The Awesome Videos Thread (with Extra Sauce!)

figmentPez

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This video is trippy, in a very scientific understanding sort of way:


This taught me some new things about color, but I still have so many questions.
 
It's a great demonstration of how subtractive color works, and drives home what calling something "red" really means: that it absorbs all other wavelengths and reflects only the red one(s).
It also explains how I was able to play Treasure of Tarmin on a B&W television set and still be able to tell the power levels of the equipment (denoted by different colors) because there were only 16 colors, and so I could make, as he says, "educated guesses" about what color everything really was.

--Patrick
 

figmentPez

Staff member
It's a great demonstration of how subtractive color works, and drives home what calling something "red" really means: that it absorbs all other wavelengths and reflects only the red one(s).
It also explains how I was able to play Treasure of Tarmin on a B&W television set and still be able to tell the power levels of the equipment (denoted by different colors) because there were only 16 colors, and so I could make, as he says, "educated guesses" about what color everything really was.

--Patrick
He put up a video on his second channel that rambles about other things, including how fluorescence came into play in his choice of objects more than he expected it would.
 
I wondered why there was a gap.

That video also explains purple/magenta to me. I always knew it was a color created by "wrapping around" the edges of the spectrum, but when seeing it laid out against the SML cone diagram, I finally realize that purple is what you get when you trigger SL but not M.

--Patrick
 
This video is trippy, in a very scientific understanding sort of way:


This taught me some new things about color, but I still have so many questions.
Wait. Technology Connections! Yay! Love his stuff.

Turn the captions on. Trust me.

Trichromatically smooth jazz.
 
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GasBandit

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For those of you who don't live in Texas, know that Buc-ee's is an honest to god bona-fide institution down here. Some of us will fight and die for Buc-ee's.

 
For those of you who don't live in Texas, know that Buc-ee's is an honest to god bona-fide institution down here. Some of us will fight and die for Buc-ee's.
I used to drive between Houston and Dallas a lot. I stopped at Buc-ee's in Madisonville on 45 every trip. I don't think I missed a single one.

 

GasBandit

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I used to drive between Houston and Dallas a lot. I stopped at Buc-ee's in Madisonville on 45 every trip. I don't think I missed a single one.

I love that Buc-ee's! It's shorter for me to go to DFW via OSR through Normangee, but I usually take the extra few miles to swing through Madisonville.
 
For those that don't know, one of the hugest, most important draws about Buc-ee's is that they have nice, huge, clean bathrooms. The video that Tin posted, when the dude is walking into the store, the first place he heads is to the bathrooms, the video cuts before he gets there, the entrance (for both sexes) is to the right of the first set of drink dispensers.
 
The mascot, there, frequently makes it into those videos of "10 drummers you didn't think would be awesome" and stuff.

--Patrick
 
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