Factory Entertainment seems to have a great selection of very high quality movie and show replicas – especially in their Star Trek section.
They even have an 11-foot long oversized cutaway print of the original series Enterprise By Matthew Cushman. Cushman took over 4 years to make the print and even appeared with Adam Savage to talk about it.
Phoronix news reports that Claude Opus 5 and Claude Fable 5 were used to create a new Triton Windows DirectX 11 driver for QEMU to help improve graphics acceleration.
The project page is a good read on a simplified virtualization of a modern graphics stack, and you can see the code on Github. Not a lot of data yet on it’s performance.
Describe a model or drop in a photo, and Claude designs it in bricks where every piece is actually connected, then you get the full step-by-step manual.
It was able to design a 2,874-piece called Canal Clock Square that takes 487 steps across 498 pages, with 15,880 stud joints.
4J Studios has debuted a technology called Rixels which replaces normal texture maps. Instead of individual pixels, each contain one of 23 vector shapes. A standard 512×512 texture in 4J’s Minecraft-like game Reforj required 4MB of memory. But with Rixels, the same sized grid can be made from 20×20 squares, using only 72KB of memory – a reduction of over 98%.
It works best for stylized rendering that must have massive scale.
It almost looks like some kind of rendering glitch – but it’s real! Joins the flattest, shortest, and narrowest cars for cool factor.
“An excuse is not a good reason, and a good reason does not give you an excuse”
A great clip from the movie Kingdom of Heaven.
“..even when those who move you be Kings, or men of power – your soul is in your keeping alone. When you stand before God, you cannot say, ‘But I was told by others to do thus.’ Or that, ‘Virtue was not convenient at the time.’ This will not suffice. Remember that.”
For years, an iron gate with Egyptian statues in Damascus, Oregon became famous online. The internet created wild stories about secret cults, ancient temples, and underground societies.
“Oculus Anubis” was never real. The truth is much simpler: this property was built with money stolen through healthcare fraud.
Hahaha! A pretty accurate simulation of walking in Europe during any of the summer tourist months. It’s no wonder they’re having anti-tourist protests. I’d hate to live with this constantly…