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andrewwillmott

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Graphics Research/Sims/SimCity/Spore/Football Manager/Wayve/Stealth Startup

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dougbinks, to random
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It's interesting that with all the discussions of game engines recently no one mentioned O3DE https://o3de.org/ (CryEngine > Amazon Lumberyard > O3DE).

It's a Linux Foundation Project (via the Open 3D Foundation), and the Github seems fairly active https://github.com/o3de/o3de

I don't know what that means as far as support for the project, though it appears there are non-engineeering staff members.

I don't know of any games which have been released using it though.

andrewwillmott,
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@bitinn @dougbinks Oof! Confusing tone-mapped output with your lighting space is a bit of a red flag.

andrewwillmott,
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@bitinn @dougbinks Hmm, the reply in that issue seems to suggest the lighting is linear, and written as F16, before applying -> aces -> grading -> tone map as a post process. That seems reasonable unless I'm misunderstanding the issue. Using aces I think is justifiable if they're mostly targeting HDR displays.

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  • Render high-quality HDR using physically-based shading
  • Render linear scene RBGA16f
  • Transform linear scene into ACEScg scene referred color space (IDT)
aras, to random
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I'm sure it's fine

andrewwillmott,
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@aras just need a wake-up coffee or two

andrewwillmott, to random
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Today is the day that I learnt that the barcodes on UK stamps, which obsoleted and made worthless everyone's stash of old stamps at the back of the cupboard, have no actual functional value. They're just for arbitrary links to something 'entertaining', like a video of Shaun the Sheep.

andrewwillmott,
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'Royal Mail's chief commercial officer said: "Introducing unique barcodes on our postage stamps allows us to connect the physical letter with the digital world and opens up the possibilities for a range of new innovative services in future."'

Oh. Dear. God. No.

andrewwillmott,
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@AngryAnt ding ding ding ding 😄

andrewwillmott,
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@AngryAnt That sounds really nice, the 3x3 thing that is. You can buy online here, but last I checked you had to have a way of printing the resulting stamp onto an envelope or sticker.

Also, now that I have some of these new stamps, it turns out the QR code isn't readable by standard apps, e.g., the built-in iPhone/Android ones, you need their special app. Absolutely ludicrous.

sinbad, to random
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The fact that Apple has (probably) built the slickest and coolest looking VR/AR headset yet (if not the most functional re games) and watching people “integrate” them into their lives still makes me go “ewww” probably means they’re never going to be for me. I can’t imagine ever wanting to live that vision

Like, Minority Report looked rad so long as you didn’t consider what it really meant to use that UI day to day. Lots of things look cool on film but are rubbish in practice

andrewwillmott,
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@sinbad @KeefJudge If I had to guess, they see this as the (or a) future, and want to be the ones who crack usability for consumers, the same way they did for WIMP UIs and then touch screens with the iDevices. So they may not be bothered if it's low-volume, hardcore-enthusiast-only for now.

andrewwillmott,
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@sinbad @KeefJudge A parallel might be the Lisa, which was stupidly expensive, but laid the groundwork technically and UI-wise for the Mac. (Even the Mac was pretty pricey at first.)

andrewwillmott, to random
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Watching the SIGGRAPH '23 links going up makes me think, isn't it great that so many of these include source code repos these days? Feels like such a great step forward for reproduceability over the last decade.
https://kesen.realtimerendering.com/sig2023.html

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