This is very cool but where is the context, where is the how this was made?
The realism is so-so. Big raindrops do not accumulate smaller ones well enough when touching. And there is no splash.
Making rain simulation as real as possible
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#12Looks good!
On osx mpb performance is stellar in Chrome sadly, while both Safari and Firefox only delivers 2-3 fps.
Weirdly on an iPhone with Safari the performance is smooth as silk.
I would really like to ditch Chrome, but it seems i get full speed fans with Firefox on sites sporadically, and while Safari is much better it's still not on par with any kinds of heavy graphics.
I don't get it. Why can my iPhone 6 run this super smoothly while my 3000 USD mpb struggles? And why can Chrome do it while Safari can't when it should have native access to GPU api's ?
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#13I am a meteorologist on TV. I work in front of a chroma key wall. I would love to have a simulator like this where I could swap in the background image... well, you get the idea. This would especially be good for me as I do the weather in Nebraska from a studio I built at home in SoCal. As far as I know I'm the only regularly scheduled TV news anchor to work from home in the US and possibly the world.
Fascinating. How’d you land that gig?
I've been doing this over 35 years and have seven Emmys. They got someone they shouldn't be able to afford and working from home I could afford to accept it. I'm a pancreatic cancer survivor (Whipple) and this flexibility helps.
I am a professional. My job is to forecast their weather and I am diligent in that pursuit. Windows are overrated.
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#14Looks similar to https://tympanus.net/codrops/2015/11/04/rain-water-effect-ex...
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#15Is there any description or attribution for the shader? Are the visuals an improved version of Martijn Steinrucken's "Drive Home" shader [1], or a different approach? This one does seem more dynamic with more detail, it looks pretty good, and I like how the big drops take out the small spray.
[1] shader: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MdfBRX
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#17Looks similar to https://tympanus.net/codrops/2015/11/04/rain-water-effect-ex...
Yeah, you're right. Perhaps it's one and the same. Some of the textures downloaded here match the textures in that article.
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#18I am a meteorologist on TV. I work in front of a chroma key wall. I would love to have a simulator like this where I could swap in the background image... well, you get the idea. This would especially be good for me as I do the weather in Nebraska from a studio I built at home in SoCal. As far as I know I'm the only regularly scheduled TV news anchor to work from home in the US and possibly the world.
That sounds really cool actually! How did you end up building such a studio at home etc? Sounds like a lot of work to me! (Always cool to see what kind of people hang around here on HN as well!)
I am very unusual in that I'm comfortable on both sides of the camera. What I learned is building a studio is an IT project!
Maybe the most unusual part is, none of this would work unless I could run the show by myself. My TriCaster is programmable with macros which is what I've done. I am my own director while on the air.
Oh -- with a friend I created a map making system which runs on an i5 and produces ~ 40,000 maps a day. Here are some samples I threw together a few months ago. These are 100% produced using FOSS including the map databases and fonts! https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/172O4Xl35np8RnbRi07PD...
My last computer class was as a senior in high school, 1967-68 semester. This was BEFORE computers had screens.
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#19One problem with simulation is that it's super resource intensive, particularly more than a video. It turns my laptop's fans on quickly which then fights for my attention with the relaxing audio and makes me acutely aware that I'm killing my battery and putting unnecessary load on my computer.
Maybe a better middleground is to use an animation with transparency that you can instead overlay any background, like a looping gif.
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#20I am a meteorologist on TV. I work in front of a chroma key wall. I would love to have a simulator like this where I could swap in the background image... well, you get the idea. This would especially be good for me as I do the weather in Nebraska from a studio I built at home in SoCal. As far as I know I'm the only regularly scheduled TV news anchor to work from home in the US and possibly the world.
That sounds really cool actually! How did you end up building such a studio at home etc? Sounds like a lot of work to me! (Always cool to see what kind of people hang around here on HN as well!)
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