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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • And here are some answers:

    https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/982119

    (a) Conventional spatial reflections: A person sees their face when they look into a mirror, or when they speak the echo comes back in the same order. (b) Time reflections: The person sees their back when they look into a mirror, and they see themselves in different colors. They hear their echoes in a reversed order, similar to a rewound tape. © Illustration of the experimental platform used to realize time reflections. A control signal (in green) is used to uniformly activate a set of switches distributed along a metal stripline. Upon closing/opening the switches, the electromagnetic impedance of this tailored metamaterial is abruptly decreased/increased, causing a broadband forward-propagating signal (in blue) to be partially time-reflected, (in red) with all its frequencies converted. (Adapted from Nature Physics)

    So kinda like running a sound wave through a flip/reverse filter in audacity and having it switch along the “time” axis.














  • I honestly can’t tell the differences and think the lighting and emotion is what makes these screenshots look different. The model and textures seem pretty much the same. There’s a chance the blendshapes used for certain poses go off model or make the textures look different as they swim or pull with the geometry but to me it looks the least like TNG Jelico when certain expressions are used which are out of character for him rather than a different face itself.

    Knowing how productions run as well, usually assets are approved before they are used in any episodes. Things do change slightly for performance reasons to make a character achieve certain things needed in the script but the model designs are usually approved well in advance of animation. Changing models in production is costly and usually problematic. There’s a chance maybe that you could make changes between seasons but it would be rare as seasons are in production back to back.