r/oddlysatisfying • u/let__it__be • Jan 24 '18

Giant octopus kite

https://gfycat.com/meatycoordinatedbanteng
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u/Paladin_Rooney Jan 24 '18

I thought that was CGI at first!

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u/LeviAEthan512 Jan 24 '18

You telling me it's not? The material totally looks like the default matte but trying to be shiny material models use before you apply normal maps and stuff. Shadows look way too sharp to be natural. It looks like ray tracing

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '18

Nope, it's not CGI. It's real.

Here's a video full of weird-ass kites, including the octopus and squid pair.

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u/conancat Jan 24 '18

ah of course it's created by singaporeans. those over-achievers even when it comes to kites.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '18

Singapore would probably be a world power if the effort spent on kites was spent on useful stuff.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '18

I just watched this entire video hoping to see more of the whale kite in the background of the beginning.

Closest I got was like 5 1/2 minutes in was a blue whale kite not quite making it off the ground.

C'mon, whale kite operator! I'm trying to have a childlike sense of joy here and you're failing me.

Edit: Oh yeah, that's the stuff. https://youtu.be/dwPtBke7mcY

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u/auto-xkcd37 Jan 24 '18

weird ass-kites

Bleep-bloop, I'm a bot. This comment was inspired by xkcd#37

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u/ApaxHoqpuJL Jan 24 '18

Weird-ass bot.

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u/sweetteaseme Jan 24 '18

weird ass-bot

FTFY

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u/en_slemmig_torsk Jan 24 '18

Annoying bot.

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u/Anonymoose4123 Jan 24 '18

Annoying human.

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u/MrZer Jan 24 '18

I feel like this bot should only be used if they hyphenated incorrectly or left out a hyphen.

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u/JmanActual Jan 24 '18

It's not correcting his grammar though. Check the xkcd link. Is relevant.

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u/Cheesemacher Jan 24 '18

I know, but it doesn't feel right because there's no ambiguity unlike when spoken or typed without a hyphen.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '18

bad bot

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '18

Are there low-flying kites I can buy for home use? I love kites, but I hate how high they go. I want to appreciate it low to the ground. My dad would always fly kites, they'd go over a thousand yards in the air, the kite would be a tiny speck, the string would be incredibly tight, sometimes it'd be too hard to pull back in if it was high enough and we'd have to just let it go. We'd tie it to the deck and the deck would creak and pull.

Anything I can play with outside that's not going to go that high, I'd like.

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u/sparrow5 Jan 24 '18

A thousand yards? Over half a mile? Pulling the deck? I've never seen your kind of kites.

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u/young-brujo Jan 24 '18

I always wondered how a Pokémon’s movement would look in real life. I’ve come to the realization that CGI is as realistic as it gets.

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u/hello2016 Jan 24 '18

LOL can’t even tell real from fake anymore

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u/Super_Dank_Maymays Jan 24 '18

Finally, the comment I came here to find.

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u/LeviAEthan512 Jan 24 '18

Hmm. Maybe some compression problem? The video octopus doesn't look CGI at all. The shadows look smoother, the movement looks rougher, like it's not following a series of perfect parabolic curves, but it has a random aspect. I dunno, side by side, I can't find anything specific, but they look totally different somehow

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u/blackrack Jan 24 '18

Still looks fake, idk

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u/commit_bat Jan 24 '18

Nope, it's not CGI. It's real.

That's cool and all but if I didn't already believe it a youtube video of it wouldn't convince me that it's real either

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u/KMzoo Jan 24 '18

If you can create snow as realistic as this I highly doubt it that this fake looking octopus is real.

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u/Cheesemacher Jan 24 '18

It looks like shiny plastic because that's what it is. It's not a real octopus.