movies you can smell!
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This is crazy. 200 gigabit data connection to a satellite in low earth orbit. I’ve got a fairly fast connection to my house [500 megabit] which is about a quarter of a percent of that.
Context: something that would take 3 minutes to download at home would be done in about half a second using this system. I know I’m idealizing but that’s still incredible even if you only see half of this in real world.
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You mean I’d take an entire second?? How dare!!! 
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When I first started doing 3D renderings in Auto-cad it would take about 17 hours, even though I hid anything that would not show up in the image anyway. And that Win-95 landscape program would do similar if you took too large a bite. Now I use the same program on my win11 machine and those large images are a couple of seconds. Once it is down in the range of a second or two, even moving the mouse out of the way takes longer than the rendering. By that time it ceases to be even visible.
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Late 90s a buddy of mine…I don’t remember using what program…it wasn’t maya…took a full 24 hours to render a simple tea kettle.
……3d max.
It was like 5 sec animation of a simple like 30 piece explosion of said tea pot.
(On a 133mhz cpu)
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3ds max, still the gold standard for rendering in a lot of circles.
The cool part about modern 3d programs is that you can plug in different rendering engines. They have different qualities and speeds, some are done in realtime at nearly photoreal quality. The 3d rendering world is really wild these days.
And yeah that teapot is still the benchmark image.
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Yes, I was doing some 3d with Corel before they blew it away, And there was one called Trispectives before that which worked on my 64K memory computer, all with similar “come back a day later” rendering times. But even when I was doing a lot of 3D AutoCAD before they even had actual solids. I had the hottest machine in the office wit 2 meg of ram instead one meg like everyone else, so asking for the (then standard for 3d) of 6 meg of ram I might as well asked for a million (which is pretty much what I have now).
I did this before Autocad had solids…
I got serious with 3D rendering with 3D Max, trying to learn it with customers breathing down my back and not realizing on their part that shadows really are a different color than the same thing in full sun, so wanting there to be shadows but both the same color and the tiniest color difference between the screen and the print was unacceptable.
This was done in Max…
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Your current computer has only 1GB of ram? That seems low?
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I love chemistry, and chocolate chip cookies. Here’s a chem geek who makes one cookie from the basic, most pure ingredients (and his grandma’s recipe):
For those who want the summary, start at 24:50–it’s a very profound thing I should say to myself at least once a day.
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All this time and this is the first video where I’ve seen nilered’s face. Huh!
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Someone (@chris1?) explain to me why I need or don’t need this thing?
It looks awesome but I really have no clue what I’d do with it.
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The most popular analog computer from the past was a slide rule. I have seen three and they were all slide rules with different analogs. (slide rule being a distance analog)
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Maybe xsi softimage. That’s what my husband used. He said it’s the best program, but autodesk got rid of it after they bought it.
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Interesting notes about the new apple AR headset.
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Yeah. I kinda want one. It will be interesting to see if the product lives up to the demo. I can see it as a laptop replacement in a lot of ways.
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If you could buy this one device instead of a laptop, multiple displays, a television and a surround sound system, the price could be justified. But if you don’t live alone, you’d need multiple.
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That’s hilarious! I’m resisting purchasing because I don’t need yet another tchotchke…but if I can come up with a good quote to use, there are a few friends who clearly need this 
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You could always make your own using your GF.
This site is a translator that lets you generate the cuneiform for something and then save the marks for engraving.
Be careful of the “cuneiform fonts” as there isn’t a 1:1 letter translation from English to Babylonian (or Sumerian or Akkadian) cuneiform. It’s a sound based marking system so typically more syllabic breakdown vs letters to make the words/phrases.
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it’s randomly cool enough that you just need the right person and it would be an amazing gift.
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