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by dtf 11y ago
I take it you didn't listen to the programme.
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by dtf 11y ago
Not sure if available worldwide, but there was a very interesting Radio 4 program recently, "What's the Point of The Met Office?", asking all sorts of awkward questions of this venerable institution. http://www.bbc
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by dtf 11y ago
Well that makes it more interesting. I've always been impressed with the stuff written up on the BitSquid dev blog over the years. http://bitsquid.blogspot.co.uk/
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by dtf 11y ago
Maybe we should all do that presidential thing and switch to "Folks..."
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by dtf 11y ago
Some people say "I is", so I guess it's conceivable that others say "he am". And I think they say "we am" / "we'm" in Norfolk. * here's a book on Cotswold Dialect, mentioning we&#x
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by dtf 11y ago
Death row stats: for every 9 people executed in the US, 1 person is exonerated. There was an exploration of these numbers on this BBC Radio 4 segment (not sure if available outside UK): http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p
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by dtf 12y ago
For anyone interested, this is a great, deep site with hyperlinked annotations. (Not crowdsourced in anyway, though) http://joyceproject.com/ There's also a comic version: http://www.ulyssesseen.com/
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by dtf 12y ago
Matt Pharr, a founding member of that Exluna/BMRT crew that Pixar sued, and also one of the authors of the seminal Physically Based Rendering book tweeted this about Pixar's announcement of the all new physically based Renderman:
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by dtf 12y ago
Maya has its dependency graph architecture, while Houdini has its many layers of networks. They both make explicit their pipelines of data transformation, using a common building block, and that allows the system and the artist to reason ab
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by dtf 12y ago
Blender's a bit like a tiling window manager. If you don't get on with your keyboard you're not going to have much to say. It is however extremely efficient for those that do. What it's missing really is some of the univ
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by dtf 12y ago
This is pretty much the same dilemma as all content creation packages - whether 3D software, audio, CAD, video editing etc. Internal formats need to be fast and robust to frequent revisions, and will inevitably support procedural transforma
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by dtf 12y ago
Blender has fairly decent FBX support these days. The Unreal guys gave them some money to bring their exporter up to scratch.
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by dtf 12y ago
Here's a bunch of shader code and examples for different tone-mapping operators. I really like the Hejl/Burgess-Dawson one as a simple Linear -> sRGRB-ish output function. http://filmicgames.com/archives/75
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by dtf 12y ago
As someone trying to learn the basics of rendering, I was really pleased to see your project pop up on the github explore email today. It's very easy to follow, even for a non-Go programmer like me. Performance question from a no-Go pr
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by dtf 12y ago
Here's a great interview with Luz, whose signature you can see on the cover drawing. The interesting thing is that Charlie was at heart an iconoclastic magazine, and yet ironically has now become an icon of free speech - something the
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by dtf 12y ago
Most fonts are created with quadratic Bezier curves, I think.
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by dtf 12y ago
Thanks! I'll look into that. Currently I'm piping evdev (ie /dev/input/event*) events through a WebSocket for use in my own personal apps/experiments on Linux. I'd love to see browser pen support though...
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by dtf 12y ago
I'm a bit sad that first Pointer Events which had support for pressure/tilt from pen input got killed, and now NPAPI which drove the Wacom Plugin is also dead. Seems there's no future route now to get pen input (eg Wacom, Sam
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by dtf 12y ago
I think everyone's been inspired by the likes of JSBin/JSFiddle, GLSL sandbox and the like. Shadertoy is for pure fragment shader programs - raymarchers being the most popular. Whereas this is a more traditional mesh/vertex&#
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by dtf 12y ago
For some reason I feel like I'm reading a Jorge Luis Borges story.
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by dtf 12y ago
Lovely art direction in this film. I love this way the IBM suits play in the black & white part of the black/white/brown palette.
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by dtf 12y ago
I haven't used it, but I remember looking at the minified code a while back when it was first released. It looks very well done, by someone who has excellent game-engine design experience.
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by dtf 12y ago
Currently, Intel has the Embree ray tracing project, which is doing lots of interesting things with ray packet algorithms and SIMD compilers. http://embree.github.io/
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by dtf 12y ago
I guess it's a bit like doing regular art full-time. Get yourself a name, a mystique, an agent, a benefactor. Skill is one thing, but success requires marketing. (that said there's a number people who manage to do a regular bill-p
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by dtf 12y ago
I have to wonder - is this a Starbucks promotional piece? Why is a Starbucks gift card so effective? Why is a Starbucks cafe the perfect place to study these kinds of interactions? Is the Starbucks brand something that we, as readers, need
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by dtf 12y ago
Someone posts a detailed, intimate story about a horrific sequence of personal experiences onto their Twitter timeline, notices that it's been forwarded to HN - which doesn't have the most sensitive of reputations at the best of t
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by dtf 12y ago
Just browsing her portfolio on that website, this looks pretty interesting: http://speakr.co.uk/
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by dtf 12y ago
Probably just expecting the usual dumb comments: "Thanks, it's ok. It seems to be being moderated well for once. And I can take any stupid comments these days." https://twitter.com/anna_debenham/status&#x
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by dtf 13y ago
I, for one, welcome our new operator overloads. Partly a recognition of just how massive Python has become within the scientific community.
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by dtf 13y ago
Large financial organisations can be surprisingly criminal and incompetent when it comes to IT - you don't have to look far. Knight Capital, NatWest, HSBC... just a few names that pop into my head. The big guys spend large amounts of t

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