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by a_e_k 6y ago
That's because historically it has been spelled both ways. I believe that even the artist himself was inconsistent. However, I'd read somewhere that he tended to sign his paintings with the single-n spelling, so that's what
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by a_e_k 6y ago
I used to until recently, but decided I was ready to try something new. Glad you found RenderMan an inspiration. I had too when I was working on my own hobby renderer before joining Pixar! Yours looks very nice.
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by a_e_k 6y ago
This looks an awful lot like a variation of the Panini projection described in this paper [1], which I implemented for RenderMan [2]. The tell-tale sign to me is that the perspective lines that converge towards the vanishing point remain st
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by a_e_k 6y ago
I love that short story. But the story that this really made me think of was "A Wrinkle in Time": > The Darkness seemed to seethe and writhe. Was this meant to /comfort/ them? > Suddenly there was a great burst o
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by a_e_k 6y ago
Or Tel Mithryn from Skyrim: https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Tel_Mithryn
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by a_e_k 6y ago
Freezing and archiving the VMs used to build a particular release is also a pretty nice trick. It comes in very handy for those rare times when a major customer that (for some reason) insists on sticking with an ancient, obsolete version of
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by a_e_k 6y ago
If you liked the "Library of Babel", let me highly recommend another story by Borges, "The Immortal". It is perhaps an even stronger match for Ballard's story here and has an especially good depiction of the sort o
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by a_e_k 6y ago
https://www.fltk.org/articles.php?L363 : > FLTK was originally designed to be compatible with the Forms Library written for SGI machines. In that library all the functions and structures started with "fl_". Th
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by a_e_k 6y ago
One of my favorite authors, Robertson Davies, put this idea nicely in "The Rebel Angels": > To instruct calls for energy, and to remain almost silent, but watchful and helpful, while students instruct themselves calls for even
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by a_e_k 6y ago
Probably still C++. Sure, it's got plenty of warts and pitfalls, but at this point I'm sufficiently used to the ones in the subset that I work in that I can just get on with the domain problem and not really have to think too muc
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by a_e_k 6y ago
> that doesn't rely on Google servers for much. My understanding is that it used to interact with Google Poly. But a couple of months ago it was announced that that is shutting down. (See https://news.ycombinator.com&#x
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by a_e_k 6y ago
Hi Matt, My wife and I were surprised and sorry when we heard Bertrand's passing last fall. It was a privilege getting to know your family first as neighbors and then as friends back in SLC. I was always humbled at seeing the effort
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by a_e_k 6y ago
Spamming keywords
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by a_e_k 6y ago
Q: Why did the multi-threaded chicken cross the road? A: other side. get to the To
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by a_e_k 6y ago
There's also M-x emacs-init-time if you want to know how much a change to your configuration impacted start-up time.
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by a_e_k 6y ago
The article mentions Opus: > “The biggest change,” Anderson said, “was to run the Opus codec at a higher bit rate.”
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by a_e_k 6y ago
I'd always figured that Settlers of Catan would be the most likely game to lead to that.
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by a_e_k 6y ago
That's one reason for the checkpoint feature, yes, but there are others. A few years back (Dory-era), I participated in a talk at SIGGRAPH '15 about some of them: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/
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by a_e_k 6y ago
> But perhaps the thing to do is not to expect surprise in the general construction, but excellence in the execution. I'm not a huge fan of mysteries, but I do find this to be the main criteria by which I judge them. Dorothy Sayer&
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by a_e_k 6y ago
Given first-to-file, it seems reasonable for the Government to defensively file on research that it's directly produced. Otherwise, you might end up with someone else filing on that research and then demanding the Government pay them
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by a_e_k 6y ago
I was one of the ones that reported using org-mode daily. I had to think a bit about that at first. I don't use it any hard core fashion as an organizer or for task management or anything. But it has supplanted Markdown and RST as m
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by a_e_k 6y ago
I take advantage of the fact that a .emacs file has higher precedence than a .emacs.d/init.el file for this. All the common stuff lives in the .emacs.d directory and is under source control. The little bit of work/machine specif
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by a_e_k 6y ago
That's too bad. I remember finding some really nice scans/reconstructions by CyArk of historical locations and objects there: https://poly.google.com/user/4U4FhbhDQdR Used to be you could download low-res OB
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by a_e_k 6y ago
Emacs has had an Emacs Lisp version of this for a long time. It's implemented as a macro so it can build the string regexp at compile time. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp&
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by a_e_k 6y ago
> My guess is that it is just showing a standardized raytracing scene from a public research dataset used to compare raytracers. It is a pretty common test scene, and one I've used myself. It originally comes from https:/&#x2
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by a_e_k 6y ago
I like to think of Emacs more as a platform for a collection of Emacs lisp programs living in a shared process space. It's not unlike what I've seen of Smalltalk (though I don't use that myself): you wouldn't necessarily
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by a_e_k 6y ago
I picked up that model for $80ish a few years ago on Black Friday at Best Buy. For those with the patience, it could be worth waiting a couple of weeks. (And I've been very happy with it for my needs.)
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by a_e_k 6y ago
I found that I didn't even need to manually install any drivers for my Brother laser printer. Once I got it set up on the wi-fi the Windows, Mac, and Linux machines in my house automatically detected it and were able to use it just fi
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by a_e_k 6y ago
Anything by Robertson Davies. "A Voice from the Attic", "The Merry Heart", "Happy Alchemy", and "One Half of Robertson Davies" are collections that we frequently dip into in my house. They make an ex

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