Technology @lemmy.world Xatolos @reddthat.com 1 mo. ago

Microsoft shot real lasers through a window to make Windows 10's wallpaper — surprisingly the iconic art wasn't computer generated

www.tomshardware.com Microsoft shot real lasers through a window to make Windows 10's wallpaper — surprisingly the iconic art wasn't computer generated

Mirrors, lasers, and smoke machines were used by designer Bradley Munkowitz (GMUNK).

Microsoft shot real lasers through a window to make Windows 10's wallpaper — surprisingly the iconic art wasn't computer generated

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And then put it into an os that sloppily compresses its wallpapers before displaying them
- this pisses me off so much. You can set an HDR wallpaper too, but only if you insert a special file into its place to trick Windows into working properly
  
  Oh this unlocked a memory of the hassle I went through trying to get rid of jpeg artifacts on my wallpaper on windows 7. It really pissed me off.
  
  Oh? I would like to know more.
- The compression artifacts always led me to believe it was computer generated.
- Literally why would it do that
  
  It was written 25 years ago and untouched since probably.
- Hahaha that's exactly what came to mind. Glad I'm not the only one!
- It's kinda weird how much of a performance difference the wallpaper makes. I once installed Linux mint on an old laptop and the perf of managing windows and some other things was terrible until I changed the wallpaper to a plain color.
  
  Meanwhile windows will still lag switching between desktops if they have different wallpapers, even on high end computers
  
  After using Linux for a while all the window animations of windows start to look jarring too
Kinda weird to think this will be the last version of Windows I use.
- I mean they fucking advertised it as such when I bought it
  
  Oh man I forgot about that!
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_as_a_service
  
  Remember all those great updates to windows 10 that brought cool new features such as... Yeah, I don't either.
- For me it was Windows 7.
Quite a cool wallpaper. Makes me why they decided not to include it anymore.
- You accidentally a word.
  
  Lmao nice catch!
  
  They why, it's a verb now! You can why too.
  
  Here. you DROPPED sth.
its very 'close encounters'. i like it better than i like the operating system.
- I agree, the wall paper is actually really nice. The rest of the system, not so much.
Ngl, I genuinely find the Windows 11 wallpaper (which is not what this article is about) very beautiful.
- I like the one that looks like Pringles, yum
  
  Same, that’s what I’ve got on my work win 11 machine.
- I guess I'll be missing out for the rest of my life
The only time I ever got screen burn was because of this wallpaper.
- That's what happens when you shoot a laser though Windows lol
Never knew and that's how spot on Mr. GMUNK had it, very impressed. Only saw it a gazillion.5 times so I never really had a chance.
And it's still worse than a picture of a hill in Sonoma
- That's okay, if you want a quick nostalgia trip, just open one of the many control panels. Use the one according to the Windows era you want.
- At least it isn't a big blue mitochondria
Did they do it for the light version too?
- I think the newer wallpaper is artificial.
  
  This wallpaper isn't default anymore since a few years back.
  
  That wasn't the question.
Meanwhile we're shooting penguins with lasers for our wallpapers...
I've used Ubuntu for a while a couple of years ago, and honestly, for daily usage and some light editing worked quite well. The gaming was an issue back then, but since i've brought a Steam Deck, i've stopped bothering playing games on windows anyway. Right now I'm looking around for others Linux disto. I've just installed Fedora on a 10 year old laptop and for now it works like a charm.
- Who asked huh ?
  
  I use arch btw
- What does this have to do with the article?

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