every time I think about Dilbert I think about this comic and how the question being asked is Not Stupid and its answer is genuinely interesting and arguably very important information anyone using a computer should know
For decades, Greebles have been used as stimuli in psychological studies testing the brain’s facial recognition process. Greebles come in five families (Samar, Galli, Osmit, Radok and Tasio) and two genders (plok and glip).
Though nobody is sure where they come from or how they survive, science owes these odd creatures an enormous debt.
Greebles can vary quite a lot within their established parameters!
Greebles have no face, no eyes, no mouth, no hands. Do not be fooled by our constrained view of organisms! Greebles merely have two boges, one quiff and one dunth. Please remember these terms!
There is a second breed of Greebles, though they are less common. These ones are asymmetrical, and have one boge and quiff next to each other, and two dunths. They’re like the cursed mutated siblings of Greebles, and they are pitied by all.
If you make a greeblesona, please post it as a reblog or otherwise tag me so I don’t miss it! (also tag as #greeblesona)
Guys I made my greeblesona, glips name is Zobo.
Glip has experienced violence at the dunths of another greeble and has been scarred by it. But Zobo lives and thrives off of pure spite. Zobo is stronger.
Now, close your eyes, concentrate on the face recognition area of your brain and visualise your mind greeble. Draw it. Only your hand can pull it out if the cruel clutches of your fusiform gyrus.
this is gwep. it knows only spite and whimsy. i love it in the same way you’d love a diseased and violent stray chihuahua- with both gross fascination and vague pity. I will never draw it again but that’s ok. releasing it into the world.
now go. be free. draw a fucked up greeble
Hello Gwep! I love you Gwep
This is geenp
They got bullied in school for looking weird
Hello Geenp! Everyone say hi to Geenp and be nice to plok
I love animation history and one of the things that always baffled me was how did animators draw the cars in 101 Dalmatians before the advent of computer graphics?
Any rigid solid object is extremely challenging for 2D artists to animate because if one stray line isn’t kept perfectly in check, the object will seem to wobble and shift unnaturally.
Even as early as the mid 80’s Disney was using a technique where they would animate a 3D object and then apply a 2D filter to it. This practice could be applied to any solid object a character interacts with: from lanterns a character is holding, to a book (like in Atlantis), or in the most extreme cases Cybernetic parts (like in Treasure Planet).
But 101 Dalmatians was made WAY before the advent of this technology. So how did they do the Cruella car chase sequence at the end of the film?
The answer is so simple I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me sooner:
They just BUILT the models and painted them white with black outlines ????
That was the trick. They’re not actually 2D animated, they’re stop motion. They were physical models painted white and filmed on a white background. The black outlines become the lineart lines and they just xeroxed the frame onto an animation cel and painted it like any other 2D animated frame.
That’s how they did it! Isn’t that amazing? It’s such a simple low tech solution but it looks so cool in the final product.
Hey! Can anyone plz tell me what font is this?? My friend uses it on their display name on TikTok and I like it-
This font -> ????????????
I really wanna use it on my toyhouse profile so bad but Google isn’t helping me find it so.. I have to turn to Tumblr for help.
It’s not actually a font.
Normal characters change appearance depending on what font you display them in. The characters “abcde” could look like anything – though if you’re viewing this on Tumblr, it’s probably using Tumblr’s custom font, Favorit-Tumblr.
“????????????????????” are special characters that always look like that no matter what font the rest of the text is in. (They’re kind of like emojis in that way.) These characters are only intended to be used as mathematical symbols, specifically for Lie algebras*.
You’re not supposed to use characters like “????????????????????” to spell words, because it messes with screen readers and with searching. Software doesn’t recognize “????????????????????” as letters, only as mathematical symbols.
The style that the characters are in is called Fraktur. There’s a lot of different Fraktur fonts available which display the characters of the regular alphabet in Fraktur style, in a way that doesn’t mess with screen readers. UnifrakturMaguntia is a free one.
Unfortunately many apps/websites (including Tumblr) don’t let you choose your own fonts, which is why people resort to misusing mathematical symbols to get their text to look a certain way instead.
You can see the Unicode charts for a complete list of mathematical symbols, including other styles besides Fraktur.
People: I know that you want tattoos but you shouldn’t get them as soon as you’re eighteen!! You need to be sure that you’ll still want them when you’re grown up!!!! You might like a tattoo now but you can’t be sure you’ll still like it in your forties or fifties!!!!!!!!
Me, a person who has trouble visualising the future and literally cannot imagine themself living past about 25: okay…
Hey op did you ever get the tattoo? Do you still like it?
Fuck this is a wild one to see again, especially as someone now about 3 weeks away from officially making it past 25:
– I remember 2016 as being the worst year of my fucking life, in ways it’s gonna be hard to beat and the universe better not fuckin try
– since 2016, I’ve gotten a degree in a field that I love, been in a toxic relationship, had a toxic relationship end, been in a kind but ultimately not what we wanted relationship, had that end too, been single for a while, learned I’m trans, started hrt, gotten in a different lovely proudly queer relationship which I’m very happy in, made friends, lost friends, mourned friends, made new friends, gotten a job I liked, made manager, quit, got another job that lets me do a bit of good in the world, gotten top surgery, travelled, swam shirtless in the warm sea, written half a dozen zines and a poetry chapbook, performed poetry, accepted I’m probably never gonna make a career out of poetry alone, gone on and off and on again various mental health treatments and hopeful that this one will stick for as long as it needs to, walked probably a thousand or more cumulative miles wearing through the soles of half a dozen or more boots, laughed, cried, rested, collapsed from fatigue, crawled back out again
– if I could reach back to the kid making this post… buddy, I’m not gonna say it’ll all be alright, because that’s pat and trite and diminishes the very real struggles of growing. But we cut our hair and change our name and grow a beard and we’re not Quite out of the shitty little hometown but we’re getting there. I think you’d like the jumper I’m wearing. I saw mcr live and I know you’d kill me with jealousy for it. I took you with me, as much as I could. I still think you’ve got great taste in movies, and I’ve got some new recs for you.
– I now have 4 tattoos! None of them are the ones I thought I’d have, but that’s okay. The first one is not an art style I’d choose today but the design holds a ton of meaning for me, and always will, and I don’t regret it. The other 3 are a more cohesive art style – maybe I could have changed the placement or tweaked some details, but I don’t need to, they’re part of me now and they’re beautiful for it. I’m excited to get more and to live long enough to reflect on them like this again and again and again
– 25 felt impossibly old to you. Right now it feels both impossibly old and impossibly young. I’m glad I got to see what it brought me, even the shit parts
– I’ll put aside a slice of cake next month in your honour
I’m glad I asked. I’m glad you’ve made it this far. I hope we both make it another 10 years and it keeps being worth it.
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