Wolf314159

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[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Every American should report the inaccurate name to Google repeatedly until they change it back. How many reports would it take to at least inconvenience Google?

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 9 points 2 months ago

I pretty sure that's not what non-Eucludian means. It's not just built on a rounded surface. The lines of latitude and longitude we define on a globe may exhibit non-Eucludian geometry, but that doesn't mean your house is non-Eucludian.

These things are non-Eucludian: parallel lines that diverge or converge; triangles with interior angles don't add up to 180 degrees; hallways that appear perfectly straight, but also intersect with themselves; square rooms where every wall is perpendicular, but opposite walls aren't always parallel. Brain breaking stuff, not "all of our geometry". That would be dumb.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, the title is a homophone for a slang term for ejaculation.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

They knew what they were doing. Obviously this is (I assume) just more of the same step-family kink fad nobody asked for.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago

Wheels are so boring! Why can't they just innovate?!

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 4 points 3 months ago

This is a fun experiment, but it's not precisely the peaks and troughs of the actual waves themselves that you're seeing, it's the maximums and minimums of the amplitude from those waves interfering with their reflections. You see the interference pattern, not the waves.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

And the pineapple armor works wonderfully, until its enzymes digest you enough that the line between knight and pineapple becomes unclear, like Leto Atreides II covering himself in Sand Worm Trout and becoming the God Emperor of Dune.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 4 points 3 months ago

They've used the exact same reasoning to excuse running down actual pedestrians on crosswalks.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago

Dark table corrects lens distortion based on the design of the actual lens, not the image itself. The grid it just to check in after the fact. I'm not aware of similar tools in GIMP. It's trivial in Darktable though, as long as your lens is in the database.

Don't use a fish-eye lens, it's lense distortion will be the worst and most difficult to correct. Use a lens with a longer focal length, ideally a prime lens with a fixed focal length. If you maximize focal length and distance to your object as much as is feasible, you will have already flattened the image (minimized lens distortion) a lot. If you use a prime (fixed focal length) lens from a popular brand, Darktable can remove the remaining lens distortion.

You can remove all lens distortion by using a pinhole camera, which has no lens. But that's probably going to be a tricky setup without an expert.

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