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by Daub 7y ago
Yes... some animals paint, when enabled by humans. but painting on its own is just an activity. The way that elephants would have painted 100 years ago is the same in which they paint now. On the other hand, paintings by humans vary accordi
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by Daub 7y ago
Effective writing might be an even better advantage.
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by Daub 7y ago
From the article: "I do not believe any software system in our current understanding could be called an "artist." Art is a social activity, and our "AI" software is still just software, mechanically following the in
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by Daub 7y ago
This is beautiful and humbling. An example of a scientist who loved being wrong was Fred Hoyle. Quote: ‘it is better to be interesting and wrong than boring and right’.
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by Daub 7y ago
Well... I designed the course for the school, but only taught it once. Frankly, it was not a roaring success. One reason was that I was asked to deliver it online. With my recent (obliged) experience in online teaching, I think I could do a
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by Daub 7y ago
Hmmm. Maybe. But also, some ideas get 'ploughed under' by time. Also, many new ideas require re-stating as they get older.
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by Daub 7y ago
Tons of books out there, very difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff. The following is what I found useful. Its a mixed bag, academic and coffee table. - Beveridge W. I. B., 1950, The Art of Scientific Investigation, New York. https:&#
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by Daub 7y ago
For everyone’s delight, the best website on the history of pigments: http://www.webexhibits.org/pigments/intro/history.html
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by Daub 7y ago
The article says... "that research effort is rising substantially while research productivity is declining sharply". No surprise there. Nowadays, Universities have to become paper mills in order to get funding. Also... Risky resea
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by Daub 7y ago
As a painter, I’m genuinely impressed with the results. However, the system is not capable of taking much initiative. It will reject anything other than a full-face portrait. Of all genres, portraiture is the most convention-driven. For exa
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by Daub 7y ago
Agree. A chain saw and a saw mill are different devices. different functions altogether. And replacing a circular saw blade is easier and cheaper (on my time) than sharpening a chain saw. Also... "No Mr. bond, I expect you to die"
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by Daub 7y ago
Plus one on the boots. I was 19 when I used a chainsaw for the first time. One month into the job, I was given a pair of steel toecap boots. That was also the day I accidentally ran the saw through my feet. The steel toecaps is the reason I
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by Daub 7y ago
My pleasure. Thanks for taking an interest: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qhs8qf2qw5e4n35/micro_01.jpg?dl=0 From the back https://www.dropbox.com/s/4vl3rbfkelf1nv9/micro_02.jpg?dl=0 Same, bu
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by Daub 7y ago
Now seems as good a time as any to share a replica of an Antoine van Leeuwenhoek microscope that my father made. The lens he made in the same way as the original... heating up glass to a semi molten stake, then letting a drop fall through t
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by Daub 7y ago
The distinguishing feature of Time Machine, and one which this project seeks to emulate, is its use of file navigation on the z axis. Given the requirements of this particular task, this is the perfect choice. 3D navigation of the OS has be
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by Daub 7y ago
I also sometimes work in film production. We use the status 'good enough'
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by Daub 7y ago
Photogrammetry. From multiple photos, 3d information is derived. Try it yourself with Meshroom (open source).
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by Daub 7y ago
The best source currently is Google Art and Culture. Super high resolution photos. Their camera rig (the so called art camera) is something else. In some respect, one can learn more from these photos than from the real thing. Certainly, th
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by Daub 7y ago
I read his a ‘pedagogical sketchbook’ when I was a student. Quirky, difficult to de-code, but sometimes illuminating. His art works are similar: quirky and tough-going. He is one of the few artists who has gained a reputation on small works
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by Daub 7y ago
Maybe I did not express myself accurately enough. I work in VFX, and my language is not always as precise as it could be. But certainly for us this is the difference in application. Using a two camera input, the best we could hope to get wa
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by Daub 7y ago
A camera (or a binocular camera setup) could only ever return depth planes. Lidar returns true 3d forms. Also, depth plane evaluation from cameras is not 100% reliable. Things like reflections, glare and suchlike screw it up.
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by Daub 7y ago
I have used it for minor sculpting jobs, and found it very agreeable. A bit buggy in the version I was using (problems with updating previews) but will definitely use again. Adaptive subdiv worked as advertised.
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by Daub 7y ago
One oft ignored impact of Bahaus is the impact it had on how design taught. Amongst other things Bauhaus introduced the first cross disaplinary program (both applied and fine art) and the now ubiquitous foundation year (the first year of a
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by Daub 7y ago
Completely agree. I teach web search to my first year students as a valuable life skill.
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by Daub 7y ago
a great philosopher and poet he may have been, but it is hard to overstate his negative impact on colour theory. His magnum opus, Colour Theory, was an emotional rambling mess that took colour thinking away from Newton's empiricism. Th
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by Daub 7y ago
I completely agree. As an art teacher, I am often called upon to teach 'colour theory'. Well... find me a theory in the true sense, and I will teach it. Goethe's 'Theory of Colour' is no such thing. Past that, recei
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by Daub 7y ago
From having taught a MooC, I can share some light on this. Most people who sign up and drop it do so to access the course ware. Once they have downloaded this, they disappear or fade away.
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by Daub 7y ago
Nice arrival. Though they missed my favourite collagist, ollage and digital compositing (aka Photoshoping) are effectively the same thing. Realising this made it easier for me to teach the latter.
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by Daub 7y ago
a Film is a collection of shots, scenes and sequences. Shots are fairly easy to detect. Most editing software comes with built in shot detection. This approach promises to detect scenes. I’m not enough of a coder to know if it is valid, but
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by Daub 7y ago
Well... generally I would say that a good artist is a mix of the technically adept, some kind of sense of self, and ‘being there where it’s at’. That last value refers to how in tune they are with the cultural zeitgeist. There are ways arou

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