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3D support for boxes.py is coming along well finally.
Sources at <https://github.com/chrysn-pull-requests/boxes/tree/thingy-remote-prototypes>, PR'ing it piece by piece.

I wrote up a small article on how to structure providers in #react. By splitting data in to different providers you can save a lot of render time around the app.
https://stefanhayden.c…

React Context Provider Optimization
React createContext is a powerful way to to use react to communicate between components but there are a lot of easy mistakes to be made that will slow down your app. From memoizing everything to separating component with hooks and components with UI. Yet even if you follow all of...

It's interesting to me how photos of water look completely different from water.
In real life the visual appearance of water in this picture was inseparable from its motion.

That’s a zero, not an O, holy shit
#typography #myEyes #itBurns
“Detroit's Hollywood-style sign coming to I-94: Rendering revealed”

Detroit's Hollywood-style sign coming to I-94: Rendering revealed
Detroit officials hosted media at Fairmont Signage Company on Wednesday, giving a sneak peek into the construction process of the city’s Hollywood-style sign.

You'd think those VR engineers were particularly clever for coming up with foveated rendering. But apparently it's a common technique in #crossstitching. #needlework

WR Michael Gallup facing uncertain future with Cowboys https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/wr_michael_gallup_facing_uncertain_future_with_cowboys/s1_14819_40048082

WR Michael Gallup facing uncertain future with Cowboys
Michael Gallup has spent his entire six-year career with the Cowboys, but his tenure in Dallas could be coming to an end soon. The veteran wideout faces the possibility of being released as part of the team’s cost-cutting maneuvers. Gallup is a release candidate, Pro Football Network’s Adam Caplan notes. Three seasons remain on his current pact, a five-year, $57.5M deal inked following the expiration of his rookie contract.  The former third-rounder does not have any of his base salaries …

MM-Gaussian: 3D Gaussian-based Multi-modal Fusion for Localization and Reconstruction in Unbounded Scenes
Chenyang Wu, Yifan Duan, Xinran Zhang, Yu Sheng, Jianmin Ji, Yanyong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04026

MM-Gaussian: 3D Gaussian-based Multi-modal Fusion for Localization and Reconstruction in Unbounded Scenes
Localization and mapping are critical tasks for various applications such as autonomous vehicles and robotics. The challenges posed by outdoor environments present particular complexities due to their unbounded characteristics. In this work, we present MM-Gaussian, a LiDAR-camera multi-modal fusion system for localization and mapping in unbounded scenes. Our approach is inspired by the recently developed 3D Gaussians, which demonstrate remarkable capabilities in achieving high rendering quality…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.06522 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_ees…

Semantic-aware Sampling and Transmission in Energy Harvesting Systems: A POMDP Approach
We address the problem of real-time remote tracking of a partially observable Markov source in an energy harvesting system with an unreliable communication channel. We consider both sampling and transmission costs. Different from most prior studies that assume the source is fully observable, the sampling cost renders the source partially observable. The goal is to jointly optimize sampling and transmission policies for two semantic-aware metrics: i) a general distortion measure and ii) the age …

https://venturebeat.com/ai/google-researchers-unveil-vlogger-an-ai-that-can-bring-still-photos-to-life/
Generative image animations are coming. This is pretty cool stuff and I can't wait to see how it's used for lossy video compression: why transmit what you can render closely enough? This should be super-additive to the concurrent research being performed on recovering from data loss (Opus 1.5 just got such a feature).