the spotted blog

Friday, August 17, 2007

Botanical and Zoological Art

What a scintillating perspective of depicting nature in photography. Putting together disparate elements. This stunning piece of art is by Christian Staebler. I got it from here. Bravo!

In this picture however the elements are not so disparate. I can picture a garden where all of these can be found together. And that makes me wonder if a similar harmony can be achieved by putting together totally unrelated elements like let's say a penguin, a coconut palm and a rattlesnake. I know that's an awful combination :) ..but I guess I conveyed my point.

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

FPS by configuration

I just wish there was a web page somewhere on the internet that could give me a rough estimate of the frame rate a particular game would achieve on a particular configuration. It needn't even be based on an analysis, because that I know is complicated. Even a small program running in the background may cause the game to fall below the threshold value of RAM usage and the game may end up reserving much smaller RAM footprint thereby decreasing the FPS drastically. I'm suggesting something that could very well be based on empirical data. Users upload their achieved FPS in lieu of some freeware. Would be a boon to people with moderate rigs when choosing game to play or people buying hardware to play a particular game. There are just too many games out there. Even after reading reviews and following ratings, there are still too many to be played as demos. I wish all of this could be available on a single website ... ratings, reviews, FPS by config.