Given this response to an enquiry about the "Community" Solid Server project, which is the “open-source" solid server sponsored by Inrupt / IMEC, it is very clear that the project is
not open-source, nor designed for the community. Far from it.
This goes to underscore just how much of @Solid is actually controlled by Inrupt, underscoring that the @w3c WG/CG is little more than a front through which Inrupt can give the impression of building an open standard, whilst not
@w3c sure, Solid has Sir Tim Berners-Lee as a author, but if the only contributions that get accepted are those by Inrupt / those affiliated with Inrupt, and they've placed people in the Working Group / Community Group without disclosing their affiliations to Inrupt, weighting the group in their favour as to drown out others’ voices, then that's not in the spirit of W3C Community Groups nor Working Groups.
Was pleasantly surprised yesterday. I got a notice from the post office to pick up a package even though I wasn't expecting anything. Turns out it was a copy of the #SIGGRAPH Seminal Papers vol. 2 book.
My contribution was minor at best. But my deepest thanks to Mary Whitton, Mike Cohen, Bonnie Mitchell, & the SIGGRAPH History group for this. Feel so humbled. You can download a free online copy here:
Just spent a couple hours in blender working on a nuclear reactor diagram for a school project. Took a while but I'm very happy with the results.
I haven't added any labels yet, I'll do that tomorrow. Which do you think would be better for a diagram, the cycles or eevee render? eevee certainly looks more sensible but I think it's a little too...flat
great example of #CategoryTheory being applied in procedural #CG via "double pushout production rules". I'm convinced that CT can be applied to most domains, it's just a matter of teaching people in the domains category theory rather than fetishizing it as a magical skeleton key to the universe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG3LbcOGHqw
This evening I was talking with @rm4 about #Tron Legacy, a #film which we highly suggest watching if you haven't already!
So, I thought about re-watching it but suddenly youtube showed me this #documentary about it, so I pressed play and enjoyed a nice and inspiring mid hour of #BehindTheScenes !
Take a watch if you know the film or if you are interested in the #MakingOf !
IEEE has a special issue of celebrating the 50 years of #SIGGRAPH conferences. better yet, it's freely available and downloadable. Tons of recognizable names from #CG and #VFX history, including Jim Blinn, Alvy Ray Smith, Richard Chuang, Ed Catmull, John Hugues, ed Kramer, Terrence Masson, Turner Whited, and many, many more. Tons of neat pictures
The DigiPro conference has just posted their program and it looks fantastic (again!) Presentation about #Avatar The Way of Water, ILM's StageCraft, Strange World, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and presentations about matte painting, USD, materials and more. Keynote by Marlon West about 100 years of the marriage between art and tech at #Disney#VFX#CG#CGI#VirtualProduction#SIGGRAPH#DigiPro
Some nice #VFX and #animation Production Sessions at #SIGGRAPH 2023, including Avatar: The Way of Water, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, The Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Elemental, Puss in Boots and Good Night Oppy #CG#graphics#movies
Hi, I'm looking to fill up my RSS feed reader a bit recently!
Anyone got recommendations for blogs, news source etc? Nothing too general/spammy.
General news, EU/German politics, cybersec (vulnerability reports), self hosting and programming (rust, nix...) and digital rights stuff. Also LGBT stuff. And computer graphics stuff can't hurt either! :)
No fedi accounts, for that I have fedi, though maybe youtube channels (i think you can subscribe to those via rss?)
In this article I've talked about my approach to making assets in general, about Plasticity, as a brand new event in ever changing history of CG world, about my approach to texturing and how it important to understand what and why is done.
And some free stuff in it as well!