If I was looking at it right, it's a Knoll Barcelona daybed, which is an iconic piece that I have a very inexpensive knock off of (that I reupholstered and will refinish soon). The real deal is 10k, mine was almost 40 dB less.
Edit: I don't think it is what I thought it was! Barcelona(R) Couch | Knoll
Well I have this but in Alcantara, paid 8K (for 2 pcs) about 0.25 century ago. They need to be freshened up, but I have no competencies in modding furnitures. Care to share your plan?
Right after I bought the above, I found nearly the same stuff at IKEA, in leather, for about 1/3 the price!
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Ed, have you ever stood in one spot and couched paper? It's known as a comfortable working distance (you don't put your face in it), something you can do all day.
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Or perhaps Naikaku who I saw at ProgDay a few years ago...fantastic:
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Back to work, guys!
Howie
0.25 centuries is a pretty good ROI on your couch! Frankly, with what you've got, I'd be getting a pro to do the reupholstering. ($$$ I know)
The daybed I have was much easier logistically to reupholster (solid slab of foam), as I went with a medium-dark grey heavy canvas material. Had to learn a bit how to sew, which was quite the misadventure. The frame on mine has a cheap gel coat over the oak, so I'll strip the finish, sand down through the stain and redo the finish to match other things I have. (again, its pretty simple)
P.S. was in Geneva in October -- absolutely loved it. Beautiful city and a wonderful country. (Although I'd probably end up in Basel, given my profession
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0.25 centuries is a pretty good ROI on your couch! Frankly, with what you've got, I'd be getting a pro to do the reupholstering. ($$$ I know)
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P.S. was in Geneva in October -- absolutely loved it. Beautiful city and a wonderful country. (Although I'd probably end up in Basel, given my profession
The English grammar acts in mysterious way: 0.25 century is less than 1, so I assumed it to be singular?
Anyway, back on topic
)): a pro job is $$$ in the U.S., I don't want to know how many $ I should add over here. In my case, the frame is invisible, but the alcantara has faded a bit, and has some nasty stains on it, and the feather inside has compacted. Well, maybe one day....
Even though I prefer Geneva, Basel is a very nice city, very cosmopolitan with all the French and German coming in to work. Even the German language there sounds closer to that of Germany than central Switzerland; of course, everybody speaks English, unless they don't want to. The only downsides I can see: the airport is very local, and the drive to the nearest ski resorts is much longer.
Haha, well it's a bit of an ambiguous one:
"Point two five centuries" or "quarter century"
Pick your poison
--- Yeah, I could see a couch redo going one of two ways: diy and it taking forever (looks complicated!) or mega-megabucks. Load the couch into a truck and drive to the other side of Austria to have some lower labor cost craftsmen do the work? (but high quality!)
I work in biotech, so Roche or Novartis would be my ins. I enjoyed visiting Basel as well, especially the art museums. Zurich airport is about as far commute by train from Basel as my own airport is doorstep-to-gate. One of my coworkers here is from Basel and said "it's the boring part of the country!" which is ridiculous, but it is further from the Alps, true. But really, I absolutely adored Switzerland and have humored more and more seriously looking for jobs in Europe, quite likely in CH or very near it. Honestly felt more like home than what I get in the US.
"Point two five centuries" or "quarter century"
Pick your poison
--- Yeah, I could see a couch redo going one of two ways: diy and it taking forever (looks complicated!) or mega-megabucks. Load the couch into a truck and drive to the other side of Austria to have some lower labor cost craftsmen do the work? (but high quality!)
I work in biotech, so Roche or Novartis would be my ins. I enjoyed visiting Basel as well, especially the art museums. Zurich airport is about as far commute by train from Basel as my own airport is doorstep-to-gate. One of my coworkers here is from Basel and said "it's the boring part of the country!" which is ridiculous, but it is further from the Alps, true. But really, I absolutely adored Switzerland and have humored more and more seriously looking for jobs in Europe, quite likely in CH or very near it. Honestly felt more like home than what I get in the US.
...Anyway, back on topic
Five years ago we had a family armchair rebuilt at a top-filght restoration house and it cost $100/hr labor, so it was several hundred dollars plus the cost of the fabric and stuffing...I remarked at the time to my wife we could have bought something fitting the style of our living room (early American tag-sale) for as much.
What I came away with was: to have a piece rebuilt properly either the piece has to be inherently valuable in a historical or personal context or you have to just plain have more money than sense...
Good luck!
Howie
Let's keep it religious, will you?
In a former life, when I had to work for food, I've interacted with both companies, plus Syngenta. I prefer the later because there's a great udon shop right next door.
Totally untrue: I had an ex-GF from Basel, I was there every WE and enjoyed every minutes. And you have the Eastern part of France and the Southern part of Germany all within driving distance.
Yes, that has been my thinking: get a new one from Ikea for a kilobuck and be done with it, then DPH came up with the idea of DIY-Furniture...
Back to tech; I found this interesting powerpoint on RF/microwave layout : http://newdigitalworks.com/uploads/3/5/4/0/35409616/ipc_presentation_july2012.pdf With a lot of useful tips on layout.
Let's keep it religious, will you?
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Yes, that has been my thinking: get a new one from Ikea for a kilobuck and be done with it, then DPH came up with the idea of DIY-Furniture...
and "don't do it!", respectively. Hopefully fun/harmless banter.Thanks doubly, Demian, for the doc and getting us cats herded, slightly.
Zung, somebody here recently wrote that "they know" people in Suisse live well. My observation, visiting there several times, is that most people live in apartments, don't have their own clothes washer/dryer, don't have air conditioning, etc. with regard to "modern conveniences of home", and pay high taxes.
Would you mind giving us your thoughts about all that? Thanks!
Would you mind giving us your thoughts about all that? Thanks!
Off topic, but of interest Apollo 13: Enhanced images reveal life on stricken spacecraft - BBC News This is a herculean bit of image processing, up there with some of the recording restoration some people do.
Yes, Zung, how (well) are you living today? When I was there in 1986, you were doing just fine. Are you living alone now? Of course, the Swiss have a higher standard of living than most have in the USA. The roads are cleaner, along with everything else, but I hear that you cannot flush your toilets after 10PM, is that so? '-)
Amazing technique, and amateur astronomer stacked web cam images taken through a telescope that he was aiming by hand and imaged the space station panels and all as it flew over.
Shooting multiple times the same scene adjusting one parameter only (say focus point) and then stacking all images in SW is used widely.
Here-at least in the first example (Apollo 13)- most probably they start with a single shot. Then what? Do they copy it multiple times and do the stacking with the copies?
A far-out extention of focus stacking (actually an ‘out of focus’ variant). Truly an impressive “tool”
https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/pml/div683/grp03/tsom-ravikiran-attota.pdf
George
Bell System Technical Journal (BSTJ) July 1944,January 1945
163 pages
https://ia801902.us.archive.org/12/items/bstj23-3-282/bstj23-3-282.pdf
https://ia802704.us.archive.org/7/items/bstj24-1-46/bstj24-1-46.pdf
George
163 pages
https://ia801902.us.archive.org/12/items/bstj23-3-282/bstj23-3-282.pdf
https://ia802704.us.archive.org/7/items/bstj24-1-46/bstj24-1-46.pdf
George
When making a (panorama) picture from a multiple of pictures, the software has to overlay the individual pictures thereby correcting exposure time, white balance and lens distortion while all taken taken from (slightly) different angles.
This highly complex process is performed admirably well by the likes of Photoshop.
Then at the end, as Bonsai mentioned, noise is reduced by the sqrt of the amount of images. This is what has been done in this case, combining a large amount of images from the footage having roughly the same content.
Hans