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I run a programming company and one of my sales people was surprised to see I liked soundcloud rap. I was like: What did you expect? >Classical music? Nah I like hype, helps when things are slow.
Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky goes hard if you do want something in the classical world though.
Hi, I'm David Rhodes, Co-founder of CG Nomads, developer of GSOPs (Gaussian Splatting Operators) for SideFX Houdini. GSOPs was used in combination with OTOY OctaneRender to produce this music video. If you're interested in the technology and its capabilities, learn more at https://www.cgnomads.com/ or AMA. Try GSOPs yourself: https://github.com/cgnomads/GSOPs (example content included).
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Or if you did, perhaps a critique is better rather than just a low effort diss.
Pretty sure most of this could be filmed with a camera drone and preprogrammed flight path... Did the Gaussian splatting actually make it any cheaper? Especially considering that it needed 50+ fixed camera angles to splat properly, and extensive post-processing work both computationally and human labour, a camera drone just seems easier.
This might be the first time I'm stumbling on Dunning Kruger on HN, no offense.
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Not everything has to be. Sometimes, an artist's style or a particular track just hits a particular vibe one may be after or need in a particular moment. I'm not a fan of this music either but I could imagine hearing it while I'm studying or coding. Don't trash something just because it's not your vibe. Not everything has to be Mozart.
I mean, it's not like I trashed it or compared it to Mozart—I even made sure to include "interesting, stimulating, or tonally remarkable" in an attempt to preempt that latter pushback. But even if I did, why can't I? It's fine to call some music shit. Just like you can call my opinion shit. Policing dissenting opinions and saying everything is equally worthy of praise are two sides of the same coin sliding in the ven…
I want to shoutout Nial Ashley (aka Llainwire) for doing this in 2023 as a solo act and doing the visuals himself as well - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ZXg5wVoUU A shame that kid was slept on. Allegedly (according to discord) he abandoned this because so many artists reached out to have him do this style of mv, instead of wanting to collaborate on music.
Put another way, is this a scientific comparison or an artistic comparison?
Never did I think I would ever see anything close to related to A$AP on HN. I love this place.
And nearly a Carti post at the top of HN
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Why is that “cool” or desirable?
Because expertise, love, and care cut across all human endeavor, and noticing those things across domains can be a life affirming kind of shared experience.
Super cool to read but can someone eli5 what Gaussian splatting is (and/or radiance fields?) specifically to how the article talks about it finally being "mature enough"? What's changed that this is now possible?
1. Create a point cloud from a scene (either via lidar, or via photogrammetry from multiple images) 2. Replace each point of the point cloud with a fuzzy ellipsoid, that has a bunch of parameters for its position + size + orientation + view-dependent color (via spherical harmonics up to some low order) 3. If you render these ellipsoids using a differentiable renderer, then you can subtract the resulting image from th…
Super cool to read but can someone eli5 what Gaussian splatting is (and/or radiance fields?) specifically to how the article talks about it finally being "mature enough"? What's changed that this is now possible?
Gaussian splatting is a way to record 3-dimensional video. You capture a scene from many angles simultaneously and then combine all of those into a single representation. Ideally, that representation is good enough that you can then, post-production, simulate camera angles you didn't originally record. For example, the camera orbits around the performers in this music video are difficult to imagine in real space. Eve…