Azad Balabanian

accidentally loaded a 2 splats together (SF + church in Ani) and the result is kinda cool

@thsottiaux Plan mode fills out most of the context. No native way for it to store/handoff its learnings prior to compacting

What are we obviously not getting right with Codex?

Is anyone using NAS’s for active Gaussian splat projects? If so, any tips for optimizing speeds? I find my 1 gigabit NAS to be too slow to use for active projects, so I’m looking into 2.5gb/10gb setups and I’m curious if it’ll be worth it!

@vincent_koc Do you have it write the results of your convo/findings down prior to the /goal being set? Or does it just store in context?

3/ before i ever type /goal, i have a conversation: here's what OpenClaw is. here's the surface i care about: plugins, gateway, onboarding. here's what "bad" looks like for a user. here's what i already tried and ruled out. here's the kind of bug i keep missing. ask me anything before we start.

I've been using /goal for ~3 days on OpenClaw. - 13 runs. - Gazillion tokens. - Many, many PRs. The lesson isn't "i used /goal a lot." it's that /goal is not a "do my ticket" button. It's a constraint workflow. I want a keep the ship on course. A thread on what actually works 🧵

@NimaZeighami Direct from a disk too. Glorious

Playing PS3 games directly on a PS5... Sony won't let you have this. Heartbreaking.

@bryancsk Fav fun fact is that it’s even listed in the oldest map of the world (Urartu aka Ararat) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonia…

We don't talk enough about how ridiculously old Armenia is.

@_M_Mountain_ Ai slop

Why did Armenia become so militarily weak? Back in the late 90s, Armenia apparently had real military manufacturing. It existed. Then during Robert Kocharyan and Serzh Sargsyan, most of it got shut down. The excuse? Why spend money building weapons at home when Russia would sell them to us cheaper? Sounds practical - until you think about it. That decision didn’t just save money. It killed local industry, wiped out expertise, and made Armenia weak and dependent. No production, no leverage, no backup plan. Just reliance. Russia benefited from keeping Armenia dependent and incapable of producing its own weapons. It was by design. Now that Armenia is starting to move away from Russia’s orbit, lo and behold - Armenia began developing local weapons industry with so far quite good results.

@KaRafayelyan Cool

Cool of Cringe?😯 🇦🇲 Yerevan’s latest "upgrade": painted carpets on the pavement. For our European guests 🧵🏘️

@HovhanNaz True but what about Tigran Honents in Ani?

Armenian minimalism

@janusch_patas @mitsuhiko 😉

@Azadux @mitsuhiko Wow! Lots of equipment attached. Now you need to make a great traveling/commuting video!

New toy for commuting and it’s fun. I feel like gravel bikes for all the hate they get are a great compromise if you don’t want to own multiple bikes.

@janusch_patas @mitsuhiko Gravel gang

@mitsuhiko That's mine! Love it! 3DGS link: lumalabs.ai/capture/0af749…

@taiuti I’m bummed that I still haven’t been in a plane with Starlink yet. What airline and where/from to?

Ok this insane. I’m on a plane.

@AbandonedTroll @XREAL_Global Awesome, enjoy! Check out Star fox 64 too. Tons of great 3D games on the 3DS

@Azadux @XREAL_Global Yeah I've had to drop to 20 which is just about right on this screen. Runs so well, thanks for your post, I would never have thought to do it.

I’m having a faaaantastic time playing 3DS games on my AYN Thor in 3D via my @XREAL_Global XR glasses Every 3DS game actually renders in true, native, geometric stereo 3d and it’s wonderful

Whattup Timmy!

@AbandonedTroll @XREAL_Global Nice! If thr stereo is too strong, turn it down in the azahar depth settings. I have it set to 50 and even that is aggressive for this game

@Azadux @XREAL_Global It's happening!

@OzBigBen why not just align the full 360 photos since Metashape actually supports it! (Go to settings > camera calibration and change from frame > spherical)

Going to find a different scene for exploring different 3DGS pipelines but for now this mess is looking good. 360 video -> 110° cube faces (FFMPEG) -> Metashape cam stations. Bypasses equirec conversion for COLMAP but more images to align.

@SunlessSolaire Nope. MCP can be used by literally any model, including open source ones that you can run locally

@Azadux Is trying to make users dependent on the Claude subscription It's just so obvious

This is… very shortsighted. People are so fixated on pushing back against genAI that they’re missing the forest for the trees What blender mcp is about is having an expert run the python panel while you, the artist, do your work!

@urekat Definitely

Appleのあれかな

@andrewpprice People are incorrectly fixated on genAI that they’re missing the forest for the trees What blender mcp is about is having an expert run the python panel while you, the artist, do your work.

Take a closer look at the workflow above. It’s very fast For reference, my 5 min 8k 360 video, extracted at 3 fps produced 900 something frames, aligned in metashape in <20 min, then converted to cubemap colmap format and splatted in lichtfeld studio (you should really given that a shot over Brush. Densification models are much more advanced)

@Azadux @YeheLiu I export non-stabilised video so I'm always in the centre of "down"... crude mask with some padding for drift. I shoot with the camera at least 2m from me if not directly above so I'm smaller in the frame.

ok, problem mostly mitigated. adjusting my workflow to JPGs instead of PNGs for 360 splatting 61 gb -> 15 gb without any percievable quality loss. thanks for the suggestion @YeheLiu