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by ykl 13y ago
I'm still slightly iffy on how it looks externally, and I'm still not fond of the lack of user upgradeability, but I have to admit that the interior is a truly remarkable piece of engineering.
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by ykl 13y ago
As cool as this map is, I eagerly await the day where we launch so many missions so often that they can't possible fit on a single map.
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by ykl 13y ago
Considering that a single frame can require potentially hundreds of gigs of data at professional studios, the bottleneck with using AWS as a renderfarm isn't in provisioning instances but rather is in just sheer bandwidth.
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by ykl 13y ago
Metropolis light transport with manifold exploration should be able to handle that case.
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by ykl 13y ago
Similarly, watch Vray closely. I have a feeling that in the next few years, Corona is going to eat Vray's lunch much in the same way that Arnold is eating PRMan's right now.
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by ykl 13y ago
That's exactly what I mean; the simple sanity check case is easy, but once you start layering on things like complex geometry and surface models and volume data, the problem grows in difficulty absurdly quickly.
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by ykl 13y ago
I have a feeling that this is one of those ideas that is going to be far far harder than you think it will be.
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by ykl 13y ago
How exactly is this a blow to CUDA though? NVIDIA has been shipping CUDA versions of BLAS and FFT (see CUBLAS and CUFFT) for years now.
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by ykl 13y ago
You obviously haven't read the Galaxy S1 design docs then. http://www.scribd.com/doc/102317767/Samsung-Relative-Evaluat...
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by ykl 13y ago
This is why retooling a pipeline at an animation or VFX studio is so mind-bogglingly complex and difficult. The analogy I've heard before is imagine not only rebuilding an airplane while its flying and trying to make sure the passenger
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by ykl 13y ago
But, of course, that assumes that the rig for the hand matches whatever rigging system your pipeline currently uses. If you've got a hand rigged with a skeleton based system (see: every IK/FK system under the sun), but your pipeli
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by ykl 13y ago
What's actually going on here is a lot less sensational than the title appears to suggest: as far as I can tell, Google is just deprecating an old plugin architecture to encourage developers to move to a newer one.
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by ykl 13y ago
Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S Grant, and Dwight D Eisenhower all had held no political position before running for president. They all came from the Army.
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by ykl 14y ago
I think what makes this particular dongle odd is that unlike most active cables, which contain just a encoder/decoder chip, Apple has put a full ARM SoC.
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by ykl 14y ago
Well, on OSX, there's a much easier approach: just.... run the native version of Photoshop.