Actor/impressionist Jim Meskimen recites “Pity the Poor Impressionist” poem in 20 celebrity voices. Not only that, but using increasingly flawless deep fake technology by SHAM00K, his face starts becoming the very people he impersonates.
FutureDeluxe was at Google Developer days in China – and showed off an interesting new display. Morph and construct pottery all by body motion.
Issuu is an online site that has tons of really high quality scans of periodicals, comic books, rare books, and all kinds of media.
In looking for some original Blade Runner information, I was surprised to find they had some Syd Mead art books and comic books. Amazing resource, but not sure how they’re managing copyright law.
Make a swing with a some sensors to do predictive pathfinding and stopping the water at the right time…
Starting April 2020, the North Pole will no longer be only for intrepid explorers and polar bears. The northernmost point on Earth will get a temporary hotel. 10 heated glass igloos will be transported to the safest part of the glacier.
Luxury Action is a Finnish travel company behind the mobile igloos. They will only open for one month, when travelers can reach the hostile environment by helicopter.
Now all you have to do is cough up €95,000 ($104,604) for the experience, which includes two nights in Svalbard (an archipelago halfway between Norway and the North Pole), flights and logistics from Svalbard to the North Pole and then back to Svalbard, a night at the North Pole, and all meals, security, and guiding.
Calling ASync functions from UI event handling routines/the main UI thread in C# turns out to require some basic knowledge to avoid getting into deadlocks. I sort of jumped in without doing much learning, so here were some of my learning resources as I made the inevitable mistakes:
Debugging tips:
C# and Universal Windows App file handling:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/get-started/fileio-learning-track
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/files/file-access-permissions
Making a button-mashing fighting game like Street Fighter has some surprisingly sophisticated logic when it comes to frame-perfect animation hits and combos. Strange Wire does an awesome job describing the difficulties and some ways to solve them.
What are those difficulties? Problems like checking hit and hurt boxes at the right parts of animation frames. Attaching events at the right parts of the animations can be tricky – especially if animators are still tweaking them. And the ever-present issue of keep the code clean.
Definitely worth a read whether you’re doing 2D to 3D fighters.
https://strangewire.blogspot.com/2019/09/frame-specific-attacks-in-unity.html
On a strange island inhabited by demons and spirits, a man battles the forces of evil!
Esperanto is a constructed auxiliary language devised by Polish ophthalmologist and linguist L.L. Zamenhof in 1887 to foster harmony between people from different countries. The vocabulary stems mostly from the Romance/Latin languages with additional input from Germanic, Slavic, and Greek languages.
Who knew that it would be used to make a film? And a film that stars a pre-Star Trek William Shatner. The idea was that use of Esperanto was intended to create an eerie, other-worldly feeling and makers claimed they hoped for greater international sales.
It was thought lost forever when the negatives were destroyed, but a single copy was found in 1996 in Paris and used to create all current videos of it. Give it a watch or read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incubus_(1966_film)
Only around 150 people showed up for the storming of Area 51. But one kid managed to score internet fame by Naruto running behind a live reporter.