Sheer fabric with light transmission. Cloth physics that responds... to wind. Depth-of-field compositing. Physically-based lighting - all rendered live in the browser.show more

RDR2 Fun Fact #29: This game has some of... the best cloth physics ever seen in a video game, reacting realistically to wind and player movement. 👀show more

Nano is a depth-aware atmospheric haze plugin that uses... ML depth estimation to add physically accurate fog and light scattering to your footage. Works *best* on log footage with visible light sources - it analyzes scene highlights then creates airlight (atmospheric scatter) and halation (light bloom) that responds to actual depth in the scene. Pretty clever approach to getting that cinematic haze look without having to pump a fog machine on set. Makes the OG Trapcode Shine look extremely dated (basically 2D light streaks masked by luminance values), and is yet way more controllable than the current crop of generative AI video-to-video tools.show more

Cloth simulation made from scratch and rendered with my... WebGL2 engine. All points and joints are instanced for better performance. I have also used quaternion math to define the orientation of joints. Inspired by the C++ implementation of Verlet Cloth from pikuma.comshow more

xAI absolutely cooked with the new Grok Imagine model!... The temporal consistency is rock-solid. The penguin's anatomy, lighting, and proportions stay locked in for the full 10 seconds with no weird morphing or melting. In less than 30 seconds, Grok created a video with snow spray building realistically, motion blur, and depth of field. The physics simulation rivals other top models.show more

So apparently Apple has begun production of a variable... aperture camera for the iPhone 18 Pro Max. This would let the lens physically change its aperture depending on lighting, opening up in low light and narrowing in bright scenes. The result should be better exposure control and more natural depth of field. Korean publication ETNews reports that Sunny Optical has already started producing the tiny actuators responsible for this movement with full camera module assembly expected to kick off in early summer. It’s happening! Concept video by fpt./YouTubeshow more

Playstation fanboys really spent all this time talking about... "quality" meanwhile you have Spider-Man's legs clipping through entire light fixtures 😭 Just 1 planet in #Starfield has more realistic lighting & physics based interaction than the whole Spider-Man 2 game 😂show more

Summer inspections continue at our wind farms. Among these:... the inspection of lighting systems. To ensure aviation safety, our wind turbines are equipped with regulatory lighting: - White flash during the day, - Red flash at night, ten times less powerful to limit light pollution while maintaining visibility from all directions. 🌱 Limiting light pollution contributes to the protection of nocturnal wildlife and the quality of natural spaces, while ensuring everyone's safety. hashtag #WindPower hashtag #EnergyTransition hashtag #Maintenance hashtag #AviationSafety hashtag #LightPollution hashtag #Biodiversity hashtag #RenewableEnergy hashtag #CGNEuropeEnergy hashtag #Environment hashtag #CleanEnergy hashtag #WindPowershow more

⚡️Hamas-affiliated Al-Haris security: The discovery of a surveillance device... concealed inside a brick in an active field area in the Gaza Strip. The device is equipped with a precision camera and motion-sensing, and is used for filming and live transmission to monitor field movementsshow more

A new ‘depth compositing’ system was developed for Avatar... that provides a pixel-perfect real-time composite in camera, that accurately positions live action and CG elements together, producing a very close approximation of the final shot while still on set. #WētāFX #VFXshow more

Math and Music: An animated Halvorsen attractor rendered in... 3D with glowing lines and smooth motion. Supports camera movement, dynamic lighting, and three visual themes that shift the mood and color of the form. Coded with Grok. 🔊show more

Photorealistic Object Insertion with Diffusion-Guided Inverse Rendering discuss: The... correct insertion of virtual objects in images of real-world scenes requires a deep understanding of the scene's lighting, geometry and materials, as well as the image formation process. While recent large-scale diffusion models have shown strong generative and inpainting capabilities, we find that current models do not sufficiently "understand" the scene shown in a single picture to generate consistent lighting effects (shadows, bright reflections, etc.) while preserving the identity and details of the composited object. We propose using a personalized large diffusion model as guidance to a physically based inverse rendering process. Our method recovers scene lighting and tone-mapping parameters, allowing the photorealistic composition of arbitrary virtual objects in single frames or videos of indoor or outdoor scenes. Our physically based pipeline further enables automatic materials and tone-mapping refinement.show more

Fascinating. Audi's car configurator uses webrtc to stream the... 3D view from some remote rendered service instead of using WebGL in the browser. Really want to know what lead to that engineering decision. The latency is awful and the render quality is quite low resolution.show more

CLI agents using.. CLI browsers?? Agents can use tmux... to control carbonyl, a Chromium browser that runs in the terminal > Browser representation in ASCII art > Interacts directly with "pixels" i.e. text in the terminal Could this be the future of AI browser use?show more

“In him was life, and that life was the... light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it… The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world.” - John 1:4-5, 9 (NIV)show more

Meteorologist Mike Seidel is in the thick of it... all so you don't have to be! WATCH as the 40+ mph wind gusts and low visibility prove that Winter Storm #Elliott is packing a punch. We're LIVE all day!show more

Try your own version on Grok Imagine. 1. Update... Grok 2. Prompt: Ultra-realistic cinematic fashion video, square 1:1 format, 10 seconds, a regal ethereal woman with long flowing black hair and a delicate gold crown sits at the bow of a luxury wooden yacht in the open ocean under bright clear daylight. She wears an elegant flowing ivory and champagne gown with gold detailing, sheer sleeves, and soft layered fabric. The sea is vivid turquoise-blue with gentle waves, horizon line clean and centered, sky pale blue and cloudless. Start with the woman seated gracefully at the front of the yacht facing camera, calm and queen-like, one hand lightly touching the railing, fabric draped around her, barefoot, sunlight sparkling on the water. The camera slowly pushes in and subtly drifts, natural yacht motion, realistic wind moving her hair and dress. As the shot continues, she slowly rises from her seated pose into a standing pose in one smooth elegant motion, maintaining balance naturally on the yacht. Her gown flows dramatically in the sea breeze, hair blowing across her shoulders, expression serene and majestic. She turns slightly into a soft profile while looking toward the horizon. The yacht deck, rope coil, metal railings, and polished wood details remain visible and realistic. End with her standing at the bow in a graceful side-facing pose, dress trailing behind her in the wind, sparkling water and sunlit ocean surrounding her. Luxury editorial style, high-end fashion film, natural lighting, realistic anatomy, realistic fabric physics, realistic ocean motion, subtle camera stabilization, crisp detail, soft cinematic depth of field, premium color grading, photorealistic.show more

Good afternoon. Onshore wind farms currently occupy around 0.02%... of the U.K. To place that in context, Jeremy Clarkson’s farm occupies around 10% of the total area of ALL onshore wind turbines in the U.K. Many of these turbines are also keeping British farmers in business.show more

#geometrynodes knot generator (+cloth modifier) proof of concept. Still... a lot of problems if you want to do something with gnodes + cloth like when you try to transfer Pinning groups back to mesh. Maybe some day all the solvers are available in gnodes for everyone. #b3dshow more