💡 #TIL that, aside from fancy #CGI and #3D workstations and servers, legendary manufacturer #SiliconGraphics also sold an #espressomaker for ca. 190 DM in Germany.
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Just watched the Netflix adaptation of 3 Body Problem. Decent attempt, although it felt like they went through the game and revealed the “three-body” mystery a little fast (or did I just binge too fast? 🤔).
I really wish SF shows would get the incredibly easy basics right, though.
In the first episode, two people are looking at the stars from a location somewhere in England (University of Oxford campus?). Something very strange happens with the stars, but before that happens, something even stranger is going on. The stars in the sky depicted show the entire constellation of Scorpius, which is not possible in the British Isles. If you were at the southernmost tip of England, the circled star would just peek above the southern horizon. To see the stars as depicted, you would have to be much farther south (say, at the latitude of a CGI firm in Los Angeles? 😉).
I imagine most people wouldn't notice, but if you are at all familiar with the sky, these things jump out at you. It would be like the prop people not knowing who to put on the dollar bill and just going with Mr. Bean.
In 1968, Soviet scientists created one of the earliest known “realistic” computer animations: a ream of printed papers featuring an animated walking cat!
While performing research on the Web today, I spotted this great page of presentations from #SIGGRAPH '23. Since #ACM is opening up its content for public access, all of the presentations on this page can be viewed & downloaded for free! 🥳🎈
I reviewed each course, and I must say, this is the most comprehensive set of topics I've seen in a while - most have matured and are now being commercialized
Here is my new portfolio piece, an exploration of nine samples of ancient marble. It is made with Substance Designer & Painter, Unreal Engine (using Lumen and Substrate), and Blender. Check it here, with a lot of renders, technical details, sources about marble and nodes: https://artstation.com/artwork/yDLynK
FINISHED! Yesterday I made my first #Houdini vellum fluid sim. I'm using velocity as a color attribute, and lots of smoothing trickeries for the final mesh. Enjoy!