Tag: video

SpaceX telemetry

Neat: due to some nuclear weapons treaty, rocket communications are transmitted more or less in the clear, and a group of enthusiasts have decoded additional internal sensor readings & pictures from spacex, but also some chinese ones(?). Kind of surprising that there’s not more industrial espionage going on, or if there is, others don’t seem to suspiciously catch up with spacex.

CO2 comes down to China / India

89% of the additional greenhouse gases came from just 2 countries, China, which alone accounted for 69% of the increase, and India. Emissions from the EU, Japan and US fell, and by 2018 were lower than they were in the 1990s.


2021-12-22:

Yes, China’s fossil fuel use is astronomical, but it’s also the world’s largest installer of renewable power – by some distance – and it’s set to go much bigger. The country is leading the way in other clean energy technologies and the scale of its carbon-cutting plans has taken many by surprise.

TikTok remixing

TikTok took a lot of friction out of generating your own content, even though it is super derivative, and kind of dumb.

TikTok launches seemingly a new video effect or filter every week. I regularly log in and see creators using some filter I’ve never heard of, and some of them are just flat out bonkers. What creators can accomplish with some of these filters I can’t even fathom how I’d replicate in something like the Adobe Creative Suite.

Rome in 3D

a good amount of progress since we last looked at this

History in 3D lives up to its name. The virtual recreations of ancient temples, cities, palaces and fortresses are vividly rendered in granular detail with realistic lighting effects and animated fly-ins. They’ve built models of everything from Sevastopol in 1914 to the flooding of Titanic’s grand staircase to Corinth in the 2nd century.

4 years ago, their most ambitious project, a reconstruction of Rome’s city center as it was in 320 Rome in 3D, made its debut on their YouTube channel. They had already been working on it for years and had enough of it ready to make a riveting trailer, a few tantalizing minutes of what promised to be the most comprehensive virtual recreation of ancient Rome ever made. The aim was to integrate it into a game engine, building a fully realized city based on the latest, most accurate information to provide an immersive experience of walking its streets.

Last month, History in 3D released their latest Rome in 3D video. They assured followers that the project was still ongoing, that they had encountered challenges and obstacles but were surmounting them and coming back better than ever, deploying new technological tools to redesign buildings and objects. The new trailer showcases the Forum, the beating heart of Roman society, and it is a huge leap forward in quality.