Been fever-dreamin’ some DIY material layering and light sources (before I get to the chapter 7 of the second book).
The amount of noise from emissive materials is.. ugh. Apparently this is why we bother with “light sources” instead of just dropping some light bulbs here and there.
OTOH, the human visual system is quite shite^W noisy in low light too. And that’s even with all the built-in “neural denoising”.
Maybe if it’s neurons were activated by light instead of being suppressed (yes, it’s inverted in there too) there would be far less noise. But that may push it out to bright light instead. And being activated most of the time will give higher levels of oxidative stress/faster degradation.
Tradeoffs everywhere…
@dpwiz A companion post can be pretty valuable, do you have a blog already?
@tristanC Dumped everything salient I could remember about the experience
Now I wonder what artifacts should be there for this to count as a successful kata/exercise.
Should I be able to reproduce it from scratch now? Teach how to do it?
Publish some packages?
Blog about how silly it is to use C++ for teaching stuff?
Take some jabs at course material (some quirks survived into v4.0 of it)?
So many options, so little time… What should have best return on time invested?