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natureintheory · 4 months

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Made super-stylized real-time 3D art inspired by one of my favorite creatures in a certain fRPG.

Best viewed in 3D: https://skfb.ly/oOOKv

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natureintheory · 4 months

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Majorana

Portrait illustration for a AAAS Science article about the evasive Ettore Majorana (who disappeared without a trace in 1938) and his eponymous quasiparticle:

The Quantum Phantom – "A ghostly quasiparticle rooted in a century-old Italian mystery could unlock quantum computing’s potential—if only it could be pinned down."

Info, process & more:

P.S., from the article:

And 3 years ago, the researchers flew to UC Berkeley to visit the archive of Emilio Segrè, whose friendship with Majorana soured in the years before his disappearance. The researchers came across a folder that, per Segrè’s instructions, cannot be opened until the year 2057.

Excuse me?? I suppose I have to stick around until at least 2057 because I need to know wtf if in that folder.

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natureintheory · 4 months

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Majorana

Portrait illustration for a AAAS Science article about the evasive Ettore Majorana (who disappeared without a trace in 1938) and his eponymous quasiparticle:

The Quantum Phantom – "A ghostly quasiparticle rooted in a century-old Italian mystery could unlock quantum computing’s potential—if only it could be pinned down."

Info, process & more:

P.S., from the article:

And 3 years ago, the researchers flew to UC Berkeley to visit the archive of Emilio Segrè, whose friendship with Majorana soured in the years before his disappearance. The researchers came across a folder that, per Segrè’s instructions, cannot be opened until the year 2057.

Excuse me?? I suppose I have to stick around until at least 2057 because I need to know wtf if in that folder.

#Ettore Majorana #Majorana #Majorana fermion #Majorana particle #physics #particle physics #art #SciArt #science illustration #Science #Science Magazine #Olena Shmahalo #NatureInTheory #portfolio #digital painting #NoAI #Human Artist #physics art #portrait art

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natureintheory · 4 months

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P.S. a couple of years ago I wrote this blog post about why and how I do real-time 3D art for Quanta, for my own projects and sometimes science illustration for clients.

Rather than using it just to show 3D models, it's a different way to experience art, which I really enjoy.

Though I am concerned about the issues above, in light of everything else we've lost in the art community (and beyond) over the past few years, I do hope this bright corner of the internet works out a little longer.

Exploring other artists' work in the form of 3D worlds and vignettes is so awesome and I'm genuinely... well, frankly pissed, that this type of experience has been co-opted by the morally-bankrupt tech set in the form of various recent BRAND-verse EnEffTee endeavors.

This is an "elder shakes cane" moment. I miss the old internet. I miss free, genuine, adventurous and immersive user-created experiences. I liked that Sketchfab felt that way for a bit.

Hey, I believe I follow you on Blue sky, but not to alarm you. It's really easy to rip models from sketch fab and people most likely will try to download it for free. I already had one of my horse models ripped and sold as jewelry like 5 years ago in China on this weird site. Sketchfab is also data harvesting your models you upload and selling it to 3D ai gen projects, you won't get a lick of it.

Hi, since this is a secondary tumblr I can't message back, but I think this is worth saying publicly anyway:

Yes, not an alarm. I'm aware Sketchfab can be ripped, unfortunately. Any art we share publicly can, as many of us know and have been dealing with for years.

Sketchfab has an entire section regarding AI in their user terms, which were also just updated within the last couple of days. In brief, per this legal agreement, Sketchfab themselves will not use it to AI-related ends.

The tags users can opt in to, e.g. #NoAI, are aimed at third parties. That's... not an amazing "security system". I do wish they'd develop something more foolproof.

Of course, what happens behind closed doors can always diverge from what's legal. There are always bad actors. We always have to make a choice to trust any of these businesses, or not. I know members of the Sketchfab staff and community; they've always been great and supportive, so I continue to participate.

I also increasingly take certain steps to make my own models less useful to said bad actors. Again, not perfect protection, but something.

I'd suggest that others do the same — whether it's anti-AI glazing for 2D art*, or other techniques to make 3D less usable.

*Grateful though I am for Glaze, it's limited right now and, at useful levels, extremely obvious on some styles. For those of us who have our work published, it's going to be out there online and can't always be glazed. Unless you specifically develop a style that can be, without ruining the look.

Also, if there was another service that could somehow truly protect [3D] art while offering these kinds of features, I'd check it out. Right now I know of just one alternative, but it's made by an individual I don't know and have no reason to trust more than SkFb. It's also missing certain features I frequently use in my real-time 3D projects.

#3d #3dart #NoAI #human artist #Sketchfab #real-time 3D #realtime 3D

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natureintheory · 4 months

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Thank you for the Staff Pick, Sketchfab!