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Re:Approved Cameras on Saturday January 08, 2022 @06:59PM (#29858058)

High Flying Bird was a Netflix movie shot on iPhones. Granted, that was Soderbergh, so he probably gets a lot more pull than most other filmmakers. It was a movie where they bought the distribution rights and didn't produce, so maybe that stuff is different. I'm pretty unclear on what really constitutes a "Netflix Original" — lots of stuff that gets label is really just distributed by them.

Pretty sure some of their other original stuff was shot on film too, which obviously wouldn't meet these requirements. At least, I know the non de-aged scenes for The Irishman were done on film. But again, maybe the big guys get more leeway here.

Re:Siberian cave hosted Neanderthals, Denisovans, and modern humans on Saturday June 26, 2021 @11:18AM (#27642616)

I don't know enough about this to give a real answer, but there is some neanderthal ancestry in modern day African populations.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/africans-carry-surpr...

Re:Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @09:52AM (#24481182)

One thing that points to a big difference is art. There's some claimed Neanderthal cave art, but we're talking about things like pigment circles and lines -- nothing on the level of the modern human paintings at Chauvet or Lascaux.

There's enough evidence to convince me that Neanderthals decorated things and probably could think symbolically, but I to me, based on the evidence we have at least, it's pretty clear that modern humans went about this stuff differently.

I don't know if I think this really means "less intelligent," but I think this does point to some fundamental differences in how they thought. And who knows, maybe we'll find some beautiful Neanderthal cave art that disproves this. Our ideas about Neanderthals have changed a lot over the last few years after all.

Re:WinUI – The modern native UI platform of Windows on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @05:02PM (#23096255)

For a to do list, I think that makes a lot of sense. The items at the top of your list are higher priority, so having higher contrast text and a more saturated background up there draws your attention to the stuff that's most important.

Re:Real-time, in-camera background compositing in The Mandalorian on Thursday February 20, 2020 @05:09PM (#22379128)

If it's perspective corrected for the camera, it would probably look very distorted for anyone else on set -- whether there's depth or not

And that's certainly not the goal with this. Something along those lines has been around for a while (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_automatic_virtual_environ...). This system seems specifically targeted for solving challenges for film production, as it probably should be.

I am pretty impressed that real time rendering has gotten good enough to use for these purposes. I certainly wouldn't have expected that those backgrounds in the show were coming out of a video game engine.

Re:Origami Levels of Complexity [video] on Sunday December 01, 2019 @04:48PM (#21678015)

If you want to learn more about this stuff, the guy in the video wrote a great book called Origami Design Secrets (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1568814364/). It's certainly still the book about origami design.

For something that still touches on some of this stuff but is more beginner/child friendly, I'd recommend Jun Maekawa's book Genuine Origami (https://www.amazon.com/dp/4889962514)

There's also the OSME books (http://osme.info/) which collect origami related papers.

Re:Neanderthalese: A Constructed Language for the 42nd Millennium BC on Monday October 14, 2019 @11:29AM (#21249350)

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/climate-change-may-h...

Certainly not unheard of for modern humans though...

Re:Neanderthalese: A Constructed Language for the 42nd Millennium BC on Monday October 14, 2019 @11:28AM (#21249317)

As far as technology, modern humans weren't really too different at the time (in Europe at least). And of course, modern humans and neanderthals were similar enough that we were willing/able to interbreed, which certainly says something.

I do think people overstate how similar we were though -- we don't have any super clear examples of neanderthal artwork (people make arguments, but this stuff isn't exactly Chauvet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal#Art). To me, this seems to indicate that their brains might have worked pretty differently.

Re:Tacotron 2: Generating Human-Like Speech from Text on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @02:27PM (#15963286)

Looks like the real ones are actually 1-2-2-1. The file names of the samples end in either "gt" or "gen", which kinda gives it away.

I thought the same thing initially -- I guess it fooled a few of us with that first one!

Re:F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules on Thursday December 14, 2017 @01:46PM (#15925348)

This is a bit misleading...

He was appointed by Obama, but not as chairman -- and was a recommendation from McConnell.

Obama was pretty clearly pro net neutrality.

Re:Software converts 360 video into 3D model for VR on Monday November 20, 2017 @03:03PM (#15742755)

They don't do a 3d model, but it is a real stereo image. There's a bit more info in their docs: https://developers.google.com/vr/concepts/cardboard-camera-v...

Re:PlayStation 4 System Compiler Support Landing in LLVM on Thursday January 29, 2015 @01:05PM (#8967810)

It could possibly lead to PS4 support from some more (especially open source) game engines. That would be a pretty big deal.