Tag: video

State of motion capture

motion capture has come a long way

We present the first end-to-end solution to create high-quality free-viewpoint video encoded as a compact data stream. Our system records performances using a dense set of RGB and IR video cameras, generates dynamic textured surfaces, and compresses these to a streamable 3D video format. 4 technical advances contribute to high fidelity and robustness: multimodal multi-view stereo fusing RGB, IR, and silhouette information; adaptive meshing guided by automatic detection of perceptually salient areas; mesh tracking to create temporally coherent subsequences; and encoding of tracked textured meshes as an MPEG video stream. Quantitative experiments demonstrate geometric accuracy, texture fidelity, and encoding efficiency. We release several datasets with calibrated inputs and processed results to foster future research.

Upgrade all the windows

Watch 36 years of Microsoft PC operating systems for consumers flash before your eyes, plus more than a couple dick drawings, in this experiment to challenge the limits of sequential Windows installation. Beginning with MS DOS 3.10—which he notes wasn’t even available as a retail product before version 5, you had to buy a whole computer to get your hands on it—he uses VirtualBox to install every Windows operating system from there on up. This involves copying the disks onto the root of the C drive one by one.

mars is extremely pretty

Reverse Kolshik

Russian band Leningrad’s “Kolshik” is a reversed video of multiple disasters in and around a circus. Someone reversed the reverse:

Hacking games

Arbitrary Code Execution Glitches in video games have allowed creators of Tool-Assisted Speedruns to break open a game entirely, using nothing more than the controller inputs that are normally used to guide in-game actions.

Trappist-1

7 tidally locked earth-like planets in 1 system, only 40LY away. you may want to adjust your drake equation priors upward, again.

Ataraxya

Club drugs: when they’re good, they’re good, and when they’re bad, they’re better. 5 directors collaborated on this trippy animation that stands among the best depictions of a club trip I have seen. Headphones, full screen, and dark room strongly recommended.

Elbphilharmonie

The up-tempo video takes us through the many impressive features which recently helped the building win the Cultural Architecture Prize in ArchDaily’s Building of the Year Awards. From the gently curving escalator at the building’s entrance which becomes less steep as it ascends, to the curved glass which gives the building’s exterior its signature look, to the CNC-milled acoustic walls in the performance spaces, #donotsettle takes an uncompromising look at the project’s finer details. Given the building’s fraught construction process which generated so much controversy that it was deemed worthy of a spot at discussion in the 2012 Venice Biennale, it is heartening to see that (almost) all of those around the vlogging duo seem enthused about the building’s much-awaited opening.