This becomes especially important when there is movement, either by the camera or by subjects moving through the image. Traditional stitching just uses a still image to calibrate, but optical flow takes into account several frames at a time. We’ll talk about optical flow in depth in a different post, but for now think of it as an alternative way for traditional stitching. This alone would make it worth checking out. The second thing that sticks out, and the main reason that Mistika VR is getting so much buzz, is that it has an optical flow option. ![]() So you have to save your project, close it, open the other shot again, make your changes, add to render queue, close that project and open your most recent one. But very often you close one project, open the next and then decide you need to check something from a previous shot. Then you press render and the program will stitch all of your shots. If you’re not familiar with the batch render function, in AVP you have to open one shot, work on it, send to batch render, then close that shot, open the next one and repeat the process until you are done with all your shots. I love this feature and it is a lot more user friendly then the batch render function in AVP. When you go to export, you have the option to stitch the current shot, or all of the shots. The first is the ability to load multiple shots in one project and move between them. There are two main things that stick out to me about Mistika VR vs. Mistika VR has some useful shortcuts like pushing up and down to zoom in/out, holding command while clicking to reorient, holding alt while clicking to rotate, and pushing v to enter/exit VR view. smart cutting, so they win in that category. tools, especially when you think about how it handles Extra footage before the beginning and/or after the ending of the used portion of a shot. AVP has some more sophisticated masking Blocking a portion of the image. In the demo that SGO gave, the edge point (or masking Blocking a portion of the image.) feature seemed to work well, but on my demo, I can’t get it to work. But what if that master doesn’t look like what you want? With AVP, you have to open APG, then there’s no great way of tweaking color in individual cameras except by choosing one or a few to be the master. More and color of individual cameras and the global camera, with familiar color tools like temperature (red to blue) or tint (magenta to green) and all without leaving the program. I would say Mistika VR wins hands down in color because you can very easily tweak the exposure The measurement of the brightness and range (latitude) of light being captured by the camera. I don’t have relevant experience to really get into detail about which program is better than the other in terms of syncing. You can sync, stitch, match color and mask (by adding “Edge Points”). The general functions are all very similar to AVP. ![]() More and vignetting to individual cameras, or to the stitched image. it for granted! Mistika VR allows you to adjust color, exposure The measurement of the brightness and range (latitude) of light being captured by the camera. ![]() It has the ability to view in VR, which may sound obvious, but AVP is just now getting that ability, so don’t take Individual instance of a shot a take = each time the camera is started and stopped. It’s simple to see all the tools and options, but you can move the windows or collapse the windows to only see what you need to see. This is a feature that AVP does not have and so far seems to get the stitch closer to where it should be. It is based off of the current place in the timeline and basically seems to add it’s own control points and optimize. However, Mistika VR does have a nice option to “improve alignment”, which seems to do a good job of tweaking the template or stitch. Template stitching isn’t great because there are an infinite number of scenarios for a panorama, if their template was created using a vast desert landscape, and you’re stitching a jail cell, it won’t work perfectly. You can use one of their templates to stitch, but template stitching is not good enough for professional work, and they only have a few camera presets at the moment. ![]() Mistka VR layout General features of Mistika VRĪll that being said, Mistika VR is off to a great start in the stitching world.įirst, I should mention that you need ptgui or Hugin to actually do the stitching in Mistika VR.I personally like ptgui better, but Hugin is free.
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![]() Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: Elastic Search, WordNet, and note that Reverse Dictionary uses third party scripts (such as Google Analytics and advertisements) which use cookies. The definitions are sourced from the famous and open-source WordNet database, so a huge thanks to the many contributors for creating such an awesome free resource. In case you didn't notice, you can click on words in the search results and you'll be presented with the definition of that word (if available). For those interested, I also developed Describing Words which helps you find adjectives and interesting descriptors for things (e.g. Synonyms for spark include flash, flicker, flare, glint, gleam, scintillation, spit, spot, streak and twinkle. So this project, Reverse Dictionary, is meant to go hand-in-hand with Related Words to act as a word-finding and brainstorming toolset. That project is closer to a thesaurus in the sense that it returns synonyms for a word (or short phrase) query, but it also returns many broadly related words that aren't included in thesauri. I made this tool after working on Related Words which is a very similar tool, except it uses a bunch of algorithms and multiple databases to find similar words to a search query. So in a sense, this tool is a "search engine for words", or a sentence to word converter. It acts a lot like a thesaurus except that it allows you to search with a definition, rather than a single word. ![]() The engine has indexed several million definitions so far, and at this stage it's starting to give consistently good results (though it may return weird results sometimes). For example, if you type something like "longing for a time in the past", then the engine will return "nostalgia". ![]() It simply looks through tonnes of dictionary definitions and grabs the ones that most closely match your search query. The way Reverse Dictionary works is pretty simple. In 2019, 15.02.65 was hammered down at HK$88 million and garnered HK$102 million (around US$13 million) after fees at Sotheby's Hong Kong.
![]() The leaves are alternate and spirally arranged. In the event of injury to the bark, a milky juice is released. The bark of the jackfruit tree is reddish-brown and smooth. It easily reaches heights of 10 to 20 m (33 to 66 feet) and trunk diameters of 30 to 80 cm (12 to 31 inches). It is the national fruit of Bangladesh and the state fruit of Kerala.Īrtocarpus heterophyllus grows as an evergreen tree that has a relatively short trunk with a dense treetop. The fruit was later introduced to Guam via Filipino settlers when both were part of the Spanish Empire. It was probably first domesticated by Austronesians in Java or the Malay Peninsula. The jackfruit was domesticated independently in South Asia and Southeast Asia, as indicated by the Southeast Asian names which are not derived from the Sanskrit roots. Centuries later, botanist Ralph Randles Stewart suggested it was named after William Jack (1795–1822), a Scottish botanist who worked for the East India Company in Bengal, Sumatra, and Malaya. The common English name "jackfruit" was used by physician and naturalist Garcia de Orta in his 1563 book Colóquios dos simples e drogas da India. This term is in turn derived from the Proto-Dravidian root kā(y) ("fruit, vegetable"). 1321–1330) Mirabilia descripta: the wonders of the East. Henry Yule translated the book in Jordanus Catalani's ( fl. Later the Malayalam name ചക്ക ( cakka) was recorded by Hendrik van Rheede (1678–1703) in the Hortus Malabaricus, vol. The word jackfruit comes from Portuguese jaca, which in turn is derived from the Malayalam language term chakka (Malayalam: chakka pazham), when the Portuguese arrived in India at Kozhikode ( Calicut) on the Malabar Coast ( Kerala) in 1499. Jackfruit tree illustrated from one of the earliest natural history books about China by Jesuit Missionary author Michael Boym in 1656. It is available internationally canned or frozen and in chilled meals as are various products derived from the fruit such as noodles and chips. Both ripe and unripe fruits are consumed. Jackfruit is commonly used in South and Southeast Asian cuisines. Canned green jackfruit has a mild taste and meat-like texture that lends itself to being called a "vegetable meat". ![]() The ripe fruit is sweet (depending on variety) and is more often used for desserts. The jackfruit is a multiple fruit composed of hundreds to thousands of individual flowers, and the fleshy petals of the unripe fruit are eaten. A mature jack tree produces some 200 fruits per year, with older trees bearing up to 500 fruits in a year. ![]() It bears the largest fruit of all trees, reaching as much as 55 kg (120 pounds) in weight, 90 cm (35 inches) in length, and 50 cm (20 inches) in diameter. The jack tree is well-suited to tropical lowlands, and is widely cultivated throughout tropical regions of the world. Its origin is in the region between the Western Ghats of southern India, all of Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the rainforests of the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia. The jackfruit ( Artocarpus heterophyllus), also known as jack tree, is a species of tree in the fig, mulberry, and breadfruit family ( Moraceae). Quotables for the Week Ending JanuStart Gallery Rock Bottom Review Editor Rating: 3.5 / 5. Hopefully the pacing will be slowed in the next episode or people will be disappearing before we even knew who they were. NOTE: The Expanse Season 1 Episode 7 is titled 'Windmills' and airs Tuesday, January 19. It was hard enough to even get a few lines in for most of the important characters, few of significance especially to those not knowing what is important at this moment in time (non book readers), and certainly no time for plot development. They even made mistakes like trying to use a bird, an animal that can fly, to show that some places have lower gravity. The distress signal 2 days away turned into a seemingly short burn. Why introduce granny so briefly when what they showed didn't actually tell you what her job is and why she is of significance. There was little tension in the Canterbury final scene as the result is obviously inevitable (so much for the varying plans, and hopeless feelings creating tension in the book). Miller's airlock scene seemed completely out of whack when no one explains to you how important air filters are to belters. Avasarala watches a video of Marcos’s rallying cry to his supporters. In the outer solar system near Saturn, James Holden and the crew of the ice-freighter Canterbury, investigate a distress call from a mysterious derelict. I definitely found it too rushed, and my friend who hasn't read the book missed so many important details.Ī nametag and a ship name flashed briefly in the exciting opening sequence is trying to tell the audience who she is, but is completely missed by anyone not ready to look for it. We Got This Covered - Mitchell Broussard - Īlways Sometimes Villains - Philip Pham - Įdit: D'oh, I got the episode name wrong. If you find a review I've missed let me know and I'll edit the post and add it in.Ĭomic Vine - Mat 'Inferiorego' Elfring. If nothing else it's a great way to waste an hour or so at work. While I don't always agree with some of the reviewers I like getting a different point of view of the shows I watch. is the fifth season of Amazons The Expanse and consists of ten episodes. ![]() ![]() I've been reading whatever reviews I can find since episode 1 hit and thought I'd put them together in a post for you guys. television series Suits Season 2 that aired on USA Network from June. ![]() The MXGP World Championship is hugely competitive, but Maxime has the speed and skills to have a promising rookie season. “We are very pleased to be welcoming Maxime into the Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MXGP team alongside Jeremy and Glenn. Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MXGP Team Owner I’ve been riding a 450 in the past, so it’s not a new bike for me, but it is the first time on a Factory YZ450FM, and I already feel super ready for it, so now we will spend the winter testing and developing the bike to suit me as best it can, so that we are ready for next season. I have tested the bike, and I feel already really good and really comfortable. ![]() I feel ready for it, and I am really looking forward to making this experience a good one, and a long one. I know it’s going to be an all-new challenge, and it is the most important part of my career because once you reach MXGP you are at the top, there is no class to move forward. “I’m really excited for the new challenge and the next chapter, to move to MXGP. ![]() After the Paris Supercross at the end of November, the French star will step up to the premier class, where he will join seasoned MXGP riders Jeremy Seewer and Glenn Coldenhoff under the Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MXGP awning. In his debut season as a ‘Factory’ Yamaha rider, the ‘959’ took his YZ250FM to 24 top-three finishes, 10 race wins, 14 podium finishes and five Grand Prix wins on his way to title glory in the 2021 FIM MX2 World Championship.įor 2022, Renaux is ready for the next chapter and challenge in his career. He eventually finished third in the MX2 World Championship after celebrating his first-ever Grand Prix race and overall win at the MXGP of Italy in Faenza.Īfter many notable performances throughout his first two years in MX2, Renaux was drafted into the Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MX2 team and substantially improved his riding and racecraft. The following year, in 2020, the Yamaha ace quickly established himself as a title threat. After the 20 seasons were marred by injury, the determined Frenchman entered the lower capacity premier class, MX2, as a wild card in 2018 and instantly showed great potential.Īt the tender age of 18, Renaux completed his first full-term in MX2 in 2019 where he managed to steer his YZ250F to a maiden podium finish on his way to seventh overall in the final classification. In 2015, the young talent celebrated three EMX125 wins aboard a GYTR kitted YZ125 and eventually won his first World Title with an impressive victory at the Junior 125cc World Championship in El Molar, Spain, in that same year. Renaux has been with Yamaha for more than a decade and has worked his way up the Yamaha Racing pyramid, ever since he was a young star-on-the-rise on a YZ85. The 21-year-old Frenchman will join the Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MXGP team, where he will campaign a YZ450FM in the FIM Motocross World Championship for the next two years, at least until the end of the 2023 season. Yamaha Motor Europe is delighted to confirm that reigning FIM MX2 Motocross World Champion Maxime Renaux will make the step up to the premier MXGP class in 2022. It obviously seems he will replace Ben Watson on the squad, whose future has not het been announced. Newly-crowned world MX2 champ Maxime Renaux is moving up to the MXGP class on the factory Yamaha team in 2022, joining Glenn Coldenhoff and Jeremy Seewer. ![]() Docear’s menu is hidden to maximize the space for your work. The next screenshot shows the draft of a new paper including some examples for LaTeX formulas, notes, formatted text, etc. In addition, bibliographic data for the selected annotation is displayed. The screenshot shows PDFs and annotations being sorted into the research categories a user created. Feel free to read more testimonials, and after you have used Docear for a while, write your own testimonial (and yes, we also publish critical opinions). Instead, most of our users are really blown away by how Docear helps them with their literature management. You will notice that the feedback is not the typically “yeah, great software, thx”. Look at the feedback that we received during the past years, it’s highly positive. DLib) and Docear (Bachelor/Master/PhD/Post-Doc) Students & PostDocs: We have open positions in Tokyo, Copenhagen, and Konstanz (2-24 months) Docear 1.2 Stable: PDF Metadata Improvements & Faster Monitoring Docear 1.2 Beta Release: PDF Metadata Improvements & New Add-On to Import ALL Highlighted text A recommender system that helps you to discover new literature: Docear recommends papers which are free, in full-text, instantly to download, and tailored to your information needs.Īnd did we mention that Docear is free, open source, available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, not evil (open data formats such as BibTeX and XML, no registration required, no lock-in), and offers PDF metadata retrieval, free online-backup of your mind-maps, a monitoring function for new files (PDFs, images, etc.), a free MS-Word add-on, …?Ģ021 Update for Docear’s “Google Scholar Parser” Library to Fetch Metadata for PDF files Update for Docear’s “Google Scholar Parser” Library to Fetch Metadata for PDF files Docear’s Online Services Are Down (Recommendation User Registration Backup) Various positions to work on research-paper recommender systems (Mr.directly in Docear and copy annotations and references from your collection directly into your draft. This allows you to draft your own papers, assignments, thesis, etc. A ‘ literature suite concept‘ that combines several tools in a single application (pdf management, reference management, mind mapping, …).With Docear, you can sort documents into categories you can sort annotations (comments, bookmarks, and highlighted text from PDFs) into categories you can sort annotations within PDFs and you can view multiple annotations of multiple documents, in multiple categories – at once. A single-section user-interface that allows the most comprehensive organization of your literature.it helps you organizing, creating, and discovering academic literature. Docear is a unique solution to academic literature management, i.e. ![]() You know how in every adventure game ever, you basically try every dialogue option, read every item, so on and so forth? That mentality will mess you up here. This is called your “spiritual barometer.” The problem is that it’s ridiculously easy to mess up. At the climax of each scenario, when you make your final decision, it will turn white if you didn’t mess anything up. The background of each character’s portrait picture will change color as you make choices and advance the scenario, from black, to brighter and brighter shades of green. Most of the endings involve the same horrible fate as the end of the short story. The game isn’t overly hard to beat, but it’s almost impossible to get the “good” ending. Especially if you can get in the right mind-set of thinking of what AM wants you to do, and what you should do instead to spite the bastard. There are some of your expected illogical puzzles, but I found them to be much more straightforward than most any other adventure game. You can walk to, look at, take, use, talk to, swallow, give, and push various items and people in the environment. ![]() The game goes more in depth into each character’s back stories and reveals more about why AM chose them of all the billions of humans to live and suffer forever.īeyond the subject matter and unique scenarios, this game is your pretty standard point and click adventure fare. He creates entire worlds for his playthings. The game removes the group dynamic from the story completely as each of the 5 characters deal with their own personal trials, created by AM explicitly to torture them. But like I said, none of it is very explicit. It’s more the ideas and situations, and often just weird and gross things that happen, that will really get to you. None of it is overly gory, and what gore is there is pretty tame thanks to the mid-nineties graphics. To give you an idea of how dark some of this stuff gets, Nimdok was rolling with real OG’s (that’s Original Garbage) like Doctor Mengele.īeyond the nazi evil scientist angle, the game deals with murder, sex, rape all sorts of stuff. The 5 survivors are the paranoid Ted, the self hating Gorrister, the smart, sassy, traumatized Ellen, the now ape man Benny, and the man with the darkest of dark pasts, Nimdok (real name unknown). Think Ultron from the second Avengers, but with even more pure hatred and dramatic flair. Basically, AM was one of three super computers developed to manage World War III in the cold war, and he became self-aware. Originally developed by the Dreamer’s Guild in 1995, brought back to life by DotEmu and MojoTouch, IHNMAIMS tells the story of 5 of the poorest, saddest souls to ever grace fiction, and their 109 year torment at the, erm… hands? Of AM, or Allied Mastercomputer. Think of it as a complimentary rather than adaptive work. What you might find especially surprising is that Harlan Ellison himself wrote the game, so despite it being completely different in so many ways, it remains true to the source material. If our forums have taught me anything, it’s that this game is criminally under-known. Heck, it’s even the trope namer of that exact concept on TV Tropes, called “ And I Must Scream”. The quintessential story of a fate worse than death. Despite being less than 20 pages, it is so full of vivid, horrifying ideas and imagery that it really sticks with you. Probably the most well known story of Ellison’s, IHNMAIMS (in-maims) is a short and horrifying read from 1967. ![]() Having finally delved into both, and also reading discussions and analyses of each, I am so glad I played this classic. When I saw that it was available on iOS, I downloaded the game and short story collection immediately! And then it went on the back burner for another couple months. I just never got around to it, but the unfortunate people who’ve come to know the twisted landscape of my mind have gushed in recommending this story and game to me. ![]() Well… if any one living author, and any particular story, represents those darkest depths, it’s Harlan Ellison and his story and point and click adventure game, I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream ($3.99).ĭespite all my horror “cred,” I’ve never read or played this old school tale. I thoroughly enjoy the darkest depths and the brightest heights of the human imagination. I also love simple stories of heroes and hope and overcoming hardships, don’t get me wrong. Everything from Lovecraftian anti-existentialism to tastefully done psychological horror to torture porn to “2Edgy4U” bull-crap. Some of you may remember from previous reviews of mine that I love horror and dark fantasy. ![]() ![]() NONE of them will do anything even close to freeing your Mac’s memory (a.k.a. ![]() PLEASE research this and all other so-called memory-liberating apps before you give a penny to this lying, parasitic developer. I will now Force Quit this app and trash it, along with the other half-baked applications that come in such software bundles to give us the illusion that we are getting a bargain. Since the developer gives me so little, I have little choice but to respond in kind. To give such an application even one star would be a gift that is beyond my generosity. Here we yet another example of a small utility written by a developer who fails to educate us adequately and ahead of time how his application works and what its potential negative impact can be. Now, I don't like an application which gives me a warning message and gives me no other option but to say OK and go ahead to perform the procedure about which it warned not to do without risking unforeseen results? Am I alone in thinking like this? What if I changed my mind? What if I don't want to clean my memory anymore? What if I don't want to quit all the other applications I am in the midst of using? What if I don't want to interrupt my work flow just to gain some more memory? Wouldn't the act of closing those applications automatically free up memory? If so, then what's the damn point of this application? [check-box} Do not show this message againĭoes it strike anyone that something is missing here? I mean, I am not a programmer, but don't you think I should get a Cancel button, too? For optimal results, don't use any other applications during the cleaning process. Press the (OK) button to clean the memory. I can click on on an "X" which I suppose would terminate the program, or I can click on the section of the circuit board which says "Clean My Memory." It gives me an image featuring a black memory module on a small greenish circuit board, upon which it says that I have 650 MB of free memory. I acquired this application in a bundle tonight I installed it I licensed it and it re-started. I don't think it is fair to write a review, so I will just toss out a comment for the technically astute to ponder on. |
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