![]() Additionally, I decided to only show the cursor when the menu is visible. I guess people nowadays either have a Cardboard 2.0 (which supports a button) or an Oculus Rift and a mouse and keyboard. ![]() After many tests I decided that I did not like the fuse cursor for selecting photos. I disabled the fuse cursors which would normally emit this click event. I handles the selection of the photo via the mouse click event. The second component is associated to each photo thumbnail within the menu container. So I turned to Stack Overflow which helped me out on that one (again). I have to admit that I was not able to write the code for positioning the menu in space. This component acts as a container for the photo thumbnails. ![]() The first component handles the VR photo menu (showing the menu, hiding the menu, position it in space). As it turned out, I needed actually two components: Which lead me to implement my first component for A-Frame. (b) implementing a decent VR menu could not be done by just using A-Frame tags. (a) yes it is easy to implement a photosphere BUT Since I knew that A-Frame had been released I thought of implementing this app in A-Frame, as I thought it might be quite easy to do, AND I would learn coding in A-Frame.Īfter a few hours of playing around I realised that The photosphere is showing photos with a so-called equirectangular projection (did not hear about that term before, as I am not a photo nerd -) ). It is a 360-degree photosphere VR app for Google Cardboard including a nice menu in VR which allows one to easily select photos from a list. Recently I installed the Cardboard Camera app on my phone. Space bar toggles a menu system, and a gaze-based cursor selects photos. WebVR Tour of Public Projects in Charleston, SCĬhris from IdeaSpaceVR has built an interactive 360-degree photosphere viewer. Popmotion Physics & Animation with A-Frame The Washington Post Presents "Mars: An Interactive Journey" Halloween Feature! Building Ghost Train BuilderĪmnesty International UK Presents "Fear of the Sky" Rapid Motion-Capture-Powered VR Development Managing Application and Game State in A-Frame Image Tracking and Location-Based AR with A-Frame and AR.js 3Ī-Frame v0.8.0 - Performance and ProductionĪ-Frame v0.7.0 - Windows Mixed Reality Headsets and glTF 2.0Ĭreating Augmented Reality with AR.js and A-Frame A-Frame 1.4.0 - Custom elements V1, Oculus Quest Pro support, tons of fixes and improvementsĪ-Frame 1.1.0 - AR, Quest 2 Support, hand tracking, compositor layers, immersive navigation
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Come On, Let’s Goĭogs that are bred to herd animals often use nudging to tell those animals where to go. Below are just a few of the possible things that your pooch may be trying to tell you. While I wouldn’t necessarily call this a subtle form of communication, it is certainly a more nuanced one in that a dog nudge can have a wide variety of meanings depending on the context. But what about nose-nudging? What does that mean? If she’s growling, there’s a good chance she’s upset about something. If your dog is wagging his tail, it’s probably a safe bet that he’s happy. Provide Exercise, Discipline, Affection.Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns. I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please be respectful of others, and report antagonistic comments to mods for review. This subreddit has low tolerance for drama. If you’d like to introduce yourself or discuss smaller topics, please contribute to our Monthly Discussion Hub, pinned at the top. Support adoption as well as ethical and responsible breeding. Review the rules here r/Dogs has four goals: - Help the public better understand dogs - Promote healthy, responsible dog-owner relationships - Encourage “Least Intrusive, Minimally Aversive” training protocols. Submissions and comments which break the rules will be removed. This is a carefully moderated sub intended to support, inform, and advise dog owners. Welcome to r/dogs! We are a discussion-based subreddit dedicated to support, inform, and advise dog owners. Give some thought to the overall tone of each comment or submission.Ī total list of related subreddits may be found here, including breed subreddits, dog picture subreddits, and other animal subreddits. Not everyone has the same knowledge, background, or experience. Be aware of the disparity in "common knowledge" between the two groups when reading or posting. r/dogs is populated by hobbyists but receives a lot of traffic from non-hobbyists. Be aware of cultural differences when reading and try to be sensitive to those differences in your submissions and responses. Say nothing you wouldn't say to someone coming to you for opinions or advice face-to-face.ĭogs, dog training, and dog ownership are not one-size-fits-all.ĭog ownership and culture is different around the world. Positive reinforcement isn't just for dogs.īe respectful to one another. If in doubt, always call a vet or qualified professional!ĭiscuss and converse to learn and to understand. If you're looking to purchase a dog, you want to get one from a responsible breeder. If possible, include information about your general location, otherwise responses will likely target the average US dog owner.īreed Recommendations: Include the responses to these questions if you want to know what breed is right for you. Search the subreddit for questions similar to yours Some Flairs such as Health, RIP, Survey and others may have requirements that need to be met prior to approval. Read the full subreddit rules and if in doubt, check out our Best Practices wiki for tips on how to get the most out of your post.Ĭheck out the Flairs and Flair requirements before posting. The ultimate goal of the subreddit is to foster a better, science-based understanding of dogs among the general public, promote responsible dog ownership, help users build better relationships with their dogs, and provide a space to connect and discuss with others who have dogs and who are involved in various aspects of the dog hobby.Īdvice on this forum is absolutely not a substitute for professional advice from a certified behaviorist, trainer, lawyer, or medical professional. The purpose of /r/dogs is to provide an educational and supportive space for past, present, and future dog owners regarding a range of dog-related topics. Welcome to /r/dogs, the community for dog-lovers on Reddit! ![]() Only the resonant frequencies interfere constructively to form standing waves, while others interfere destructively and are absent. When a certain length is obtained, the sound of the tuning fork will resonate through the column.Īll sound resonances are due to constructive and destructive interference. ![]() The changing water level changes the length of the resonating air column. Now fill the pipe with some water and repeat. Place it near the mouth of the pipe and hear the sound. Choose a tuning fork and strike it to make it vibrate. Fix it so that it stands upright with the open end on top. Tuning forks and pipes may be used to demonstrate the concept of resonance. As the driving frequency gets progressively higher than the resonant or natural frequency, the amplitude of the oscillations becomes smaller, until the oscillations nearly disappear and your finger simply moves up and down with little effect on the ball. When you drive the ball at its natural frequency, the ball’s oscillations increase in amplitude with each oscillation for as long as you drive it. As you increase the frequency at which you move your finger up and down, the ball will respond by oscillating with increasing amplitude. If you move your finger up and down slowly, the ball will follow along without bouncing much on its own. At first you hold your finger steady, and the ball bounces up and down with a small amount of damping. Most of us have played with toys where an object bobs up and down on an elastic band, something like the paddle ball suspended from a finger in Figure 14.18. The phenomenon of driving a system with a frequency equal to its natural frequency is called resonance, and a system being driven at its natural frequency is said to resonate. The natural frequency is the frequency at which a system would oscillate if there were no driving and no damping force. Over time the energy dissipates, and the amplitude gradually reduces to zero- this is called damping. This is a good example of the fact that objects-in this case, piano strings-can be forced to oscillate but oscillate best at their natural frequency.Ī driving force (such as your voice in the example) puts energy into a system at a certain frequency, which is not necessarily the same as the natural frequency of the system. It will sing the same note back at you-the strings that have the same frequencies as your voice, are resonating in response to the forces from the sound waves that you sent to them. Sit in front of a piano sometime and sing a loud brief note at it while pushing down on the sustain pedal. Before the start of this section, it would be useful to review the properties of sound waves and how they are related to each other, standing waves, superposition and interference of waves. ![]() The camera mechanism in the game is dynamic, and the player can change between viewing angles for safer and more comfortable bus driving. ![]() ![]() Thanks to the richness and depth in the function or control system, the feeling of driving the new generation bus are clearly emphasized. The route and schedule are also important in Bus Simulator. The bus driving process is also realistic to make the player more immersive, and they need to interact with every feature to serve every passenger constantly. While driving, players also have to interact with all the control mechanisms that are flexible and articulate, including taking advantage of the gearbox or cruise control on long journeys. That will help them discover new generation buses, and even please passengers in many distinctive ways. Therefore, Bus Simulator: Ultimate applies the most natural and refined systems to make the player's driving experience is absolute while interacting with all available functions. Today's bus is seen as a mobile home with many outstanding features to keep passengers in the most comfortable mood throughout the trip. In addition, the variety and richness of its contract systems will open up many new possibilities for players to enjoy this work leisurely. The highlight of this game is its exquisite graphics and physics, which makes every process or moment polished and has depth for pure enjoyment. Bus Simulator: Ultimate will give everyone the most authentic experience and feeling when becoming a bus driver and performing countless achievements. ![]() You do not need to peel acorn squash before cooking, as the flesh will easily scoop out of the squash once it’s cooked.Salting the squash before roasting it also helps to pull out some of the moisture to avoid watery squash. Overcooked squash will become watery and mushy. To avoid watery acorn squash, do not over cook it.If it’s fork-tender, it’s done cooking and ready to eat. If the squash is already cut in half, you can easily test if it is done by sticking a fork in the flesh of the squash. You’ll know when the squash is done when you can easily insert a fork in the flesh. You want it tender, yet not mushy.If you’re roasting more than one squash, I would recommend the oven for the best texture and the ability to cook several squash at a time. It cooks in almost half the time as the oven and the taste and texture are almost identical to the squash cooked in the oven. Best overall: if you’re only cooking one acorn squash, I’d recommend the air fryer.It’s tender, with a slightly crispy, caramelized texture on the top layer of squash. The texture of acorn squash cooked in both of these appliances is very similar. Best texture: it’s a tie, between the air fryer and oven.If you’re in a hurry, this is the method I’d recommend. Fastest: the microwave only takes 8 minutes to cook a whole acorn squash, making it the fastest method.Roast in a preheated 400☏ oven for 35-45 minutes.Follow the instructions above to prepare the squash, then place it cut side up on a foil-lined baking sheet.Season and dig in, or use in your favorite acorn squash recipe. Use a fork to remove the seeds from the middle of the squash. Remove from the microwave and slice in half from root to stem.Microwave for 4 minutes, use tongs or an oven mitt to flip the squash over on the plate. Place the squash on a microwave-safe plate.Use a fork to poke holes all over the squash to release steam as it cooks in the microwave.After you’ve followed the steps above to prepare the squash, place it cut side up in an air fryer.Other seasonings can also be added at this time. ![]() Brush the flesh of the squash with olive oil, then season with salt.Use a fork to remove the seeds from the middle of the squash.The skin on acorn squash is very thin so it’s much easier to cut than other squash, like spaghetti squash. Cut the acorn squash in half from stem to root.If the squash you have is smaller or larger, you may have to adjust the cooking times either up or down. If cooking the squash in the microwave, you’ll want to keep it whole and follow the directions in the next section.Įach of these methods were tested using an average size squash, 1 ½ – 2 pounds in size. ![]() If cooking the acorn squash in the oven or an air fryer, follow these steps to prepare the squash before roasting.
![]() Moments of hopelessness come, but they eventually pass. I’ve lost a small number of friends over the years, but never over a book.Īt worst, it’s hard work of a peculiar kind – solving problems that only exist because you have created them for yourself. Second-hand copies are bought and sold online for handfuls of pounds. ![]() Putting aside the work of the teenage years (a sequence of erotic sonnets a volume of protest songs about Margaret Thatcher), my first book was a travel guide to Japan published in 1995, sadly out of print. I prefer to work alone, or in a small team. I thought that I wanted to direct plays, but brief experience at university made me realise how dependent theatre is on the temperamental peculiarities of other people. Going to preface this by saying ‘favourite’ is an impossible term, but these are some things I have liked a lot lately:Įighteen. Let’s not dwell on how many of those years were technically spent at a desk. There were seven years between finishing the previous book and delivering this one. Reading a lot of books, going for bike rides, thinking about dinner. On writing? In the last few years, definitely Tom Drury and John McGahern, Amy Leach, Alice Oswald, Lydia Davis. Who, or what, have been your most important influences? But mostly it’s very very dull to watch or to talk about. It’s slow at the beginning, and then it’s slow in the middle, and then at the end it’s quick and difficult and satisfying. I hope I’m not quite as judgemental as that… but I’ve been pushing Amy Leach’s Things That Are on people for a few years now, and when they don’t get it I don’t get them. I didn’t just want to be one of the Walker children, ducking beneath the boom and calling ‘ready about’ as we tacked our way up the lake when reading the books, I was one of them. I’ve tried reading them to my kids, and keep having to stop for some contextual discussion of sexism, class-consciousness and colonialism, which rather takes the shine off them but at the time I was completely bowled over. Swallows & Amazons, and the subsequent eleven books of the series. I’m too slow a writer to ever waste anything by leaving it in a bottom drawer. It was only when my first stories were accepted for publication, a few years later, that ‘being a writer’ came to seem like a thing. But even then it wasn’t something I thought about ‘becoming’ no-one I knew became a writer, or even entertained the idea. I didn’t start writing until I was 18 or 19, after reading Douglas Coupland’s Generation X and being won over by his emphasis on the value of telling stories. The last of each that I loved were “Lady Bird,” “War & Leisure” by Miguel, and Imran Qureishi’s glowing seaweed-like installation at the Lahore Biennale. I’m not really a “favourite” kind of person. What’s your favourite a) film b) album c) artist? My previous three books took six or seven years each.ġ0. How long did it take you to write the book that is shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize?įour years, more or less. I suppose I would be supporting my reading habit with a consulting job.ĩ. But I have no demonstrated musical talent. If you weren’t a writer, what would you be doing? I probably wouldn’t be a writer without them.Ĩ. Joyce Carol Oates and Toni Morrison taught me at university. Who or what have been your most important influences? Who, in your opinion is the most under-read author?ħ. Do you find the process of writing agony or ecstasy?Ħ. But none of my friends have ever tried it.ĥ. It probably isn’t impossible to tell me you don’t like my book and still be my friend. What is your ‘if you don’t like this, you can’t be my friend’ book? The books I spent the most time rereading were The Lord of the Rings by J. Sadly it did not find a publisher and has been lost to posterity.ģ. My first book was an intergalactic space opera with stick figure illustrations, inspired by Star Wars, that I wrote when I was seven or eight. Was your first book published or is it still lurking in a drawer somewhere? But it wasn’t until I reached university, around the age of 18 or so, that I first began to imagine that such a thing was possible for me.Ģ. I think I would always have wanted to be a writer if I knew one could be a writer. At what age did you know you wanted to become a writer? ![]() Not at all! Amazon Pinpoint is made to integrate into your existing Well-Architected Data Infrastructure. Is it hard to get started with Amazon Pinpoint? These powerful analytics allow you to further tailor your service experience to what your customers want, and make more intelligent decisions about where to spend resources. 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Using Amazon Pinpoint, you can send customers up-to-the-minute deals for restaurants in their area. Say you run a business specializing in local meal specials in your area. This technology was made to fit into your well-architected AWS infrastructure, and begin communicating with customers immediately. And if your business uses a custom channel, then that can be integrated as well. There are several messaging options available through Amazon Pinpoint, including: text messages, email, push notifications and voice messages. With this in mind, it’s never been easier to personalize marketing messaging to the particular behaviors of your customers. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaking in. The United States has provided Ukraine with nearly 40 billion in security aid since the war began. These include Continuous Vulnerability Management, Continuous Log Monitoring, Managed EDR, Managed Email Security, and Managed Network Security. The most recent memorandum was finalized in 2016. 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Here’s how to use Voilà app's cartoon face filter to transform yourself into a Disney character faster than you can say, “Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo.”Īlthough the Voilà AI Artist Cartoon Photo app isn’t an official Disney cartoon app, it’s trending on TikTok after users realized it can alter your features into something that looks eerily similar to a Disney or Pixar cartoon. The Voilà AI Artist app features both 3D cartoon and 2D cartoon filters as well as Renaissance and Hand-Drawn Caricature in-app makeovers - and, due to the amount of detail, the results are surprisingly realistic. Select the photo you like and click the share button in the corner to save it, or choose to share on social media.While there’s no shortage of Instagram and Snapchat filters that make you look like an animated character IRL, a new app that launched in March 2021 is going viral for its ability to make you look like you walked straight off the set of Frozen or Snow White. Once you have taken or selected your photo, Voila will render the image and show a grid with the original photo, plus the three filtered ones in Royalty, Baby and Cartoon 3D filters. How to Open and Use the 3D Cartoon Filter in Voila AI ArtistĪfter downloading and opening the app, select the 3D Cartoon mode, after which you can choose to take or select your own photo, or search for a celebrity photo. The images are easily downloadable, and fans can share them to Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, or save them onto their device. You can combine the filters to make a collage, and even upload celebrity photos so you can compare your Disney Princess look with someone famous. Within the 3D Cartoon filter are also subfilters: Royalty 3D, Baby 3D and Cartoon 3D, the latter of which is the Disney Pixar face. Snapchatįans can also change their selfies to look like a Renaissance painting, caricatures and 2D cartoons. Snapchat users can use the lens to turn selfies into Disney Pixar characters, and use the lens in real time for movies. Snapchat's Cartoon 3D style lens in action. To open the lens, Snapchat users can go to the camera screen and click the smiling face icon to the right of the camera button.Ī search bar will appear in the bottom right corner of the screen, in which, if you type cartoon, the lenses will appear.Ĭhoose the Cartoon 3D Style lens and select, and either use it for images or movies to share or download. ![]() How to Open and Use Cartoon 3D Style Lens on Snapchat You can download the movies and images created using the Snapchat lens, meaning you can share your Pixar-style movie on Instagram or TikTok as well. The key difference with Snapchat's lens compared to the Voila app is that it can change your face in real time, meaning you can make movies as a cartoon which will move with you. The most recent release, Cartoon 3D Style, was released in June 2021 and has a more Pixar-like look to it, and you can choose your cartoon gender. There are three cartoon lenses on Snapchat, each of which give you a cartoon face, though slightly differently. The first thing to point out is that technically, for the Snapchat version, this is not known as a filter, but a lens. ![]() In the case of Snapchat, the lens is really simple to use as it exists on the app itself. ![]() ![]() Read more Hippo Powerfully Smashes Watermelon in Single Bite in Incredible Viral Vid How to Get Disney Pixar Face Filter via Snapchat ![]() The IF port is where the RF signal that was modified by the LO signal is passed, and its waveform is filtered to become the IF signal. The switching action effectively reverses the path of the RF to the IF. The LO signal is the strongest signal, and is used to turn the diodes on and off in a switching mixer (which is nine out of ten mixers). In this case, the power that is applied is RF, not DC like it would be in an amplifier. The local oscillator (LO) port is where the "power" for the mixer is injected. The RF port is where the high frequency signal is applied that you want to downconvert it, or where the high-frequency signal is output in an upconverter. There are three ports on a mixer,the radio frequency (RF) port, the local oscillator port (LO), and the intermediate frequency port (IF). Here's a handy video from Christopher Marki with a nice intro to the topic of mixers: PIN diodes are never used for mixers, they switch too slowly. ![]() ![]() The nonlinear device within a mixer is most often a Schottky diode, but can also be a FET or other transistor. Even in switching mixers you still need a nonlinear device. Switching mixers include single-balanced and double-balanced mixers are the most prevalent and have the most predictable performance, but nonlinear mixers allow you to go to much higher frequencies (well into the millimeterwave spectrum). Two broad categories of mixers commonly used in microwave applications are switching mixers and nonlinear mixers. What's a mixer? It's a device that performs the task of frequency conversion, by multiplying two signals (why do you think that the schematic symbol for a mixer is an "X"?) Mixers are needed in most microwave systems because the RF signal is way too high to process its information (for example, looking for a Doppler shift in an X-band radar application, you won't find many A/D converters than can handle 10 GHz!)Ī mixer can be as simple as one that uses a single diode, or it can get far more complicated for improved performance. Eye can still see those dials.about 5" in diameter, each with gradations from zero to 100.black in color, with white lettering. Also there was a blank register sheet in the instruction book to enable you to write down the TRF dial settings in case you accidentally picked up a radio station on your own. When you got your new set there was always an instruction book with it, with instructions as to how to set the individual tuner dials for the popular transmitters in the country.you could periodically pick up the distant stations at night, due to the transmission through the Kennelly-Heavyside layers. As a kid Eye can remember the old tuned-RF receivers, where you had two or three stages of individually tuned amplifiers (TRF). Super-Het revolutionized the RF receiver industry. The definition of super-heterodyne involved first converting the incoming AM signal to Intermediate Frequency (IF) amplification (through the use of a tracking Local Oscillator) before simple rectification in order to recover the amplitude modulation of the IF signal. The original definition for heterodyne was the simple rectification of amplitude-modulated RF to recover the modulation envelope. This in from OAH in New Jersey, on radios before the superhet. Both Fessenden and Armstrong are in the Microwaves Hall of Fame! During and directly after the Great War, Major Edwin Armstrong developed the superheterodyne receiver, which would not have been possible without Fessenden's work. ![]() The benefits of a mixer in a radio receiver cannot be obtained without a stable local oscillator, something that Fessenden did not possess. Reginald Aubrey Fessenden came up with the idea of mixing signals in 1901, a phenomenon he called "heterodyning". Search for RF mixers on Mixer history - heterodyning Pocket comb mixer (new for November 2019!) Here's a clickable index to our growing material on mixers:Įxcel S-parameter Mixer (new for January 2021!) 1954 Sears Roebuck mixer that poured the foundation of the Unknown Editor's childhood home in New JerseyĬheck out our book recommendation page and order Stephen Maas' masterpiece on mixers! |
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