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by andybak 3y ago
But only because we generally are starting with a mesh and creating a low-res collision mesh from that reuses existing tooling. Mesh colliders aren't terribly ideal. You need a lot of triangles. SDFs can be a better choice in some case
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by andybak 3y ago
> I don’t think the engines will switch their happy-paths to splats until artists have the proper tools to create assets with splats. Oh - I agree and it's a bit chicken and egg. I'm not expecting this shift to be quick (or eve
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by andybak 3y ago
See my comment above about meshes. Games should adapt to new representations, not the other way round. What do games need? Relighting, animation, collision. All of these can be done with non-mesh objects. At the moment it's all in it&#
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by andybak 3y ago
I do wonder if we need to stop relying on meshes entirely. NeRFs and splats have potentially much richer representations of material and lighting response. Current hardware is very focused on triangles and bitmaps but GPUs are versatile be
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by andybak 3y ago
I think I'm probably smart enough to follow this, but maths notation is so opaque that I get stuck the moment the greek letters come out.
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by andybak 3y ago
I thought I was finding LLMs useful but you seem to be so sure of yourself, that I surely must have been mistaken.
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by andybak 3y ago
Huh?
818.
by andybak 3y ago
Maybe they failed to find a way round the rules? That seems more likely than a spontaneous desire to "do the right thing".
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by andybak 3y ago
Hopefully the 5m wait is due to hitting HN front page! Does this thing scale? How do you donate compute? How do you skip the queue?
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by andybak 3y ago
I think we're talking at cross purposes. I don't want to learn more acronyms. I want people to use less of them. (or rather use them more selectively). I'm trying to improve people's writing rather than improve my readin
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by andybak 3y ago
I'd heard the phrase but not the acronym - there's a difference. Acronyms are only good for communicating phrases that you hear frequently. For infrequent terminology it's verging on puzzle-solving. Sometimes you can connect
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by andybak 3y ago
> People who cannot see the differences or who only see them after taking a close look should realize something: there are many people for whom the differences are going to be immediately obvious. That's one possible conclusion. Ano
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by andybak 3y ago
I didn't read the comment as especially snarky. Your response was both snarky and personal which I think comes across much worse.
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by andybak 3y ago
> RAG Retrieval Augmented Generation (apparently) It's really helpful to define acronyms. HN has a broad readership - I follow AI and I had never come across this one.
825.
by andybak 3y ago
On Windows just use https://softology.pro/tutorials/tensorflow/tensorflow.htm It installs dozens upon dozens of models and related scripts painlessly.
826.
by andybak 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38633910
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by andybak 3y ago
Unless we're talking about different things - it already exists. There's two parts to it - estimating a depth map ("monocular depth estimation") and inpainting the occluded parts.
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by andybak 3y ago
AI magic. (They aren't 6dof but it is possible)
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by andybak 3y ago
Carmack was key for many aspects of modern VR and I'm currently still enjoying the fruits of his labours. Even a partial success is pretty good for someone like him.
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by andybak 3y ago
I did in my other comment.
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by andybak 3y ago
"clearly"... That's the bit we're disputing. It's not "clear" and it's not "obvious".
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by andybak 3y ago
It's a violation of copyright which has been around for a lot less time than "th social contract" however you define it. So - prior to the existence of copyright - was it immoral? And how do laws related to fair-use etc affec
833.
by andybak 3y ago
We were talking about rendering - not training. Have I misunderstood your point?
834.
by andybak 3y ago
For whatever algorithmic reasons tiktok is giving me 5 to 1 (at least) pro-israeli views at the moment.
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by andybak 3y ago
Dunno. There's a bunch of other optimisations you're overlooking (super-resolution, reprojection etc)
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by andybak 3y ago
Biased in which direction? Because I've heard complaints from both ends of the spectrum for many years. And where are you from, yourself? The UK?
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by andybak 3y ago
> But once too many people switched it in the 'do not track' mode, the industry decided to simply ignore it. My recollection was that it was Microsoft deciding to turn this flag on by default that led to it being ignored by G
838.
by andybak 3y ago
It's a matter of degree. No source is free of bias or ideology so it's not particularly interesting to call the BBC "ideological" as it's rather like calling a tree "green" (don't pick holes in that m
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by andybak 3y ago
No. Apologies.
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by andybak 3y ago
Gsplats already are viewable on a phone web browser.

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