TiXL Tooll4 test animation

Displace mesh

https://youtu.be/m2vfj0MvOac

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Two meshes combined via ‘CombineMeshes’, animated displacement via ‘DisplaceMeshNoise’ powered via ‘PerlinNoise’. Mesh is never rendered out, but vertices are changed into ‘points’ via ‘MeshVerticesToPoints’. Rest should be self-explainable. No keyframes of any kind, all animation is powered via ‘PerlinNoise’.

TiXL Tooll4 seems to work pretty well with this old gpu (GeForce GTX 980 / 4GB).

2-click particles

https://youtu.be/IitV_9nZXLc (4k/50p)

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DOF does NOT look good for some reason.

Keyframed text animation reveal

https://youtu.be/f0v8NQJRVBc

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Using Blender Like it's Photoshop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RZZdgH7jfE

Aktually, this is even better than photoshop, more like AE, since you are just few clicks away from animation.

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Chafa

The premier UX of the 21st century just got a little better: With chafa, you can now view very, very reasonable approximations of pictures and animations in the comfort of your favorite terminal emulator.

https://hpjansson.org/chafa
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46278208

Fix jumpy h.265 video playback in mpv?

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/7707

In mpv.conf

vo=gpu
gpu-api=auto
hwdec=d3d11va-copy
hwdec-codecs=all
opengl-pbo=yes

Seems to fix jumpy playback of 10 bit h.265 on win11 machine. Where most likely fix (according to ai) is

hwdec=d3d11va-copy

Very cool text

Blender 5 btw (3440x1440),
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Another try
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Interview with RollerCoaster Tycoon’s Creator

https://archive.ph/bEXT4
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46130335
https://openrct2.io

Back in 1996 or 1997 I was really struggling for inspiration and focus while working on Transport Tycoon 2. This sequel to my earlier game Transport Tycoon seemed a good idea at the time but the planned improvements over Transport Tycoon Deluxe weren’t that great, and the power and memory of PCs at the time weren’t enough to allow a more ambitious approach with the sequel.

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Astrophysicist on 3i Atlas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rb08Io8MpM

Astrophysicist on 3i Atlas, NASA Moon Mission & Intelligent Life | David Kipping 1:28 – People Are Freaking Out About 3I/ATLAS… 13:00 – What is a Comet’s Tail? 28:32 – Our Galaxy Could Be INSANELY Old 37:35 – What Happens When Black Holes Collide? 48:19 – The Multi-Everettian View and much more

And an image of ‘Schrödinger’s cat in quantum superposition’.