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by Daub 4y ago
Thanks for the clarification/correction. Gonna have to adjust my teaching material now :)
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by Daub 4y ago
Beautiful video. The intro alone explains more in one minute than most full videos ever do. One thing that was not addressed was why Pierre Bezier promoted his eponymous curves in the first place. Their first application was in the developm
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by Daub 4y ago
Agreed. These are beautiful, and so very clear.
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by Daub 4y ago
For another example of a manual that employs humor, check out the Tigerfibel. This is the users manual for the Tiger tank, and is easily one of the most effectively designed books ever. As well as humor, it employs comic book style drawings
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by Daub 4y ago
Yes… most of a program is core. However, in more than one case I dealt with, there was different content and wildly different grading practices in different classes of the same course. Clearly unfair practice. > Second point I think sho
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by Daub 4y ago
Almost completely agree. I have put a vast amount of energy and time into raising the bar of our course material.
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by Daub 4y ago
Why? Simple… 1. Students would flock to easy courses and avoid hard ones. Students can be very mercenary, especially when they are choosing electives. They want the degree, not the learningf experience (some of them anyway). 2. Lecturers wo
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by Daub 4y ago
It is a matter of principle that no course or program should be easier than another. Of course, this principle does not match reality. But as an academic in a management position, I try hard to level the playing field at a course level.
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by Daub 4y ago
The LiDAR on the iPhone is limited, but fun. Commercial lidars are hella expensive (last time I looked). Looked at your sketchfab collection. Lovely work. For those who don’t know, Sketchfab allows you to preview the mesh using the layers b
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by Daub 4y ago
As far as I can see, It uses LiDAR. Unlike photo-based PG, LiDAR does not get confused by lighting conditions. It is also good for large scenes and environments. The downside of apples lidar is that the mesh is too low resolution for most p
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by Daub 4y ago
I heard that the mesh from nerf is rather shabby. Not good enough for 3D printing or (in our case) VFX. Was this your experience?
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by Daub 4y ago
For anyone interested… This is our educational module on photogrammetry: https://rmit.instructure.com/courses/87565/modules/933562 These are the tools we use: https://rmit.instructure.com/cour
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by Daub 4y ago
Check out also the back rooms series… https://youtu.be/xJQG9CkMkuE Recent back room vids have jumped the shark a bit, but the first few were golden.
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by Daub 4y ago
I am certainly not a Star Trek fan, but this episode I remember with fondness.
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by Daub 4y ago
I love the fact that you use good old-fashioned pencil and paper to work out the details. Not enough of our students appreciate the value of such preparation.
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by Daub 4y ago
One thing that does not seem to have been mentioned in the article is the simple fact that flowers feature overt hue (I.e. are colorful). Chromatic vision in primates, insects, birds and fishes seem to have co-evolved in response to items o
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by Daub 4y ago
This is news to me. Spent the last ten minutes checking it out. Fascinating.
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by Daub 4y ago
Regarding Mosaic in particular, Wikipedia tells us that: > Mosaic was the first browser to explore the concept of collaborative annotation in 1993 but never passed the test state.
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by Daub 4y ago
The WorldWideWeb (Tim Berner Lee’s first web browser) was both a browser and editor. Also, most browser precursors that preceded it did not differentiate between consumer and author. The WorldWideWeb entry in Wikipedia tells us that the fir
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by Daub 4y ago
> HC was about creating not browsing. Let us not forget that the very first web browsers had an edit button.
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by Daub 4y ago
I have published a book which required many photos of famous paintings. The paintings themselves were no longer covered by copyright, but the photos of the paintings were. In the end I had to swop out half of them for cc images, in some cas
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by Daub 4y ago
I was once forbidden to even draw in an art museum. I thought it was some mistake, an over zealous interpretation of the law. But the museum director herself confirmed it. Still can’t believe it.
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by Daub 4y ago
Noted. I appreciate the distinction that you are trying to make. I guess that my point is that humans are not true problem solvers. Rather they are 'solution apply-ers', with the solutions being permutations of existing material.
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by Daub 4y ago
> [the critics of brute force] said that ``brute force" search may have won this time, but it was not a general strategy, and anyway it was not how people played chess. No expert in AI or chess, but I assume that this observation is
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by Daub 4y ago
True. But the recent releases are a little better. We looked into using Unreal at school a few years ago but rejected it. This year was the first time we felt that our lab machines were equal to the task.
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by Daub 4y ago
Yep. The install size of unreal is a known issue: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n7vwGnKSbmE&feature=youtu.be Our lab computors have 500gb of space. Each time a new profile is activated by a student, that eats up around
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by Daub 4y ago
FYI… the latest version of Nuke supports USD to what appears to be a very significant degree. The significance is that it narrows the gap between 2D captured footage and 3D generated material. It could eventually lead to a whole new way of
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by Daub 4y ago
Off the shelf yes, but wow…. The requirements for Unreal are unreal. Recent versions handle real-time global illumination (Lumen) and dynamically render geometry to insane levels of detail (nanite). Both of these are groundbreaking achievem
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by Daub 4y ago
Nope. Doesn't work. Tried it. The kind of case my life style would require makes the phone almost unusable.
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by Daub 4y ago
Since Apple started making phones out of freekin glass, I have only bought rugged phones. One problem I had with my Cat was that the compass did not work properly (inaccurate and erratic). This made using Google maps almost impossible. I ha

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