That will also be a surprise to all the British people who use the word!

@akiyoshikitaoka.bsky.social has a lot of fascinating stuff like this. I used to follow him in the other place, and am happy to see he is here now.

Although I’m not sure. For that to be the quadratic formula, b is 3(1 + n) inside the root, but it’s 3(1 - n) outside it.

That looks like finding the roots of a quadratic. But presumably you know the square root is an integer. I’m wondering whether, if that is the case, the quadratic can be rearranged into a generalised factorised form, where the roots are obvious?

It’s had limited testing, so use with caution, and please send feedback.

Just bit the bullet and open-sourced my Python bindings for the Blackmagic SDK. Output NumPy arrays over SDI/HDMI. github.com/nick-shaw/bl...

So pleased that my kids love Raiders almost as much as I do

Display Transformers : The Development of ACES 2.0 and It's Implementation on Transformers... A. Fry YouTube video by Academy Software Foundation

Display Transformers : The Development of ACES 2.0 and It's Implementation on Transformers.

youtu.be/VZti3UztRE4

The irony of failing to spell their own name correctly!

Was getting the link to work the first part of the test?!

U-matic - Wikipedia

Apparently it was originally introduced for the home - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-matic...

Wow! I didn’t know until now that U-Matic was ever a home format.

The cyan skew in the reflection on the floor in C does a good job of conveying both bright and consistently bluish. But it’s probably not representative of the actual hue.

Getting your VFX head around ACES 2.0 -->

Industrial Light & Magic's Alex Fry is here to help, & explain how it was used on ‘Transformers One’.

A deep-dive at befores & afters on what's new in ACES 2.0 & how as a VFX artist it can benefit you.

beforesandafters.com/2025/04/16/g...

Release v2.4.2 · AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenColorIO This is an ABI-compatible update for the 2.4.x series that includes all fixes and enhancements since the 2.4.1 release. With the 2.4.2 release, the "Preview" label is now removed from the ACES 2 im...

OpenColorIO 2.4.2 has been released and ACES 2 support is now officially available with it!

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Is there a white paper on L-Log anywhere?

I realised my memory must be faulty. Chris would have been 7 when I got my Speccy! Even he was not writing prototype versions of Rigchaser in BASIC at that age!

I missed out on the ZX81 (although a friend had one) but Sinclair still got me started in computing with my Spectrum. My brother and I took our first steps into coding with Sinclair BASIC.