ebspelman

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by ebspelman 2mo ago
The launch graphic says "Ported end-to-end by Fable, an AI agent" and it definitely feels that way. Buggy, glitchy, needs some love and human eyes before it's really usable.
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by ebspelman 4y ago
You can - there's an 'Extend' button for LiDAR captures, but it can be a little touch-and-go sometimes. Definitely an area for us to work on more!
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by ebspelman 4y ago
Yep! For meshes we've got GLTF, OBJ, FBX, STL, and DAE. And then you can also export the 2D floorplan as SVG and DXF.
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by ebspelman 4y ago
I work on an app called Polycam, and we have an automated Room / floorplan capture mode. We actually announced some updates to it earlier this week: https://twitter.com/Polycam3D/status/1623730477637959680
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by ebspelman 4y ago
politely but firmly (with all my soul) disagree.
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by ebspelman 4y ago
I should disclaim that I work on a 3D capture app called Polycam, but in that work I've grown used to the idea that 3D captures are inherently better at conveying some kinds of visual information than photographs are. Like a room with
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by ebspelman 4y ago
Even though current VR/AR interfaces are completely useless for Excel or other data-management tasks (no keyboard support, unreliable controls, lack of development interest), I think in the future there are more embodied / spatial
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by ebspelman 5y ago
Can't disagree with a rant if you can't read it.
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by ebspelman 5y ago
I feel like that has to do with the Twitch/streamer culture too, where lots of people have big, visible mikes.
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by ebspelman 5y ago
Maya and Max contribute less than 8% of Autodesk's total revenue[1]. [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/416285/revenue-of-autode...
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Ask HN: Have there been movements to “keep the code” after layoffs?
5 points by ebspelman 6y ago|7 comments
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by ebspelman 6y ago
This is a really excellent comment.
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by ebspelman 7y ago
check out display.land
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by ebspelman 7y ago
I totally respect your opinion, but I think I fundamentally disagree with the idea that learning = pain. Project-driven learning seems more effective when the project is something that excites the learner. I might suggest that your ability
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by ebspelman 7y ago
You might like Golan Levin's lectures on different forms of Experimental Capture. They are just collections of really good examples and previous work. He specifically has one about light painting and long exposure: https://g
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by ebspelman 7y ago
Hmm. I'd say the canary is in the Wal-Mart.
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by ebspelman 7y ago
> We now live in a society where it is acceptable for private companies to essentially completely ban individuals from exercising their free speech on the internet. This is phrased as something to be fearful of here, but I think I'm
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by ebspelman 8y ago
Wow, this is excellent! Processing was definitely my introduction to graphics programming, and I think it's still the most effective tool in teaching certain programming concepts. The visual feedback loop is huge for getting people o
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by ebspelman 8y ago
very awesome! for further inspiration, you might like the work of Craig Dorety: http://craigdorety.com/objects.html Once upon a time I made a project with a similar aesthetic, but not quite as much function (ie it wasn’t a
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by ebspelman 9y ago
I don't see openFrameworks mentioned here: http://openframeworks.cc/ Probably the most comprehensive open-source creative coding framework. Maybe most helpful for familiarity with graphics programming / OpenGL, bu
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by ebspelman 9y ago
This reminds me a lot of a chapter in Jesse Schell's awesome book, The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses.[1][2] He recommends occasionally thinking about a game as a toy. "The Lens of The Toy: To use this lens, stop thinking ab
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by ebspelman 9y ago
One interesting thing I took away from the article - most of the scientific evidence cited by Professor Sapolsky is built on fMRI analysis of reactions to faces. Given that most of our online interactions are completely text-based, what cue
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by ebspelman 9y ago
the prevalence of surgical masks in China might also be a challenge
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by ebspelman 9y ago
Yeah, I spent a few minutes going over the last sentence in tengbretson's comment. I would actually recharacterize Piketty's (and the author of this chart) argument as: "X increasing is a symptom that Y is increasing. Let&#x2
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by ebspelman 9y ago
It sounds like your critiques are more system-related than ideology-related. That's fine. Systemically, it's a tricky question. What's the best way to ensure that 300 million people have access to the most complicated global
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by ebspelman 10y ago
>It is targeting Syrian refugess, not Iranian PhDs. There are seven countries targeted in this edict. Why the other six if it's actually focused on a single one?
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by ebspelman 10y ago
>> "A machine intelligence need not share any of that complexity" I think this is an assumption that both Bostrom and yourself would acknowledge as such. We simply don't know enough about the nuances of intelligence to
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by ebspelman 10y ago
I am feeling like perhaps you didn't read the article? Many of these arguments are the exact lines of thinking that the author is trying to contextualize and add complexity to. These are not bad arguments you are making, or hard ones
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Inside the Eye: Nature's Most Exquisite Creation(ngm.nationalgeographic.com)
5 points by ebspelman 11y ago|1 comments
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by ebspelman 11y ago
Reddit is a site driven by voting dynamics. It'd be unhealthy NOT to adjust those dynamics from time to time.

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