Tools that are well loved like that are always worth it imo. Anything to simulate the creative side of the brain.
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Okay but again, those stories are fiction from history. It’s silly to look at fiction as a source of authoritative truth.
Ah yes, let’s use the famously true stories of ancient mythology to prove a point about modern technology. That will definitely not be full of logical fallacies.
I do not believe that USDZ supports features that allow you to modify the color of the object or do any kind of driver-based logic. (It certainly did not two years ago, when I was in the AR industry). Blender can do it, but Reality Composer probably can’t.
There are only three possible paths I think might be viable.
- If USDZ supports UV animation (unlikely?), you could use the driver to animate the UV coordinates of the cylinders across a rainbow gradient, based on what wavelength of light you need.
- If you have a small number of colors, you can have redundant cylinders for each color, and show/hide them in the animation to fake the color change.
- In Reality Composer, set up some hooks that swap the materials of the cylinders based on various triggers. I think you can use a timer as a trigger. This is a very manual process and would be an absolute nightmare.
That’s a pretty niche use case so I can’t be of specific help, but it sounds like a job for Python scripting. Assuming you have the same number of lasers all the time, you can set the animation keyframes on your cylinders to have the correct position/rotation/scale as your data comes in. Keyframe animation should export easily to USDZ for use in AR.
Again I don’t know much about your specific setup but this is the direction I’d look.
Beam the court martial into space too.
Hi, I have a PhD in “for the love of god don’t put nuts in brownies” and the answer is no, do not put nuts in brownies.
Turns out language is pretty damn flexible. Even if I made an obvious mistake, you meant what I knew.
Loss of human life aside, this is a slightly absurd situation.
"The boat sank because it took on water," Costantino said.
You don’t say! How could this have happened?
One theory is that soaring temperatures in the area caused passengers and crew to leave windows and doors open, which would have allowed water to fill the ship quickly during the storm.
Ah, there it is. Climate change strikes back.
She did say that, and also that there are horrors being inflicted in Gaza. Only her whole statement gives any idea what she’s talking about.
Her speech was right on both accounts though. Hamas did unspeakably terrible things in Israel. But that in no way excuses them from the suffering they are causing to civilians in Palestine.
To be honest, I expect her to back Israel, and that these words are just a way to temporarily placate the ones calling for an end to genocide. But at least she tried to broach the complexity of the situation.
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Listening to NASA’s official press releases isn’t exactly what I’d call being a keyboard warrior. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with using the most authoritative source as your primary world view, in most cases.