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   by ykl 11y ago

   Amazing work from the author, as usual. For anyone who isn't familiar with the rest of Benedikt's work, it's absolutely worth taking a look at.
2. 152.▲
   by ykl 11y ago

   I wish there was more long-form writing like this in the gaming world (there's occasionally some good long-form stuff on Polygon that is great, but not quite like this). I haven't played Cave Story before, but after reading throug
3. 153.▲
   by ykl 11y ago

   See the CAP theorem [0]. Disque is designed to guarantee availability and partition tolerance, which according to CAP means Disque cannot guarantee atomic consistency (the C in CAP is not quite the same as either the A and C in ACID [1]) be
4. 154.▲
   by ykl 11y ago

   You managed C++ projects without a C++ compiler before? How in the world did you do that?
5. 155.▲
   by ykl 11y ago

   Not a stupid question at all! Not exactly the same approach, but there's been some recent interesting research on neural net and ML driven global illumination: [0] http://www.jiapingwang.com/files/shadebot_sig13.pd
6. 156.▲
   by ykl 11y ago

   This is way cool, and the writeup is excellent as well. Very much worth the read :)
7. 157.▲
   by ykl 11y ago

   I could be wrong, but I think the demonstrator in the video is the CEO.
8. 158.▲
   by ykl 11y ago

   Wait, why is she using a volt meter in that video? That's not useful information without knowing how many amps the system can push. I could probably get a volt meter to read 8 volts just from my hair after walking on carpet a bit, but
9. 159.▲
   by ykl 11y ago

   One of the aircraft named is the Kalinin K-7 [1], which is a favorite ridiculous aircraft of mine. It's the most literally "flying fortress" looking aircraft ever made. The design process for the K-7 was "add engines unt
10. 160.▲
    by ykl 11y ago

    All fair points! From your username, would you happen to be Marcos or someone else from Solid Angle? If so, big fan of Arnold. :)
11. 161.▲
    by ykl 11y ago

    This. In theory Cycles can be used to make the same kind of movies Renderman can. Please name a few examples of cases where this was done. On the flipside, when people say Renderman can be used to make production level stuff, they can point
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    by ykl 11y ago

    Post updated with detailed list and links for each list item. At studios I've been at, we did tests with various renderers. Sure, we could have rendered a film in Cycles, but it would have taken much longer.
13. 163.▲
    by ykl 11y ago

    Any movie by Pixar, Industrial Light and Magic, Double Negative, Framestore, Weta, etc. Alternatively, a brief and by no means comprehensive list of things I've found to be better in Renderman versus Cycles: * Bidirectional pathtracing
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    Lambda Calculus Madness(youtube.com)

    2 points by ykl 11y ago|0 comments
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    by ykl 11y ago

    Every time I see this chart, I like to post this quote from Walt Disney: "We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies"
16. 166.▲
    by ykl 11y ago

    Could this potentially be a first step towards eventually replacing Gecko with Servo? If Firefox (the application itself) eventually resembles browser.html [1], swapping out Gecko for Servo would be much easier. [1] https://githu
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    by ykl 11y ago

    Here's a link to the actual TED talk, since mattyohe's link is actually to one of Google's promo videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj8IA6xOpSk
18. 168.▲
    by ykl 11y ago

    Wow, the McLaren with a closed cockpit is stunningly gorgeous.
19. 169.▲
    by ykl 11y ago

    I want to hear John Syracusa do a review of this oven.
20. 170.▲
    Laughing and crying through the new Google Photos(theverge.com)

    4 points by ykl 11y ago|0 comments
21. 171.▲
    by ykl 11y ago

    Woah, that's a pretty cool story. Anywhere where I can read more?
22. 172.▲
    by ykl 11y ago

    Wait, this article is from a year ago.
23. 173.▲
    by ykl 12y ago

    Here's a much cooler version by Nop Jiarathanakul. Nop's version has shape targeting, which is especially cool. Check out the running horse. http://www.iamnop.com/particles/
24. 174.▲
    by ykl 12y ago

    Wow, at that price point and feature set, I think Microsoft finally has something that can plausibly be considered an iPad-killer.
25. 175.▲
    by ykl 12y ago

    Solid Angle doesn't have an official individual student license option, but I have heard of Solid Angle coming up with case-by-case arrangements with students that contacted them directly.
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    Free Non-Commercial Renderman(renderman.pixar.com)

    265 points by ykl 12y ago|75 comments
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    by ykl 12y ago

    Wait, I'm confused. Is that video the actual game and how everything actually looks, or is it a concept video with visual effects and props and whatnot by Weta? Because up until now, I was under the impression that it was the latter.
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    by ykl 12y ago

    Woah, this jumps out at me immediately since Eric Veach's name is on it. I haven't seen a (relatively) new Eric Veach paper in a long long time. Some background: Eric Veach is huge in the computer graphics world for laying a ton o
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    by ykl 12y ago

    Coming from a very CUDA-heavy background, having much more low-level access to the GPU and being able to (having to) manage memory manually are very familiar/welcome features. :)
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    by ykl 12y ago

    Except for the 11 inch MacBook Air, which is the oddball of the family in that respect.