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These speed tests were filmed at actual web page rendering times. If you’re interested in the technical details, read on!

Equipment used:

- Computer: MacBook Pro laptop with Windows installed
- Monitor – 24″ Asus: We had to replace the standard fluorescent backlight with very large tungsten fixtures to funnel in more light to capture the screen. In addition, we flipped the monitor 180 degrees to eliminate a shadow from the driver board and set the system preferences on the computer to rotate 180 degrees. No special software was used in this process.
- Camera: Phantom v640 High Speed Camera at 1920 x 1080, films up to 2700 fps

“Why does allrecipes.com in the potato gun sequence appear at once, and not the text first and images second? And why does it appear to render from bottom of the screen to the top?”

Chrome sends the rendered page to the video card buffer all at once, which is why allrecipes.com appears at once, and not with the text first and images second. Chrome actually paints the page from top to bottom, but to eliminate a shadow from the driver board, we had to flip the monitor upside down and set the system preferences in Windows to rotate everything 180 degrees, resulting in the page appearing to render from bottom to top.

“Why does the top one third of the page appear first on the weather.com page load?”

Sometimes only half the buffer gets filled before the video card sends its buffer over to the LCD panel. This is because Chrome on Windows uses GDI to draw, which does not do v-sync.

“The screen wipes are so smooth – how was that achieved?”

The screen wipes up in a gradated wipe because LCD pixels take around 10ms to flip and gradually change color.

More filming details below:

Chrome Browser vs. Potato:
We used a version of the web page allrecipes.com that is accessible when logged in. About four hours into the Potato Gun shoot we decided to use a locally loaded version of the web page to enable more precise synchronization with the potato gun. We finally got the shot we were hoping for after 51 takes.

Chrome Browser vs. Sound:
We loaded an artist page from Pandora.com, a streaming internet radio service directly off the web on a 15Mbps internet connection.

Chrome Browser vs. Lightning:
We used a locally loaded version of weather.com that was legally approved for use in this video (and all the standard website permissions procedures that goes into making videos!)

While we had a super fast 15Mbps internet connection in the studio, any live internet connection introduces quite a bit of variability. To run speed tests on page rendering times, saving locally and loading from the local disk can help reduce this variability.

For behind-the-scenes footage of how this video was made:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oarMXGq3gI

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Hollywood film star Mark Wahlberg braves it as the star in the Top Gear reasonably priced car in this high quality video from the BBC motoring show. Got to http://www.youtube.com/TopGear to see a full list of all high quality videos available on the Top Gear YouTube channel and don’t forget to visit http://www.topgear.com for all the latest news and car reviews.

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Music:Chi Mai By Ennio Morricone from the 1981 movie Le Professionnel

Photos Included in order:
1) 0:00-0:05 First Flight [1903]
2) 0:06-0:09 Sequence of a race horse galloping [1887]
3) 0:10-0:13 La Gare Montparnasse [1895]
4) 0:14-0:17 St. Paul’s Cathedral during the Blitz [1940]
5) 0:18-0:21 Looking Down Sacramento Street [1906]
6) 0:22-0:25 Promontory Point [1869]
7) 0:26-0:29 Migrant Mother [1936]
9) 0:30-0:33 Death of a Loyalist Soldier [1936]
10)0:34-0:37 Lunch atop a Skyscraper [1932]
11)0:38-0:41 Behind the Gare St. Lazare [1932]
12)0:42-0:46 Hindenburg dirigible disaster [1937]
13)0:47-0:49 The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire [1911]
14)0:50-0:53 Hitler in Paris [1940]
15)0:54-0:57 The last Jew in Vinnitsa [1941]
16)0:58-1:00 Conrad Schumann [1961]
18)1:01-1:05 De Gaulle [1942]
18)1:06-1:09 Conference of the Big Three [1945]
19)1:10-1:13 Portrait of Winston Churchill [1941]
20)1:14-1:17 Omaha Beach, Normandy, France [1944]
21)1:18-1:21 Atomic Bomb Cloud over Hiroshima [1945]
22)1:22-1:25 Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima [1945]
23)1:26-1:29 Gandhi [1946]
24)1:30-1:33 Reichstag flag [1945]
25)1:34-1:37 Betty Grable [1942]
26)1:38-1:41 V-J Day, Times Square [1945]
27)1:42-1:45 Buchenwald [1945]
28)1:46-1:49 Little Rock Segregation [1957]
29)1:50-1:55 Corpsman in anguish [1967]
30)1:56-1:59 Muhammad Ali versus Sonny Liston [1965]
31) 2:00-2:04 Dalí Atomicus [1948]
32)2:05-2:12 The Soul of a Horse [1963]
33)2:13-2:16 Burning Monk – The Self-Immolation [1963]
34)2:17-2:20Fire on Marlborough Street [1975]
35)2:21-2:25Black power [1968]
36)2:26-2:28The pillar of fire [1950]
37)2:29-2:33Che Guevara [1960]
38)2:33-2:36Footprint on the Moon [1969]
39)2:37-2:39 Segregated Water Fountains [1950]
40) 2:40-2:44Body of Che Guevara [1967]
41)2:44-2:48Assassination of Japan Socialist Inejiro Asanuma [1960]
42)2:48-2:52 A Great Day in Harlem [1958]
43)2:52-2:55 First X-ray [1896]
44)2:55-3:00Kent State [1970]
45)3:00-3:04 Tiananmeren Square[1989]
46)3:05-3:08 Albert Einstein [1951]
47)3:09-3:12

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“Vancouver City” music video is an artistic collaboration between Innerlife Project and TimeLapseHD. For more information and music downloads go to www.innerlifeproject.com
These time lapses are shot with a 12 mega pixel digital single lens reflex cameras. Original resolution is 6 times better then HD (high definition). The images have been resized for HD and are much better quality then shown here on YouTube. Video clips are for sale. For more information contact us at TimeLapseHD@hotmail.com. Thanks and enjoy!

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I did this as an excercise for the purpose of, quite simply, practice. It’s been a while since I attempted anything photo-real… It’s very good to do this kind of thing because it strengthens your freehand drawing abilities, as well as developing an eye for detail.

Freehand drawn in photoshop cs2 (from a reference photo off to the side) with a wacom tablet.
time-lapsed… real time was about 3 and a half hours.

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A chance to see the famous moment when Jamiroquai front man Jay Kay finally claimed back victory from Simon Cowell on the speed lap board of celebrities driving the Top Gear reasonably priced car. Includes the full interview and lap in high quality! Don’t forget to visit http://www.TopGear.com for all the latest Top Gear news and car reviews.

Duration : 0:10:5

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A chance to see the famous moment when Jamiroquai front man Jay Kay finally claimed back victory from Simon Cowell on the speed lap board of celebrities driving the Top Gear reasonably priced car. Includes the full interview and lap in high quality! Don’t forget to visit http://www.TopGear.com for all the latest Top Gear news and car reviews.

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