Sean Donner Posted March 27, 2015 Report Posted March 27, 2015 Just saw the SciFi Robotic AI movie called 'ChappiE' yesterday; it was no District 9 but it definitely had it's moments. Anyway, there was a brief 1, possible 2 seconds worth of shots showing LabVIEW code. I couldn't quite make it out but it looked like there was a ton of 'Merge Signal' primitives. Anybody else catch this? Quote
ThomasGutzler Posted March 30, 2015 Report Posted March 30, 2015 I noticed that but I wasn't even sure it was LabVIEW - looked to simple to do anything useful. Guess we'll have to wait for the DVD release. Quote
hooovahh Posted March 30, 2015 Report Posted March 30, 2015 Guess we'll have to wait for the DVD release. Or wait until one of the spammers post links to the movie here. (but seriously though don't post links to pirated content you will be banned like the spammers) 1 Quote
Ting Posted July 11, 2015 Report Posted July 11, 2015 I got the snapshot here. It is LabVIEW indeed. I googled to find out if anyone caught it as I did. It seems that I might be the first one to post this snapshot. Or wait until one of the spammers post links to the movie here. (but seriously though don't post links to pirated content you will be banned like the spammers) Quote
Yair Posted July 12, 2015 Report Posted July 12, 2015 It is LabVIEW indeed. Actually, it doesn't look like LabVIEW. Both the toolbar and the code look different. I'm guessing they wanted to avoid copyright issues or to have a look of their own and created a visual which is probably inspired by LV, but isn't actually LV. Quote
hooovahh Posted July 13, 2015 Report Posted July 13, 2015 LabVIEW 2015 leaked screenshots via Hollywood movie? Probably not. 1 Quote
Sean Donner Posted July 14, 2015 Author Report Posted July 14, 2015 (edited) You're right, the images posted don't look like LabVIEW. However, these are not the shots I remember, there are certainly other screen shots in this very same scene which I'm nearly certain were 'merge signal' VIs. Any chance you could grab screen caps of that program? It couldn't be more than 30 seconds away (forward or backward) from the screen caps you posted. Edited July 14, 2015 by Sean Donner Quote
Yair Posted July 14, 2015 Report Posted July 14, 2015 The OS there also seems fake (although I'm not familiar with all of the Linux desktops, so it could be one of those) and it's very blurry, but I think the title of the windows is DataFlow 5.3.4 (the name is almost entirely from context and the digits could be pretty much anything). I wouldn't be surprised if you something that looked very similar to Merge Signals. As far as I can tell, that graphic is directly inspired by LV. Quote
Sean Donner Posted July 15, 2015 Author Report Posted July 15, 2015 There we go. It looks like they took LabVIEW code and did a zoom desktop to make the code look bigger for the silver screen. The top image is definitely 'Split Signals' running into some unknown intermediate VIs which then merge into the 'Sine' VI. The bottom image is also definitely the 'Merge Signals' VI that is taking input from what looks like some Z-transform VIs. I don't recognize those so those might just be custom. Quote
Yair Posted July 15, 2015 Report Posted July 15, 2015 It looks like they took LabVIEW code and did a zoom desktop to make the code look bigger for the silver screen. No. Again, it looks like they took some LV code and then created a completely custom image which looks similar, but isn't actually LV. I agree that the signal split and merge do look exactly the same, but there are many things which are clearly not LV, the IDE not being the least. The "Z transform VI" actually appears to be their version of Build Waveform. Quote
Sean Donner Posted July 15, 2015 Author Report Posted July 15, 2015 (edited) I don't disagree that there wasn't some editing, but there is a lot you can do to match those pictures with just standard LabVIEW. For example, that pink box around the Z transform VIs can be accomplished with decorations. Here is something I whipped up in < 10 mins. It looks like the size of the 'Merge Signals' VI has been blown up because 13 inputs is as tall as 6 of those Z-transform VI's stacked up vertically. The standard one only gives you about 3. I tried to cheat a bit by making the VI's icons about 5 pixels smaller on each side. Edited July 15, 2015 by Sean Donner Quote
Yair Posted July 15, 2015 Report Posted July 15, 2015 I don't disagree that there wasn't some editing, but there is a lot you can do to match those pictures with just standard LabVIEW. Yes. Since it looks like this is directly copied from LV, it's no surprise that you can create something very similar in LV and it's quite likely that their image started as code in LV. My point was simply that it looks like they didn't use LV itself, but rather created their own visuals, where they did whatever they wanted to, because their only constraint is for the visual to look good on screen for a second. Do you really not see all the differences which make it clear this is not LV (things like case dropdowns on the left side, tunnels which are too big, diagonal wires and several others)? Quote
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