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by Daub 3y ago
I complelove this website. A great resource.
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by Daub 3y ago
> That's more performative arguing then constructive arguing, no? That's a nice distinction. But from a practioners point if view, I see little difference. Who would argue without the implicit desire to convince/convert? A
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by Daub 3y ago
I tell my design students that the only truly portable skill they will learn at university is the power to argue, which I frame as a 'super power'. From the article: > "An argument should be a collaboration between two pe
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by Daub 3y ago
> I have not yet implemented L-Systems. Regardless, what you have produced is kick ass. L-syetm or not, it demonstrates the complexity of nature.
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by Daub 3y ago
I teach 3D modeling, and also procedural animation and simulation. The last two I would class as being the same. 3D modeling I would define as being fundamentally intentional. Want a particular form? Make it as according to your intention!
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by Daub 3y ago
I guess because it is procedurally based, likely using an L-system. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system We use things like this in 3D art and animation. For example the paint system in Maya. This was used to creat
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by Daub 3y ago
> Is there any online fulltext link to that? I looked for one but could not find. This is unusual for me as I prefer to have the full text of anything I cite. For me (someone who has an interest in computational aesthetics) the value of
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by Daub 3y ago
> (1) Hue was not a good dimension for encoding magnitude information, i.e. rainbow color maps are bad. This is very good advice. Generally, hue expresses difference in kind whilst lightness and saturation expresses difference in degree.
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by Daub 3y ago
That is what I assumed when I first started drywalling. However, in the wild, I can't see such a solution working. Unlike the walls of a house, walls bedded on soil move all the time. In the ever-moving domain of the Welsh hillsides, c
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by Daub 3y ago
Having made a few dry stone walls I can attest to the merit of this achievement. Judging where rocks are to be placed, and in what orientation is a zen art. Anecdotally... I once tried to get wild flowers to grow on a stone wall. Every year
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by Daub 3y ago
> perhaps the reason that artists never lose that is because of a childhood trauma that "traps" them in this creative vice? Thats an idea that I could get behind.
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by Daub 3y ago
Thank you. That is a tasty study and is observably true.
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I illustrate this point to my students, who are great fans of Korean drama. These are near-hysterical operas of great excess: love unrequited, betrayal, jealously etc. Perhaps this phenomenon can better be expressed as 'exaggeration&#x
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by Daub 3y ago
You make some good points. > Kids are about as creative as they come, making things up as they go every day. I believe that the creativity of children is an extension of their need to play. I remember my desire to draw seemed to fade awa
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by Daub 3y ago
> But still, wouldn’t the link between artistry and self destruction be more a function of depression and not psychopathy? I agree. But to be fair to the article (and to the research which it addresses) the term 'psychopathological
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by Daub 3y ago
> In any case, it's obvious that the study was colored by the belief that there is legitimately an association between creativity and psychopathy, so it was flawed from the start... ------------- Granted, the author's use of th
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by Daub 3y ago
It is true that artists are far more likely to have come from broken families than people who are not artists. I looked for the citation but could not find it, but I know it exists. From the same study it was shown that one or both parents
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by Daub 3y ago
Confirmed. I have tried all photogrammetry apps on the iPad and political is by far the best. Regardless of how good these apps are the meshes still need a hell of a lot of treatment before they can be used in production.
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by Daub 3y ago
In the visual effects industry, project management software catagorises shots according to their rediness: just started, nearly ready, good to go etc. 'Good enough' is one of those catagories.
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by Daub 3y ago
'Brain in a jar' was the name of my hard drive when I was young.
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I agree that any claim should be supported by proof or at least evidence, especially if it is a novel claim. Furthermore, the responsibility for doing so falls upon the 'claimee'. I will also observe that default skepticism can ea
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by Daub 3y ago
Yeh that sentence is a bit of a mess. All I am saying is that time and again superstitions have been proven to be facts, myths have been shown be be historic events etc. Or to quote Shakespeare: 'There are more things in heaven and ear
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by Daub 3y ago
On the way to my gutter right now, magnet in hand..
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Some good material here: http://www.meteorite.fr/en/basics/meteoritics.htm From which: > Until the early 19th century, most scientists shared Isaac Newton's view that no small objects could exist in the in
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by Daub 3y ago
From the article: > Pseudoscientific beliefs are frequently irrational (e.g., believing in the existence of the Loch Ness monster) Not so long ago the belief that rocks can fall from the sky was regarded as irrational and magical. Then m
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> If the ancient Greeks knew enough chemistry to produce a light sensitive material (and a way to fix the result in place) We can imagine that they might have. According to Greek myth, the centaur Chiron made a silver shield that could c
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From TFA: > Some 30 years ago, a young engineer named Christopher Walker was home in the evening making chocolate pudding when he got what turned out to be a very serendipitous call from his mother. > Taking the call, he shut off the
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by Daub 3y ago
Solid advice that exemplifies the principles which it describes. I write a lot of instruction material for my undergrad students. They can be absolutely guaranteed to zone into whatever gap in the material I carelessly leave. In this way, m
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Maybe a third meaning: minus in George Orwell's Newspeak.
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Former chainsaw operater speaking. I cant imagine easily using a chainsaw underwater for the every action has an equal and opposite reaction thing. However, I notice that the front spikes on the saw are noticably big. When these are dug int

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