Scanning large surface with PBR maps? No problem! Still... polishing the methodologies and approach but initial tests are very promising. Here is a 130 x 50 cm tabletop, tricky reflective surface especially if we are aiming for smooth reconstruction.show more

We can 3D scan even the hardest objects -... dark, low-contrast, and nearly featureless surfaces are no longer a challenge - all with full PBR material stack. Need this level of precision for your production? Let me know! #photogrammetry #photometryshow more

That's a hammer time again - just another prop... from recent random scans - full PBR stack, automated capture, zero manual cleanup - just plug & play in your engine. We provide top quality 3D scanning services for games, film, fashion, and e-commerce.show more

Yesterday we talked about the real alpha: Joining a... Node Community. Some of you dove in. Some are still circling the surface. But here's what we want to know: If you've already formed or joined a community… How deep is your tribe swimming?👇show more

vision🍌 is here if you got into computer vision... the way I did, starting with pixel-level labeling tasks like segmentation, edges, depth, or surface normals, you’ll probably feel the same seeing these results -- something big has quietly shifted, and it’s going to change how we approach these problems for good 🧵show more

made a prototype to see how it feels, and... i kinda like it not promising this is gonna be out anytime soon, but curious if it's something you'd be interested in? if so, it'd need to go through design and engineering so they can think about it holistically. some things look simpler on the surface than they actually are!show more

🇹🇷Turkey just OFFICIALLY Declared Israel as the WORLD Problem... and officially called for fight. 🇹🇷 TURKEY: Listen carefully Israel… If you’re searching for a new enemy- CHOOSE US! We have NO PROBLEM with confrontation! 🇮🇱 ISRAEL: …We have the strongest air force. 🇹🇷 TURKEY: We are ready for ANYTHING. 🇮🇱 ISRAEL: Ask Iran how that went. 🇹🇷 TURKEY: We are NOT Iran. We are the STRONGEST Muslim country in the world! 🇮🇱 ISRAEL: After Iran, we’re coming for you. 🇹🇷 TURKEY: We’re waiting… You are the world’s problem NOW. This war will END your nation. Context: Turkish FM said: Israel is hunting a new enemy, Turkey has no problem confronting it, and “Israel is the world’s problem. (Satire Warning: Fictional quotes )show more

The eyes are the windows to the soul, and... Michael had such large, expressive and beautiful eyes. But here we can see them filled with sadness. If we compare the Off The Wall era to this, the difference is striking. They took everything from him 💔show more

New scan sample, old wooden container scanned using our... advanced robotic scanner developed at INVOLV3D and inciprocal software for PBR material processing. You can literally smell this wood! #3dscanning #pbr #b3dshow more

A joke was cracked, light-hearted on the surface, sharp... beneath it. “We’re the biggest fugitives of India,” one of them said, laughing. The words landed like a punchline for those in the room, but for millions watching from India, it felt like mockery. Back in India, banks are still chasing unpaid loans. Courts are still hearing cases. Ordinary citizens are still paying the price of financial scams through taxes, inflation, and lost trust. Yet here, thousands of miles away, the accused looked untouched by consequences, smiling for cameras, enjoying luxury.show more

There is a shape in mathematics that can hold... a finite amount of paint, yet would require an infinite amount of paint to coat its surface. It is called Gabriel’s Horn. Imagine rotating the curve y=1/x around the x-axis. The result is a long, tapering surface that stretches infinitely, like a tunnel that never ends. Here’s where the paradox appears. The volume of this shape converges—if you add up all its infinitesimal slices, the total stops growing. In other words, you can completely fill it with a finite amount of paint. But the surface area diverges. No matter how far you go along the horn, there is always more surface to cover. The outer “skin” keeps extending, demanding more paint without end. So while you could pour paint inside and fill it entirely, you would never finish painting the outside. This is not a trick, but a consequence of how infinity behaves. The radius shrinks quickly enough for the volume to remain finite, yet not fast enough to keep the surface area from growing without bound. It reveals a deeper truth: infinity does not simply mean “very large”—it means unending. And sometimes, the infinite can exist within the finite in ways that defy our intuition, even while remaining perfectly consistent in mathematics.show more

X is Censoring,Limiting & suspending Accounts who are exposing... China Accounts of Many of our homies have been Suspended But here we are still fighting with China Against the Algorithm & we'll keep fighting for the sake of our Country We don't care about consequences Jai Hind🇮🇳show more

Perfect Dark PC online is here! Many of the... issues I listed last week are fixed, but this is obviously still considered early. The progress is as always very impresive. If anyone is experienced with networking, be sure to lend a hand on GitHub!show more

Something special is building here at Brevard!! But We... are still looking for those playmakers who still need a home!!! Come ball out in the B and see what the hype is about!!! #F5 #NadoNation Brevard College Football 🌪show more

Facial reconstruction of a Neolithic man from Ukraine In... 1949–1950, M. Ya. Rudinsky carried out excavations of a large Neolithic burial ground that he had discovered earlier, known as the Volnish burial ground. Based on the type of burials, the position of the skeletons, the grave goods, and the abundance of red ochre, this burial ground was closely related to the well-known Mariupol cemetery. As in the Mariupol burial ground, the burials here are arranged in dense rows, closely packed next to one another. The majority of the interments are accompanied by rich grave inventories. All skeletons lie on their backs, with the arms tightly pressed to the body and the legs extended. The inventory is represented by a large number of stone and bone tools. In addition, fish and animal bones were often found on and around the skeletons. The skull, densely covered in red ochre, was described by Mikhail Gerasimov as large and massive, with a very great cranial length of 196 mm, a small cranial breadth of 136 mm, and a wide cheek breadth of 142 mm. Mikhail Gerasimov describes the skull as follows: The brow ridges protrude strongly; their projection exceeds that of the glabella. The brow ridges are wide and fused with the upper margins of the orbits. The bases of the zygomatic arches are wide. The zygomatic processes of the temporal bones are massive. The temporal lines are very well developed. The mastoid processes are very large and wide; their surface is flat. The occipital bone is long, very narrow, and laterally compressed in the area of the superior nuchal line. The occipital protuberance is weakly expressed; it is rounded and has a smooth surface. The face is pentagonal in shape, very high, with wide and massive cheekbones and strongly protruding angles of the heavy lower jaw; it is strongly profiled. The nasal bridge is high. The orbits are small. The alveolar part is low and orthognathic. The chin is strongly projecting. The orbits are rectangular, with strongly rounded corners. The orbital margins are thickened. The lower orbital margins are elevated. The eye sockets are closed. The lacrimal fossae are deepened. The supraorbital tubercles are weakly expressed and represented by broad, flat surfaces. The inclination of the palpebral fissure is slight. The frontal orientation of the orbits is elevated. The orbital profile is inclined. The zygomatic bones are massive and very wide. The lower portions of the zygomatic bones are displaced forward and elevated. The zygomatic tubercles are strongly developed. The frontal processes of the zygomatic bones are wide and flat. The canine fossae are weakly expressed. The areas for muscle attachment are well developed. The maxillary notches are deep. The alveolar part is very low (12 mm) and orthognathic. The teeth are wide and short, set orthognathically. The height of the first incisor is 6.5 mm. Wear on the incisors and canines has reached complete cross-section of the tooth. The mandible is large, with strongly developed angles, and is very massive. The body of the mandible is very high. The horizontal rami are weakly flared. The mental protuberance reaches 9 points on the scale. The rami of the mandible are very wide and high and diverge at a right angle. The mandibular angles are rounded and strongly everted, with a pronounced crest. The coronoid processes of the mandible are also everted. In terms of its anthropological characteristics, this represents the same type that is already well known to us from skulls from Murzak-Koba, Sursky Island (Type A), and Vinogradny Island. Since the archaeological material has not yet been published, we are currently deprived of the opportunity to precisely establish the chronological position of this individual. If we assume that this burial ground dates to the same period as the early burials of the Mariupol cemetery, then it belongs to the period of the developed Neolithic stage. This gives us the right to state that the anthropological type of ancient Cro-Magnons was conservatively preserved in remote regions up until the 4th–3rd millennia BC. Apparently, survivals of this same anthropological type can also be traced in the skulls of the Yamnaya culture of this region.show more

Two weeks ago I fixed one of my teeth... with algorithms I wrote a couple of years ago! I got hooked by 3D scanning when I started to work for a software shop in Zurich that was programming 3D computational geometry algorithms for denture scanning to produce crowns (and more). Back then, a typical reconstruction pipeline was like: scan the patient’s teeth using an intraoral scanner, reconstruct the surface mesh, design the restoration digitally, and finally mill the crown out of ceramic. We were working mostly with point clouds and meshes, but it wasn’t just math, it was craftsmanship translated into a digital process. Every micron mattered. You could literally see how a good algorithm meant a better fit in someone’s mouth. Gaussian Splatting isn’t about surface reconstruction, it’s about appearance reconstruction. It doesn’t care about explicit topology, it captures how light interacts with the scene. In a sense, it’s the opposite philosophy of the dental world: instead of modeling what the object is, it models how the object looks. 3D Gaussian Splatting enables applications like training self driving cars, teaching robots to understand their environment, creating virtual worlds, or monitoring real sites. It represents scenes as millions of small Gaussians rendered in real time without the need for meshes or textures. Coming from a world where precision geometry was everything, this shift felt natural. It’s still about reconstruction, but with a different goal: not manufacturing a perfect object, but reproducing how the world actually looks. Two weeks ago I got my first dental crown, made with the same software, reconstruction algorithms, and Swiss precision I once helped develop. I haven’t worked there in two years, but sitting in that chair and seeing the process from the other side was a proud moment. It reminded me why I love this field.show more

We need mattresses here at Katonga Bridge so we... can sleep. We have been here for quite a while, and it seems there is little hope of leaving anytime soon. Construction is still ongoing, and we have no choice but to wait until they are done. Uganda Police Force SP kananura Michaelshow more

Venus is a very dangerous planet—going there is like... playing a video game on “Hell Mode.” In the 1960s and 1970s, the Soviet Union sent robotic probes called Venera to explore it. The probes survived on the surface for less than an hour because the pressure was 90 times stronger than Earth and the temperature was hot enough to melt metal. But even in their final moments, while they were overheating and breaking apart, they still managed to take the only real photos ever captured from Venus’s surface. Photos from a place no human could ever survive.show more

Building gigawatt scale datacenters in the oceans may be... even easier than I had previously thought. Normally for OTEC cold deep sea water and warm surface waters are needed. Because that gigawatt is generating a lot of heat as an end product of compute, along with some additional solar thermal collection, we won’t need warm surface water at all, allowing these datacenters to go almost anywhere with enough depth. Additionally, that gigawatt of heat may be hotter than surface seawater normally used for OTEC, allowing for much shallower piping (200m instead of 1000m) while also being more efficient. The availability of unlimited cold water for the condenser is the key factor we can’t replicate on land. This brings the potential energy generation for ocean based compute up from 10 terawatts to potentially thousands of terawatts, as the locations are not limited to areas with the warmest surface waters. The excess energy needed for hundreds or thousands of people to also live on these structures is minimal compared to that needed for compute.show more

These girls are telling that the college management people... say, 'We will get you picked up from your room, "Tumhari saari garmi nikal denge" This is a clear-cut threat of rape. If girls are not safe in universities and colleges itself, then how will they be safe anywhere else? UGC rules are very necessary especially for the safety of women! Manuvedis have ruined the condition of the educational institutions of the country. There is no safe environment here for anyone, that is why our country is very far behind the world in the field of education.show more