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by danwills 3y ago
I was actually quite glad while reading this when I realized it wasn't trying to make-time-a-dimension! Sometimes it seems to me that ppl are cool with just making a float4 out of x,y,z,t and still think everything will work out fine!?
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by danwills 3y ago
I couldn't agree more, and that's from much experience working in VFX on tools/code and contacting SideFX support a lot (mostly by email) It's just been some astoundingly good support! I hope they last forever, and if th
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by danwills 3y ago
Ah, I see SideFX are there as a "General Member"! Cool!
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by danwills 3y ago
I find it slightly odd that SideFX aren't part of this. They have worked very closely with Pixar on integrating USD into Houdini in a new subsystem/type of network called 'Solaris' / Lops. It is a very deep and powe
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by danwills 3y ago
I don't think it's gonna help with the design side of things but USD does include a volume primitive type in its 'UsdVol' section: https://openusd.org/release/api/usd_vol_page_front.html So it
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by danwills 3y ago
I agree it's not lossy-compression that's the problem here.. I think instead it's usually better phrased in terms of 'aliasing'. You can think of using a better (more care, attention and listener-adaptation) method
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by danwills 3y ago
I do love Gentoo and have had it as my home OS for ages. I like to describe it as "the patient person's Linux".. it definitely provides many learning opportunities and sometimes roadblocks however if you get stuck, the IRC ch
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by danwills 3y ago
I love image FFT! Quite some time ago I implemented it (just a wrapped FFTW) as a plugin for the 'Shake' compositing software that we were using at the time at RSP. It was tricky but incredible fun and like a mini-superpower! Peop
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by danwills 3y ago
Not an expert but I thought it needed the 'power set' (set of all subsets) but maybe that's kinda the same as exponentiation in the end?
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by danwills 3y ago
I've read that males have a different risk to reward ratio (not in every species but in many, including humans) especially in terms of reproduction. One male can in-theory have many more offspring in the same time period than one femal
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by danwills 4y ago
I mostly follow the PC scene, and I'd recommend checking out demos by Fairlight&CNCD, MFX, Kewlers, Orange, Still, Quite, Logicoma, and if you're into those then check out other groups that get 'greets' from these on
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by danwills 4y ago
I can totally see why digital artists would get value from this! I work in VFX and have found that after watching a shot on loop a few hundred times (over weeks) it can be quite helpful to watch it 'flopped' (horizontal mirror), w
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by danwills 4y ago
I think there are some interesting parallels here with Michael Levin's group's work where they also make the hardware/software analogy. Genes/DNA are said to build The 'hardware', that a bioelectric 'softw
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by danwills 4y ago
A 'tracker' is a usually-sample-based music making software. AFAIK they were originally developed by demoscene groups (concurrently to game studios that used the code privately whereas the demogroups would release binaries for oth
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by danwills 4y ago
Yeah! I loved learning this (some time ago) too! Wonder whether there's any cool filtering tricks that can give you something similar but also filtered result. Ie an 'anti-aliased' version - although interestingly the method
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by danwills 4y ago
And if you want to explore continuous-state automata ('reaction diffusion') there's Golly's cousin-app Ready, too! (Next version of Ready's Houdini plugin (py3/H19.5) hopefully coming soon!)
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by danwills 4y ago
Yeah I've been using HSV transform in feedback (in glsl shaders) to great effect lately (rotate hue a bit to get rainbow-color cycling) but only the other day I was wondering how the heck to make this rainbow better!? (essentially: mor
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by danwills 4y ago
That is very kind of you! I reckon that what I said might make a lot more sense when combined with this pdf: http://mountainman.com.au/process_physics/HPS13.pdf
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by danwills 4y ago
Very enjoyable information and resources! Loved it! Thanks for posting. I collaborated on recent years on a track that we think of as being 'ambient'. The video for it went on my YouTube recently, first time providing my own sound
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by danwills 4y ago
Process Physics does include some initial ideas/structures that do feel a bit like functional programming I agree but I think that actually it swings far away from that once the rubber of the idea (speculatively, of course) hits the ro
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by danwills 4y ago
I'm not a physicist, but I read some of Reg Cahill's papers a long time ago when they got a mention in some science magazine. The video in a sibling comment is the same thing. It's definitely a fringe physics, but my (perhaps
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by danwills 4y ago
I found this fascinating! Unitarity does seem to suggest that the future somehow equals the past, which does seem to leave a bit of explaining to do (why would time exist/happen at all?) I also like the way that the new 'isometry&
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by danwills 4y ago
Agreed, so helpful! There's logical traps one can easily fall into (I frequently realise I'm making this mistake when trying to think of the concept of the universe) where my mind seems to want to be able to 'enclose' th
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by danwills 4y ago
I think you're right about the possibilities here and I love the idea and have thought similar things myself too, but to me the inclusion of a 3D element should probably be a format, not necessarily locked into any specific app such as
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by danwills 4y ago
This is mentioned in the article, I must admit I previously thought it was as you say, but: "available evidence in humans suggests that hyperinsulinemia precedes weight gain (rather than the other way around)"
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by danwills 4y ago
Oof, that doesn't sound like a popular move! Speaking of simulations though, there is SideFX Houdini? (can probably handle CAD-type stuff a bit nowadays? and certainly lots of types of simulations!) I do hope that SideFX (Houdini) stay
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by danwills 4y ago
There's SideFX Houdini. It's a VFX software mainly but it's also like an amazingly powerful CG/simulations OS and tools-collection. It can be tried out for free (the full software with only some fairly reasonable limits
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by danwills 4y ago
What am interesting idea!
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by danwills 4y ago
I am using Audacious every day on a Gentoo Linux (I can only assume it's a fairly recent version) and it still has a choice old-school 'skinned' UI mode that loads classic xmms skins (that can make it look just like old Winam
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by danwills 4y ago
Yeah I think you're right mike_hock. On top of that I think that locations on (or near) the boundary, tend to stay on the boundary (and stay in the center of the image too) when zooming out. While purely zooming (not translating) to a

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