{"id":4308,"date":"2016-04-04T06:13:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T12:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=4308"},"modified":"2016-06-02T06:41:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T12:41:43","slug":"seven-things-for-april-4-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/seven-things-for-april-4-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Things for April 4, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next in the continuing series. In this episode Jaimie finds that the world is an illusion and she&#8217;s a butterfly&#8217;s dream, while Wilson works out his plumbing problems.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ray tracing blasts from the future-past: Rayshade is on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/cek\/rayshade4\">Github<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamten.com\/lawrence\/projects\/ibm-1401-ray-tracer\/\">the IBM 1401<\/a> is now rendering. Oh, and at the other end of things, <a href=\"https:\/\/benedikt-bitterli.me\/tantalum\/\">2D light transport simulation<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of ray tracing, here&#8217;s a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/SFoyJED5A4s?t=50\">4K\u00a0demoscene demo<\/a>\u00a0that&#8217;s pretty great considering its size. I started it 50 seconds in because it gets nice\u00a0after that. More info and code&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pouet.net\/prod.php?which=66962\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@tbenst\/3d-printing-is-dead-long-live-3d-printing-cb47538675ed\">3D printing is dead<\/a>,\u00a0thank heavens,\u00a0and\u00a0has lots going on:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/olo3d\/olo-the-first-ever-smartphone-3d-printer\">phone-driven 3Dprinter<\/a>\u00a0(color me skeptical), and Mattel plans on <a href=\"http:\/\/3dprintingindustry.com\/2016\/02\/12\/66573\/\">releasing a 3D printer for kids<\/a>\u00a0(if it doesn&#8217;t burn or maim, is it real technology?).<\/li>\n<li>How did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vl7HokXCX38&amp;feature=youtu.be\">this lovely image fill technique<\/a> not get discovered long ago? Very clever. Code <a href=\"http:\/\/s26.postimg.org\/72ktw82e1\/12694536_10154076467657223_7452106790955514515_o.jpg\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>$3 million in art and sound assets from Infinity Blade are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unrealengine.com\/blog\/free-infinity-blade-collection-marketplace-release\">free for download<\/a>, for use in Unreal Engine. Find them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unrealengine.com\/marketplace\/assets?lang=&amp;q=infinity%20blade\">this way<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Pixar collaborated with Khan Academy to make <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/partner-content\/pixar\">a free set of lessons on\u00a0computer graphics<\/a>\u00a0with nice production values for grade\/high schoolers. A few questions were mildly\u00a0buggy when I tried them, and I reported the problems, so these may have been fixed.<\/li>\n<li>Freaky &#8211; click and orbit it a bit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/sketchfab.com\/models\/8718c651666c4c4a9972a2dd393b759f\/embed?annotation=1&amp;annotations_visible=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px; color: #4a4a4a;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next in the continuing series. In this episode Jaimie finds that the world is an illusion and she&#8217;s a butterfly&#8217;s dream, while Wilson works out his plumbing problems. Ray tracing blasts from the future-past: Rayshade is on Github, and the IBM 1401 is now rendering. Oh, and at the other end of things, 2D light [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[237,604,606,69,55,605],"class_list":["post-4308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-3d-printing","tag-image-fill","tag-models","tag-pixar","tag-ray-tracing","tag-unreal-engine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4308"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4398,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308\/revisions\/4398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}