| Tuesday, December 18, 2007 |
16:53 - One for the "Sweet Merciful Crap" file
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Sometimes Apple just creeps me out with the things they put into their software that they can't possibly expect anyone to use or even notice. Photo Booth, which is included by default in Mac OS X, is a perfect example.
There's a mode where you can take "four quick pictures" rather than a single still or movie clip. When you do, the icon of the four shots appears in the strip along the bottom as a simple glued-together mosaic, and that's how it exports if you drag it to the Desktop. But if you click on it...
That's a real-time transformation right there, the oblique tilt and the shadow; but that in itself is hardly news, in the age where up to three live video feeds can be arranged around a reflective black tabletop in iChat. No, what's insane is what happens when you click on one of the four photos in the mosaic.
Go on, try it.
Did you see that? The overhead light reflection that they superimposed on the animation of the picture coming up close to the camera?
Is that or is that not just psychotic?
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Brian Tiemann
