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Gmunk was working on visual graphics for the web back in late 90s / early 2000s with Vir2L. If they wanted to, they could have easily banged out half a dozen wallpapers in an afternoon using Maya or whatever, but they chose the physical route.
This is the hilarious part about the comments. Nobody knows who GMUNK is and it shows. Dudes been knocking it out of the park for decades.
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Try Linux/Fedora intead. Windows is really awful, and Macs are super limited in hardware. (It might work if you only do web dev) Fedora is literally better than both. People are just so used to repeating the linux prayer of 'debian/ubuntu/mint', that most people don't know: Debian is an outdated/old distro with limited features and lots of bugs. Fedora is up-to-date, loaded with codecs and drivers, works with Nvidia,…
Fedora favors shifting the technological overton window over shipping working software. I first tried Fedora out on the initial release which switched on Wayland by default -- this was in like 2017, or around there. I installed it, booted to the login screen, and then logging in went to a black screen which booted me back to login. I was on an Nvidia card which was unsupported and I had no idea what Wayland was, so I…
Not sure what to recommend then.
This is so over-engineered, it tells you that when you have billions, you do the most whacky things. A 5-minute VFX job will yield the same results. But no, there's so much f*k you money, they had to do this.
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TBF, the blender version you reference was from an animation, not the first single still render. blender (frame 0): https://i.imgur.com/XIV8Hma.png original: https://i.imgur.com/GGwVibG.jpeg Also, it includes a caveat: > Unfortunately, due to the nature of volumetric rendering, I was unable to economically render the final animation at a high resolution with enough samples. So I had to resort to denoising, which sadl…
And so the remaining 20% of the work will take another 80% of effort. Classic
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>you can let the world do the work for you. Reminds me of the Spaghetti Sorting algorithm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_sort
Interesting but I am not sure I understand this: >> contact-and-removal operation takes constant time, the worst-case time complexity of the algorithm is O(n). How is the contact-and-removal operation constant time? How can that assumption ever be true? If you use a parallel processor like human vision or human feel (ie. which pressure nerve activates on the hand) it may appear constant, but if you use a computer it…
The point is that reality itself is highly parallel
I've been spending a lot of time on photography (though mostly w/ film cameras) during recent years, and only recently realized this is actually photographed. (It took long because I'm a long-time Linux user, so I barely seen the image.) Many people say this would've been easier with VFX, but I disagree. The image has highly convincing details that would take a long time even for highly talented VFX artists to nail.…
>you can let the world do the work for you. Reminds me of the Spaghetti Sorting algorithm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_sort
I always found that wallpaper a weird choice, being dark-depressing and uninviting to the average user.
I believe Windows 10 was the first with a dark mode built in. Maybe to compliment that?
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_News_for_People_Who_Love_...
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There's a similar problem with gunshots and explosions - we want what movies have given us which is not what they actually act/sound like - so much so that live recordings of actual gunfire/explosions is often deemed "fake".
This is also the American/bald eagle problem. When people hear their actual cries, they’re often confused.
