For anyone wondering why they would need to see polarized light: I actually looked into this a few months ago!

Other animals that are trying to blend in with the environment often use countershading appear less conspicuous. The problem with this is that this method can’t replicate the polarization of the light behind them, making them stand out if you can see that sort of thing. ((Sunlight in the ocean is always polarized based on the direction of the sun (look up fresnel equations for s and p polarized light))). Even transparent creatures will interrupt the polarization in some way, so this is a very useful skill to have.

Tech guy invents the concept of giving instructions

I used to not understand them, but learning how their internal mechanism functions has helped a lot. Now I can just visualize what’s happening inside the infernal contraption

I actually really like physics, and it’s 100% because I’m fucked up and evil

Huh. This was my first time seeing a 95 year old’s mutilated penis and scrotum floating in formaldehide. Thanks (?) for sharing

Yep! That was it

Isn’t armageddon from Norse mythology? Or am I confused with another thing

Man this is really specific. Can someone check if OP is still alive?

In theory, yea it should. But this is developed by Nvidia with their own graphics cards in mind. If this is similar to Portal RTX, then RDNA3 cards will be able to run it, just with severly crippled performance.

Well as long as you don’t turn on frame gen, the input lag shouldn’t be much higher than normal. There’s also NVidia reflex, which can shave a few milliseconds off input lag

Probably not, no

Edit: Actually maybe. Read my comment below

There are a lot of steps in converting color spaces to suit people’s individual monitors and in compressing files to be stored on web servers.

Sometimes rounding errors happen. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Actually, every donut has a corresponding donut hole somewhere in the world, which holds the center of mass. This property of disconnection between a donut and its CoM has many interesting applications.

I think the proper term would be “mathematical”, bit “virtual” gets the point across just as well in context

Is that a real website? I’m scared to check

“Open Compute” being trademarked is pretty ironic

The article itself mentions E Ink’s Kaleido 3 technology. I’m not really sure on the semantics of “e-ink” vs “e-paper”, but your take sounds good enough to me. I do know that E Ink makes a product internally (maybe also externally? idk) refered to as “ACeP”, which stands for “Advanced Color e-Paper”, so e-ink definitely classifies as a type of e-paper.

One of their older color products is a traditional B/W screen with an RGB filter over the top. The problem with this is the filter tends to make everything way darker and muted than it should be.

They are also working on newer ACeP screens that use multiple colored dye and pigment particles in the same capsule. By swapping the colors around with specific electric waveforms, they can control what the color looks like from the front. The downside is that this color swapping often takes several seconds to produce the correct color ((also the color gamut has a lot of holes))

Hi! Former E Ink employee here. The technology behind color e ink displays is an intricate nightmare of juggling different ink particles through a gel medium (which is actually derived from pig fat btw). It’s a miracle it even works in the first place, and unfortunately higher color accuracy comes at the cost of refresh rate due to all the steps involved. Not sure how in-depth I can go without violating my NDA though lol.

While the color tech is advancing, it’s still got a long way to go.

That’s not a logo either; It’s a photograph