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New comment by shahar2k in "Unfolder for Mac – A 3D model unfolding tool for creating papercraft"

shahar2k — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:58:42 +0000

You're thinking of the same app i used to use! I think it was a Japanese app called Papakura? It's what helped me learn 3d modeling back in the day

New comment by shahar2k in "A beginner's guide to split keyboards"

shahar2k — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 01:28:00 +0000

love the microsoft ergonomic kb, I have the surface grey one as my main kb (I need the full layout for various 3d program shortcuts annoyingly) but it really does feel great to type on despite not being "mechanical"

New comment by shahar2k in "The 3D Software Rendering Technology of 1998's Thief: The Dark Project (2019)"

shahar2k — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:21:07 +0000

I found out about that one through mortismal games and loved it, i actually played through that campaign almost entirely on a stream deck!

I don't know though if it would be as good to someone who's played it first before the main game(s)

New comment by shahar2k in "Knowledge and memory"

shahar2k — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 08:44:41 +0000

honestly humans are nowhere near as lossless as you think, look up any study on eye-witness acounts of crimes and you will see how fallible to hallucination the human mind is as well .... at least when it comes to one-shot learning.

I feel from my own experience teaching, that it's repetition and pruning of information that really makes human memory and learning much more effective and not the act of storing the information the first time.

New comment by shahar2k in "Keyboards from my collection (2023)"

shahar2k — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 09:48:40 +0000

I still have mine, unfortunately basically nothing supports it at this point

New comment by shahar2k in "Gemini Diffusion"

shahar2k — Thu, 22 May 2025 07:57:48 +0000

I'm an artist who works on pre-production fast turnaround animations for films, and yeah that hits the nail on the head, knowing what NOT to do which elements not to focus on is a majority of the power that comes with experience. I'm fast because I know which corners can be cut best and how to illustrate what I need to

New comment by shahar2k in "Crocotile3D low poly modelling tool"

shahar2k — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 13:45:46 +0000

Milkshape was such crap, i loved it haha. I learned modeling using it too, i think it had two tools extrude and merge vertices, so i had to learn some dumb topological tricks to do anything. Still by the time i moved to 3ds Max i did pretty well.

My favorite early learning app was wings 3d, really fantastic modeling flow and creates clean messages by default

New comment by shahar2k in "Autonomous Overhead Powerline Recharging for Uninterrupted Drone Operations [video]"

shahar2k — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 03:23:40 +0000

I imagine something like a weaponized version of this, loitering semi autonomous drone swarms fully charged / ready to deploy hanging off wires... a bit like the US spider munition or just smart landmines.

New comment by shahar2k in "A world from a sheet of paper (2023) [video]"

shahar2k — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 23:17:44 +0000

hes a frequent contributor to numberphile!

https://www.youtube.com/@numberphile/search?query=tadashi

although honmestly most of their mathematicians are lovely people!

New comment by shahar2k in "My favourite animation trick: exponential smoothing (2023)"

shahar2k — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 04:12:33 +0000

it's funny, the thing that got me to understand calculus initially in class was seeing the graphs, somehow my brain immediatly "got" the difference between acceleration and movement and the shapes of those formulas... these days I think it might be a type of kinesthetic synesthesia! helps immensely since I work in animation and always had an easy time figuring out just the right math for procedural animation :)

New comment by shahar2k in "YouTube dominates TV streaming in US, per Nielsen's latest report"

shahar2k — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 11:31:17 +0000

nebula really is the best of youtube! I've subscribed for a while but recently went for their lifetime subscription (I know it's not a "deal" I just want to support those creators')

a friend is actually a creator there! speaks very well about them

New comment by shahar2k in "Things unexpectedly named after people (2020)"

shahar2k — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 11:24:55 +0000

I'm very surprised to see this so late in the thread

New comment by shahar2k in "Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier–and didn't tell subs"

shahar2k — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 23:13:11 +0000

same here and there's a few non "shipping time" bonuses I remember hearing about and noting that I wanted to try... but then never did, I wonder if I should cut them off because I really dont mind just "acquiring" those shows otherwise if I want to watch them

New comment by shahar2k in "Simulating fluids, fire, and smoke in real-time"

shahar2k — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 20:54:12 +0000

reminds me of this - https://www.taron.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4

it's a painting program where the paint can be moved around with a similar fluid simulation

New comment by shahar2k in "I was scared To say this to NASA (But I said it anyway) – Smarter Every Day"

shahar2k — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 18:19:14 +0000

This strikes me as a moment where you should watch the video there's a moment specifically at 41:40 where he basically says what you're saying and it's an integral part of his point

I find that a lot of people myself included like to argue against an imagined version of something they hear second hand often not going to the source material to realize they're standing on the same side

New comment by shahar2k in "Steven Spielberg Predicts 'Implosion' of Film Industry (2013)"

shahar2k — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 20:42:45 +0000

hah it's possibly a bit of a cheat but immortality (cheat because as a game it's largely a movie)

but yeah as far as compelling characters through games alone, Pentiment was incredible around the same time

New comment by shahar2k in "MagicaVoxel – A free voxel art editor and interactive path tracing renderer"

shahar2k — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 17:12:23 +0000

I use his other software magicaCSG, I'm a 3d artist and it's probably the simplest 3D program I've ever used but it's super fun to play around in.

So fun in fact that I joined his patreon to get access to earlier releases!

New comment by shahar2k in "Visualizing quaternions (2018)"

shahar2k — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 06:22:07 +0000

I actually just watch this talk last night She is an absolutely fantastic explainer for these complex concepts, her video about splines was also hugely illuminating

New comment by shahar2k in "Google Removes ‘Pirate’ URLs from Users’ Privately Saved Links"

shahar2k — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 22:29:31 +0000

could even include something like a single page self editing wiki as your home page (like tiddlywiki)

New comment by shahar2k in "Slime Molds [video]"

shahar2k — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 20:21:29 +0000

ze frank has been one of my favorite things on the internet since before youtube :)

what's your power move?

https://youtu.be/SBPXd6GZPqQ