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by dtf 7y ago
A senior lighting artist on the film mentions a few difficulties in the comments below. - motion blur render times. (They patched Cycles to use Embree as its ray engine to solve this) - memory consumption - lack of UDIM - clunky compositor
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by dtf 7y ago
Cycles (Blender's built in path tracer) with some modifications. (Cryptomattes are now in 2.8, and the Embree patch will be integrated somewhere after.) "Yes, cycles was used for everything, though our version of cycles was modifi
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by dtf 7y ago
Another site that comes to mind is the Financial Times, which uses UUIDs for article urls, with no other indication of content. https://www.ft.com/ https://www.ft.com/content/13be9132-8149-11e9-b592-5fe
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by dtf 7y ago
Are you talking about general opinion pieces or the Times regular columnists? The Guardian does have a pretty diverse Comment section [1]. As far as the regular columnists go, it's true they don't really have a right-wing Owen Jon
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by dtf 7y ago
On Brexit: it's worth noting that Larry Elliott, the Guardian's economics editor, is a long time Eurosceptic and committed supporter of Brexit. He regularly pens pro-Brexit articles in an otherwise largely Remain-slanted paper (al
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by dtf 7y ago
Yes, the construction "for the nonce" goes back to the Middle Ages. The concept of a "nonce word" goes back to 1884, according to this article. https://www.dailywritingtips.com/nonce-words-for-the-nonce-a
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by dtf 7y ago
Once is from the Middle English "anes", meaning "one". Nonce is from "then anes", meaning "the one". The "-n" got smooshed into the latter word, to become "nonce", rather like &quo
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by dtf 8y ago
Jake is UK based. https://twitter.com/jaffathecake
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by dtf 8y ago
Here's an example of why MathML is attractive as a rendering layer (try Firefox vs Chrome, and look at native MathML latency vs MathJax emulation): https://runarberg.github.io/ascii2mathml/ (it helps to have the L
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by dtf 8y ago
Intel's graphics libraries are well crafted and pleasant to integrate. In fact, Embree is currently being integrated into Blender's Cycles as an alternative ray engine. I'd guess we'll see an effort at integrating the In
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by dtf 8y ago
"The one dark spot on my stay in that neighborhood was one night I walked to a pharmacy a few blocks away from the hotel, and two men on a motorcycle drove up on the sidewalk and tried to snatch my phone out of my hand." Lovely
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by dtf 8y ago
On the wealth tax - yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_tax_on_wealth Part of Macron's reforms. But not a good look, in hindsight. And the benefit cuts didn't go down well, either. https:/&#x2
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by dtf 8y ago
I just read this from the Guardian's Paris chief, thought it was a pretty good sampling of some of the grievances: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/07/macrons-arroga... Seems a common comp
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by dtf 8y ago
The problem in this case, is that it's the terminology used by the standard: https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/EN/BSI/Publicat...
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by dtf 8y ago
It's been an incredibly astute comms strategy from Greenpeace. They made this film, then did a deal with Iceland (who were keen to reposition themselves as a supermarket with green credentials). Both parties admitted they knew it would
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Burned to death because of a rumour on WhatsApp(bbc.co.uk)
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by dtf 8y ago
Not to be confused with Base85. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii85 (used with various alphabets for denser binary encoding in PDF, git binary patches, and the scene files of the Arnold renderer).
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by dtf 8y ago
It’s the second biggest economy in the world. They’re not that backward.
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by dtf 8y ago
It's an odd word, isn't it? I can't speak for the inimitable Walter Bright, but I suspect many English speakers like myself enjoy the pure sound of it - so many consonants in such a short space of time. Somewhat difficult t
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by dtf 8y ago
Another series on this mammoth dataset: 1. https://schuttejoe.github.io/post/disneybsdf/ 2. https://schuttejoe.github.io/post/disneypostmortem/
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by dtf 8y ago
I just noticed that [4] doesn't work on Safari or Firefox either (but does on Chrome) on my MacBook 2010. Maybe it wasn't the best demo of that feature ... The API is pretty well supported on tablets and phones though, which is wh
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by dtf 8y ago
If you're talking about the DeviceOrientation event [1], it's been shipping in browsers since 2010 [2,3]. It also works on your MacBook. [4] [1] https://w3c.github.io/deviceorientation/ [2] https:/&#x2F
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by dtf 8y ago
Fantastic news and amazing work, the site looks beautiful! I love my copy of PBR but it's always been a tad on the heavy side for casual reading :) The image viewer works brilliantly and the renders are looking gorgeous. Looking forwar
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by dtf 8y ago
It's not a JavaScript imitation. This is a JavaScript-like syntax for writing WebAssembly. Other than that, (excepting the closure helper) it's 1-to-1 WebAssembly. Not everyone enjoys writing verbose S-Expressions [1], even if it
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by dtf 8y ago
It's tickling to see this dynamic new company with a name so close to an event that inspires such fiery passions in my country. Recently I've noticed that The Sun, Britain's foremost tabloid and an ardent supporter of aforeme
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by dtf 8y ago
Here is the full video package on this from BBC Africa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbnLkc6r3yc
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by dtf 8y ago
Those final statements on the Twitter thread stuck out for me too - they seemed a little incongruous. But they're taken (as is the entire thread) from the BBC Africa video, where they actually make perfect sense as the closing remarks.
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by dtf 8y ago
It's still on the front page.
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by dtf 8y ago
Well that was interesting, and I had no idea that "getCoalescedEvents()" existed. I've been a little disappointed when trying to write drawing applications before - circles end up looking like polygons unless you add some kin
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by dtf 8y ago
Correct. Boris owns the bus, Nigel owns the poster. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/16/nigel-farag...

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