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A transparent screen!
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The wall behind my main rig is far too boring to bother. But some of these shots are pretty good, though.
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I have the desire to get a desktop just so i could do this more permanently. It'd be quite the conversation piece.
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hmmm.. interesting. I wonder if you can mount one of thoes little Web cameras on the back of your powerbook...
I always wanted to mount a 17 inch LCD to a wall. then run a web cam through the wall behind it. Kind of a digital Window.
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Originally posted by gautch:
I always wanted to mount a 17 inch LCD to a wall. then run a web cam through the wall behind it. Kind of a digital Window.
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Moderators:
Maybe this thread should be moved to the GUI Customization forum.
Back to the topic:
Can anyone explain (in detail) how to make one of these transparent desktops?
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Uhhh...is it me or is this process pretty self explanitory? Take a picture sans your screen, put your screen where it would be in the picture, take picture you have and mess with it in photoshop to get the image size right, set as wallpaper, then set camera angle correctly and snap a shot. Or you could take a picture sans your monitor, then take another picture of your monitor with it in place, and remove everything but the monitor frame and icons from the monitor picture in photoshop and place on that layer on top of sans monitor picture and you get the same results.
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I call fake on some of those, like the one with the cat, the guy just took the photo with his powerbook there and with the cat there, and then put the cat's face onto the image of the PowerBook, not it's desktop, you can see it at the corner pixels. That said it's an interesting idea, I loved the one with the G5 and what not behind it. If I had a permanent setup I'd think of doing it.
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while this is no doubt interesting. what would be better would be a screen that is actually transparent. It would probably be possible to take an lcd and remove the backlight and put a lightbulb about a foot behind it. That would work right?
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Of course, the illusion disappears the moment you are looking at the screen from an angle other than which the camera had.
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This one is just amazing:
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Originally posted by Wiskedjak:
Of course, the illusion disappears the moment you are looking at the screen from an angle other than which the camera had.
tru, but still cool.
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Originally posted by iREZ:
Uhhh...is it me or is this process pretty self explanitory? Take a picture sans your screen, put your screen where it would be in the picture, take picture you have and mess with it in photoshop to get the image size right, set as wallpaper, then set camera angle correctly and snap a shot. Or you could take a picture sans your monitor, then take another picture of your monitor with it in place, and remove everything but the monitor frame and icons from the monitor picture in photoshop and place on that layer on top of sans monitor picture and you get the same results.
Well, I actually thought that it might involve a webcam facing the wall (for the notebooks).
Originally posted by Superchicken:
If I had a permanent setup I'd think of doing it.
I actually felt the same way, but now that I think about it, I am many times at my desk, and this could be used as a way to line up my PowerBook properly. Sometimes it's hard to remember what position is most comfortable.
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Originally posted by gautch:
....I always wanted to mount a 17 inch LCD to a wall. then run a web cam through the wall behind it. Kind of a digital Window.
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Originally posted by pman68:
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Yeh ill do it some day! I just have to ca$h...
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Originally posted by gautch:
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Yeh ill do it some day! I just have to ca$h...
Your sig is pretty small eh?
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my drunk 5 minute stab at it last night. you can see the top of my iBook on the desktop. 
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