{"id":12311,"date":"2024-06-02T18:02:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T18:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=12311"},"modified":"2024-06-02T18:02:02","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T18:02:02","slug":"people-stunned-after-discovering-one-of-the-most-seen-images-of-all-time-is-actually-a-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=12311","title":{"rendered":"People stunned after discovering one of the most seen images of all time is actually a photo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The image appears to have been made using CGI, but is actually the result of incredible practical effects<\/h2>\n

When it comes to the most seen images of all time, there are probably a few candidates out there.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Mona Lisa<\/a> is an obvious one, or maybe ‘Earth Rise’ taken from the Moon, but while these images are famous, they’re not the most seen.<\/p>\n

So before we get started, what would be one of the ‘most seen’ images of all time?<\/p>\n

Well, probably the one which everyone who uses one of the most widely-used\u00a0computer<\/a>\u00a0operating systems uses.<\/p>\n

Think the stock backgrounds used on\u00a0Windows<\/a>\u00a0computers, like that big grassy hill stretching out.<\/p>\n

It might not be too difficult to believe that hill is actually a photograph of a real place, and you’d, of course, be right.<\/p>\n

But what’s extraordinary is that another Windows background is also not the product of CGI, but a photo.<\/p>\n

So, which background is this?<\/p>\n

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This is the image! (Microsoft)<\/cite><\/div>\n

It’s the stock background for Windows 10.<\/p>\n

This is the trademark four-paned window with pale blue light streaming through in straight lines into a deep blue nothingness around it.<\/p>\n

You would be forgiven for assuming that this was actually the result of CGI manipulation, as it looks about as CGI generated as it could get.<\/p>\n

But the truth is that this is actually the result of extraordinary practical effects.<\/p>\n

This was an installation put together by designer and director Bradley Munkowitz, also known as GMUNK.<\/p>\n

So, how did they manage to achieve the image?<\/p>\n

They took a cut out frame of the trademark Windows window, which was facing a wall of black curtains.<\/p>\n

This then had blue lasers directed through it in lots of different patterns, which created some extraordinary images.<\/p>\n

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The other side of it! (Microsoft)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Finally, from all the different patterns available on the\u00a0film<\/a>, they selected the best one, and there you have it!<\/p>\n

We might live in a world of CGI and now\u00a0AI<\/a>-generated images, but underestimate a good old practical effect at your peril.<\/p>\n

People took to the\u00a0internet<\/a>\u00a0to share how astonished they were to find out that it was a photo.<\/p>\n

One wrote: “At first I was like woah how’d they do that and then I remembered that practical effects exist. Remember those? I miss practical effects so much.”<\/p>\n

Another posted: “Damn this background is so much cooler to me now”, while a third said: “Looks like you CAN create art without using AI.. who could have known.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a fourth joked: “The lengths people went to to avoid\u00a0paying<\/a>\u00a0for photoshop.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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