Someone should just get a patent on granting silly patents, and then sue the patent agencies & courts when they grant one.
One of the worst patents ever just got upheld in court.
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Day: June 25, 2013
Visualizing planets in the moon’s place
Beautiful and scary – just imagine the kind of tides the larger ones would cause (of course, if they were at that distance, tides are the last thing we’d be worried about)
Of course, nowhere as cool as Tatooine
Pixar’s Global Illumination system & the Uncanny valley
CGI Lighting goes up another notch – just watch the clip from Pixar’s “Blue Umbrella” short below:
Also, check out the stills from the original article to get an idea of how far we’ve come. You’d be hard pressed to believe that it’s not real – Director Saschka Unseld discusses Pixar, photorealism, and the making of ‘The Blue Umbrella’ | The Verge.
Uncanny Valley at its eeriest
