For a project during my masters degree, we implemented the paper Learning to Generate Chairs by Dosovitskiy et. al. in PyTorch. The only implementation available was the author’s in Caffe with Lua, so we set off to create a clean open source implementation of the work. This work presents an early differentiable renderer using convolutional […]
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Over the years, I’ve work on a side project – a C++ OpenGL rendering engine that I use as a staging ground for experiments with procedural generation. One feature I had particularly had fun implementing, was adding heightmap rendering, with a node based graph built ontop of DearImGUI, with a mask painter alongside (the effects
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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about networking and how we use it for our co-located immersive experiences. What are the pressing questions as one designs such a system for shared experiences like these? In order to deliver these compelling experiences that exceed the capabilities of stand-alone, inside-out tracked devices such as the recent Oculus
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The recent explosion of deep learning has demonstrated its awesome power, but data driven machine learning isn’t the end of the story. Machine learning is only one piece of the puzzle, in the future it will just be, as Ken has put it, “like a sine function”, could find use everywhere. It will be used
Now that we have room-scale co-located tracking with no external sensors, thanks to the Quest, and Connor DeFanti’s calibration scheme – we can begin to explore other exciting possibilities for the future. One of which is using small embedded boards, such as the Raspberry Pi, coupled with an camera – both attached to the front
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From time to time, I meander outside my typical work, and pursue a side project, often dealing with some random use of procedural generation techniques. For this one, over the past winter break, I relaxed by seeing if I could generate mushrooms with a few functions, and arrange them in interesting “pseudo” natural looking ways,
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