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by Daub 1y ago
An appropriate time to post a photo of a replica Galileo telescope made by my late father. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2cc84vlxe9q8v6ppp6st9/tel.jpg... And bonus, a replica he made of van Leeuwenhoek'
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by Daub 1y ago
As a software user and teacher, I think about software rot a lot. My concern is that it has a tendency to grow by addition rather than replacement. New features are added whilst the fundamental limits of the architecture are left unattended
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by Daub 1y ago
Yes… I have seen this before and played with it. This was a good attempt at emulating the behavior of an app like Substance Painter. However… the core problem is that in order to paint textures you need very complex and deep functionality.
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by Daub 1y ago
I teach digital painting, and Procreate is slowly becoming my enemy. I fully appreciate its ease of use, its fantastic union with Apple Pen and certainly my students love it. But doing design/creative work on a small screen is not heal
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by Daub 1y ago
One thing Blender lacks is easy 3D texture painting. As far as I know, neither is there a decent 3D texture painting iPad app. Definitely a gap in the market.
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by Daub 1y ago
I run the risk of being downvoted on this issue, but there is a personality type associated with downs syndrome. My experience of living in a community of down syndrome young people certainly supported this, but there has also been quite a
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by Daub 1y ago
For a fun example of what the author describes as ‘boil’ in an animated line, check out the animation series ‘Baman and Piderman’. Lots of episodes on YouTube.
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by Daub 1y ago
> I'm not fully sure of what you means. If we take the following example, are you talking about the neck and the collar of the girl? Yes... that's exactly it. It is also described in our teaching material here, (half way down t
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by Daub 1y ago
I concur that there is, on some matters, a general agreement in art books. However, certainly it does not help that there is so much inconsistency of terminology. For example: the way that hue and color are so frequently used interchangeab
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by Daub 1y ago
For visual art I feel that the existing approaches in context engineering are very much lacking. An Ai understands well enough such simple things as content (bird, dog, owl etc), color (blue green etc) and has a fair understanding of foregr
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by Daub 1y ago
The thing that bothers me about this trend is that, for the most part, only details of paintings are used. To me, a cropped detail never looks complete. It is like a book missing half its chapters.
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by Daub 1y ago
> especially since there’s no real science or theory behind it (that I know of). The literature on hue harmony is fuzzy, but there are a few gems. Check out Matsuda [1] who tracked the colors of what his female students were wearing, and
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by Daub 1y ago
A very funny video. Thanks. I will keep it as it beautifully demonstrates the waterfall of mistakes that often follow a minor change to a painting's composition. Another anecdote: I was once photographing a painting in a museum gallery
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by Daub 1y ago
Here you go: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wseunftjggoiqekn43hr1/paintin... The relevant slides are on pages 16 to 19. Though I don't explicitly state it, most of the key changes Michelangelo made to hi
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by Daub 1y ago
True… what I said only applies to canvas paintings. I should have made that clear. The longevity of murals is easy to account for: the paint is applied to wet plaster, in that way becoming part of the wall. That is why the murals of Pompeii
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by Daub 1y ago
> I wonder whether it's still worthwhile to replaced a yellowed varnish varnish on old painting, just to be sure that it doesn't degrade further (with the assumption that historical varnish are somewhat lesser than modern one,
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by Daub 1y ago
I will reserve judgement on this for the simple fact is that att conservation has been responsible for a huge amount of Art vandalism. The 'restoration' of the cistine chapel ceiling was funded by a Japanese tv company. The cheape
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by Daub 1y ago
I having trouble activity listening to music, but I remember as a teen listening to it with a freind and laughing together at its musical wit. Both of us were deep into punk at the time (the Clash), and we had stumbled across this by accide
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by Daub 1y ago
Yes. It's simple. Establish peer review as the metric of tenure and make dam sure those peers know their stuff.
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by Daub 1y ago
Maybe. But that is a generous reading. I used to attend many computational aesthetic conferences. The sheer volume of non photorealistic rendering cross hatch algorithms was almost laughable.
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by Daub 1y ago
For a few years I worked closely with computer engineers in a S E Asian university. I got to know quite well the sort of stuff they published. Some of the dodgy stuff i saw: Recycling. Some papers seemed to be near duplicates of prior work
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by Daub 1y ago
> IMHO the single most important thing digital provides is new ways to see - I'll often direct students to use the threshold filter to discover new lighting shapes in references or indicate planning problems with their value structu
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by Daub 1y ago
I am an artist who works with both digital and traditional media. When household computers were just making an appearance I remember talking with a family friend on the subject of art. They asked my if I had considered trying out this new t
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by Daub 1y ago
You make a very good point, and provide an excellent reference. It is in human nature to classify, and that is doubly true for an academic. Simply put, without a classification system we can’t point at a thing and say it is different to ano
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by Daub 1y ago
FYI… before the railways it was quite common for one village to have a different agreed ‘time zone’ to villages just a few miles down the road. This time was defined by the clock of the village church. It was the railways which put an end t
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by Daub 1y ago
This is a good question. As I understand it, the only material parameters a splat can recognize are color and transparency. Therefore the first of your two options would be the correct one.
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by Daub 1y ago
> so a gaussian splat scene is not a pointcloud but rather a cloudcloud. A good way of putting it.
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by Daub 1y ago
Yes cheaper. Quads are subject to becoming non-planar leading to shading artifacts. In fact, I belive that under the hood all 3d models are triangulated.
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by Daub 1y ago
Practically, what differentiateS a splat from standard photogrammetry is that it can capture things like reflections, transparency and skies. A standard photogram of (for example) a mirror would confuse the reflection in the mirror for a s
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by Daub 1y ago
As an artist and designer (with admittedly limited AI experience), where I feel AI to be lacking is in its poverty of support for formal descriptors. Content descriptors such as 'dog wearing a hat' are a mostly solved problem. Sup

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