ebspelman

The launch graphic says "Ported end-to-end by Fable, an AI agent" and it definitely feels that way. Buggy, glitchy, needs some love and human eyes before it's really usable.

You can - there's an 'Extend' button for LiDAR captures, but it can be a little touch-and-go sometimes. Definitely an area for us to work on more!

Yep! For meshes we've got GLTF, OBJ, FBX, STL, and DAE. And then you can also export the 2D floorplan as SVG and DXF.

I work on an app called Polycam, and we have an automated Room / floorplan capture mode. We actually announced some updates to it earlier this week:

https://twitter.com/Polycam3D/status/1623730477637959680

politely but firmly (with all my soul) disagree.

I should disclaim that I work on a 3D capture app called Polycam, but in that work I've grown used to the idea that 3D captures are inherently better at conveying some kinds of visual information than photographs are. Like a room with graffiti on the walls. The opposite is also true - 2D photos are way better at sunsets & portraits.

So I guess what I'm saying is that I'd bet there are some undiscovered cases where 3D is going to be better for data representation / manipulation.

Even though current VR/AR interfaces are completely useless for Excel or other data-management tasks (no keyboard support, unreliable controls, lack of development interest), I think in the future there are more embodied / spatial treatments of data access that could feel like an improvement on '2D' Excel.

As the author mentions, the original moniker for Excel was VisiCalc - a visual calculator. There's no inherent reason why 3D spatial representation would be a worse medium for a calculator.

Can't disagree with a rant if you can't read it.

I feel like that has to do with the Twitch/streamer culture too, where lots of people have big, visible mikes.

Maya and Max contribute less than 8% of Autodesk's total revenue[1].

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/416285/revenue-of-autode...

This is a really excellent comment.

check out display.land

I totally respect your opinion, but I think I fundamentally disagree with the idea that learning = pain. Project-driven learning seems more effective when the project is something that excites the learner. I might suggest that your ability to learn test-driven development in Go is actually driven by the fact that you're interested in Fibonacci calculators.

You might like Golan Levin's lectures on different forms of Experimental Capture. They are just collections of really good examples and previous work. He specifically has one about light painting and long exposure: https://github.com/golanlevin/ExperimentalCapture/blob/maste...

Hmm. I'd say the canary is in the Wal-Mart.

> We now live in a society where it is acceptable for private companies to essentially completely ban individuals from exercising their free speech on the internet.

This is phrased as something to be fearful of here, but I think I'm actually fine with this precedent.

There's nothing to stop people with extreme right-wing ideologies from marshaling the resources required to stand up all the pieces of web infrastructure they find themselves blocked from. If they can't amass those resources, that's ultimately a market decision, no?

And if they were able to stand up that infrastructure, it would indicate a high level of financial support for their agenda, which would be the real thing to be afraid of, in my own opinion.

Wow, this is excellent! Processing was definitely my introduction to graphics programming, and I think it's still the most effective tool in teaching certain programming concepts. The visual feedback loop is huge for getting people off the ground.

In 'creative coding' classes, I think a big missing piece is an easy way to collaborate on and share scripts, and this is a perfect tool for that.

Many congrats to the creators!

very awesome! for further inspiration, you might like the work of Craig Dorety:

http://craigdorety.com/objects.html

Once upon a time I made a project with a similar aesthetic, but not quite as much function (ie it wasn’t a clock):

http://www.ebspelman.com/#/james-turrell-turrellevision/

I don't see openFrameworks mentioned here: http://openframeworks.cc/

Probably the most comprehensive open-source creative coding framework. Maybe most helpful for familiarity with graphics programming / OpenGL, but it really extends to all types of possible interactions. Maintained by an awesome group of people.

This reminds me a lot of a chapter in Jesse Schell's awesome book, The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses.[1][2]

He recommends occasionally thinking about a game as a toy.

"The Lens of The Toy: To use this lens, stop thinking about whether your game is fun to play, and start thinking about whether it is fun to play with."

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Art-Game-Design-Book-Lenses/dp/012369...

[2] PDF version (see book page 90 // PDF page 119): http://www.sg4adults.eu/files/art-game-design.pdf

One interesting thing I took away from the article - most of the scientific evidence cited by Professor Sapolsky is built on fMRI analysis of reactions to faces.

Given that most of our online interactions are completely text-based, what cues are we using to determine if someone is Us or Them? Do the same emotion-first impulses apply when our entire perception of another person's identity is based on the content of their written words?

the prevalence of surgical masks in China might also be a challenge

Yeah, I spent a few minutes going over the last sentence in tengbretson's comment.

I would actually recharacterize Piketty's (and the author of this chart) argument as:

"X increasing is a symptom that Y is increasing. Let's implement policy A. This may temporarily increase X, but it will stop Y from increasing, which will in turn stop X from increasing in the long run."

It sounds like your critiques are more system-related than ideology-related. That's fine. Systemically, it's a tricky question. What's the best way to ensure that 300 million people have access to the most complicated global networking system ever created? Is our capitalist republic equipped to handle it?

But your systemic critique bypasses the obvious point that ideologically, there are great differences between the major American political parties on this issue.

Denouncing the system as "all shit" does nothing to change this fact.

>It is targeting Syrian refugess, not Iranian PhDs.

There are seven countries targeted in this edict. Why the other six if it's actually focused on a single one?

>> "A machine intelligence need not share any of that complexity"

I think this is an assumption that both Bostrom and yourself would acknowledge as such.

We simply don't know enough about the nuances of intelligence to make an assertion that there are inherently varying kinds of it.

I am feeling like perhaps you didn't read the article? Many of these arguments are the exact lines of thinking that the author is trying to contextualize and add complexity to.

These are not bad arguments you are making, or hard ones to get behind. There are just added layers of complexity that the author would like us to think about. Things like how we could actually 'hard-code' a limit or a governor on certain types of motivation. Or what 'motivation' is even driven by at all.

I think you'll enjoy the originally linked article. It's got a lot to consider.

Reddit is a site driven by voting dynamics. It'd be unhealthy NOT to adjust those dynamics from time to time.

1-2% chargeback rate is the exact opposite of 'no risk.'

This is why people will eventually end up hating Stripe just as much as PayPal. There is a huge disconnect between consumer expectations and the realities that a 3rd-party aggregator like Stripe faces.

Where do you think the refund for a chargeback comes from? With a 3rd-party aggregator like Stripe, it comes directly out of the merchant's Stripe account (i.e. Stripe's aggregated account with Chase Paymentech). If the merchant has already withdrawn all of their money from their Stripe account, then Stripe is left holding the bag.

Accounts with 1-2% chargeback rate are incredibly costly. Stripe is potentially having to pay 1-2% of that account's entire processing volume in losses.

Chargebacks don't magically get paid. Somebody is left holding the bill.