<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style><font color="#000000" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default">From Hackaday:</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><i>German weekend late-night comedy show “Neo Magazin Royale” has a bunch of super-nerds behind the screens in the production studio. This is apparently what they do when they’re (not) working: making test screens that render as multiple animations on their test equipment.</i></div><div class="gmail_default"><i><br></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><i>While others out there are limited to displaying cool graphics on oscilloscopes, these guys have vectorscopes and waveformer monitors. A vectorscope is like an oscilloscope in X-Y mode, but with one screen that decodes the color space and one screen for the audio (in stereo). A waveform monitor that plots out the brightness levels of a test image. Normal studio techs use these to calibrate their colors, brightness, and audio levels.</i></div><div class="gmail_default"><i><br></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><i>Apparently, these guys programmed a custom test screen that would: a) encode a small animation of a 20-sided die spinning around the show’s logo in the color channel b) encode the show’s logo in the left and right sound channels, and c) their production company’s logo in the screen’s brightness.</i></div><div class="gmail_default"><i><br></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><i>At the end of the video, the director Patrick (in the glasses) admits that they've spent about three months working on this project and everyone starts laughing. “And who gets anything from this? Nobody!” says the show’s host.</i></div></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font color="#000000" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font color="#000000" face="tahoma, sans-serif">Video:</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font color="#000000" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><a href="https://vimeo.com/121883221">https://vimeo.com/121883221</a><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font color="#000000" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font color="#000000" face="tahoma, sans-serif">Article:</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font color="#000000" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><a href="http://hackaday.com/2015/03/14/nerdalert-german-tv-producers-amazing-vectorscope-animations/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hackaday%2FLgoM+%28Hack+a+Day%29">http://hackaday.com/2015/03/14/nerdalert-german-tv-producers-amazing-vectorscope-animations/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hackaday%2FLgoM+%28Hack+a+Day%29</a></font><br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font color="#000000" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font color="#000000" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="courier new, monospace" color="#0000ff"><b>73 Karl W4KRL</b></font></div></div></div>
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