{"id":5052,"date":"2019-04-15T19:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T01:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=5052"},"modified":"2019-04-15T19:31:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T01:31:50","slug":"seven-things-found-in-a-file-april-15-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/seven-things-found-in-a-file-april-15-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Things found in a file April 15, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clearing through a Google Doc, I found a number of links stored away for a rainy day. It&#8217;s raining, so here goes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have fond memories of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BZysu9QcceM\">the wooden mirror<\/a> at SIGGRAPH &#8217;99. <a href=\"https:\/\/bitforms.art\/artists\/rozin\">Daniel Rozin<\/a> has kept the idea going.<\/li>\n<li>Facebook has some well-hidden tricks: you can <a href=\"https:\/\/help.sketchfab.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/205642585-Facebook\">embed Sketchfab models<\/a>, lots of modelers can <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/docs\/sharing\/3d-posts\/glb-tutorials\/\">export to glTf for display<\/a>, and their <a href=\"https:\/\/facebook360.fb.com\/2018\/10\/11\/3d-photos-now-rolling-out-on-facebook-and-in-vr\/\">3D Photos capability<\/a> is eerie and cool. Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/tech\/5699691\/iphone-x-app-theparallaxview-bottomless-pit-effect-parallax\/\">cute iPhone app illusion<\/a>, in case you missed it.<\/li>\n<li>Dinosaur Comics had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qwantz.com\/index.php?comic=3151\">a nod to ray tracing<\/a> (and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qwantz.com\/index.php?comic=2884\">ray casting<\/a> got a mention two years earlier).<\/li>\n<li>I still follow some Tumblr feeds of repeating GIFs. <a href=\"https:\/\/borrachas.tumblr.com\/post\/156768226289\/525-prints-instagram-borrachasinsta\">Here&#8217;s a hypnotic one<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/beesandbombs.tumblr.com\/\">Bees &amp; Bombs<\/a> continues with some lovely stuff, and funny\/strange bits at <a href=\"https:\/\/kiszkiloszki.tumblr.com\/\">kiszkiloszki<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/un-gif-dans-ta-gueule.tumblr.com\/\">Un gif dans ta gueule&#8230;<\/a>\u00a0Inactive but worthwhile if you haven&#8217;t seen them:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bigblueboo.tumblr.com\/\">bigblueboo<\/a> sometimes hits the spot and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dusum.tumblr.com\/\">dusum<\/a> has some great flow examples.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re in the area (or even if not), MIT continues to entertain: a few weeks ago\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/east.bahfest.com\/\">BAHfest<\/a> was great (&#8220;bagpipes caused the Black Death&#8221; won; no YouTube video yet, so you could enjoy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uNOLQGk7QLk&amp;t=3s\">last year&#8217;s winner<\/a> instead), the cozy &amp; little-known\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nesg.graphics\/\">New England Symposium on Graphics<\/a> yesterday was pleasant, and I assume the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media.mit.edu\/posts\/disobedience-award\/\">Disobedience Award<\/a> for 2019 is being determined in the weeks ahead.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m impressed by groups that push out elaborate renderers. Here&#8217;s yet another: <a href=\"https:\/\/godotengine.org\/article\/godot-3-0-released\">Godot<\/a>\u00a0(free <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/404790\/Godot_Engine\/\">on Steam<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.futilitycloset.com\/2017\/07\/04\/his-and-hers-3\/\">His and hers<\/a>. The only difference in the two images are contrast settings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.futilitycloset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-04-his-and-hers.gif\" width=\"501\" height=\"256\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clearing through a Google Doc, I found a number of links stored away for a rainy day. It&#8217;s raining, so here goes: I have fond memories of the wooden mirror at SIGGRAPH &#8217;99. Daniel Rozin has kept the idea going. Facebook has some well-hidden tricks: you can embed Sketchfab models, lots of modelers can export [&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":[],"class_list":["post-5052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052","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=5052"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5071,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052\/revisions\/5071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}