Looking at ways to make a CCTV imitation for a possible game jam(s?)
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Ten years from now, I will be taking nudes to send to my boyfriend while he’s on break at work, but since AI post-processing will have gone off the rails, my 2036-era smartphone–that has only 2 GB of RAM due to shortages ever since the Silicon Wars of 2029–will aggressively upscale the photo, removing every wrinkle from my heavy sack and every vein from my thick, curved shaft, with no way to return to the natural, original image. A little frustrated, I ask him to come over to my apartment later this evening to see my flesh as it truly is, not as how big tech wants it to be seen. The gentle, loving suction he gives to my full length takes my mind away from this techno dystopia, even if only for a little bit.
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coded another fun image thing today (:
was looking through stamp archives and wanted to try to replicate the dotty printing effect. ive also been wanting to try to separate out color channels to recombine so i hit that too. might refine it to be a whole color absorbsion curve for each channel to mimic how old color film worked with gels and such if i want to include this in my grander color theory project.
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sometimes you just gotta beg your teammate to check a box with the autism creature because the camera isn’t on a prefab but straight under main which he is working on and im forbidden of touching
i was maybe a little out of it at this point in development haha
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Comments I made that can help you modify 3d prints through post processing to improve functional print material design & capability
Dude, super cool! I think you are almost there, the crucible being flipped upside down likely didn’t help, keeping the thermally raising gases moving back into the graphite & silicon might have hurt reaction characteristics.
I’m surprised myself the carbon wouldn’t work with the induction side of things. It’s not using a ac & serpentine flux field I think then. A way to run, typically non-conductive materials for this one, an induction heater is to use 2 coils with ac phasing that allows for it to dump in-between phases. That way the coil catching the collapsing fields from the other one just on, can now absorb & redirect that flux field as change it into lorentz/eddie/rotating charge fields that act like microwaves (effectively).
In a cylinder like a crucible, it has absorption & reflection & a serpentine works really well when doubled up for that specific style of furnace. Its even cheaper, usually, to implement. Which is why it surprised me, it didn’t have that in it.
Anyways, it might be advantageous as to just scrub your silicon dioxide down in a rotating rock-tumbler inside of a larger ultrasonic cleaner, for a removal of it oxides. To be fair too, to you, the hydrogen will still like to react & stick to the silicon dioxide here because small nano pockets of water stay on. Which is where heating in a vacuum & vibrating it will help you the most on that side. Same when it comes down to just “de-rusting” your silicon lol.
Drying helps, de-rusting with a hydrogen mix that uses electricity & heat is typically the easiest method to do it all at once. So, ultra low oxide fuel rich, like hydrogen injected into a pre-combusted oxy-acetylene, like I saw you have. Just a full tungsten carbide .6-.4 something like that 3d printer nozzle will work out provided its further forward of the flame, in this instance!
However, you’ll need to just remove all the fuel rich & just run as close to perfectly mixed as possible then just add in those hydrogens with the dc power supply hooked up to your electrically conductive nozzle to remove the silicon dioxide problem. To its flowing in argon, this joins into the stream of burning oxy-acetylene & hydrogen enriched gas that is now electrified & close to your instream of argon filled with that sweet sweet silicon dioxide.
volcano nozzles have a really nice taper to a point, so they should be very nice for this kind of application & use. I have a full tungsten carbide nozzle that’s a volcano, I got it from manufacturer in America, so I don’t know if you can use them. West3d 3d printing supplies is what is says in the order history.
I like them, you don’t need to go with them, anything that works material wise is what you should do. But just if you were interested & or anyone else that might read this. Point is that it doesn’t have to be done that way, its something I thought of for myself because it seemed more feasible for me one day, the chemistry for breaking these bonds could be something I can’t approach without a real lab & so on to work on things. I don’t have that & won’t (at least maybe for a very long time). So, instead, you have everything to quickly make an attempt yourself using my technique & design process.
A crucible made out of graphite is made such that eating into those bonds is difficult, so scratching up & making more available (surface activation through mechanical & chemical process is better for your task too) & chemically treating it will help you too, gas run through during the heating process to re-solidify the crucible to not have it break as easily while its being eaten during this reaction can be done & is going to help you out. That gas is almost always something that seems really easy to use, but its not.
Like, you can use nox n2o, but it explosively decomposes…. which blows (heheheh). Mostly because it removes other n2o from reacting to the carbon correctly & prevents it from changing allotrope & its reaction to nitrogen later as it can lose those nitrogens gained. But, it doesn’t explode, its just a decent bond. weak as it may be, its just a decent covalent bond that likes to move during this stuff.
You can use fluorocarbons!~ & they work, but they are only so good, as fluorine likes to stick to the carbons too well & then rapidly move deeper into your crucible & crack it harder. Iodine gases are okay enough, if bismuth iodine (oxide/sulfured although I hate sulfur versions) makes a great non-thermally conductive gas that is stable to extreme pressures & temps. You just have to remove one to 3 oxygens & its remains stupendously stable. But its like insulative glass or something as a gas. It barely reacts, but in this it will & does!
Just at higher temps. The crucible gets stable the fluorine gets sequestered & changes to a better more stable ceramic, & the carbon gets a weird shared bismuth. All of it likes to explode. But only past 3000c. It likes to lightly decompose & burn things with fluorine & bismuth before then.
So instead, lithium gas is used, lithium iodide to be specific. It works by changing the states of structures & orbits, nicely & gently, at room temps & pressures, but it has to be incredibly dense. Which, usually, ultra dense lithium iodide gas isn’t a thing I hear people talk about so I don’t know if you can source it. But you can make it yourself through reactions less dangerous than most others you’ve already done on your channel.
Fun parts aside, it just needs to sit around for like 2 weeks to a month at room temps & pressures, 1 week at 5 atmospheres, i think around that size of your crucible or similar for a decently high temp. Vibe with me here dude.
its going to be slightly glowly & you’ve gone too far. From about yay far the back of your hand will be warm & you’ll probably be too cold at that yay. it needs to be a bit…. eh shrugs 3-5 seconds too hot to hold it there any longer & that ought to do it.
hold up hand this far apart ——————————————————————————————————————————————
there we go, each one of those is a specific size at 100% scale on a 1920x1080 screen that is 24 inches in size. Laid end to end, it should be pretty close, I would say, to the yay distance you are aiming for.
There are measurements, sure. They are google-able yes even found on wiki & pubchem & more. But, hey, whatever you want to do. If you even need gas, a closer to proper mix ratios of your ingredients here will help you. More carbon, then start with that crucible being something used too will help. Controlled thermite reactions are what these are, basically, & energy barrier thresholds have different ways to lowering those barriers, like specific wave lengths, correct resonance of electromagnetic inductance, the correct ac applied for direct heating, microwaves aren’t the best ones & neither are infrared. Its electron orbit shells moving up & down. Quantum light emittance is the way to think about this reaction. Adding in lasers work, sure but so does vibration & electricity. If you time everything, is moves better in the way you want it to. You have to vibe with your materials~
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This is no gimmick to me! I would love this, in fact its something I’ve been thinking about myself for a quick change tool kit. A metal 3d printed head allows for a feed in through a rotation, this also allows for it to cut the fiber there too, just at the end of the fully extrusion.
The rotational side is pretty easy if you think about it as gears & a simple sinch/snip & yank to slice motion. It uses thermal expansion in the ranges it operates at to make it function better, it’s intentionally lower sized to account for that expansion, is what I’m saying. It just needs to have a spool feed next to the single nozzle that just yanks back then cuts the full fiber, I do have to lift it out then slide a pushing out into the melt chamber round lobe like area into that spot to make sure no filament comes out.
It’s got a 3 to 7 into one filament mixer chamber. It heats up the sides then spins, then that rolls the filament into pellets that then extrude through the below chamber, perfect for the dust mixers (for metals & ceramics) & ground/chopped fibers (different strand spray profiles for better entwinement of the other plastics in-between the fibers, they re-adhere together to allow for it to be printed in different diffused ways, I was not wanting to build a brand new slicer as programming isn’t what I’m focused on right now.
So I’ve been delaying, hard, on even making a video about it, for the design concept & outline of it) + powders (chemical, metal, surprisingly b vitamins & or more all can become incredibly good catalysts for various reactions that turn this into a multi bond meta material type deal. Like, they bond more like poly-amorphous with lattice structures, often thanks to the plastics & metals, joining with ceramics & how you can start reactions for these materials when using those compounds in them. In fact its how we think certain bacterium might break down some bonds, with the help of these kinds of things.
Peptides, vitamins, minerals, etc etc it goes on & on, add in a little carbon nano onion ball (microwave kiln & fish scales, look it up, great science article & youtube videos about it) & it starts acting like bone that can be made to allotrope differently & or produce even mono-polycrystalline structures that are polymerized) …. Powders yes, basic powders, nothing to them, like tungsten & silicon carbide you made in your microwave kiln using old e-waste & fish scales, or nylon…. something. In a vacuum. specifically, that way with a previous argon flush to improve the non-oxidation aspects of this reaction spread.
You can add in needed plates to strengthen an enclosure & run a vacuum pump to it while shoving argon in, at low pressure & speeds…. You know, so that way it acts like you are printing with just the argon gas you are pumping in & vacuuming into a compressor for later. This means you can print even hotter stuff, using some very small exotic metal 3d printed parts with regular, you knoow stainless/good aluminum expansion co-efficient knowledge & skill… Makes it much cheaper.
Stepper motor rotation. Gears for torque. It was all a plan. This would help out a lot, this printer for all of that. Electricity can enter into the equation for the 3d printer, with a good vacuum going on, together with lasers at a swivel ring angle around the nozzle, with a small tungsten carbide electrode nozzle that is, ring? …. Right coils. Yeah. No they’re… Yeah no its magnets of the electrical kind now time.
Changing crystalline patterns during cooling & printing allows for you to further alter & join your fibers that can be moved & tied together using this technique. While electrifying them through, both dc & ac, sure, but light & electromagnetism. This means they move & send electricity to further react, bond, weld & more your prints with fibers that remove the “super highways” of your crystalline structures you join together.
Like in veritassium’s video. About super alloys for jet engines. This removes a defect flaw in that design. So its stronger & higher temp proof while being printable at regular temps we have today already been using. Like, if wanted I guess you could do 420.69c (lol yes) for incredibly high temp powders bonding at the needed current & reactants. The spool its planned around your print, the whole thing a “magnetic tape hard drive” if you will, of instructions to the chemistry & more going on over the course of your print. It’s literally that, it triggers your print to auto do those things those ways, so you plan around it.
A joiner & a few filament holder is the chamber thing above. Its going to work with that slicer, from what it looks like.
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Day-to-night: Merrythought
I make no excuses when I state that this is a heavily-edited image of the Merrythought teddy-bear factory in Dale End, Ironbridge – now more commonly known as the Co-Op.
Taking a memorable photograph of this building now is virtually impossible due to the multitude of signs and road markings that adorn the exterior. I started my post-processing by removing some of the signage and people, but as…
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Day-to-night: The Golden Ball
Situated right opposite my best friends house, I spent many teenage evenings in this hostelry. Banks’ mild was 70p a pint and a beef burger in a bun was 50p – so you could have a decent night out for less than a fiver! As you can guess, this was a fair few years ago.
I haven’t set foot inside for decades now, but the outside looks much the same as I remember it. I had been past a few times to…
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The Importance of Post-Processing in Video Games
Post-processing elevates a game’s visuals, offering creative control beyond lighting. It’s crucial for indie developers to experiment with effects like color correction and shaders while optimizing for performance.
For many indie developers working with limited resources – whether it’s budget, team size, or processing power – the initial focus often falls squarely on core gameplay mechanics and…
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B&A © Andrea Passon
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- RAW development (in Camera Raw)
- Optical and geometric corrections
- Use of masks and effects
- Black and white conversion / processing
- Brush tools in Photoshop
- Camera Raw filter
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To stay compliant with any upcoming video game censorship laws, I set up this neat pixelization effect!
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Crop Patterns at Esbenshade
Although, I’ve made countless photos at Esbenshade Road, on this occasion I was interigued by the crop patterns in the field on the northside of the Strasburg Rail Road tracks.
The combination of a richly textured sky and these foreground patterns made for an interesting setting.
I made a sequence of images using my Nikon Z7-II mirrorless. In post-processing I created two variations from the…
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11 years ago—PA at Spencer
Eleven years ago, I attended the Streamliners at Spencer event in North Carolina with fellow photographer Pat Yough.
Over the course of three days I exposed hundreds of photos of the myriad preserved locomotives and roling stock on display.
While the various EMD diesels were the stars of the show, one of the curiosities was this former Santa Fe Railway Alco PA dressed as Nickel Plate Road…
