These seem to be made by artists trained on traditional drawing. All drawings show knowledge of cross-hatching or pointillism, correct use of values, perspective, and so on. That’s why it looks great today, these qualities are independent of how advanced the digital medium of the time was.
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hcarvalhoalves commented on More assorted notes on Liquid Glass morrick.me/archives/10068... · Posted by u/freediver
> Why would you want to “focus on the underlying content” here? Tab bars and toolbars still cover the underlying content, and the more transparent/translucent they are, the worse. When something fades to the background, it literally ceases to be in the foreground, so there’s no point in focusing on it. This is like proposing an interface that helps you focus your sight on your peripheral vision.
I believe that's exactly what Apple wants. This new design direction appears to be a strategy to unify all UI for VR as well.
If all controls are designed to be translucent, they (Apple) have freedom to put the control anywhere on the user's field of view on VR and allow "focus on the underlying content" (which in the case of VR, is the real world).
Time will tell if this approach makes sense for 2D screens.
hcarvalhoalves commented on More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad daringfireball.net/2025/0... · Posted by u/dotcoma
Apple without Ive and Jobs increasingly has a taste problem. Everything from their ads to things like this are just in really poor taste, and aren’t something that they would have done 15 years ago because they would have thought it was beneath their brand.
I like Apple, so I’m really hoping they bring on someone to solve this. Otherwise they’re on track to be the same as every other tasteless tech company.
More on taste and Apple: https://www.readtrung.com/p/steve-jobs-rick-rubin-and-taste
Company takeover by bean counters and clowns. It happens with every company, sooner or later.
Apple remains on the edge with hardware though. I guess the show is still ran by the engineers at this department.
Realistic AI video generation will put us firmly in a post-truth era. If those videos were 25% more realistic it would be indistinguishable from a real interview.
The speed with which you’ll be able to create and disseminate propaganda is mind blowing. Imagine what a 3 letter agency could do with their level of resources.
The Philippines has a story of foreign influence on their local politics. It wouldn't be crazy to expect this is just the latest chapter of the 3 letter using it as laboratory.
Entropic gravity is like the "brazil nut effect" [0] [1]. The idea is that if you shake a glass full of different sized nuts, the large ones will rise to the top.
From what I understand, this is because larger objects have more mass, moving slower when shaked, so as the larger (brazil nuts) don't move as much relative to the smaller ones (peanuts), and because of gravity, there's a cavity left under the brazil nut which gets filled in with peanuts.
For entropic gravity, the idea is that there's a base density of something (particles? sub-atomic particles?) hitting objects in random ways from all directions. When two large massive objects get near each other, their middle region will have lower density thus being attracted to each other from particles hit with less frequency from the lower density region. They sort of cast a "shadow".
I'm no physicist but last time I looked into it there were assumptions about the density of whatever particle was "hitting" larger massive objects and that density was hard to justify. Would love to hear about someone more knowledgeable than myself that can correct or enlighten me.
As an aside, the brazil nut effect is a very real effect. To get the raisins, you shake the raisin bran. To get gifts left from your cat, you shake the kitty litter. It works surprisingly well.
In other words, gravity would be explainable by statistical mechanics (like heat)?
Funny, in the comparison image the article shows for the 3 design styles - Skeuomorphic, Flat, Liquid Glass - the Skeuomorphic one looks absolutely best to me:
https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6...
The items look so much more tangible, and the text is more readable. Everything is easy to grok visually. The flat design looks way more confusing. And the liquid glass one looks even worse.
This looks like a product evolution, but in reverse.
hcarvalhoalves commented on Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun's poles esa.int/Science_Explorati... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
This slightly tilted view of the poles is a teaser. I didn't know they'd managed to incorporate late in the mission gravity assists into the cheaper plan B to slightly tweak out of the ecliptic while dropping close to the sun. That's pretty cool. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Animatio...
But we could've had so much more. The original proposal A for the ESA Solar Orbiter was a highly inclined orbit relative to the ecliptic plane to truly get full polar views of the sun. But this was too expensive. So they went with the cheaper proposal B which was mostly just a spectroscopic platform. Similar to SDO AIA, except in a solar orbit (almost completely within the ecliptic plane) instead of SDO AIA's Earth based sun synchronous orbit.
I suppose it takes a lot of deltaV to get a stable orbit over the sun poles?
Last I heard, workers were getting replaced by AI, so this will sort itself out.
How do you carve solid wood board ?
I've done ten's of carving by gluing thin layers in a mold to create carved plywood. Those are extra strong but required to use quite a lot of glue and get the right thickness wood veneers. Would love to learn the solid board way.
edit: fined tuned my English today: seems carving means sculpting and not bending.
The traditional methods of "carving" I know about are using an adze [1] and controlled burning [2].
[1] https://engineeringlearn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Adze...
This is the first chair one can make, it's a common pre-industrial chair design. Search for "tribal chair" or "2-piece chair" for examples.
It gets even better with wood carving (rather than building out of straight planks):
https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/seating/chairs/african-sol...