Windows10 was a real return to form for microsoft's ubiquitous operating system following the confusing and touchscreen-centric Windows8, but I think its def, however, because I assumed it was some kind of boring 3D rendering, when the real truth was much more interesting.

The default wallpaper on Windows10 turned out to be a photo of an actual physical installation by designer Bradley Munkowitz, also known as gmunk. Munkowitz has a section of his website and a short YouTube video explaining how he and his team use physical mirrors, lasers and smoke machines to generate images, take thousands of exposures with different color filters and combine the best into a single final composite.

The team placed a laser projector behind the physical Windows10 logo and fired various patterns at the windows while playing with volumetric smoke to maximize the effect. Some of Munkowitz's alternative colorways and background WIP versions really do something for me — I find it a Windows10 desktop made with impressive

practical effects with the most inky backgrounds of them is giving me a whole new appreciation for it. Even before the advent of AI-generated images, we found that the sheer volume of images and the spread of CGI on the Internet had this inexpensive effect on images. I never thought twice about the Windows10 desktop because I didn't think it was "real"."Now I'm kind of in love with that thing.

That's the opposite of my experience of that terrible iPad commercial, where Apple crushed a lot of completely amazing instruments and art supplies with a hydraulic press. Going through it or looking at it as a still image, I assumed it was CGI or something and didn't see what the big deal was. But no, they actually staged a real-life carnival of unnecessary waste to promote the new iPad.