History has been made - We finally have a 3D model mod for Doom that actually looks good!
Voxel Doom is an ambitious new graphics mod that replaces all monsters, weapons, props and items with fully 3d voxel models. It currently replaces all monsters from Doom 1. Doom 2 monsters will be completed in the very near future.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/doom-voxel-project/addons/voxel-doom
Artemis I on the launchpad, 2022-08-17
ok this church-radiocomputer-overambitious rpg developers questline is where I fell completely in love with Disco Elysium
earliest launch opportunity slated for end of August 2022
via DALL-E: ‘a realistic photograph with dramatic lighting of muppets in a show depicting a global nuclear war‘
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Atmospheric soot loadings from nuclear weapon detonation would cause disruptions to the Earth’s climate, limiting terrestrial and aquatic food production. Here, we use climate, crop and fishery models to estimate the impacts arising from six scenarios of stratospheric soot injection, predicting the total food calories available in each nation post-war after stored food is consumed. In quantifying impacts away from target areas, we demonstrate that soot injections larger than 5 Tg would lead to mass food shortages, and livestock and aquatic food production would be unable to compensate for reduced crop output, in almost all countries. Adaptation measures such as food waste reduction would have limited impact on increasing available calories. We estimate more than 2 billion people could die from nuclear war between India and Pakistan, and more than 5 billion could die from a war between the United States and Russia—underlining the importance of global cooperation in preventing nuclear war.
Prokaryotic innate immunity through pattern recognition of conserved viral proteins
The innate immune systems of animals, plants, and
fungi universally use nucleotide binding oligomerization domain–like
receptors (NLRs) of the STAND superfamily to detect molecular patterns
common to pathogens. Gao et al. show that NLR-based immune
pattern recognition is also prevalent in bacteria and archaea, something
that was not known before. In particular, the authors characterized
four families of NLR-like genes, finding that they are specific sensors
for two highly conserved bacteriophage proteins. Upon binding to the
target, these NLRs activate diverse effector domains, including
nucleases, to prevent phage propagation. These findings demonstrate that
pattern recognition of pathogen-specific proteins is a common mechanism
of immunity across all domains of life.
Generating arbitrary laser beam shapes through phase-mapped designed beam splitting
We describe here a method to generate high-definition arbitrary laser beam
shapes and profiles useful to many applications, ranging from optical
patterning and lithography to optical trapping of microscopic particles and
ultracold atoms. The phase contrast between a binary grating and a targeted
intensity distribution is encoded on a spatial light modulator to control light
diffraction, producing very sharp, speckles-free, and smooth images. Besides
simplicity, not requiring additional phase-plates, the method provides
straightforward encoding of images onto phase-only masks by a direct pixel
mapping, allowing simpler feedback schemes to correct and control light
distributions and optical potentials in real-time.
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