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Painting boardgame miniatures with acrylic paint markers
What to consider / pros & cons
(more…)Feature Why it matters for miniatures Tip size/type (fine brush, bullet, chisel) Miniatures have small, detailed areas. If the tip is too thick you’ll lose detail, paint blobs easy. Brush or very fine bullet/needle tips are best. Opacity / pigment strength You want strong pigment so you don’t need many layers. Thin/translucent marker paint can be frustrating. Flow / consistency Too thick → clogs, blobs; too runny → loses control or bleeds over edges. Drying time Slower drying can let you blend or correct mistakes; too fast and you might get streaks. Also, layers might lift earlier coatings if not dry enough. Adherence & primer Marker paint may not stick well on smooth plastic/resin if unprimed. Priming helps a lot. Also sealing afterwards helps protect the work. Durability Miniatures get handled; you want paint & sealer that resist chipping. -
Looking Glass Factory – 4K Hololuminescent™ Displays (HLD)
𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭™ 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 (HLD for short) — razor thin (as thin as a 17mm), full 4K resolution, and capable of generating holographic presence at a magical price.
A breakthrough display that creates a holographic stage for people, products, and characters, delivering the magic of spatial presence in a razor-thin form factor.
Our patented hybrid technology creates embedded holographic layer creates the 3D volume, transforming standard video into dimensional, lifelike experiences.
Create impossible spatial experiences from standard video
- Characters, people, and products appear physically present in the room
- The embedded holographic layer creates depth and dimension that makes subjects appear to float in space
- First scalable holographic illusion that doesn’t require a room-sized installation
- The dimensional depth and presence of pepper’s ghost illusions, without the bulk
Built for the real world
- FHD clarity (HLD 16″) and 4K clarity (HLD 27″ and HLD 86″), high brightness for any lighting environment
- Thin profile fits anywhere traditional displays go
- Wall-mounted, it creates the illusion of punching a hole through the wall into another dimension
- Films beautifully for social sharing – the magic translates on camera
Works with what you have
- Runs on your existing digital signage solution, CMS, and 4K video distribution infrastructure
- Standard HDMI input or USB loading
- 2D video workflow with straightforward, specific requirements: full-size subjects on green/white backgrounds or created with our templates (Cinema4D, Unity, Adobe Premiere Pro)
16″ $2000 usd
27″ $4000 usd
86″ $20000 usd -
Luma AI releases Ray3 – 16bit HDR, reasoning video model
This is Ray3. The world’s first reasoning video model, and the first to generate studio-grade HDR. Now with an all-new Draft Mode for rapid iteration in creative workflows, and state of the art physics and consistency. Available now for free in Dream Machine.
Ray3’s native HDR delivers studio-grade fidelity. It generates video in 10, 12 & 16-bit high dynamic range with details in shadows and highlights in vivid color. Convert SDR to HDR, export EXR for seamless integration and unprecedented control in post-production workflows.
Reasoning enables Ray3 to understand nuanced directions, think in visuals and language tokens, and judge its generations to give you reliably better results. With Ray3 you can create more complex scenes, intricate multi-step motion, and do it all faster.
With reasoning, Ray3 can interpret visual annotations enabling creatives to now draw or scribble on images to direct performance, blocking, and camera movement. Refine motion, objects, and composition for precise visual control, all without prompting.
Draft Mode is a new way to iterate video ideas, fast. Explore ideas in a state of flow and get to your perfect shot. With Ray3’s new Hi-Fi diffusion pass, master your best shots into production-ready high-fidelity 4K HDR footage. 5x faster. 5x cheaper. 100x more fun.
Ray3 offers production-ready fidelity, high octane motion, preserved anatomy, physics simulations, world exploration, complex crowds, interactive lighting, caustics, motion blur, photorealism, and detail nuance, delivering visuals ready for high-end creative production pipelines.Ray3 is an intelligent video model designed to tell stories. Ray3 is capable of thinking and reasoning in visuals and offers state of the art physics and consistency. In a world’s first, Ray3 generates videos in 16bit High Dynamic Range color bringing generative video to pro studio pipelines.The all-new Draft Mode enables you to explore many more ideas, much faster and tell better stories than ever before.
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AI and the Law – Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and NBCUniversal sue Chinese AI firm MiniMax
On Tuesday, the three media companies filed a lawsuit against MiniMax, a Chinese AI company that is reportedly valued at $4 billion, alleging “willful and brazen” copyright infringement
MiniMax operates Hailuo AI
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Mariko Mori – Kamitate Stone at Sean Kelly Gallery
Mariko Mori, the internationally celebrated artist who blends technology, spirituality, and nature, debuts Kamitate Stone I this October at Sean Kelly Gallery in New York. The work continues her exploration of luminous form, energy, and transcendence.
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Vimeo Enters into Definitive Agreement to Be Acquired by Bending Spoons for $1.38 Billion
The OG video hosting company is being acquired by Bending Spoons, the same company that bought WeTransfer and quietly changed terms to let them use your content for AI training.
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ByteDance Seedream 4.0 – Super‑fast, 4K, multi image support
https://seed.bytedance.com/en/seedream4_0
➤ Super‑fast, high‑resolution results : resolutions up to 4K, producing a 2K image in less than 1.8 seconds, all while maintining sharpness and realism.
➤ At 4K, cost as low as 0.03 $ per generation.
➤ Natural‑language editing – You can instruct the model to “remove the people in the background,” “add a helmet” or “replace this with that,” and it executes without needing complicated prompts.
➤ Multi‑image input and output – It can combine multiple images, transfer styles and produce storyboards or series with consistent characters and themes.
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The 7 key elements of brand identity design + 10 corporate identity examples
www.lucidpress.com/blog/the-7-key-elements-of-brand-identity-design
1. Clear brand purpose and positioning
2. Thorough market research
3. Likable brand personality
4. Memorable logo
5. Attractive color palette
6. Professional typography
7. On-brand supporting graphics
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Photography basics: Solid Angle measures
http://www.calculator.org/property.aspx?name=solid+angle
A measure of how large the object appears to an observer looking from that point. Thus. A measure for objects in the sky. Useful to retuen the size of the sun and moon… and in perspective, how much of their contribution to lighting. Solid angle can be represented in ‘angular diameter’ as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_angle
http://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/steradian.html
A solid angle is expressed in a dimensionless unit called a steradian (symbol: sr). By default in terms of the total celestial sphere and before atmospheric’s scattering, the Sun and the Moon subtend fractional areas of 0.000546% (Sun) and 0.000531% (Moon).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_angle#Sun_and_Moon
On earth the sun is likely closer to 0.00011 solid angle after athmospheric scattering. The sun as perceived from earth has a diameter of 0.53 degrees. This is about 0.000064 solid angle.
http://www.numericana.com/answer/angles.htm
The mean angular diameter of the full moon is 2q = 0.52° (it varies with time around that average, by about 0.009°). This translates into a solid angle of 0.0000647 sr, which means that the whole night sky covers a solid angle roughly one hundred thousand times greater than the full moon.
More info
http://lcogt.net/spacebook/using-angles-describe-positions-and-apparent-sizes-objects
http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/glossary/def.php.s=topic_astronomy
Angular Size
The apparent size of an object as seen by an observer; expressed in units of degrees (of arc), arc minutes, or arc seconds. The moon, as viewed from the Earth, has an angular diameter of one-half a degree.
The angle covered by the diameter of the full moon is about 31 arcmin or 1/2°, so astronomers would say the Moon’s angular diameter is 31 arcmin, or the Moon subtends an angle of 31 arcmin.
