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degauss
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
"... keyboard shortcuts ..." is a common response to defend Mac design choices.

The single shared menu is also something that made sense on the original 9" 512x384 Mac screen to save but it really is nonsensical in the days of 32" 6k displays, so much mousing to get up to that menu but of course "... keyboard shortcuts ..." comes the refrain.
degauss
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
Around 1996 I worked at Walt Disney Feature Animation (Hercules, Tarzan, Mulan, Dinosaur era). I was talked with implementing the Disney multi plane 2D scanning camera in a digital environment, Maya, a 3D modeling and animation package. I was given full specs and it was straightforward. One thing was odd, the 2D coordinate system used 5000,5000 as the origin, I forget what units. No one seemed to be able to explain why. A while later the original mechanical multi plane scanning camera was put on display. Looking at it, it made sense. It used a 4 digit mechanical counter for the position of each axis with a range of [0,9999] so 5000 is approximately the center. Warner Brothers Animation used software called Animo and it had the same origin. I ended up working with an Animo developer at my next job and asked him about it. He said Warner Brothers told them to implement it that way with 5000,5000 as the origin because that’s how they do it at Disney and Disney must have a good reason.
degauss
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
Incorrect.

The earth's magnetic field definitely affects Cathode Ray Tubes and many other things.

High end CRT computer monitors came with a built in degaussing system and some had controls for aligning the R,G & B electron beams.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degaussing https://hackaday.com/2016/05/25/wtf-is-degaussing/

From personal experience, I took a 20" Sony Trinitron from Los Angeles to New Zealand in the mid 90's. the reversal in the Earth's magnetic field between the northern and southern hemisphere's meant I could never completely get the RGB guns to line up correctly.

https://www.webopedia.com/insights/monitorhemispheres/