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by kelsolaar 3y ago
Looks great, minor API usability note: I don't know if there is an official convention but when naming an object that has the potential of overriding a builtin, rather than prepending with an underscore, e.g. `_with`, one does append t
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by kelsolaar 3y ago
And that was very well done, thank you!
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by kelsolaar 3y ago
OP author here. Thanks for mentioning it, I happen to work at Wētā FX and we are obviously very biased toward spectral rendering and the problems it solves. I often hear people saying that spectral rendering is complicated but it is actuall
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by kelsolaar 3y ago
OP author here. This is correct, however, not everything is lit by sunlight, especially onset in the motion picture industry, where solid state lighting and its narrow band irradiance sources, e.g. led lights or led walls, are prevalent. Th
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by kelsolaar 3y ago
OP author here! > I don't think the stated goal of PBR is to be indistinguishable from reality for a similar observer. At least, I have never seen this stated anywhere. I’m, admittedly, highly biased as I work for Wētā FX, a high-en
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The Apparent Simplicity of RGB Rendering(thomasmansencal.substack.com)
63 points by kelsolaar 3y ago|30 comments
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Ask HN: Are there tools to synchronise config files across repositories?
1 points by kelsolaar 3y ago|1 comments
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by kelsolaar 3y ago
Obsidian all the way, markdown means it can be edited anywhere by any text editor, even online, e.g. Github.
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by kelsolaar 3y ago
This is very cool! It made me discover the Python interface to Wolfram Language: https://reference.wolfram.com/language/WolframClientForPytho...
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by kelsolaar 3y ago
Dash makes it really easy to pull docs from readthedocs.org also, this is something devdocs does not have.
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Colour Checker Detection with Machine Learning(colour-science.org)
2 points by kelsolaar 3y ago|0 comments
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by kelsolaar 3y ago
The explanation on how Stable Diffusion works here is great: https://www.comflowy.com/basics/stable-diffusion-foundation
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by kelsolaar 3y ago
Markdown is a blessing for any operation that needs to be performed across many files. Load up your favorite editor and get going.
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by kelsolaar 3y ago
Thanks, I got excited quite a bit as I tend to like Jetbrains products!
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by kelsolaar 3y ago
Epic Games runs mostly Windows Threadrippers for Unreal Engine development. Compiling Unreal faster, or anything really, even Windows itself is a compelling argument.
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by kelsolaar 3y ago
+1 for PragmataPro, bought it 4 years ago and haven't looked back yet.
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by kelsolaar 3y ago
Without a reflectance/absorptance value it is hard to say but Black 3.0 with 99.6% is nowhere near close to Vantablack with 99.965%. Edit: People are quoting 99.95% for Black 4.0 which is impressive!
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by kelsolaar 3y ago
We started with Mypy for thr colour-science.org projects but Pyright is so much faster that it is hard to look back. We have no particular issue with Numpy. As you pointed out the devs, especially Eric Traut, are really responsive.
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by kelsolaar 3y ago
It is worth noting that Touch Designer was forked from Houdini 4.1 by Greg Hermanovic, one of the SideFX ( https://www.sidefx.com/ ) founders.
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by kelsolaar 3y ago
Xalavier Nelson Jr. of Strange Scaffold seems jealous.
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by kelsolaar 3y ago
Unreal is used by all the major VFX vendors whether it be for virtual production, previz or final frame rendering.
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by kelsolaar 3y ago
Ziva has runtimes in Unity and Unreal Engine.
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by kelsolaar 3y ago
The ESRB: Baldur’s Gate 3 Game is Rated M (Mature 17+) by ESRB for Blood and Gore, Partial Nudity, Sexual Content, Strong Language, and Violence.
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by kelsolaar 3y ago
It is 2023 and we have Ruff and Pyright.
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by kelsolaar 3y ago
Elden Ring is certainly one of the best I played the past decade. The production design is fantastic.
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by kelsolaar 3y ago
Agreed, if anything minor updates have been either transparent or visibly addressing issues. I have had some problems when updating from major macOs version to another though. Windows unfortunately has the tendency to break even with minor
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by kelsolaar 3y ago
> This is facilitated by the fact that laptops are now a mature technology and have more than sufficient computational power. Depends what you do with them, if you program, edit movies, do 3D rendering or play games, there will never be
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by kelsolaar 3y ago
> Threads has one of the largest plugins we’ve ever seen. BarcelonaShareExtension is 81 MB. For context, the largest Instagram plugin - InstagramNotificationExtension is 23.5 MB. TheInstagramShareExtension is 5.6 MB Out of a 244.2 MB App
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by kelsolaar 3y ago
Thank you, that was insightful and a genuinely a good comment.
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by kelsolaar 3y ago
Yes, the fact that Rush seemed to have designed the company to avoid liability with US alone is worth the read.

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