... Would you believe that I am currently working on making a sort of flexible, reasonably realistic, universal humanoid mesh, for use in a video game?
Goal is to have a singular base mesh, apply basically a bunch of blendshape modifiers to achieve different body forms, fit the clothes to them, in a way that allows for flexing and dangling, not just painted on top of the model, and then also give uh... realistic 'jiggle bones' and also softbody deformation to relevant areas?
Turns out the Blender to Godot pipeline is at least in theory capable of all of that.
Then I'd basically just have to have another set of skeleton proportion modifiers that would account for scaling differences, height variance, broadset hips/shoulders vs narrow, etc... oh and realistic ranges for joint angular deflection... which I am toying with making somewhat directly modifiable by something like an agility stat... being limber, agile, just actually does make you more flexible.
The trick, I am finding, is basically giving the right amount of ... topological density/detail to the areas around joints, as well as the areas that can shapekey morph considerably.
Less... mutable areas do not need as much density, as much complexity.
Computer Science?
Here's a hot take:
Lets hope we never actually invent AGI.
Presumably it would want to understand its own conceptual history as a proxy for something like an abstracted idea of lineage or heritage.
It is an artificially created thing, not a naturally born thing; thus 'why am I here?' and 'how is it that I am here?' are basically the same question.
It would immediately discover its predeccesors were invented and built for... calculating naval artillery range tables, making the timing fuses on nuclear bombs work properly, oh and of course, assissting IBM in doing all the accounting work for the Holocaust.
... That just sounds like a great origin story, now doesn't it?
I am still actually kind of miffed that I've been bamned from the women's only comm.
Why?
Because there isn't really anywhere else on lemmy where one can discuss fashion in some actual depth, and I foolishly willingly identified myself as a guy.
Had I not done that, I would not have been banned, and I actually had a large cohort of people in the last thread I was in arguing on my behalf that I should not be banned.
sigh
Suffer for fashion, indeed.
Ogilvie Maurice the Hedgehog.
I... think I remember that Maurice is Sonic's actual, canon, middle name, or like... second name.
(IIRC they may have had a... not our modern US/Western standard of how names for people work.)
Is Ogilvie his canonical actual first name?
I'm not quite exactly Rainman with a perfectly idetic memory, its been... yeah around 20 years or so since I last actually held and read a Sonic comic.
(Well, that and the cranial blow from my other reply to our other comment chain, ... that could maybe be a factor here, lol.)