#dissatisfaction

[thatsbelievable]

[feral-ballad]

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by N.C. Germanacos, from Kassandra and the Wolf

[Text ID: "to become Another: a bird with noiseless wings, or a mermaid with a gorgeous tail, teaching sailors to dive, then turning them to stone."]

[nobeerreviews]

It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy - of dissatisfaction with his life. He had no idea of its cause, still less of its cure; but discontent had come into his soul, and he had taken one small step toward humanity.

-- Arthur C. Clarke

(Rapperswil, Switzerland)

[areadersquotelibrary]

"For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has and one that has made it superior to animals that are satisfied with what they have."

- John Steinbeck, 'The Pearl'

[afrotumble]

[blondebrainpowered]

[frog707]

During the past week I finally got visualization working for hair simulations. Here's a screenshot I captured today, from a real-time simulation of 9,999 strands, each containing 25 points, at 360 iterations per second. Most of the computation was offloaded to my laptop's GPU.

Now as I study it closely, I'm dissatisfied with the flat-shaded meshes use to visualize the colliders. Always something to improve!

Software used: Linux Mint v22.3, jdk-17.0.15+6, Vulkan SDK v1.4.341.1, LWJGL v3.4.1, Jolt JNI v4.1.0, Sport-Jolt v1.3.0, and Jolt Physics v5.5.0+ (custom-built using clang)

Cem Yuksel created the hair model: https://www.cemyuksel.com/research/hairmodels/

Murat Afshar provided the collider meshes. GIMP v2.10.36 was used to crop the captured image.

A shout out to Jorrit Rouwe @jrouwe.bsky.social for publishing Jolt Physics (on which Jolt JNI is based) and the "HairTest.cpp" sample code from which my (Java) app is derived.

No AI was involved.

[datamodel-of-disaster]

One of the worst feelings in the world:

You had food, and it wasn't what you wanted to eat, but you ate it. Now you're no longer hungry, but instead there is a gnawing, unrelenting dissatisfaction in your flesh and you know you have nothing in your house that will ease it.