topic Re: For NFL Fans in BreakPoint

For NFL Fans

Darin.K — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:45:49 GMT

If you have LV2009 drag this image to a block diagram to see a VI implementation of Shawne Merriman.

Apologies to a certain person who I know (1) reads these messages (2) has LV2009 (3) knows enough LV to get the joke (4) knows enough football to get the joke and (5) was previously antagonized by my efforts to give him an interactive Steelers Logo to deface at will. I didn't know who the Chargers were playing when I decided to try this out, but once I found out did it stop me? Well...no

Re: For NFL Fans

elset191 — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:52:33 GMT

Let me see the code, please

Re: For NFL Fans

Darin.K — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:57:39 GMT

Sorry, meant to attach this as well for the non-LV9ers.

Re: For NFL Fans

RavensFan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:06:52 GMT

No. No. No. Not going to happen!

Very good trick. I'm curious as to how you pulled this one off. Here is my quess hidden so that if someone wants to know, they can highlight the line below.

VI Snippet where you modified the actual image portion of the .png file from what the snippet tool creates.

I'll have to go back to that other thread, I didn't realize you were posting it so I could deface it. I actually didn't get a chance to play with that one VI that night.

I do appreciate the joke. I honestly did LOL when I saw it.

Re: For NFL Fans

Darin.K — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:17:58 GMT

Ravens, I have read enough of your posts to know you'd get the joke (and probably enjoy it). Didn't want to appear to be 'piling on' or worse to be accused of being a Steelers fan.

Ben wanted picture 'controls' so I just figure that picture I drew in honor of his 10K post would be a good object to "interact" with in a creative fashion. My personal edition is probably not fit for public display.

As to your guess, that works for adding text, in this case I went in the other direction. (highlight below if unclear)

Added snippet metadata to image file

Re: For NFL Fans

Ben — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:33:57 GMT

Darin,

Thank you very much for that and the other stuff you have been doing to keep us entertained. I have to admit your name has been added to my list where I have to take a look to "see what is he up to now?".

Re: poking fun at the various teams.

I'm OK with knocking the Steelers. There is something about 6 that makes it easy to handle*.

Ben

* specially when most of team from last year is back and healthy and they have been told there is another number after 6.

Re: For NFL Fans

elset191 — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:40:27 GMT

Everybody knows it's the Lions' year this year.

Re: For NFL Fans

Ben — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:46:26 GMT

elset191 wrote:
Everybody knows it's the Lions' year this year.

... and I though that talk of the end of the world was just nonsense.

I wonder what my wife will say when I tell her we don't have to worry about saving for retirement anymore. But then again maybe I should not complicate life for her. After all she will have to decide between cheer for the Steelers and the Bears, and she does have a soft spot for bears.

Ben

Re: For NFL Fans

Darin.K — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:05:06 GMT

Ben wrote:

I'm OK with knocking the Steelers. There is something about 6 that makes it easy to handle*.

Ben

* specially when most of team from last year is back and healthy and they have been told there is another number after 6.

When you lose to a Barry Switzer coached team, that is worth at least -1. And in my own little world, the "Bettis Bowl" never happened. All I remember of that game was constantly adjusting my TV since I swore the refs had yellow and black striped shirts on but it was showing up as white and black on my screen. Still, 4 superbowl victories is more than most teams...

Re: For NFL Fans

Ashish_Naik_NIUK — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:41:46 GMT

Darin.K,

I have a quick question for you. How did you manage to edit the vi snippet image, while still keeping the "LabVIEW" information contained?

I have been trying this for a while, out of fun, and could not get this to work initially. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Poses an interesting question really... Could be a new type of security, people password protect vi's and code, and hide them etc. However storing code in innocent looking photos.. Hmm! Not bad at all!

Ash

Re: For NFL Fans

TCPlomp — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:01:39 GMT

I think it is the other way around.

Darin copied the VI snippet container from a LV 2009 PNG snippet into an existing PNG file.

I am interested in ideas to create VI snippets programmatically.

Ton

Re: For NFL Fans

TCPlomp — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:27:32 GMT

A little bit more exploration done:

the chunk used for the code is 'niVI', the last letter is uppercase, this means that any of the critical parts of the PNG are edited, the chunk should removed from the PNG.

This is a good security precaution!

It means that if someone edits the PNG (placing another code display for instance) the code itself is removed from the PNG.

Ton

Re: For NFL Fans

Darin.K — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:57:55 GMT

In my VIOTD I show an example where I add a text label to a snippet image. In this case I simply switch the IDAT chunk in the PNG file. For this case, I used a similar technique but as I hinted above and will now spoil, I inserted the two chunks of metadata that NI creates into the image file (picture). A minor modification of the example is all that is necessary.

I hope these two threads stimulate some useful (and some fun and not-so-useful) uses for snippets and other methods of code capture and sharing.

Re: For NFL Fans

Ben — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:20:50 GMT

Ravens atop the division, oh my!

Ben

Re: For NFL Fans

RavensFan — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:02:27 GMT

I'd like to start trash talking, but it is still too early for that. I'll want to wait until after Thanksgiving before starting any talk.

Darin's prediction didn't come through. Only 1 sack on Flacco, and Merriman was pretty much a non-factor in the game. Maybe I should work on modifying his example so Ray Lewis is the top picture and Sproles getting crunched by him in the backfield is the hidden VI.

Re: For NFL Fans

Cory_K — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:10:44 GMT

The Giants vs Cowboys game was one of the sloppiest games of football I've seen in a while.

But the Giants won (barely) so I'm not going to complain.

Eli has got to work on passing under pressure.

Re: For NFL Fans

Darin.K — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:27:50 GMT

Not the defensive effort I expected from the Ravens, nor the offensive (lack of) effort I expected. As a (division leading) Broncos fan I'll thank the Ravens for once again providing me with false hope that can be crushed with a late season collapse.

Shawne Merriman was the first D-lineman that came to mind on Friday. I would have liked to flatten Phillip Rivers, but now that the Goose is gone, I couldn't think of any well-known Ravens linemen. Ray Lewis may not have been a bad choice.

Re: For NFL Fans

Harold_Timmis — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:01:39 GMT

@ cory did you watch the miami game lol (that was pretty sloppy looked like we where playing peewee football).

and the only thing I know about the ravens is that they are a team that has 5 or so former miami hurrican players (when miami was really really good)

so ravens have to be a pretty good team.

Re: For NFL Fans

Ben — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:34:30 GMT

Harold Timmis wrote:
....
so ravens have to be a pretty good team.

Yes I read and understood your thought leading up to that point but my speed read of that post hit me like a Lewis Black line;

... and if it were not for that horse I would never have spent that year in college.

If my schedule would only allow my coffee to start working before I read this forum...

Ben

Re: For NFL Fans

Darin.K — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:12:41 GMT

If there is enough interest, I propose a LV NFL challenge. For entertainment purposes only, of course, the challenge is to write a LV VI that will pick NFL games. I will provide a template with input enums for home team and away team and an enum output for the winner. You fill in the code to pick a winner. I propose starting the picks in Wk5, so the VIs should be posted by then (passwd protected is ok before the start, internet connection will be off for you tricksters). The same VI will be used for all of the following weeks and it would be nice to provide passwords so we can all see what is going on after entries have closed. I will post a leaderboard. We will all compete against a random number generator.