The Virtual Blender Camera
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The Virtual Blender Camera
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Re: The Virtual Blender Camera
#2See also previous discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36562757
Unbelievably creative and impressive project, it's so much fun to see :) It's just cool that raytracing is accurate enough to make this possible.
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#3The video on the website there is absolutely amazing. I can recommend watching it
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#4Phenomenal work
It makes me wonder though: what's missing here that still puts it in the uncanny valley?
Do you need to deliberately deform these stock 3D models with small defects/"entropy"? Or is it simply not enough detail for the base models?
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#5See also previous discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36562757 Unbelievably creative and impressive project, it's so much fun to see :) It's just cool that raytracing is accurate enough to make this possible.
I thought the virtual handles to control the aperture and focus were a nice touch
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#6I thought this was going to just be some sorta custom renderer that did some sort of physical simulation. But it was literally modeling a "pinpoint camera" in Blender, then modeling lens shapes....amazing!
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#7There was a similar effort in 2018 using Indigo Renderer (greetz to all who know it!), which can more efficiently render these kinds of situations using bidirectional path tracing and Metropolis-Hastings sampling: https://youtu.be/y8mKtNCq5CI?t=1712
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#8Phenomenal work It makes me wonder though: what's missing here that still puts it in the uncanny valley? Do you need to deliberately deform these stock 3D models with small defects/"entropy"? Or is it simply not enough detail for the base models?
Well, real cameras photograph the real world, virtual cameras photograph the virtual world, so yeah, hugely more detailed and complex virtual worlds to photograph, but perhaps the author doesn't have access to the level of virtualized reality to get past the point of uncanniness. But perhaps nobody really does.
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#9I'm not a 3D modeler (aside from CAD), photographer, or artist but that must be one of the most impressive things I've seen lately. Can anyone comment on how CPU and/or GPU intensive this is.
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#10In theory you should be able to just put a pinhole in front of this virtual camera, to create nested virtual cameras.