What's going on with your life?

[ZZZ]

I think that I didn't do well enough in the calculus 2 exam to pass............................ mathematics is like that. You may understand the theory behind, but the exercise may contain a little detail that tricks you or requires a little step that you are not aware of.

[Corwin]

My girlfriend is currently presenting the demo we created to R.R. Martin, not sure what to think about that. I can't help but be excited, even though it doesn't really mean anything. Fame is weird.

Edited January 23, 2019 by Corwin

[laminutederire]

Haven't been here in a while. However I read an amazing paper on path tracing that made me wanted to share it here since it opens in my opinion a boulevard to true realtime path-tracing for games! Artists will loooooooove path tracing, and so will gamers if we finally manage to make it happen!

Anyway, the paper is on learning the light distribution through a neural network more or less. It works very well and is quite impressive.

(Paper link )

It is an elegant idea that we shouldn't look light as camera dependent but for what it actually is in physics: a vector field (Well in practice it'd be magnetic and electric field, so two fields (but same thing) ). As soon as you have this, all the information you need can be precomputed, you can hope to infer pixel values fast for static scenes, and here on have interactive frame rates when the hardware follows.

Anyhow. Hope it got everyone excited as much as it did for me and have a good day everyone!

Edited January 23, 2019 by laminutederire

[-HP-]

4 hours ago, Corwin said:

My girlfriend is currently presenting the demo we created to R.R. Martin, not sure what to think about that. I can't help but be excited, even though it doesn't really mean anything. Fame is weird.

More info on this, plox!

[Corwin]

9 hours ago, [HP] said:

More info on this, plox!

Well I'm not sure how much I can share, but R.R. Martin is from Santa Fe and invested a few millions into a local art collective called Meow Wolf a few years ago. With that money, they made a park that I can only describe as "psychedelic Disneyland for adults where you can touch anything and go anywhere", and had a lot of success with it, so they're repeating the process in Vegas and Denver (bigger parks, more craziness). I've been working with them for a few months and that internal "vertical slice" (that I can't share details about) is now being presented to a bunch of stakeholders and investors, and yesterday was R.R. Martin's turn. He apparently seemed impressed hehe. This is going to be an interesting year!

They released a documentary on how the first park was created, here's the trailer: 

 

Edited January 24, 2019 by Corwin

[That50'sGuy]

Today I'll be going with my little brother to see the Lego Movie 2. Who else will be seeing it?

[Interfearance]

On 11/29/2018 at 1:21 PM, I ♡ The 1950's said:

Oh don't you worry, Haribo is in Canada for a rather low price I would have never known just how tasty it is if my German grandmother never got me hooked on it XD

I actually found it first in Europe in the form of F1 car gummies. I am probably the number 1 haribo purchaser and fan in the world

[That50'sGuy]

1 hour ago, Interfearance said:

I actually found it first in Europe in the form of F1 car gummies. I am probably the number 1 haribo purchaser and fan in the world

Great to meet a fellow Haribo fan! Also, congrats on visiting Europe!

Edited February 9, 2019 by I ♡ The 1950's

[blackdog]

Following up on this trend

I wanted to see how quickly Twitter would act. My second tweet with the #learntocode hashtag got my account locked for “harassment”. Btw my tweet wasn’t directed at journalists or anyone in particular, I was just following up on the recent Activision firings with a post intended as satire, but does seem that people are overly salty about an hashtag, and/or Twitter mods don’t bother to look at things in context. 

I cant shake the feeling of how fascist this “ultra progressive” platforms/discussion groups are, when you challenge them just a little bit. This really bothers me, would someone get flagged for promoting their own course for example?

The full podcast can be found here and it’s enlighting and enraging at the same time to hear about the hypocritical stance the platform holders take on subjects like these.

 

Edited February 17, 2019 by blackdog

[Minos]

Sometimes I dream that the world would be a much better place if Twitter was nuked from existence.

[grapen]

If it's not on Twitter, it's happening someplace else. These individuals are slaves to their own egos, and the human ego will find its outlets. It's arguing for the sake of arguing - there's no point to it.

[TheOnlyDoubleF]

I just spent 3 days giving Level design lessons for the first time in my life... and it was super fun! 

I gave them 3 hours of macro theroy about level design and flow. We spent the rest of the time doing their first level creationf from paper to 3D. It was super cool. I'm a exhausted ahah I didn't thought it would be that intense. 

In the end they said that it was the best lesson they got this year! So I'm happy  

Edited February 21, 2019 by TheOnlyDoubleF

[Radu]

@TheOnlyDoubleF what software did you have them use?

[TheOnlyDoubleF]

13 hours ago, Radu said:

@TheOnlyDoubleF what software did you have them use?

UE4 ofc. Simple clear and easy. I prepared them a Platform-FPS ish to make level like the training level of call of duty modern warfare where you just move and shoot at targets. Already a loooooot to learn from there and it was pretty cool. Honestly, they did go. 

[Interfearance]