LLM inferences tend to be erratically wrong. So, 99% of the time the answer is correct but 1% of the time it may be wrong and wrong in a way that is hard to predict and account for. In TruU we have technologies beyond just calibration for accounting for errors …
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Klimt - Kiss
Using a large number of images from your database to create a desired output. It is essentially a matching problem where you find the image which most closely matches the pixel in your desired image. The original image is 4988x5025 and used a thousand images as source.
I did some …
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This image was my first foray into motion capture for Species in BOSS days. We all looked so young. SIL motion capture rig was all created internally at BOSS films. You can see Richard Edlund on the bottom right. This was really early days when we didn’t know what …
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Long Exposures are nothing but integrations over a period of time. I think this will be a cool way to introduce kids to the concept of time and how photography is nothing but an integration…
… maybe there is some sampling in there as well.
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Playing with Bokeh
Bokeh (pronounced /bo’ka/) is the visual quality of the out-of-focus areas of a photographic image, especially as rendered by a particular lens.
Most photo buffs including me primarily get high quality Bokeh with good quality glass. One quality of bokeh is the fact that out of focus highlights usually …
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Sometimes, we encounter complex names for concepts we’ve been using all along. Recently, I started exploring Dempster-Shafer Theory (more on that as I learn further) and came across the following:
Principle of Insufficient Reason
Also known as the Principle of Indifference, which, despite sounding like a bourgeois view of …
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I love painting with light… putting a small object in complete darkness and then lighting the scene with a small flashlight. Observe the two very different renditions of identical composition.
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Martini On Photons
Painting with Light
Painting with light is just a joy to use. One keeps the camera on the tripod along with a still life and then go around and light the scene with a flashlight as you see fit. Some examples follow.
In the images below all the changes are …
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This document was created mapping the cartesian coordinates to the polar coordinates. We were visiting The Cube in Orange County and I shot a 360 panorama of Devin. So the x axis of the image represented the azimuth and the y axes the elevation. After that it was a simple …
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