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    Prosthetic Knowledge

    prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2013

    A Tumblr that collects creative technology projects: projection mapping, 3D capture, deepfakes, shaders, robotics, and generative art.

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    What HN says

    HN commenters call it a great tumblr and link its posts as sources or related examples, including 4k demos and an augmented hand project.

    Stats for nerds
    28HN people shared it
    30linked in comments
    251story points
    Jul 2017last shared
    2015people per year2017

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      Nicolas Cage DeepFake
      1 person · 99 points · first shared 2018 · 82 comments on HN
    2. 2
      Dynamic 3D Avatar Creation from Hand-Held Video
      1 person · 59 points · first shared 2015 · 10 comments on HN
    3. 3
      Reconstruct 3D model of a person and replicate movement with a single camera
      1 person · 17 points · first shared 2018 · Discussion on HN
    4. 4
      SRI's Nimble Micro Robots
      1 person · 13 points · first shared 2014 · 1 comments on HN
    5. 5
      WebGL graphical shader tribute to Ryoji Ikeda
      1 person · 10 points · first shared 2015 · 4 comments on HN
    6. 6
      The Tears of Saliva Experiments
      1 person · 5 points · first shared 2016 · Discussion on HN
    7. 7
      Realtime face tracking and projection mapping
      1 person · 5 points · first shared 2014 · Discussion on HN
    8. 8
      Sysadmin Posters from the 1980s
      1 person · 4 points · first shared 2014 · 1 comments on HN
    9. 9
      Dynamic Projection Mapping
      2 people · 3 points · first shared 2016 · Discussion on HN
    10. 10
      Google Camera Depth Data
      1 person · 3 points · first shared 2014 · Discussion on HN

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • dharma1Jun 2016

      classic 4k, beautiful stuff. here's another one of my favourites from 5 years ago:

      zeo-x-s/cdak

      https://vimeo.com/25284552

      http://prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com/post/73734927255/cdak-by-quite-orange-demo-written-in-4k-and

      Beautiful soundtrack from Lassi Nikko (tpolm/orange) and crazy cool raymarching shader work from unc (quite)

      shadertoy version with VR support:

      https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MdyGzD

    • yawgmothDec 2015

      Couldn't get OP/Google Cache to load, so here's a related article with some screenshots (thumbnails are heavily artifacted, but the regular-scale images are less so)

      http://prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com/post/134143005311/canada-150-typeface-commisioned-by-canadian

    • mxfhMay 2015

      via http://prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com/post/118136157276/augmented-hand-v2-0-continuation-of-interactive (GIFs included)

    • DonaldDerekJul 2017

      http://prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com/

      Great tumblr, suggested by a close friend.

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