Lotus |

artist trying to find its way in life, I post art, rdnm rts

My work:

[Lotus | @Infinite_Lotus_]

My first ever Vgen commission!!!!!!
I'm so honored and happy to bring @SakyuTepes ' Lilith to life!

Amazing references and a beautiful character to work with!

Here is the process and my favorite part to paint, the gloves!!!!

[Lotus | @Infinite_Lotus_]

@_edenfalls @ArkTuah agreed, this feels the same as the take on Huner Games that Katniss was targeted in book 1, but the whole message was that she wasn't.
Here is the same, I think she is a beacon of hope because she was a nobody who learned magic, and having a connection would dimmish that

[Lotus | @Infinite_Lotus_]

@sorcerers_claw @rryhsztshel Ah okay! Yeah I can see that
I think in my case I see it as people not knowing how to deal with their own selfishness and issues that they try to project it to the character, in this case a kid.
And haven't pondered that in general its unfair to how they approach kids in general

[Lotus | @Infinite_Lotus_]

@ZeldaLoreYT This solidifies the it is the LEGEND of zelda, its a tale being passed down and we are playing said legends. But it is a tale or old

[Link @RockEatingHero]

I may have been a little bit excited for the remake

[Lotus | @Infinite_Lotus_]

@sorcerers_claw @rryhsztshel If you guys are anime only then you are going to understand a bit later so dw ^-^
It's part of the story to question this as richen indeed is a child growing and learning, I just wanted to share that it is addressed later

[inthestardust @inthestardust]

WIP ✍️

[烤面包man @Nenn73794840]

耳饰

[Lotus | @Infinite_Lotus_]

@Recipe4Groo I say bad on both.
They seem too loud both their voices and the track itself and they don't seem to blend, I can feel like they are singing apart, even if every single singer does.
The voices are too punchy and the track is too out there

[Ningu @Ningu83]

예전에 학원 강사로 일할 때는 학생들에게 "명암 경계선 주변의 채도를 높이세요" 같은 식으로 요령만 가르치곤 했다. 하지만 이는 현상의 원인이 아닌 '결과'만 가르친것이라, 좀 반성하게 된다.

피부의 명암 경계에서 타는 듯한 붉은빛이 감도는 현상은 사실 표면하산란(SSS), 정반사(Specular), 그리고 암부의 환경광(Ambient)이 복합적으로 작용하여 나타나는 광학적 현상이다. 원인은 크게 세 가지다.

1. 표면하산란 (Subsurface Scattering, SSS)
반투명한 재질에 강한 빛이 들어오면, 빛이 표면을 뚫고 들어가 내부 조직에서 반사되며 마치 자체 조명처럼 빛나게 된다. 사실 명부(밝은 부분) 역시 이미 내부에서는 붉게 빛나고 있다. 다만 주 광원(태양광)의 밝기가 압도적이라 눈에 보이지 않을 뿐이다. 표면하산란은 물체의 내부 고유색을 품고 나오기 때문에 채도를 크게 끌어올리는 역할을 한다. (응달에서 태양을 가린 나뭇잎이 선명한 녹색으로 빛나는 것과 같은 원리다.)

2. 정반사(Specular)로 인한 채도 희석
정반사는 입사각에 따라 들어온 빛이 표면에서 그대로 반사되어 나가는 것을 뜻한다. 대부분의 물체는 고유의 정반사율을 가진다. 강한 태양광이 피부에 닿으면 표면에서 반사된 하얀 빛(스펙큘러 하이라이트)이 그대로 눈에 들어오는데, 이 하얀 빛의 양이 많다 보니 명부에서는 오히려 피부 고유의 채도가 희석되어 낮아진다.

3. 암부 환경광에 의한 채도 감소
태양광이 차단된 암부(어두운 부분)를 채우는 것은 푸른 하늘에서 쏟아지는 산란광(환경광)이다. 이 푸른빛이 암부를 감싸면서 피부 고유의 따뜻한 색조와 섞이게 된다. 보색 관계에 가까운 색이 뒤엉키기 때문에 암부 역시 채도가 떨어질 수밖에 없다.

결과적으로 명부는 하얀 정반사광 때문에 채도가 떨어지고, 암부는 푸른 환경광 때문에 채도가 떨어진다. 오직 이 두 영향력이 교차하는 '명암 경계선'에서만 주 광원의 압도가 사라지며 표면하산란(SSS)의 붉은 빛이 가장 뚜렷하게 드러난다. 그렇기에 이 경계면의 채도가 가장 높아 보일 수밖에 없는 것이다.

(이는 일반적인 자연광 환경 기준에서의 설명이며, 어두운 클럽처럼 광량이 낮고 사방에서 비비드한 컬러 조명이 들어오는 특수한 환경에서는 달라질 수 있다.)

[Iduna Lily 🦋🐸🍄 @IdunaLily]

Lovers of the lake

#Zelda #Link #Zelink #LoZ #LegendofZelda #BreathoftheWild #BotW #TearsoftheKingdom #TotK

[SoundsLikeRonen @SoundsLikeRonen]

i'm learning how to dance in low frames

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Lotus | @Infinite_Lotus_]

@lowkeymattyt Also give AI a bad name! Now everything is labeled AI when it used to mean some cool technology improvements back in the day.
When it wasn't trained on a nothing pull but actually crafter tools by the developers to do what they wanted and not GenAi

[Issybeatz @Issybeatz_]

AI is so popular because it gives uncreative people the illusion that they are creative. It lets them skip right to the part where they get validation. It’s not only parasitic, but extremely narcissistic.

[V. @ulvgmth]

Diosito si ese hombre es para mí muéstrame al Papa citando a Gandalf en una encíclica

[Papa León XIV @Pontifex_es]

En la era de la #InteligenciaArtificial, en la que la dignidad humana corre el riesgo de verse eclipsada por nuevas formas de deshumanización, tenemos el deber urgente de permanecer profundamente humanos, custodiando con amor esa magnífica humanidad que se nos ha dado y revelado en plenitud en Cristo, y que ninguna máquina podrá jamás sustituir en su esplendor. #MagnificaHumanitas
https://t.co/Ple93kfbB8

[Pope Crave @ClubConcrave]

"We must, then, avoid the 'Babel syndrome,' namely the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance."

[asa @foundonsaturn]

squishy cheeks #witchhatatelier #Δ帽子

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Toru Miyazaki gave 11 cats with advanced kidney disease an experimental injection. 15 others didn’t get it. A year later, 9 of the 11 treated cats were alive. Only 3 of the 15 untreated cats survived. He just filed for approval, and the drug fixes a defect only cats have.

Most cats die from one thing: their kidneys fail. By age 10, 4 in 10 cats already have chronic kidney disease, and by age 15, the rate doubles to 8 in 10. Once diagnosed, a cat has about 2 years left.

The reason kidney disease hits cats so hard is a broken protein in their blood. All mammals carry a protein that helps the kidneys clean out waste. In humans and dogs, the protein floats freely and goes to work when the kidneys are in trouble. In cats, it stays stuck to another protein and can’t get loose. So the waste piles up, and the kidneys eventually give out.

Miyazaki originally found the protein in 1999, back when he was at the University of Tokyo. He figured out the cat-specific glitch in 2015. The paper he published in the Veterinary Journal in February laid out the trial. The injection is a working version of the missing protein. His company, the Institute for AIM Medicine, filed the approval paperwork with Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture on April 24, 2026. If the review clears, the drug goes on sale in spring 2027.

The 30-year lifespan figure in the tweet is Miyazaki’s own projection of what cats could reach without kidney disease. The trial only ran a year, and the average cat today lives 15. Most die from the same disease this injection treats.

The research almost died in 2020. After running out of funding during COVID, Miyazaki went public. Cat owners across Japan responded by sending in 300 million yen, around 2 million dollars total. He resigned from the University of Tokyo and worked on the drug full time. The treatment in front of regulators today exists because cat lovers refused to let the research die.