The image, called A Single Piece of American Cheese, was created using Invoke’s AI editing platform.
In a side by side look, you can see how the original (left, screenshotted from the time lapse creation video) was edited to become the final image (right).
Meta Quest Pro will be available for purchase on October 25 for $1,499.99 USD, and that includes the headset, Meta Quest Touch Pro controllers, stylus tips, partial light blockers, and a charging dock.
Meta Quest Pro is the first entry in Meta’s new high-end line of devices, and it’s packed with innovative features like high-res sensors for robust mixed reality experiences, crisp LCD displays for sharp visuals, a completely new and sleeker design, plus eye tracking and Natural Facial Expressions to help your avatar reflect you more naturally in VR.
Back in the old days, when big low-tech sailing ships ruled the ocean, the sailors had to solve some quite complex problems in simple ways.
One of the most fundamental problems they had to solve, was to figure out how fast their ship was moving.
Every hour (two bells), a couple of guys would go to the stern of the boat, and throw a piece of wood into the water behind the boat – a long length of string was tied to this wood, with knots tied at regular intervals. A sailor would let this string run through this hand for 30 seconds (as measured by an hourglass operated by his mate), and he would count the number of knots that passed through in that time – hence the boat speed was measured in ‘knots’.
Being simple, uncomplicated folk,the sailors called this piece of wood a “log”, and when keeping track of the measurements of the “log”, they wrote the time and results in a “log book”. They would also record lots of other standard, useful measurements as part of the same “log entry”, barometric pressure, weather coverage, sail plan, sea state, etc..
It gave a captain coming onto watch, a comprehensive understanding of how conditions have been changing. The name of this journal persisted beyond the need for actual bits of wood to measure speed, and was often shorted to just “log” through usage, as in “Captain’s Log”, etc..
So, “logs” have a cool, functional history, and are very useful.
This figure shows a spiderweb iridescence example. The left image is a photograph of this effect by Marianna Armata. The middle image is rendered using the new wave-based BCSDF and the image on the right is rendered using a previous ray-based BCSDF.
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