News : News and Community Spotlight | February 17, 2022 | Unreal Engine

News : About CryptoPunks characters.

The CryptoPunks are 10,000 uniquely generated characters. No two are exactly alike, and each one of them can be officially owned by a single person on the Ethereum blockchain. ... Originally, they could be claimed for free by anybody with an Ethereum wallet, but all 10,000 were quickly claimed. Now they must be purchased from someone via the marketplace that's also embedded in the blockchain.

CryptoPunks were released for free back in 2017 and few days ago CryptoPunks Ethereum NFT sells for almost $ 24 million ... true or not, they exist and they work.

You can buy one from here.

This is one image with a CryptoPunks character:

Tessellation video from Two Minute Papers.

... another good video from Two Minute Papers:

News : Jared "Disco Lando" Huckaby on Sprint Stint Winter 2022

Jared "Disco Lando" Huckaby is the Creative Content Lead at Cloud Imperium, Los Angeles. He was previously Associate Creative Producer, and Content Manager before that.

You can read more on this webpage.

Visual computing with Matthias Niessner.

A fairly correct introduction ...

My name is Matthias Niessner and I am a Professor at the Technical University of Munich where I am heading the Visual Computing Lab!

I am also a co-founder of synthesia, a brand-new startup working on cutting-edge AI tech for visual effects and movie dubbing.

You can see the next video from the youtube channel:

Simulation from Two Minute Papers.

Scientific simulation has multiple objectives that allow us a correct and broader perception of the object of study.

Here is an interesting video about complex 3D simulations.

Use the scoop to install UFO: Alien Invasion game.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to use the scoop tool to install a game.

First, you need to add the bucket with the games.

C:\>scoop bucket add games
Git is required for buckets. Run 'scoop install git' and try again.
This install need the git, use this command:
C:\>scoop install git
...
Creating shortcut for Git Bash (git-bash.exe)
Creating shortcut for Git GUI (git-gui.exe)
'git' (2.34.1.windows.1) was installed successfully!
Notes
-----
Set Git Credential Manager Core by running: "git config --global credential.helper
manager-core"
Let's try again:
C:\>scoop bucket add games
Checking repo... ok
The games bucket was added successfully.
After install a software you can see it with this command:
C:\>scoop list
Installed apps: ...
With this command you can see all softwares can be install with this tool:
C:\>scoop search a
'games' bucket:
    0ad (0.0.25b)
    actools (0.8.2358.38968)
    adom (3.3.3)
    advanced-genie-editor (2021.3.15)
    amidst (4.7)
    amulet-map-editor (0.8.17)
    angband-dev (4.2.3-249-gbb7ea2dca)
    angband (4.2.0)
    ares (126)
    ark-smart-breeding (0.49.1.0)
    armagetronad (0.2.8.3.5)
    ascii-sector (0.7.2)
    assaultcube (1.2.0.2)
    assetstudio (0.16.8)
    augmentinel (1.3)
    blade-of-agony (c3)
    bombermaaan (1.4.0.627)
    ...

'main' bucket:
    1password-cli (1.12.3)
    abc (1.0.0-beta.3)
    ack (3.5.0)
    acmesharp (0.9.1.326)
    act (0.2.25)
    adb (31.0.3)
    ...
Let's install an old game named: UFO: Alien Invasion.
C:\>scoop install ufoai
Updating Scoop...
Updating 'games' bucket...
Updating 'main' bucket...
Checking repo... ok
The main bucket was added successfully.
Scoop was updated successfully!
Installing 'ufoai' (2.5) [64bit]
The download not works from the first time and with some Enter keys typing I install it:
C:\>scoop install ufoai
WARN  Purging previous failed installation of ufoai.
Uninstalling 'ufoai' ().
'ufoai' was uninstalled.
Installing 'ufoai' (2.5) [64bit]
ufoai-2.5-win32.exe (1.2 GB) [=====>                                            ]  11%
Unable to read data from the transport connection: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.
URL https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ufoai/UFO_AI%202.x/2.5/ufoai-2.5-win32.exe#/dl.7z is not valid

C:\>scoop install ufoai
WARN  Purging previous failed installation of ufoai.
Uninstalling 'ufoai' ().
'ufoai' was uninstalled.
Installing 'ufoai' (2.5) [64bit]
ufoai-2.5-win32.exe (1.2 GB) [==================================================] 100%
Checking hash of ufoai-2.5-win32.exe ... ok.
Extracting dl.7z ... done.
Linking ~\scoop\apps\ufoai\current => ~\scoop\apps\ufoai\2.5
Creating shim for 'ufo'.
Creating shim for 'ufoded'.
Creating shim for 'ufo2map'.
Creating shortcut for UFO - Alien Invasion (ufo.exe)
'ufoai' (2.5) was installed successfully!
The last command is to run the game: ufo.exe
You can see my video tutorial with same steps from my youtube channel.

AI video editing from Two Minute Papers.

The correctness of digital data can be questioned, but its alignment with user preferences and actual accuracy will always be an issue.

You can see also on example on this colab notebook.

News : Double Asteroid Redirection Test website.

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test know as DART mission is directed by NASA.

NASA's first flight mission for planetary defense, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to test and validate a method to protect Earth in case of an asteroid impact threat.

You can see on this website a full 3D image of these asteroids:

A free ActorCore Motion package for everyone from askNK .

About askNK is a youtuber who has some videos about graphics, however here is something interesting ... Yesterday I saw this video from askNK.

News : Official video for Krita version 5.

This is the official video for Krita version 5 from the official youtube channel:

News : JAM Winter 2022 for development.

Here's a new opportunity for developers who know or want to develop games named Winter 2022 and is a JAM.

In this case JAM the official website tells us "A game jam is an event where participants try to make a video game as quickly as possible." or "Just a minute (JAM)".

Looks like there are no severe restrictions on this JAM.

I also wrote on my blog about the well-known python pygame package.

You can find more about this JAM on the official webpage.

How artificial intelligence distorts perception from Two Minute Papers.

Like any information by completing, omitting or modifying it, they can distort the perception of the recipient.

A fairly complete video on how to manipulate visual data with artificial intelligence.

Here is a video as complete as possible with examples of how artificial intelligence can distort the perception of what the user sees.