shahar2k

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by shahar2k 5y ago
I mean the whole restriction on which roads tesla can drive on kind of exists in the form of chrysler's autopilot which uses only specific roads for its own self driving ... imagine a future when the data about certain roads is somehow
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by shahar2k 5y ago
my guess is that with this explosion in photogrammetry we're quickly developing enough data to start training neural networks to create procedural geometry... whether that'll be fast enough to happen at run time or even at realtim
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by shahar2k 5y ago
I have the same observation as a fairly novice maya programmer. it's absolutely priceless to be able to do something using the "regular" UI and just see every single command that is run and then just copy paste the appropriat
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by shahar2k 5y ago
how much of that is dedicated to the passenger compartment
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by shahar2k 5y ago
the demo project is 100GB, I dont think I have the hard drive space for more variety at this quality level!
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by shahar2k 5y ago
unfortunately with so many temporal optimizations even anti aliasing is no longer "instant" I think that specifically things like large bounce light changes will have to have some sort of hacky "pre-accumulation" step th
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by shahar2k 5y ago
I was about to say this exact thing, when I finally sit down to make something physical... I generally have a fairly full idea of every aspect of it simply in my head, (admittedly I work with fairly basic mechanical setups using a laser cut
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by shahar2k 5y ago
not that hard to do if you have actual depth sensing cameras, and even without those, something like the oculus quest 2 does that exact task (generate a rough 3d volume based on several 2d video feeds) you can see a neat example when you dr
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by shahar2k 5y ago
I imagine they are using lightfield type displays like the ones made at this company - https://lookingglassfactory.com/
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by shahar2k 5y ago
I never lived on them but some of my parents’ friends were kibbutznikim, I distinctly remember a dinner with one talking about how much he hated growing up there, being forced to leave your parents young and live in a communal “kids’ house”
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by shahar2k 5y ago
considering you can swap colors back and forth, I'd say it's mostly possible (to draw thinner than the minimum just draw one color, overwrite with another)
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by shahar2k 5y ago
100% correct, I am an artist working in realtime visual effects (previsualization) and it's surprising how often knowledge of how realtime 3d works on the hardware and software end enhances what I can do with my art! (and how little fe
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by shahar2k 6y ago
to the same extent that Hollywood movies function as cultural warfare / propaganda
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by shahar2k 6y ago
"disrupted" in the case of Israel though is an euphemism with some deep existential implications.
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by shahar2k 6y ago
y'know as an israeli who left the country at 13, that explains some interesting tests I remember :) (are you talking about "psychometric" testing?)
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by shahar2k 6y ago
so as a heavy maya user, the two things I've missed in blender are fine little QOL improvements and big systemic issues. the collection of features in blender are second to none, and I've enjoyed learning them a lot, but I really
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by shahar2k 6y ago
I've been using these - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07N1CB4B1/ basically anything I own with a lightning or usb micro port gets a magnetic plug (and any usb c device that I dont charge once a day)
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by shahar2k 6y ago
as a hebrew speaker / reader it's super confusing to see אבגד presented in a reversed direction (in that diagram) the language is written from right to left which is the same as arabic and several other languages in that family, a
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by shahar2k 6y ago
likely the performance of playing small video elements as part of the UI, oftentimes it's faster to keep a whole uncompressed texture atlas in memory for animations and such.
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by shahar2k 6y ago
I think this is the key answer, de-noising, using various neural techniques finally allowed acceptable images to be produced from sometimes <1 ray / pixel, where normally images produced at such densities were nearly unusable. This
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by shahar2k 6y ago
does that mean that velocity is constant "speed of light" and only direction in spacetime changes?
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by shahar2k 6y ago
LAX, the area around the airport is full of the combination of people who both have a lot of spare money (just to be able to rent around there) and have a bit of a thrillseaking / extreme sport bent (surfers, skateboarders, kiteboarder
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by shahar2k 6y ago
I feel like the thing that really gives it away was the flat tonality across comments, humans tend to become more or less verbose in waves, because of moods, sometimes they'll post long diatribes and sometimes the energy isnt there and
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by shahar2k 6y ago
one of my favorite games for the sheer depth of all the systems / mechanics available in game
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by shahar2k 6y ago
A friend (PhD researcher) introduced me to nanobodies and the science around them a few years back, it's pretty fascinating and cool to see more and more practical applications.
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by shahar2k 6y ago
as someone who sleeps with bose qc35s on I have intermittently also used cheap construction hearing protection and found those to be just as effective (with the difference ben that the passive construction headphones do BETTER but the quali
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by shahar2k 7y ago
hah! my grandmother's house was right next to this museum, loved going in there and exploring the various ships. (right under the balls)
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by shahar2k 7y ago
this is slightly mis-led, but it is true that 3d conversion sometimes doesnt go as well (and often happens at the last few weeks of production, done by the some of the lowest paid people in the industry) so there are different levels of &qu
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by shahar2k 7y ago
it'll definitely help, israel already uses a massive percentage of it's electric generation to desalinate water. (since the country grows quite a bit of its own food) from wikipedia "By 2014, Israel's desalination progra
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by shahar2k 8y ago
there's a ton of great art happening in games these days. and a lot of it comes down to a few factors, there are some excellent concept art outsourcing houses (check out opusartz for one) the tools and artists trained in them are EXTRE

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