I've read before that they used to use the sound of bacon cooking on a skillet to mimic the sound of rain in movies. I think I can hear it...
Making rain simulation as real as possible
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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.
In response to Lane -- Pancreatic cancer is the worst. It is incurable in 2018! I was very lucky that it was found before it spread.
It was removed in a six hour, two surgeon operation called a Whipple. It was pioneered in the 1930s. Back then they lost about 1/3 on the table. Only about 1/3 of pancreatic patients can receive a Whipple and only about a third of those have my result. Only 9% live beyond five years.
The Whipple is considered the most difficult operation a surgeon can perform. The docs who do this are hospital all-stars.
On day one I told my doctors (with cancer you get an army of doctors) I wanted to aggressively go at it.
I had a catheter port inserted in my chest for IVs (like chemo or with my CTscans). It's been used over thirty times. When I take a blood test it's commonly a dozen vials or more.
My treatment ended around a year and a half ago. I am certifiably cancer free, though my body knows how to make pancreatic cancer and could do it again.
I am missing a few internal parts. Whipple surgery reconnects some parts of the digestive system differently than original factory specs. With half a pancreas I shoot insulin 4-5 times a day (no big deal). My right pinkie will be tapped for blood drops around 1,500 times this year.
I am the luckiest person you will meet today. And, it's a kickass diet. I lost 35 pounds.
Because I am old I am on Medicare. I subscribe to a Medicare Advantage program, which means I limit myself to an HMO's doctors in return for paying less for services. I would think my medical care had to cost over $500,000. I paid ZERO. I do pay for some drugs -- thousands a year -- but my army of doctors were paid by the government.
People shouldn't go broke or need GoFundMe because they get sick. The US needs Medicare for all. Insurance just means we all share the risk for the few that need it.
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#33I would pay money for this as an Android Live Wallpaper, especially if you could choose your own image to go behind the rain!
You might really enjoy Rainpaper then. It lets you choose a background or download popular images from Reddit. But my favorite feature is the integration with Dark Sky so the rain and intensity is activated when it really is raining.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.oftn.rainp...
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#34Rain in movies is the opposite: it doesn't hit the camera viewport, but makes the street wet.
I'm wondering which would be more interesting to watch. Perhaps a combination of the two.
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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.
This is impressive and cool, I really would like to read more about it. You should write a blog!
https://www.geofffox.com/ -- Since July 4, 2003.
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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 map…
That is really amazing! My hat off to you!
I agree with the others here that an AMA might be worth it :)
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#37Nobody wants to have their back- and forward keys "hijacked" to undo/redo their changes in rain-sounds...
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#38Looks 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…
Looks fine for me on Firefox/Linux.
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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!)
https://photos.app.goo.gl/JJXD1tXhHkRH81ja6 https://photos.app.goo.gl/wPD2M1yrGZ6ZsEFt7 We park on the street. :)
Your location is embedded in the photos you shared on drive. Scarlett Irvine.
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#40This is scarily close to realistic... for a second I got worried because my intuitive brain was telling me my laptop screen was all wet!
Curious if this is the best done in WebGL to date, or if there's even better out there? Or what this does and doesn't do, and where next obvious areas for improvement would be?