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Alternatives to Perlin Noise for Terrain Corrosion in Worldbuilding [video](youtube.com)
1 points by thelazyone 2y ago|1 comments
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by thelazyone 2y ago
Aside from the refreshing fact of this not being yet-another-perlin-noise video, the author makes some good point about feasibility of corrosion algorithms and how those can be heavy and don't work well on a "just in time"
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by thelazyone 3y ago
I'm very much torn between Plasticity and MoI for my next sculpting project. I've always used Blender but for some stuff I'm finding myself in need of some proper NURBS tool. I've spent a few hours on Plasticity, I'
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by thelazyone 3y ago
Currently the only thing that is stopping me from an insta-buy is that the export quality seems to be pretty low poly, even when the detail slider is all the way to 1. Of course my trial version is nowhere near there, but watching several v
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by thelazyone 3y ago
This is a good question - not only for the actual ethics of the training, but for the future of AI use for art. It's both gonna damage the livelyhood of many artists (me included, probably) but also make it accessibly to many more peop
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by thelazyone 3y ago
"Using open source code is a skill: knowing how to navigate repos and someone else’s code, understanding how to troubleshoot and navigate communities to get help, discerning between quality projects and junk… this experience is a hard-
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by thelazyone 3y ago
I wonder what kind of interesting applications could be done on e-ink harnessing the advantages of the long battery life and not suffering by the slow refresh rate. Sure, porting doom or implementing a terminal is an interesting and probabl
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by thelazyone 3y ago
That's an interesting take! Currently I see two reasons why I wouldn't do that: 1 - Since I'm either working for game companies or for my own project ( https://fsd-wargame.com/ ) using AI-generated things is ki
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by thelazyone 3y ago
Well put. Big fan of the "Commercial illustrators will keep their jobs, but will mostly need to learn to use AI as a part of their workflow to maintain a higher pace of work" part. I'm a sometimes-illustrator (but my style i
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by thelazyone 3y ago
I think that the initial question was "why a 0 resistance compared to a ridicously low resistance". And my point is that it's easier to get a superconductor than some material with "ridicously low" resistance. As yo
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by thelazyone 3y ago
I think it's a fair question. I guess the answer is "because we have superconductors, and no material with 'very small resistance' instead". Also note that while there is zero resistance you still have parasitic cur
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by thelazyone 3y ago
Sounds like a logical step forward from current debuggers! I had some colleagues who bragged of not needing debuggers for their workflow... Well, sometimes I really do.
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by thelazyone 3y ago
Yeah, the other replies were pretty convincing about that point.
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by thelazyone 3y ago
That's a fair point, well made. In that case --- yeah, we just have to wait and hope for better solutions/materials for our screens!
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by thelazyone 3y ago
There's a big difference between having a solution and point out that there is no theoretical hard trade-off. ^^"
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by thelazyone 3y ago
If the update was truly pixel based there should be no ghosting/artifact whatsoever. Looks like global refreshes or cleanup are still relevant, while ideally each pixel could be completely independent. Trade-offs are a problem, but
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by thelazyone 3y ago
Even local refreshes however are somehow rectangle-based, no? Which means that the resetting operation kinda works globally anyways, masking out everything between the xmin, xmax and ymin, ymax. I'm really speculating here, but this wa
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by thelazyone 3y ago
Heh. Not a fan of js apps (npm or not), but your article was enjoyable to read.
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by thelazyone 3y ago
I remember an anti-nuclear talking about the Finnish project for long term storage. He was depicting the project cost (4 billions) as ridicolously high and therefore unfeasible. Interesting that each plant (around 10 billions?) of Finland c
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by thelazyone 3y ago
Well said. I actually just wrote a comment to appreciate the non-drama of the article. But it's true - the same article could have been written about that guy that probably got crushed during construction or had an unlucky encounter on
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by thelazyone 3y ago
Kudos to the article for not fuelling radiation-related fears! Slotin died because a stupid, preventable accident, and Plutonium is indeed dangerous. But stupid, preventable accidents happen in many industries and they are just as lethal. I
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by thelazyone 3y ago
That is true, but this doesn't pose a theoretical limit to a 30 fps monitor. I suspect that the current technology works by "setting" in place whole regions of the screen at once, and that this kind of process is inherently s
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by thelazyone 3y ago
It feels that way, yes. I wonder when the line is drawn (pun intended) between an low-level UML description language and a SVG-like formatting language with english words in it. :/
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by thelazyone 3y ago
The Copic Multiliner might be a good option then. They are just great in my opinion (But I use them for traditional illustrations), although a bit pricey.
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by thelazyone 3y ago
Seems like a considerable upgrade from PlanUML ( https://plantuml.com/ - which is amazing, but sometimes you just can't seem to be able to align the stuff the way you want too). In fact, it seems that the code is slight
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by thelazyone 3y ago
Again regarding the choice of pens: How does the plotter behave with a softer tip? I'm thinking of the Tombow Fudenosuke pens - they have a wonderful soft tip, which allows for calligraphy in the hand of humans. When used by a plott
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by thelazyone 3y ago
If you want to try what could be the top-of-the-range of non-rotring pens, instead of the W&N you could use the Copic Multiliner. They're pretty hard to find in Europe, not sure in US. The flow and general feel is just great.
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by thelazyone 3y ago
Not sure if I would compare paneer and Khoya (i don't think you could make Gulab Jamun out of paneer), but I agree on the rest of the line. My main point is that there's an abundance of how to articles that are ignoring ricotta en
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by thelazyone 3y ago
Something that most "make your cheese" articles forgot to mention (and this is no exception) is that that large amount of leftover whey can - and should - be used to make ricotta. https://www.theprairiehomestead.com&#x2
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by thelazyone 3y ago
Thank you, sir! :) Joined the discord.

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