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itishappy commented on Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk   research.google/blog/hard... · Posted by u/aleyan
delichon · a day ago
I'd love to have a danger heat map displayed on a HUD while driving. Say a default green banner that goes red near a hot spot or even animates near a current hazard. Mostly it could use these same stats, but then be strident if anything unpredictable is detected nearby.
itishappy · a day ago
Waze used to indicate transient road hazards (e.g. stopped cars, pot holes). It's in Google Maps now too (took them long enough) and I assume others.

Static hazards deserve physical signage and/or remediation.

itishappy commented on Art of Roads in Games   sandboxspirit.com/blog/ar... · Posted by u/linolevan
account42 · 2 days ago
In practice that space ends up being used to cram in more people rather than giving people more living space.
itishappy · a day ago
Agreed!

However, another way to look at that is that some people are willing to give up some space for a more convenient location. We're not running out of space quite yet.

itishappy commented on Art of Roads in Games   sandboxspirit.com/blog/ar... · Posted by u/linolevan
itishappy · 2 days ago
Cars and their infrastructure take up a ton of space which could in theory be used by actual people.
itishappy commented on Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs   store.steampowered.com/ne... · Posted by u/Philpax
ggm · 6 days ago
I don't understand how foveated tracking won't cause a sense that peripheral vision is fuzzy. Or how it will track saccades, and so avoid fringe effects.

But, the "I don't understand" is strong in this. it doesn't mean "it can't work" but I don't understand how it avoids the problems.

Maybe the size of the computed foveal coverage area is made big enough, to cover the movement? But if you move your eyes suddenly, there's got to be some lag while it computes the missing pixels. So you'd see the same as when Netflix ups the coding rate: crude render becomes clearer. Banded would become smooth transitions.

itishappy · 6 days ago
Imagine watching Netflix out of the corner of your eye. You wouldn't notice those transitions at all. Your eyes and brain are mind bogglingly good at making stuff up.

Do you know you have a big hole in your vision in each eye where the optic nerve is? It's about half the size of your fist at arm's length, and 35 degrees to the side. Your fovea happens to be roughly the same size. It's the HD part of your retina, and it's where essentially all of your vision happens. It's the only section of the retina that sees color, for instance. The periphery sees motion and that's about it.

Saccades top out at around 700 degrees per second. At 120 frames per second that's only about 6 degrees in either direction. Compared to the FOV, that's tiny. Overfill it!

itishappy commented on Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings   antirender.com/... · Posted by u/iambateman
jinushaun · 11 days ago
This reminds me of “emo” music. All the emotions except happiness. These renders are depressing.
itishappy · 11 days ago
Huh. I kinda like 'em. I've spent a good deal of time loitering in areas like this, of my own volition. Unsurprisingly, I tend to like emo music too. Maybe I'm a salmon, happiest fighting against the current.
itishappy commented on Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings   antirender.com/... · Posted by u/iambateman
n2d4 · 11 days ago
That doesn't pass the sniff test, many other pages on knowyourmeme correctly attribute memes to 4chan.

If you were right that would be easily verifiable. Do you have an example of a post dated before 2018? Maybe you're getting tricked by the fact that 2018 was 8 years ago?

itishappy · 11 days ago
> If you were right that would be easily verifiable. Do you have an example of a post dated before 2018?

How?

itishappy commented on A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth   bitchat.free/... · Posted by u/no_creativity_
cykros · 23 days ago
Bitchat does work with Meshtastic as of the most recent release. It also lets you self host a relay, because it uses Nostr relays. I'm not so sure about white/black listing so yours DOES get used, but you can absolutely host one. Routing through the Internet is something both Bitchat and Briar support, Briar through tor, Bitchat through Nostr (optionally also through tor). Disabling Internet routing at this time may require turning off Internet for Bitchat -- haven't dug on that one.

I do like the store and forward idea, though a thought on that is that while it makes sense for DM's, it makes less sense for group chats, which, being real time, make the shelf life of messages a bit short. It makes good sense for forum like content though. I think so far Bitchat has treated this as a bit out of scope, at least at this stage of development, and it is a reason that indeed, Briar is still quite relevant.

Bitchat only just recently even added ad hoc wifi support, so it's still very early days.

itishappy · 22 days ago
> while it makes sense for DM's, it makes less sense for group chats, which, being real time, make the shelf life of messages a bit short.

Neither are real time once you introduce delayed communication. Not sure I see the distinction.

Actually, I'd argue that unreliable transport breaks the real-time assumption even without introducing delayed communication. Is there immediate feedback if your message can't reach it's destination?

itishappy commented on Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video   radiancefields.com/a-ap-r... · Posted by u/ChrisArchitect
numpad0 · 23 days ago
A LIDAR point cloud from a single point of view is a mono-ocular depth map. Unless the LIDAR in question is like, using supernova level gamma rays or neutrino generators for the laser part to get density and albedo volumetric data for its whole distance range.

You just can't see the back of a thing by knowing the shape of the front side with current technologies.

itishappy · 23 days ago
Right! My terminology may be imprecise here, but I believe there is still an important distinction:

The depth map stored for image processing is image metadata, meaning it calculates one depth per pixel from a single position in space. Note that it doesn't have the ability to measure that many depth values, so it measures what it can using LIDAR and focus information and estimates the rest.

On the other hand, a point cloud is not image data. It isn't necessarily taken from a single position, in theory the device could be moved around to capture addition angles, and the result is a sparse point cloud of depth measurements. Also, raw point cloud data doesn't necessarily come tagged with point metadata such as color.

I also note that these distinctions start to vanish when dealing with video or using more than one capture device.

itishappy commented on Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video   radiancefields.com/a-ap-r... · Posted by u/ChrisArchitect
itishappy · 23 days ago
Right, that's how culture works. There's no universal definition.
itishappy commented on Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video   radiancefields.com/a-ap-r... · Posted by u/ChrisArchitect
secretsatan · 23 days ago
Looks great by the way, i was wondering if there’s a file format for volumetric video captures
itishappy · 23 days ago
https://developer.apple.com/av-foundation/

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/spatial/

Edit: As I'm digging, this seems to be focused on stereoscopic video as opposed to actual point clouds. It appears applications like cinematic mode use a monocular depth map, and their lidar outputs raw point cloud data.

u/itishappy

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