{"id":5606,"date":"2021-12-13T10:24:14","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T16:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=5606"},"modified":"2021-12-13T16:49:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T22:49:29","slug":"seven-things-for-december-13-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/seven-things-for-december-13-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Things for December 13, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Want more metaverse? Attend the <a href=\"https:\/\/realtimeconference.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/realtimeconference.com\/\">Real-Time Conference<\/a>, free, happening right now.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/i3dsymposium.org\/2022\/cfp.html\">I3D 2022 Call For Participation<\/a> is up. It will be online (sad face emoji) May 3-5. <a href=\"https:\/\/graphicsinterface.org\/conference\/2022\/\">Graphics Interface CFP<\/a> is also up, conference is May 17-19.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/cacm.acm.org\/magazines\/2021\/12\/256925-patent-absurdity\/fulltext\">An entertaining rant<\/a> in the Communications of the ACM (of all things) about why you shouldn&#8217;t ever look at patents.<\/li><li>If you want to use paint brushes on your iPad, make <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instructables.com\/Digital-Painting-With-Real-Brushes-Light-Strokes-f\/\">a Light Strokes system<\/a>. If you don&#8217;t, the demo reels are fun to watch.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/tedium.co\/2021\/11\/10\/10-forgotten-image-formats\">This article<\/a> surprised me, about ten image formats the world allegedly forgot. Checking my own system right now (using the wonderful, free <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voidtools.com\/downloads\/\">Everything finde<\/a>r on Windows), I see hundreds of BMPs loaded this year used in various applications, including UE4, Visual Studio, Maya, and 3DS MAX; TGA gets extensive use in Minecraft PBR resource packs; VRML is mostly dead but is still commonly used in the 3D print field. Some I agree with: TIFF is happily almost gone, good riddance (some traces in Houdini, Maya, and others &#8211; still seen for some terrain files on <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.nationalmap.gov\/downloader\/#\/\">the USGS site<\/a>, though (<em>update<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kenpex\/status\/1470482522228281352\">Angelo Pesce says<\/a> it&#8217;s used in Photoshop still and sometimes is preferred over PSD. The horror, the horror.)); PCX is essentially defunct (the wonderful <a href=\"https:\/\/casual-effects.com\/g3d\/\">G3D<\/a> uses it extensively and that&#8217;s it); AFAIK Maya and no one else uses IFF (and Irfanview can&#8217;t open them anyway).<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orano.group\/experience\/innovation\/en\">Orano&#8217;s site<\/a> is quite impressive graphically, running in the browser. I don&#8217;t particularly care about or even know what this company does (nuclear mumble something?), but I like that they splashed out for cool interlinked graphical tidbits. Try the &#8220;Live the Experiences&#8221; menu in the upper right, and scroll down to the bottom of each page for an interactive demo.<\/li><li>Townscaper is lovely, and a basic version is now <a href=\"https:\/\/oskarstalberg.com\/Townscaper\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/oskarstalberg.com\/Townscaper\/\">free in the browser<\/a>. Two minutes of semi-random clicking gave me this:<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/townscaper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"724\" src=\"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/townscaper-1024x724.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/townscaper-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/townscaper-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/townscaper-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/townscaper-424x300.jpg 424w, https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/townscaper.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want more metaverse? Attend the Real-Time Conference, free, happening right now. I3D 2022 Call For Participation is up. It will be online (sad face emoji) May 3-5. Graphics Interface CFP is also up, conference is May 17-19. An entertaining rant in the Communications of the ACM (of all things) about why you shouldn&#8217;t ever look [&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-5606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606","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=5606"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5614,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606\/revisions\/5614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}