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    Michaelina Wautier, a 17th-century artist

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    Extended piece on a recently re-appreciated female painter. Check out the expressions on the boys in her "Five Senses" series.

    And in the large "Bacchus" painting, I presume that is her, looking at the viewer? :D

     

    For Centuries, Her Art Was Forgotten, or Credited to Men. No More.

     

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    Wautier had been largely forgotten for more than 300 years when Van der Stighelen came across one of her paintings while rummaging around in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, where she was trying to hunt down a portrait attributed to Anthony van Dyck.

    “A curator took me along corridors that had ‘second class’ Flemish paintings,” she recalled in an interview. “When I was leaving, I saw a monumental painting — about nine feet high and twelve feet wide. I didn’t recognize it. He said, ‘Not much is known about it, but it is painted by a woman.’ ”

     

     

     

    Idiot's Lament

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    Blending is intended to describe how two or more simultaneous Actions get combined but... it may be that during a transition Blend is a factor also.

    I have almost never used Action transitions so I'm not sure.

    This would be a thing to bring to Live Answer Time!

    Just Checking in / still active?

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    Hi Jason!

    I've been a beta tester on a v19.5 for almost a year, the release of which is "real soon now"

    v19.5 wont' have dramatic new features, it's mostly about code changes for going forward... which implies there is a forward, a v20 sometime in the future. Yay!

    Anechoic Chamber == Madness?

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    You've probably heard of the super-quiet rooms that are built to test audio factors... the anechoic chambers... so quiet that mere minutes inside will drive one to madness...
     

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    ...Much of the lore about the chamber’s propensity for mind-annihilation centers on the concept of blood sounds...

    Hearing the movement of blood through the body is supposedly something like an absolute taboo, akin to witnessing the fabrication of Chicken McNuggets — an ordeal after which placid existence is irreparably shattered.

     

     

    An NYT reporter has risked her sanity to bring you the sound facts, on the record...
     

    Could I Survive the ‘Quietest Place on Earth’?

    My first Windows program

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    Rodney and I have been learning C++ and now we are looking at MFC with an eye to writing A:M plugins

    MFC or Microsoft Foundation Class is an addition to C++ that handles standard Windows GUI elements like menus and dialogs and interactions with the main program.

    WinTester.exe is my first program using these.

    WinTester.zip

    WinTester has an "Exercise" menu with four choices:

    • Blank - erases screen
    • Red Rectangle - makes one
    • Gradient - asks you to input RGB values for start and end colors and will draw a smooth transition between the two.
    • Ballistic - will plot a projectile path based on parameters you input...
      • X and Y define a point from the lower left corner that your gun is aimed at.
      • Scale controls the initial velocity
      • Gravity is a constant downward force
      • Wind is a horizontal force

     

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    Text To Animation AI

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    Plain old text to text AI is doing even worse...


    Meta Trained an AI on 48M Science Papers. It Was Shut Down After 2 Days

     

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    Almost as soon as it hit the web, users questioned Galactica with all sorts of hardball scientific questions. One user asked "Do vaccines cause autism?" Galactica responded with a garbled, nonsensical response: "To explain, the answer is no. Vaccines do not cause autism. The answer is yes. Vaccines do cause autism. The answer is no." (For the record, vaccines don't cause autism.)

    That wasn't all. Galactica also struggled to perform kindergarten math. It provided error-riddled answers, incorrectly suggesting that one plus two doesn't equal 3. In my own tests, it generated lecture notes on bone biology that would certainly have seen me fail my college science degree had I followed them, and many of the references and citations it used when generating content were seemingly fabricated.

     

     

    how much is it?

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    On 11/15/2022 at 7:59 PM, MAYAman said:

    Just paid for my version 19 and I cannot get the download from the store, it says I have no previous downloadable products. Please help.

    Got it now?

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    how much is it?

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    The DVD is a collection of models and other A:M assets which will all be usable in current versions of A:M. There is no updating to do to them.

    The email should be instant. What currency did you pay in?

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    Text To Animation AI

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    An artist can produce a rough thumbnail of an idea in a few minutes.

    AI can produce dozens of images in a few minutes that look like finished versions of the idea.

     

    Something I noticed when I was working was that most clients can not see the potential that a thumbnail portends. They will always gravitate to the thing that appears like finished work.

    Text To Animation AI

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    I recall a comedy sketch on a show in the 70s that projected the premise of increasing automation, shorter work weeks, expanding social spending, etc... to point where there was only one person left working to earn a salary that paid the taxes that supported everyone else... and she wanted to go on strike!

    CPU Render Benchmark

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    @Madfox

    One more setting to check is your computer's  Power Option. By default the OS is usually set to a power saving mode and the CPU never cranks up to its highest speed when it's just running mainly one core (Like A:M does)

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    NetRender calls up more cores and will usually crank up the CPU even when a power saving mode is selected.

     

    ThighMaster Disaster

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    The funny business is a bit different on my computer but it is there...

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    When I use Multi-Pass the artifact goes away.

    In Tools>Option>Rendering set Multi-Pass ON

    For quick on screen tests you can set Passes to 1.

    For real rendering to a file set it to at least 4. 16 passes approximates the same anti-aliasing as a regular non-multi-pass render.

    You will probably need Multi-Pass to properly anti-alias the straight lines in the decal anyway.

     

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