News : Dune Spice Wars - First Gameplay Trailer from Funcom.

If you liked Frank Herbert's Dune trilogy, then there's another game with the same storyboard.

You can find more about this game on steam.

Slay Workflow 6: Sequencer | Unreal Engine

In the final video in the six-part Slay Workflow series, we look at how Unreal Engine Sequencer was used to create shots within the final output. We also explore the process of modifying assets and setting keyframes with Sequencer, seeing all our changes update in real time.

News : The Batman: The Imposter from DC.

Yesterday, the new trailer for The Batman: The Imposter was released for the first time.

A brief introduction to the description of the video on DC's official youtube channel tells us:

Bruce Wayne’s mission as the Batman has only been under way for a year or so, but he can tell he’s making a difference. Unfortunately, he’s made some powerful enemies. All the traditional power brokers of Gotham resent the disruption the Batman has brought to town…and it seems one of them has a plan to neutralize him. There’s a second Batman haunting Gotham’s rooftops and alleys—and this one has no qualms about murdering criminals, live and on tape. “Batman: The Imposter” was written by Mattson Tomlin, with art by Andrea Sorrentino. Hardcover collector’s edition available on February 22.

Extract pantone colors from image.

The colors in the design and their significance, especially in the pantone colors, say a lot about design.

Short introduction:

Pantone LLC is a limited liability company headquartered in Carlstadt, New Jersey.[1] The company is best known for its Pantone Matching System (PMS), a proprietary color space used in a variety of industries, notably graphic design, fashion design, product design, printing and manufacturing and supporting the management of color from design to production, in physical and digital formats, among coated and uncoated materials, cotton, polyester, nylon and plastics.

Here you will find an online tool that extracts this type of colors from images ...

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: