Unlike the more drab European starling, African starlings evolved unique hollow, flattened melanosomes that can be stacked to different depths to produce a rainbow of chromatic coloration.
This "cortex thickness" tunes each feather to a specific wavelength of light.
Of course, another option is for people to dramatically curb their use of social media, or at a minimum, regularly delete posts after a set time threshold. If LLMs' success in deanonymizing people improves, the researchers warn, governments could use the techniques to unmask online critics, corporations could assemble customer profiles for "hyper-targeted advertising," and attackers could build profiles of targets at scale to launch highly personalized social engineering scams.
To my mind this is key, if you are engaging in high risk behavior that requires you to post pseudonymously or anonymously online do not have an online presence, especially social media, that is linked to your real identity. This prevents any breadcrumb trails of slip ups and has always been true.
Are you kidding this is hilarious I love it sososmuch
I adore your evil twink
Hey All, I made a header only C++ library (MIT) where line of code inits, then you can start writing to pixels on the screen.
I call it thirteen.h, inspired by the simplicity of the 13h days.
Examples include a mandelbrot viewer and a playable mine sweeper game.
github.com/Atrix256/Thi...
For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
Watching in horror from afar? Here’s a vetted list with a multitude of ways to give your support.
www.standwithminnesota.com
More work on procedural lens flares in #Godot.
If you want to have a look at the (still very messy!) code: github.com/kb173/godot-...
Outline of how it works:
1. Clip bright spots from the rendered image
2. Warp these spots to create ghosts and a halo
3. Blur
4. Overlay based on a dirt texture
My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :)
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...
I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".
Here are the Ray Tracing Presentations
Ray Tracing in Snowdrop: Scene Representation and Custom BVH
media.gdcvault.com/gdc2024/Slid...
Raytracing in Snowdrop: An Optimized Lighting Pipeline for Consoles
media.gdcvault.com/gdc2024/Slid...
All it takes is one bad faith border security staff calling into question why I am travelling to the US from Canada and back on a UK passport, and I could be in a cold cell for a few weeks waiting for a chance to explain myself.
www.thedailybeast.com/german-touri...
www.cnn.com/2025/03/04/w...
It would all be very unpopular if you could convince people it was happening
Wait. What?
tc39.es/proposal-mat...
…huh. Can I get this in other languages? Rust? C#?
docs.rs/fsum/latest/...
…huh
They're going to fucking wreck the university with one of the best hospital systems in the goddam world
Next week, we will watch Implicit Surfaces & Independent Research by Matt Keeter
www.meetup.com/graphics-pro...
Wait, what the fuck?
These orgs applied for and received grants from the government, and now, because this administration chooses to pretend climate change doesn’t exist, they’re going to be accused of FRAUD? For work already done and paid for as the government directed?
Killing off our research facilities and talent pipelines is perhaps the biggest, dumbest self-own in American history.
Also you don't have to be Jewish to apply:
SEATTLE JUST VOTED TO ENACT A TAX ON MILLIONAIRE BUSINESSES TO BUILD SOCIAL HOUSING.
Late results tend to favor left wing results, so the chance of this flipping in the coming days is near zero.
I just pushed a new "Lite" version of my spherical harmonics shader library for HLSL: github.com/TheRealMJP/S...
The Lite version does not use templates, and is compatible with FXC or other compilers that don't support templates and operator overloads.
Like just really. If it were already the case science agreed with the transphobes then the transphobes would not need to fundamentally change the way science is funded in the US and use monetary threats to force the (published) science to start agreeing with them. This is all very unsubtle.
Bonus: I am checking this far view distance, how much is distance, matte painting...
The answer is, it's actually geometry but not the whole thing.
There is enough for perspective but with projected UV for details
So, I have about a 100GB of god of war ragnarok captures. Let's to that livepost study shall we ? I'm going too start with a cine character shot. To see how the frame is build. W'll check some specific effects (like snow) later.
I hope people see how truly alarming this is:
1. Musk's team, who may not even be US govt employees yet, have complete access to OPM's databases of PII on federal employees and have locked out career employees
2. Musk's people trying to do same with THE US TREASURY MASTER PAYMENT SYSTEM 🚨
I wrote a blog post on my implementation of the Surfel maintenance pipeline from my Surfel Radiance Cascades project. Most of what I learned came from "SIGGRAPH 2021: Global Illumination Based on Surfels" a great presentation from EA SEED :)
m4xc.dev/blog/surfel-...
Hey there bsky!
I'm looking for an internship in graphics/engine programming anywhere in the world (I'm willing to relocate). If you happen to know any open positions or if you work at a company that is taking interns, feel free to contact me!
Portfolio ⬇️
Please stop saying "rolled back diversity goals" and start saying "the company capitulated to a segregationist movement."
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
My power bill with 2 PCs and a server vs. a lil guy with a glittery chassis
Again, my utmost respect for @polygon.com for reporting on Dreams on a Pillow when so many sites and influencers that claim to stand for inclusivity and diversity and equality have ducked speaking about the genocide, about Palestine, and about Palestinian stories.
www.polygon.com/gaming/50447...
