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by franzb 3y ago
Adobe acquired Allegorithmic in 2019. Allegorithmic were the makers of Substance Designer, Substance Painter and many other 3D tools that are de facto standards for digital texturing. They’re _widely_ used in the video games, film and desig
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by franzb 3y ago
Yes, absolutely.
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GradIEEEnt half decent: The hidden power of imprecise lines [video](youtube.com)
98 points by franzb 3y ago|9 comments
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Human Shader(humanshader.com)
36 points by franzb 3y ago|1 comments
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by franzb 3y ago
Impressive website, everything just works super nicely and smoothly! Ended up playing Doom more than I should have :)
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by franzb 3y ago
An even more radical version of this idea was popularized by the late Pieter Hintjens —an amazing guy— in his post (and later book) “Confessions of a Necromancer”: http://hintjens.com/blog:125 One of the most inspiring engi
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GradIEEEnt half decent: The hidden power of imprecise lines [video](youtube.com)
2 points by franzb 3y ago|0 comments
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Sparks of AGI: early experiments with GPT-4(youtube.com)
2 points by franzb 3y ago|0 comments
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by franzb 4y ago
Computer graphics.
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by franzb 4y ago
Yes. Tantacrul seems to have assembled an amazing team (or a couple teams, actually), and MuseScore + Muse Sounds + Audacity starts to look like the Blender of audio and music composition.
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How We Made MuseScore 4 [video](youtube.com)
4 points by franzb 4y ago|2 comments
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My new friend, the AI-powered rubber duck(marcofoco.com)
1 points by franzb 4y ago|0 comments
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by franzb 4y ago
FYI, the link to your blog post doesn't appear to work (404 error).
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by franzb 4y ago
Blast from the past! Amazing discussion.
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by franzb 4y ago
For instance (different language but same company), Turbo Pascal 7.0 and Borland Pascal 7.0 co-existed at the same time. They were simply targeting different markets. I vaguely remember the same thing about Turbo C++ and Borland C++...
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by franzb 4y ago
As far I remember (I used these tools extensively at the time), Borland C++ was the bigger, more complete and more powerful package. It was basically the professional version while Turbo C++ was the hobbyist one.
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by franzb 4y ago
Absolutely! This works even better when doing the self-review with the same tool (typically, GitHub review system) as the one a real reviewer would use. Just looking at one's code in a different environment (different font, colors, etc
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Fixing the Entire SM64 Source Code (Insane N64 Performance) [video](youtube.com)
1 points by franzb 4y ago|0 comments
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by franzb 4y ago
Can't agree more about Tom7! Do checkout MarcosRep, tons of humour, highly recommended! And of course AvE...
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by franzb 4y ago
Hi Ben, as a long time follower, I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for what I consider an absolute jewel of a YouTube channel. (I always get a chuckle out of your "Hope you found that interesting, bye!" at the en
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by franzb 5y ago
Thank you!
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by franzb 5y ago
Hey, any way to contact you? Didn’t see an email in your profile. Mine is in my profile (franz@appleseedhq.net).
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by franzb 5y ago
Sure, but then we’re discussing the topic as set by the post’s title, not the actual topic(s) addressed by the post’s content, which are quite a bit more complex and nuanced than a title of a few characters could ever convey. What if we wan
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by franzb 5y ago
And on mobile (iPhone), it seems to be impossible to scroll down on the animations themselves, only on the text. I had to stop reading the article at some point as I could no longer scroll down…
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D.B. Cooper Deep Family Secrets [video](youtube.com)
2 points by franzb 5y ago|0 comments
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by franzb 5y ago
Same here, small town in France, I get 5 Gbps downstream and 700 Mbps upstream for less than 30 euros (35 USD).
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by franzb 6y ago
I like VLC but why is it so difficult to set the volume at exactly 100%? Or did I overlook an obvious way?
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by franzb 6y ago
The climbing permit for Everest alone costs $11000.
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by franzb 6y ago
Hi Berkut, I'd love to get in touch with you, unfortunately I couldn't find any contact info in your profile. You can find my email in my profile. Cheers!
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Nvidia developed a radically different way to compress video calls(arstechnica.com)
3 points by franzb 6y ago|0 comments

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