hsm's multimedia lounge

I'm writing this from Google's Blogger widget. Really useful stuff. Unfortunately, there are no support for system spellcheck and no image uploading. I hope, they will improve it soon.

I just downloaded Geekbench Preview 2 and ran it on my PowerMac G5 2x2.5 GHz. Looks like it's faster then MacBook Pro Intel Core Duo 2.0GHz. I'm a little bit amazed.


Below are results of benchmark:

Geekbench Information
  Version:               Geekbench Preview 2 (r73)
  Compiler:              GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250)

System Information
  OS:                    Version 10.4.5 (Build 8H14)
  Model:                 PowerMac7,3
  Motherboard:           PowerMac7,3
  CPU:                   PowerPC G5 (970)
  CPU ID:                18, 100
  CPU Count (Physical):  2
  CPU Count (Logical):   2
  CPU Frequency:         2500 MHz
  Bus Frequency:         1250 MHz
  Memory:                2560 MB

CPU Integer Performance
           Emulate 6502   192  (1 thread,  342.7 megahertz)
           Emulate 6502   346  (4 threads, 632.6 megahertz)
               Blowfish   170  (1 thread,  235.1 megabytes/sec)
               Blowfish   289  (4 threads, 439.5 megabytes/sec)
         bzip2 Compress   159  (1 thread,  28.52 megabytes/sec)
         bzip2 Compress   274  (4 threads, 51.04 megabytes/sec)
       bzip2 Decompress   172  (1 thread,  71.85 megabytes/sec)
       bzip2 Decompress   303  (4 threads, 128.3 megabytes/sec)

CPU Floating Point Performance
             Mandelbrot   162  (1 thread,  1.09 gigaflops)
             Mandelbrot   289  (4 threads, 2.024 gigaflops)

Memory Performance
                Latency   247  (1 thread,  42.29 nanoseconds/load)
        Read Sequential   254  (1 thread,  1.85 gigabytes/sec)
       Write Sequential   187  (1 thread,  1.077 gigabytes/sec)
        Stdlib Allocate   139  (1 thread,  108.6 kiloallocs/sec)
        Stdlib Allocate   142  (4 threads, 112.1 kiloallocs/sec)
           Stdlib Write   143  (1 thread,  2.249 gigabytes/sec)
            Stdlib Copy   141  (1 thread,  1.058 gigabytes/sec)

Stream Performance
            Stream Copy   140  (1 thread,  1.919 gigabytes/sec)
           Stream Scale   140  (1 thread,  1.913 gigabytes/sec)
             Stream Add   146  (1 thread,  2.015 gigabytes/sec)
           Stream Triad   129  (1 thread,  1.82 gigabytes/sec)

In June 2005 we are going to create some outstanding redesign for one of our main TV Channels.
And I was looking for good TV Design samples. Usually it's really hard to find something like this. You need to look at hundreds different places, combining everything from small fragments. So you may imagine how happy was I to find "TV ARK - The Television Museum". Branding of large amount of TV Channels collected in one place. And it goes deep in history as well.


PS: Don't forget to check the great BCC One & Two designs there.

A small puzzle for today. Let's compare the branding of two TV channels: TET and Einstein:

Nikolai Cornell, media designer from LA, recently completed a few interactive installations for the Detroit Auto Show. One of them is Infiniti Interactive Mirrors.

The installation consists of three 8’ high by 3.5 ’ wide panes of mirrored glass placed side by side, each displaying rear-projected content from a high-lumen projector. Sensors embedded in the structure above each pane register when a user reaches out to a “hot spot,” allowing users to navigate the projected content without ever needing to touch the “screen” or press a “button.” An additional sensor recognizes when a user approaches and automatically activates the mirror to welcome the visitor.



I just thought that this installation is very close by spirit to Joseph Kosinski's work for Nike "Les Jumelles".

I downloaded CINEBENCH 9.5 (it's universal now). And just made the benchmarking for my PowerMac.

Here are my results:

CINEBENCH 9.5
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Tester           : hsm

Processor        : Dual G5 2.5 GHz
MHz              : 2.5 GHz
Number of CPUs   : 2
Operating System : Mac OS X 10.4.5

Graphics Card    : NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL 256Mb
Resolution       : 1920x1200
Color Depth      : 32 bits

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Rendering (Single   CPU): 385 CB-CPU 
Rendering (Multiple CPU): 689 CB-CPU 

Multiprocessor Speedup: 1.79

Shading (CINEMA 4D)                : 371 CB-GFX 
Shading (OpenGL Software Lighting) : 1081 CB-GFX 
Shading (OpenGL Hardware Lighting) : 1821 CB-GFX 

OpenGL Speedup: 4.91

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I took some photos of our office and tried to create something interesting for our future website. Unfortunately the composition in photography is something far from me. I could figure it out only after creating of illustration from one.