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I don’t know what kind of animation teams you’ve been working with, but animators do not write algorithms xD

Yes, exactly. The article even points this out:

> However writing a rotation directly in quaternion form isn't really intuitive, what we do instead is convert an Euler angle to a quaternion then use it for rotating.

That's what I'm seeing for a brief moment before the page has finished loading. It also appears at the end of the (very long) article.

Screenshot of the above message: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2152766/117868229-... ;D

It's actually rocket-based memory management. Ba dum tss!

> Good decisions create time, bad ones consume it.

My key takeaway from this article, well put.

> When you swap out somebody who does a decent job for another person who performs at about the same level it's not really that noticeable.

Which interestingly is the same effect as swapping out somebody who does nothing for someone else who does nothing.

This. Was about to say the same. As someone once said - you don't know what you've got til it's gone.

My mistake, I got confused. Corrected. But my question still stands.

Hold up, how is this different from programming in e.g. Python or Javascript with Bangla characters? Why does it need to be a different syntax too? Can I use English characters with the Pakhi programming langauge?

I felt that way until I got my hands on a Surface Book. They did a good job on that one, still holding up after 4+ years of constant use.

I can see what you mean but on the other hand; are they really, though?

If they hadn't come up with the technology and written the patents in the first place, we wouldn't even be here talking about it.

ZBrush has entered the chat. Not a game engine, but it's being doing that since the first version many years ago and always surprises me how it outperforms most GPUs. Rendering (and interactively manipulating!) billions of polygons.

At least this one is actually visual. Perhaps the author meant "A written guide to SSH tunnels"?

Except *asterisks* doesn't **bold**, it _emphasizes_. :) Edit: Aha! I think I see what happened here, HN formatting. :)

Yes, this!

This topic and responses to it warms my heart. :) I've made it a habit for my current project to turn changelogs into blog-like material for the end-user. The kind of changelog I would like to see from other software, especially the kind I care about.

For example: https://learn.ragdolldynamics.com/releases/2020.12.01/

IMO your post was fine and informative, I certainly appreciated it. As someone developing something similar, you would have thought about the problem a lot more than the casual reader and be able to provide insight others might not. I can relate to that.

However, it wasn't clear to me that you were involved with Typesense. Re-reading it now I spot one reference at the very end. If it was instead tied in with your first reference it would come across more honest and make your observations more appreciated.

I would love to know which air sensors you use.

My bets are on this one.

> He ended up being a sold contributor.

A gold contributor?

Was about to say the same. Have been eagerly awaiting an updated "Discover Weekly" playlist every Monday for years and it keeps getting better.

And just like that you added the stress of worrying about cancer to my list. Thank you stranger!

I've been using "Markdown Here" for the past few years and live in this ideal world already. It's great, you should come visit. :)

This rings true. The title should really be "Tech consumption in Sweden needs half a nuclear plant". What else is new?

I work in feature film and game cinematics, where Blender is still a toy.

An increasingly interesting toy since 2.80, but it'll take a killer-feature to tear a studio or artist away from their tool of choice. Houdini for FX is still unmatched, Maya for character animation is still unmatched, ZBrush for sculpting is still unmatched, and so forth. As of this writing, Blender does each of those increasingly well but not as well, and certainly not well enough to warrant a transition.

That said, ZBrush started as a really good hobbyist tool and grew from there. I wouldn't be surprised if Blender took a similar route.

Thanks for this. Personally, I would have wanted this information in the intro of the project. But then again, odds are I'm not your target audience and that your target audience would find it obivous. It's one data point at least. :)

Thanks, that helps put things in context.

I also think it looks neat, but I'm struggling to figure out what it is. Bootstrap, as in the CSS framework[0]? Latest release appears to be 4, what does 5 mean? Admin? Admin of what, a website? Some other platform? Is this a website template, with some built-in asset management mechanic like Wordpress?

> Volt is a free and open source Bootstrap powered admin dashboard with components, pages and plugin that you can use to create an awesome admin interface.

Components? As in, web components[1]? Or is it terminology from some other web framework, maybe React or maybe some language feature in e.g. TypeScript?

I suppose my question would be, what problem should I be having to look for a "Bootstrap 5 Admin Dashboard"?

[0]: https://getbootstrap.com/ [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components

I was wondering the same as the parent, and in my case it's library support (e.g. NumPy) and compatibility/familiarity in the space (VFX) where Python is everywhere and Lua is unheard of.