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Janne Moren

Any #Linux #kernel ,
#graphics or #GPU people out there?

I'm trying to understand the relationship between the #amgdpu driver shipped with the kernel; and the "andgpu-dkms" driver that comes with #ROCm .

Specifically, with a recent enough kernel, do we really need to install the ROCm version of the driver? Does the ROCm version contain stuff the general driver does not? Or is the ROCm stack (esp. libhsa) tightly tied to a very specific version of the driver?

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Birk Marold

Do you remember the 2008? #game #spore that lets you play with #evolution starting as a #protozoa and you play to evolve to landfall and later space?

Like back then i still feel the only great part of this game is in fact the top down view playing your single celled organism, but i also feel it falls utterly short.

2008 was long before i became a #microscopy nerd and before i learned about #medical #microbiology .

What i love about microbiology and microscopy is that its such an alien world that allows for endless magical discovery. Where a single cell is alive and buzzing like a whole city with complex dynamics and the view through a microscope that looks visually just stunning and so vivid that no game #graphics can actually compete with it.

The game is there already, complex and alive, all around us.

Imagine a top down view just like the view through the microscope. Bright white background. you start as a single most basic bacterium. Invisible, of course. Here come different imaging and staining techniques into play.

Its an #RPG and you #levelup your bacterium. You eat, grow and evolve with a skill tree that reflects scientifically accurate abilities. evolve to break down cellulose for food, evolve a outer cell membrane and become a #grampositive bacterium for increased protection, evolve to build out spores so if you die you can get revived, evolve to build out a flagellum for motility and speed. (post goes on in replies)
#gamedesign #science #research #biology

a screenshot of the game spore during the cellular evolution stage.
a microscopy image that shows 3 bacteria that have their outer capsule stained by the negative staining method using congo red.
a micoscopy iage that shows rod shaped bacteria that have their endospore stained with malachite green.
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Karsten Schmidt

@mdhughes This old little East German book from 1988 covers similar topics (and much more[1]) was one of the most life-changing books for me during my teenage years:

Computer und Kunst
archive.org/details/computerun

[1] Other Topics also included information/music theory, cognition, Markov chains, fractals, text analysis, poetry/music generation...

#RetroComputing #GenerativeArt #AlgorithmicArt # #Graphics #BASIC

Book cover "Computer und Kunst" by Horst Völz. Akzent Verlag (publisher). The cover image shows a colorful Mandelbrot fractal.
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Tariq

#opensourceFriday

back in the 90s, the era of 8/16bit home computers, it was rare treat to experience software that made your computer feel like a supercomputer

the (originally freeware) #opensource raytracing software POVRAY was definitely one of those

it was available for a number of platforms eg Amiga, PC and Acorn Archimedes

the scene description language was very powerful, able to programmatically define scenes with eg loops

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POV-Ray

ray traced image of glasses with liquid, refraction, reflections by poverty src https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Glasses_800_edit.png
poverty ray traced pebbles src https://hof.povray.org/pebbles.html
traditional ray traced scene of glass balls on chequered floor b poverty src https://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3C5e62f91f@news.povray.org%3E/
book ray tracing worlds with povrat with flying bird on cover and sky clouds src https://www.amazon.com/Tracing-Worlds-Pov-Ray-Book-Disks/dp/1878739646
#graphics#raytracing#povray
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