Notices by aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)

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Regarding this image I posted yesterday: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@aeva/113497645822172397

I experimented with blender's options for "ai" denoising and ultimately decide it was unsalvageable and left it off. I'm sure it probably looks fine for some things, but for this particular scene it just made my image look like it was shat out by stable diffusion. It was really bad - it muddied up the edges and made all of the small transmissive lights look splotchy and bad.

I feel like I'm in the minority here but in general I'd rather have ray tracing grain over the weird thing that denoising does to low light images specifically.

This sort of thing is interesting to me though, because the harsh constraints imposed by technical fads create room for people to stand out. State of the art realtime ray tracing renderers also often struggle with low light scenes and tend to have similarly ugly telltale artifacts.

But this also got me thinking, do "ai" image generators struggle at all with generating noisy / eccentric high frequency textures? My understanding is they're meant to take noise and munge it into recgonizable patterns so more different generating fine grain noise is probably contrary to how they're trained?

Maybe leaving the denoiser off on raytraced renders is a feature if you can afford the extra convergence time.

@cwebber An activity pub is a pub with fun activities like board games and craft projects. There's an activity pub instance near me that has an adult coloring book night. It sounds wholesome, but they can get quite rowdy!

men will literally try to kill the mana tree instead of going to therapy

you ever think about how most of rendering is just querying and processing tabular data

anyone got any cool plans for the COVID-2027 superpandemic lockdowns

@sinbad imagine having that much money and still being a boot licker

@tess they followed me a while back and I was like "well ok that's fair"

@ireneista @erincandescent I don't think I count as The Kids These Days anymore (I'm in my late 30s), but I can't say that email has been a place where cool things happen, just an endless deluge of spam and notifications that I can't keep under control. Between my work and personal email I have 8170 messages in my inboxes, most of which are unread. I've tried "inbox zero". I have tons of filters set up. I just can't keep up.

I usually don't have lofty opinions about game engine architecture unless drawing pictures is involved, so I got really excited today when I found that I have a non rendering opinion on the subject, which is that you should generally try to avoid writing relational databases from scratch on accident because otherwise you will write a relational database from scratch on accident and it won't be a good one.

@mcc @renkotsuban some Canadians I work with pronounce decal like "deckle" instead of the "dee-cal" I'm familiar with and I've yet to determine if that's a quirk of their studio or if it's a regional thing or what.

@TomF @mcc @Farbs @renkotsuban Tom languages are fluid things that evolve and change over time. Deviation is only wrong if 1) the person you're talking to thinks it is wrong and 2) they're willing and able to make it a you problem.

@TomF @mcc @Farbs @renkotsuban the french aren't real and they can't hurt me

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@silverwizard what would you say the average price is? some other books I looked up came up as cheap as six bucks

@mcc turn the tables on sick. make sick feel you

@silverwizard HOLY SMOKES ONE HUNDRED AND FOUR GREEN AMERICAN BUCKAROOS FOR A BOOK ARE THESE PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR GOD DAMN MINDS https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781668642726