<![CDATA[The Mysterious Factory Where the First Sentient Robots Were Made - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[The Mysterious Factory Where the First Sentient Robots Were Made - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[The Mysterious Factory Where the First Sentient Robots Were Made]]> It IS HDR Photography, along with other photoshop effects.

Hey, If you want real science fictiony with no other filters, check me:
[kendravixie.deviantart.com]

Kendra

]]> <![CDATA[The Mysterious Factory Where the First Sentient Robots Were Made]]> "And this one looks like a robot train (actually, one of the new superfast trains in Paris) that might take you deep into the heart of a planet where slaves wait for Riddick to rescue them."

They were prisoners, Newitz, prisoners!

Jonn

]]> <![CDATA[The Mysterious Factory Where the First Sentient Robots Were Made]]> Wow, HDR photography. Novel.

Yatta!

]]> <![CDATA[The Mysterious Factory Where the First Sentient Robots Were Made]]> @cde: that's your dirty fantasy. what's phallic about a big erect, er, vertical tower and two balls, er, round outbuildings? Please.

ghost

]]> <![CDATA[The Mysterious Factory Where the First Sentient Robots Were Made]]> Seriously, why is the first one so phallic looking?

cde

]]> <![CDATA[The Mysterious Factory Where the First Sentient Robots Were Made]]> For a guy who couldn't photoshop his own high school senior photo, I'm not all that impressed by this dood's work. The colors do seem really, really off.

That train made me think of KITT. Then I thought about the conductors' quotes I read on Overheard in the City. Now I imagine them in William Daniels' voice.

7Zark7 Iz In Ur Internetz

]]> <![CDATA[The Mysterious Factory Where the First Sentient Robots Were Made]]> That train is actually a rather old TGV model. The newer (rounder) one is in the background. It's sentient.

automaton

]]> <![CDATA[The Mysterious Factory Where the First Sentient Robots Were Made]]> @blakeley: Well, it is apparently where the first sentient robot's were made. I'm guessing they traveled from there to a warm, dark cave where they were stored, polished, and programmed, until ready to be unleashed on the world.

92BuickLeSabre

]]> <![CDATA[The Mysterious Factory Where the First Sentient Robots Were Made]]> i think your art is lovely..
byes for now

enveno1

]]> <![CDATA[The Mysterious Factory Where the First Sentient Robots Were Made]]> @ghost: that should have been "the art OF Jan Wöllert" and "(WITH some of them, see FOR INSTANCE WITH this one, I didn't believe HIM..."

dammit.

ghost

]]> <![CDATA[The Mysterious Factory Where the First Sentient Robots Were Made]]> Great. I also love the art Jan Wöllert, wo amazingly doesn't tinker with the photographs (some of them, see this one, I didn't believe hgim at first that it wasn't digitally enhanced: [www.gruppe-vier-w.org]) but uses low exposure settings and all sorts of lights to create objects within the photographs, at the center it's usually him
see here [www.gruppe-vier-w.org]
here [www.gruppe-vier-w.org]
here [www.gruppe-vier-w.org]
here [www.gruppe-vier-w.org]
or here [www.gruppe-vier-w.org]

sorry. I'm a fan.

ghost

]]> <![CDATA[The Mysterious Factory Where the First Sentient Robots Were Made]]> @blakeley: Maybe all scifi imagery has penises in it? Tomorrow I promise an image that will envelop you with its vadgey goodness.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[The Mysterious Factory Where the First Sentient Robots Were Made]]> There is a nice plug in for Macs which makes creating HDR images really easy - [www.hdrsoft.com]

I have not tried it yet, but will when I get a digital SLR.

Eric

Eric Aitala

]]> <![CDATA[The Mysterious Factory Where the First Sentient Robots Were Made]]> The headline made me think there were going to be some Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles spoilers...

laughingacademy

]]> <![CDATA[The Mysterious Factory Where the First Sentient Robots Were Made]]> Erzengel, I agree. I saw some of this HDR stuff over on BoingBoing about a week ago. Some of it hits me as dream-like and catches my attention. But then the look starts to bother me. It's as if the color settings are messed up on your TV.

Jeff-Minor

]]> <![CDATA[The Mysterious Factory Where the First Sentient Robots Were Made]]> That's some cool stuff.
Might be wallpaper-worthy.

strider_mt2k

]]> <![CDATA[The Mysterious Factory Where the First Sentient Robots Were Made]]> Looks like HDR photography to me.
Basically, you take several pictures of the same subject at diferent exposure settings, and then you can use Photoshop or other proggies to combine the higligths and dark tones into one single image. Im still learning how to do that, but you can find some really pretty made by a fellow mexican here:
[flickr.com]

Erzengel

]]> <![CDATA[The Mysterious Factory Where the First Sentient Robots Were Made]]> @Spoonman: personally id like girth over length any day. unfortunately i have......

that train looks like the grandma of the cylon raiders.

Riddick cares not for the slaves after all he did say "There's gonna be one speed... mine. If you can't keep up, don't step up. You'll just die."

Dybbuk

]]> <![CDATA[The Mysterious Factory Where the First Sentient Robots Were Made]]> That train is clearly a Cylon.

Gyrus

]]> <![CDATA[The Mysterious Factory Where the First Sentient Robots Were Made]]> Agreed....the word "stubby" comes to mind, but I'm not sure where it fits into the joke.

Spoonman

]]> <![CDATA[The Mysterious Factory Where the First Sentient Robots Were Made]]> There is a penis joke in that first one... I just don't know what it is...

blakeley

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