because when I right-clicked before I cold choose Show All and that would make the screen a lot bigger and the pics a lot smaller. (I was looking for hidden linkage.)

Now I have no options when I right-click. I think it was to clean up a bug where choosing Play would add two more of the same pics to the site, and I could fill the whole site with the same two pics stacked all over the place. I played with that and stil nothing, which makes sense I suppose that that is why the options were removed.

Sorry for the useless post, I think I was going somewhere when I pressed reply and lost it

[tinag222]

I sooo shouldn't have skipped math in school.

So by randomiser, you just mean the array position of the photos to each page load?

Another one that strikes me as screwy - and maybe if I had more understanding of flash it wouldn't be an issue or it would be understood - is why a random generator at all....as opposed to photo A clickable for a neato fx enlarged view, then a neato effect back to normal and photo B placed by it, same deal and photo C, etc. I just can't see what use a randomizer is, when the only thing that's random is the position array and then that's with each load.

I got a big piece missing here on the logic. If they intended it, for example, as just a neato slideshow kinda effect, to display 3 photos in a random *position* (as opposed to random photos, since we have specific ones that are intentionally added in some order), so one load it comes up with p1 at this angle and p2 laid on it to the center and p3 laid on it at a corner, and then randomly changing the positions each load, what the hell is the point of that?

I work with graphics and slideshows (not flash tho) and I've seen lots of flash based slideshows and while they almost always display random combinations from an array of photos, the positions are usually static.

And ya can't move them unless there is that zoom function to just enlarge it for its own sake.

They took that option off the table....and they are randomizing 2 photos, and now 3...same ones each time. Random could be functional if each load put up two of the 3 at any time, and in no particular order.

So the way they are positioned is the randomeness. The photos are the same AND their positions in the layers are the same, Rob on bottom, 2 chicks in the middle, (k no puns please) other 2 chicks on top.

(boy's wet dream notwithstanding) why do that and then have them movable? Rotating?

Do we need to look at the randomness or the fixed variable?

[pokemonkiller1]

Re: Rotation

[JimmieBJr]

[pokemonkiller1]

[kzanth]

One other thing about my picture... notice that they all turned to approximately their time stamp if you correlated their positions to a clock. The 12:36 is rotated to about the 36 minute position in relation to the 12:01, as the 12:48 is turned about 48 minutes to the 12:01. I swear I didn't position them that way... I positioned them on top of one another, and the next morning they ended up that way.

If it truely is random, well...

[tinag222]

[JimmieBJr]

Something else that bothers me is the party pic. It doesn't belong where it's been placed in the timeline.

[rhialto]