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by meebob 2y ago
A large amount of animation made in Japan is still initially animated by hand on paper, actually! The anime industry is remarkably conservative, technologically, which makes it all the more impressive that its animation production output dw
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by meebob 2y ago
Something I really enjoyed about this article is that really helps explain a counterintuitive result in hand drawn 2D animation. It's a well known phenomenon in hand drawn 2D animation that naively tracing over live action footage usua
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by meebob 3y ago
This website fills me with nostalgia! I used it many years ago to make a tiny 8ft yurt, which was a fun little project. Putting up a yurt is really satisfying- the way the lattice walls flex is very cool, and seeing the way tension works ac
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by meebob 4y ago
The title has two parts, both of which you've provided ample commentary on, but only one explicitly. In Their 20s, Struggling to Save... and Tired of Being Lectured About It. "Ridiculous" and "and so can you" come d
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by meebob 4y ago
What we're talking about here is the immanent arrival of it being impossible for a very large number of people to get a career in something they enjoy (making images by hand). It's fair to suppose (albeit based on a very small s
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by meebob 4y ago
I would point out that many (most?) people are in programming to make money, rather than get things done per se. If an AI were to make it impossible to make a living doing programming, would that be an improvement for most readers of this s
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by meebob 4y ago
I do appreciate that the way in which a piece of code "works" and the way in which an piece of art "works" is in some ways totally different- but, I also think that in many cases, notably automated systems that create re
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by meebob 4y ago
I've been finding that the strangest part of discussions around art AI among technical people is the complete lack of identification or empathy: it seems to me that most computer programmers should be just as afraid as artists, in the
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Our Continuing Age of Inhuman Art(boops.substack.com)
2 points by meebob 4y ago|0 comments
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Write Code, Not Configuration(catern.com)
2 points by meebob 6y ago|0 comments
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Not the 'Beowulf' You Think You Know(npr.org)
37 points by meebob 6y ago|61 comments
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by meebob 6y ago
The more interesting thing is that this happened more than once! The Ford family helped fund Rivera to create the 'Detroit Industry Murals', which happily, unlike the Rockefeller mural, survives to the present day. https:/&#
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by meebob 7y ago
Some other fun examples of points in the music notation space are the various notation systems used by traditional Japanese musical instruments... For instance, the shakuhachi (a type of bamboo flute) has a system where various combinations
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Grim C++ Tales from the Crypt: The Visitor Pattern (2017)(cppcrypt.tumblr.com)
114 points by meebob 8y ago|60 comments
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by meebob 9y ago
In my experience, the paper weight doesn't matter all too much for whether the book feels "professional"- what I find makes a real difference is in how well you trim the book ( http://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~
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by meebob 9y ago
It's kind of fun, speculating about the interaction between medium and style. Like, that there's something about human minds and a grid of squares that leads to certain things that ~work~ and feel good, regardless of whether that
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by meebob 9y ago
I think there is also an emotional/social dimension to choosing a beginner's language that is important to take into account. Imagine (putting Haskell's static typing aside), the difference in feeling between learning the bas