danwills

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by danwills 2y ago
What about OpenVDB? .. certainly seems to be used for voxel data in VFX quite a lot (I work at a VFX company) There's NanoVDB too that works on GPUs.
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by danwills 2y ago
I guess there's very little chance of accidentally transferring earth-style life to Europa's oceans with this flyby kind of plan.. that's a plus!
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by danwills 2y ago
Heheh indeed it was! - What I was saying above though is not just for exploring RDs but more for actually building things out of them!! It's a rather out-there (non-serious) idea where all the usual 'stuff' of a GUI is actual
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by danwills 2y ago
Damnnn, sweet! I'm very excited to hear that!! I've been checking out some of the huge amount of output that you and Jason from Softology have made with MNCA, so awesome to see, top work!! I also cloned the vulkan-mnca repo from y
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by danwills 2y ago
I've often thought it would be heaps of fun to try to build a playful dynamic UI (perhaps for use in a game or something) where all the elements are are made from 'living' components, say CA's like your MNCA or perhaps r
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by danwills 2y ago
That is extremely cool, very fine work thanks for sharing! I agree some of the MNCA examples are very reminiscent of things that various RD's do, the one titled "A more complex MNCA example" has a similar oscillating-worms fe
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by danwills 2y ago
Ah damn was meant to be asterisks there (ie multiplication of ucolor by U etc) but it got turned into italics!
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by danwills 2y ago
Great work on the article and video! I've played with RD's especially Gray Scott a lot in Gollygang/Ready, and found some fascinating behaviours that I then brought into Houdini for visualisation, here's a couple of exam
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by danwills 2y ago
If you're into reaction-diffusion there's an open source app called 'Ready' which I think is a great way to explore example patterns or tinker with formulas: https://github.com/GollyGang/ready Some
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by danwills 2y ago
Agreed, indeed I thought that "Copy the contents of rbx to rax" might be even clearer (mov doesn't remove the value from rbx IIUC!)
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by danwills 2y ago
"a talented college physics student can do it" I'm afraid I don't qualify for being able to do that, but I feel like I'm tantalizingly close to understanding this overall - but I'm finding it hard to understand
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by danwills 2y ago
Ah didn't realise my 'Demoscene Forever' playlist is public[0]! Apologies it's only semi-ordered and all about my own interests of course but maybe fun to follow if you like the flavour? :) [0] https://youtube
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by danwills 2y ago
My favourite genre is demoscene (music from demos) which I think can only be found in generally playlist-able form on YT, but I haven't tried Spotify (nor trackers, assuming you mean torrents?) so I have no idea.. I'm sure there&#
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by danwills 2y ago
I know Gentoo Linux is not for everyone and doesn't fix the issue of there being wayy too much source to ever personally be able to check it all, however I think there is something to be said for the fact that the source is indeed read
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by danwills 2y ago
Quite the opposite for me it kinda just makes it seem even more amazing that it exists and works at all and how much humans have worked out about it! There's some interesting regenerative medicine avenues (Michael Levin's stuff, p
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by danwills 2y ago
I don't know why but I just love being able to read all of this fascinating information in such a compact form, just amazing! Heading back over to read the rest now!
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by danwills 2y ago
I don't use pip but tbh this makes me much less likely to even try it. So many things about it sound unsafe. Like dry-run not even working as you'd expect? I wonder if that got fixed after this article?
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by danwills 2y ago
I completely agree and although I am guessing that this probably won't be a very popular opinion, I see matter as being genuinely made-out-of-the-same-stuff-as-space but in a highly 'condensed' and dynamic form. If you see ma
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by danwills 2y ago
I have only read the abstract so far but this seems to align pretty well with the idea of how the relationship between genes and tissues/organs is framed in Michael Levin's group's research: Genes mostly encode the molecular
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by danwills 2y ago
Somehow I'm only just noticing the name-conflict with SideFX Houdini's new(ish) USD context, which is also called 'Solaris'! .. Guess I don't search for the old SunSoft kind of Solaris much these days eh!
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by danwills 2y ago
Such a multidimensional question, I think there's probably little point in being able to boil brain speed down to one number (or even small set of numbers). There's so many parts that all combine: The rate of propagation of activa
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by danwills 2y ago
I work in VFX and I see that OpenCL has been used quite a bit in DCCs such as SideFX Houdini (which uses it extensively) and Foundry Nuke which uses it a bit too. Most of the GPUs are NVIDIA but there's some AMD too, and it's abil
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by danwills 2y ago
Good old Paul Bourke! Amazing how many interesting things he's covered on his site! Love that it's basically static html too, always nice and snappy!
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by danwills 2y ago
Maybe it's not impossible but just quite difficult? I use Houdini 'Vops' sometimes and I could imagine a tricked-up diff could be made for it (especially since it translates to vex) but you're certainly right that it&#x
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by danwills 2y ago
I'm not a mathematician but I got a bit of understanding from this, building on earlier things. I'm definitely fascinated by the Zeta function .. Would love to explore it more visually (in UltraFractal or a Houdini) somehow! (It&#
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by danwills 2y ago
I'm not a set-theorist, but a set-theorist friend of mine once taught me that you can turn a countably-infinite set (such as the integers) into an uncountably-infinite one (like the reals) by applying the 'power set' operatio
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by danwills 2y ago
I liked the final quote: "Nature is more complicated than we thought" .. which I translate into "there's lots to explore!" And I utterly love Turing and the whole field of Reaction-Diffusion and I think people shoul
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by danwills 2y ago
For some reason this sounded to me slightly like filter-width/domain aware sampling vs point-sampling of inputs when resampling or translating information. When you said 'calculus' it made me think of it this way.. and actual
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by danwills 2y ago
Yeah that wasn't actually a new fractal though, just generalised Mandelbrot with a negative non-integer exponent.. but yes some kind of interactive exploration of it would be fun I agree! There's something I'd be much more ke
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by danwills 2y ago
The Mandelbrot fractal has all it's detail on the boundary, which is nice and all but there are other formulas (or settings for formulas) that instead seem to fill up the whole plane with detail everywhere as if you could zoom in to an

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