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I have a cute fox rendering on PS2 now! Finally got around to implementing the skeletal animation in VU1 microcode, 41 cycles per vertex for just that part.
Wanted to post a video but it's so complicated...
Never noticed this, very interesting observation!
Just realized there is a unique word in Germanic languages that doesn't exist in English:
"Gunnen" in Dutch and “gönnen” in German - a verb, basically the opposite of envying or begrudging something.
It can be most accurately translated as "l wish for you to have this/I'm happy that you have this and I do not begrudge you this". It implies no value judgement on someone actually deserving something, and there is an emotional nuance to it that acknowledges that someone having something good does not diminish you, possibly even in spite of your own less favorable circumstances.
This is a fascinating word, as most languages have the opposite of it - "to envy" - and English comes closest with the antonym "to begrudge", yet how curious that most other languages don't have a one word equivalent for an action that is the opposite of envy.
Super fun!
Anschauliche Tabellen von der gesamten Residenz- Stadt Berlin, worin alle Straßen, Gassen und Plätze in ihrer natürlichen Lage vorgestellt, und in denenselben alle Gebäude oder Häuser wie auch der Name und die Geschäfte eines jeden Eigenthümers aufgezeichnet stehen
Unpopular opinion, but now that i'm living in berlin mitte for a few months, i really, really feel that the fernsehturm should be torn down. it's just communist megalomania that completely destroyed the historic center of the city. we did the right thing with palast der republik.
Spinors are the *perfect* input representation for hands in VR. and VR would be the perfect way to explore spinors intuitively. and yet the hand tracking on the oculus quest 2 doesn't recognize a full quaternion worth of hand orientations, just pathetic. you had one job!
It's been hitting me what a dysfunctional mess i am once a month for a while now. i hate these depressive phases. just hope it's just some transitional phase and doesn't become permanent
I see so much cool stuff on my timeline that i have no idea what to even do anymore. too much inspiration and most of it looks so out of my league. i hate the paralysis
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claude rendered this :) but not the usual js+webgl no no no i had it write a renderer in pdp-10 assembly like its 1978 and run it in a simulator :)))))
