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Make the Choice! (.wallpaper.)

31 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/make-the-choice-wallpaper.80385/

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Hitboxx Original post #1
Feb 16, 2008 at 10:48 AM
As usual was playing with GiMP for a "pill", then I hit the idea of Matrix and finally this. Enjoy :)

*i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb178/ferrous_cranus/pill_choice3_grad_640.png​

As for the philosophy,
When Morpheus and Neo meet, Morpheus offers Neo two pills. The red pill will answer the question "what is the Matrix?" (by removing him from it) and the blue pill simply for life to carry on as before. As Neo reaches for the red pill Morpheus warns Neo "Remember, all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more."
Interpret it as you want ;) [...and oh, just so you know, I've already taken the red pill long back..]
iMav
iMav #2
Feb 16, 2008 at 11:05 AM
interesting concept but the wallpaper can be improved :)
Gigacore
Feb 16, 2008 at 11:26 AM
w00t. the outer glow is too much.
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Hitboxx #4
Feb 16, 2008 at 11:29 AM
w00t. the outer glow is too much.
There is no outerglow in the image at all. There are techniques other than layer effects you know..
amitava82
Feb 16, 2008 at 12:26 PM
and that is Gaussian Blur ;)
vish786
vish786 #6
Feb 16, 2008 at 11:56 PM
Its a riddle

stop fiddling with colors, solve the riddle... wallpaper* has a message ;)
kalpik
kalpik #7
Feb 17, 2008 at 12:01 AM
I LOVE the wallpaper :D

Here's some background: *www.whysanity.net/monos/matrix3.html
dOm1naTOr
Feb 17, 2008 at 12:01 AM
i had choose blue pill long before even knowing the consequences. But nowadays the red pills are given free and choice can be changed whenever u want.
so the quote " Once u made the choice, there is no turning back" is not more valid:D
iMav
iMav #9
Feb 17, 2008 at 12:08 AM
remmeber this:

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showpost.php?p=677990&postcount=1 :D
kalpik
kalpik #10
Feb 17, 2008 at 12:12 AM
Yeah.. what about it?
iMav
iMav #11
Feb 17, 2008 at 12:14 AM
ignore the pill :D
kalpik
kalpik #12
Feb 17, 2008 at 12:15 AM
Sure! Do that! Good for us too! :)
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Hitboxx #13
Feb 17, 2008 at 12:22 AM
iMav, you see the stark difference between us? You A Windows Lover tells to ignore, while I A Linux User offers to choose with truth being the anchor ;)

Well don't read too much into it, just a wallpaper I thoroughly enjoyed creating, nothing more.
iMav
iMav #14
Feb 17, 2008 at 12:25 AM
iMav, you see the stark difference between us? You A Windows Lover tells to ignore, while I A Linux User offers to choose with truth being the anchor ;)
truth being the anchor :lol: dude u got the idea first thats all :D

o and yeah i offer bliss and not the terminal :lol:
dOm1naTOr
dOm1naTOr #15
Feb 17, 2008 at 12:29 AM
a new pills is on its way. haf is blue nd other haf red.[multiboot]. It was not there at time of Morpheus.
kalpik
kalpik #18
Feb 17, 2008 at 12:46 AM
^^ Heh.. I expected better from you.. Oh well.. Guess i was expecting too much :p
iMav
iMav #19
Feb 17, 2008 at 12:51 AM
^^ Heh.. I expected better from you.. Oh well.. Guess i was expecting too much :p
well sorry to disappoint a windows user is never a match for lin geeks :rolleyes:
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mehulved #20
Feb 17, 2008 at 2:20 AM
yuck I hate pills. :p
Nonetheless nice work.
koolbluez
koolbluez #21
Feb 17, 2008 at 2:33 AM
Choice made... the blue pill for sure... The most attractive thing I find in Linux is the penguin :twisted:
No offence linuxians :D

Wallpaper.... ok... can b made a lot better
kalpik
kalpik #22
Feb 17, 2008 at 12:18 PM
well sorry to disappoint a windows user is never a match for lin geeks :rolleyes:
Punctuation man! Learn to use it! I had to read your post 5 times, before i could understand what you are trying to say :|
iMav
iMav #23
Feb 17, 2008 at 12:52 PM
Punctuation man! Learn to use it! I had to read your post 5 times, before i could understand what you are trying to say :|
windows user - poor english ;)
tarey_g
tarey_g #24
Feb 17, 2008 at 12:53 PM
Why would you take a red/blue pill from a bald man in the middle of nowhere? :D

Because you had nothing better to do :D atm .

Good point is that the bald guy offered choice, and you were free to choose what you wanted (Instead of someone nagging u to choose the red/blue one).

Why i wrote all this senseless crap?
because i had nothing better to do :D ,
damn internet is boring if you dont have anything to do :( .
Faun
Faun #25
Feb 17, 2008 at 12:56 PM
well...i got it at second read \m/

Why would you take a red/blue pill from a bald man in the middle of nowhere? :D

Because you had nothing better to do :D atm .

Good point is that the bald guy offered choice, and you were free to choose what you wanted (Instead of someone nagging u to choose the red/blue one).

Why i wrote all this senseless crap?
because i had nothing better to do :D ,
damn internet is boring if you dont have anything to do :( .
Pull out sawed off double barrel and loot the both pills for free.
goobimama
goobimama #26
Feb 18, 2008 at 1:23 AM
Where's the green pill? Or am I not supposed to be under medication? :D

Nice concept, but the wally needs some work. Doesn't have that zing.
praka123
praka123 #27
Feb 18, 2008 at 2:34 AM
took the red pill almost 6 years ago regularly ;)
Red as in Blood and energy and Blue as in Venom :lol:

BTW,wallpaper is nice ;it is ur work in gimp?
tarey_g
tarey_g #28
Feb 18, 2008 at 12:15 PM
took the red pill almost 6 years ago regularly ;)


Dude stay away from too much unnecessary medication. We have seen the side effects already in looong threads. :D
Krazy_About_Technology
Feb 18, 2008 at 12:55 PM
Is there a bigger version of this wallpaper, preferably a widescreen 1280x800? Its looking awful after streching.
praka123
praka123 #30
Feb 18, 2008 at 2:17 PM
^yes.
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Hitboxx #31
Feb 18, 2008 at 5:36 PM
Ok, Mac got the space this time around, take it and weep it ;) I never stop amazing myself and yes it's pure GiMP, yer blow me sock off :D

*i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb178/ferrous_cranus/pill_choice_3ways_light_640.png​

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