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> The diffusion models understand the physics of optics better than our hand-written math.

How well will they do with something like creating two adjacent mirrors with 30 degree angle between them with one of them covered with varying-polarized red tinted checkerboard pattern?

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I don't know. Diffusion is weird and a little uneven.

They do a better job of fluid sim than most human efforts to date. And that's just one of thousands of things they do better than our math.

Haha, despite the 1000s of instances where it DOESNT simulate correctly. Very specifically chosen 10000-shot generated videos show somewhat impressive fluid physics... And even then, it MUST be something it's seen before. Diffusion is in NO way modeling physics in a realistic matter, there is not an infinite amount of training data to show all fluid dynamics...

Now I know you're too far down the hype rabbit hole. Either that, or you lack a cursory understanding of diffusion models.

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