David Brabens talk at Tedx in Albert Hall.

Tinman

Tinman
Monday this week David held a TEDx-talk in Albert Hall about procedural generation and art.

9899152246_3359b6fa92.jpg



This was live-streamed and I managed to see most of it. Sadly this is no longer available to see anywhere, at least not yet anyway. He was talking about how content can be created with the help of procedural generation, how beautiful and artful it can be and he helped to drive home that point with showing of pictures of planets created with these type of tools. Guess what game that was from!! :eek:

This was seen by a packed Albert Hall which is great!
9898687745_c8ba01c651.jpg


I only have one problem with this.

We who watched the live-stream did NOT get to see those pictures since the video producer thought it was a good idea to show everything EXCEPT the slides themselves! :mad:

It was especially annoying when David said "as you can see in this image..." without actually getting to see it! :rolleyes:

(We did get to see one slide...a slide showing of a number sequence...the same one we have seen in his procedural generation video during the KS. Nothing wrong with that, but not really what I would call eye-candy.)


@Anyone at FD

Those images would be great to see! I don't care if you have to steal them off Davids computer. Just get it done!! :p:D
 

JeffRyan

JeffRyan
Whilst I don't usually encourage theft... in this case I'm willing to close my eyes for TEN SECONDS. And when I open them again, who knows what I'll see?
 

MikeSnos

MikeSnos
Tinman said:
We who watched the live-stream did NOT get to see those pictures since the video producer thought it was a good idea to show everything EXCEPT the slides themselves! :mad:
Click to expand...

I wonder if that was FD being cunning knowing the likes of us would be watching to some degree and want to prolong the agony. Especially since the one image you did see is one that's already in the public t'internetty-type domain.... Gits... all of them! ;)
 

Cmdr Eagleboy

Cmdr Eagleboy
Tinman said:
We who watched the live-stream did NOT get to see those pictures since the video producer thought it was a good idea to show everything EXCEPT the slides themselves! :mad:
Click to expand...

They are doing it in several of those TEDs with videos - for some you see slides, for some you see none. Also tickets are expensive, so they want to keep some exclusivity. If they are same shots we have seen, that's not big deal. If not, it would warm my heart if David or someone from FD would publish them here :)
 

JazHaz

J
I read the initial post in this thread and was intrigued enough to go searching on YouTube for David Braben videos. I found the 3 childish ones that I had posted about (but that post got deleted).
 
Last edited:

Ryuto

Ryuto
Anyone know if this is up on the TEDTalks website or somewhere? I'd really love to listen to David's talk, sadly, I missed the livestream.
 

Oss133

Oss133
I am sure Michael Brookes will confirm that we will all get to see this video soon.

I expect we will hear from him soon.



Soon.
 

Riandor

Riandor
Damn love a good Ted talk, shame I missed this.
Hopefully it will be on their website soon.

Maybe someone from the forums was lucky enough to have attended and can shed some light? Might be being a little too hopeful there though.

Planet procedural generation has to be one of THE things that I am sure we would all love a glimpse at to see what the direction is, even if it is scheduled for a later release, just to know how it could be!!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom