Today, while researching some issues in our production environment… without having access to the production environment, data, error messages or logs… I stumbled across a really, really cool article over on the Wired blogs.

If you’re a fan of “24″ or any counter-terrorism / crime-fighting / detective fiction you’ve long been shown what the writers and set designers of the material consider “super top secret cool software” which in the end amounts to nothing more than rudimentary Flash animations on a Windows XP machine.

Now, however, according to this article we have all been given the source code to graphics processing software which will outline anything in the image or video which was added after the original filming or snapshot.

I won’t rehash the entire article here, you’d be much better off to head to the link above and check out the pictures and article credits… as things should be.