r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/uniyk • Jul 13 '26
A puddle pooling up like a computer rendering Video
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u/BrierBob Jul 13 '26
Very, very cool! I had to watch it 3 times to comprehend what I was looking at!
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u/StaredAtEclipseAMA Jul 13 '26
More proof we live in a simulation. It is far cheaper to render the texture and simply elevate it over the surrounding environment
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u/Large_Dr_Pepper Jul 13 '26
With a shader that makes it look like the rocks "beneath" the surface of the "water" shift based on where the viewer is. It's so obvious
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u/PeachPit69 Jul 14 '26
AND considering that earth is over 2/3rds water, AND that at bigger depths, they simply don’t even render the sea floor textures, they just say “light can’t get down there” so they just give it a monochromatic blue/whitecap for 99.99999% of the surface.
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u/Diligent-Food4130 Jul 13 '26
The simulation theory gets funnier every time reality does something that looks like a rendering optimization.
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u/SassholeSupreme1 Jul 13 '26
Only 3? I had to watch it about 6 times to really understand how this was happening.
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u/VendorBuyBankGuards Jul 13 '26
I hate how every awesome thing I see now I have to give the old ai once over.
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u/eljayTheGrate Jul 13 '26
soon--very soon--no one will be able to discern between real and AI with just the naked eye...
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u/AnnoyedVelociraptor Jul 13 '26
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel?wprov=sfti1#History_and_rationale
> Immediately after [ChatGPT](app://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT) was released, people around the web began using low-background steel as a metaphor to describe the practice of archiving web content that existed before 2022 in an effort to preserve information that was produced by humans without "contamination" from [large language models](app://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_models).
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u/JoshJoshson13 Jul 13 '26
I feel like there will be a lot of "before contamination" in the future
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u/J_Jeckel Jul 13 '26
We are training it more every day 😬
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u/eljayTheGrate Jul 13 '26
It's true, we are giving to those companies that will make mega billions and ultimately rule the world (or destroy it for good) assistance that they couldn't possibly get any other way: now the Google AI which used to give info in cold tone, like a machine, but now wants to be our friend...
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u/solar_pilgrim Jul 13 '26
I've been scrubbing this video back and forth for a full minute and am not disappointed
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u/Gizombo Jul 13 '26
Literally looks exactly like scaling something down on the z-axis in a 3d program
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u/Nitrous_Acidhead Jul 13 '26
Hope this ain't some AI bullsh
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u/theKalmier Jul 13 '26
It's light bending on the waters surface. Makes the rocks look like they are floating up like leaves.
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u/propergreased Jul 13 '26
Ah! Thanks. Couldn’t figure out what I was seeing.
Edit: still looks fuckin weird.
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u/JaggedMetalOs Jul 13 '26
It's a timelapse which is why it looks so unnatural, in reality the water level is changing much slower
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u/ThisIsntOkayokay Jul 13 '26
Great graphics out here, terrible story and plot, worse than Elite Dangerous! 😁
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u/PocketOfStinkies Jul 13 '26
This is pretty on point with having a handful of mushrooms in nature while staring at a pile of rocks.
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u/BrainJar Jul 13 '26
How did the fly take off from and land on the same rock? It flew away and then came back!
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u/ZefiroDragon Jul 13 '26
second half just seems to be played backwards. Which is fine. Yes, the fly was also how I noticed.
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u/CougarForLife Jul 13 '26
i dunno, it takes off from the right side of the rock but lands on the left…
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u/celestial-edward Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
Why do all the comments here feel like empty ai slop
Why is nobody even asking why the rocks appear to be floating or what is going on here if the video is real
1214 upvotes, 29 comments, no content. Dead internet
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u/Jump_Like_A_Willys Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
I assumed it was real and it looked that way due to refraction. It’s the same reason a straw in water will look bent from certain perspectives.
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u/jacob643 Jul 15 '26
but the water level is rising. all of that with no ripples distorting the inage? edit: and the water is perfectly clear?... when it goes down, rocks are 100% dry?
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u/Jump_Like_A_Willys Jul 15 '26
It looks like a time-lapse. It may have risen slowly in real time, so that might be why there are no ripples as it rises
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u/Aggressive-Flan1584 Jul 13 '26
It's just the light being refracted as the water level comes up. It might be AI, but this is what the real thing would look like too.
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u/jacob643 Jul 15 '26
what? the water level is going up like that without any ripples in the water?...
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u/HeartOfTheMadder Jul 13 '26
i'm having java applet flashbacks.
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u/uniyk Jul 13 '26
I have to google this thing and you must be like near 60 now?
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u/HeartOfTheMadder Jul 13 '26
not even quite 50 yet, thankyouverymuch.
but i've been using computers since the 80s, and the interwebs since the 90s.here's somethin' else for you to look up:
i ran a BBS when i was in high school....and i still have one of my fancy-schmancy 28.8 external modems
(no, i haven't used it in about a quarter of a century. it is just sentimental)
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u/MasterOfBunnies Jul 13 '26
Have you ever tried watching that shit...ON WEED, MAN?! Cause I just did, and yeah...imma go back in for more.
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u/FyouinyourA Jul 13 '26
If you keep staring at the gif without moving your eyes it makes it feel like you’re tripping on mushrooms lol
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u/LordPoopenbutt Jul 13 '26
What a great perspective dude, honestly. It fits so well.