This is the architecture of the content management platform I currently use, the front end of the two google comput engine for connecting to the global Internet and hosting static sites, the back-end cluster all running on my owner hosted ARM64 system platform, the Cloudflared tunnel is running inside of kubernetes cluster, when the user requests invisibleart, the request will be sent to the tunnel through the cloudflare edge network, then cloudflared will send the request to the target address wordpress engine, the backend database is used vitess mysql cluster, the early use of tidb I found that compatibility problems with wordpress, and finally I decided to use vitess, in the backup, expansion, and disaster recovery, vitess is still very reliable. ...

I finally got the book I wanted to buy four years ago on ebay, The Invisible Art, because it is an extremely rare book and most foreign used bookstores do not support direct shipping to China, so I waited for a long time looking for an opportunity to buy a newer copy of The Invisible Art, and finally I found a merchant on ebay who sent the book to China through a forwarding center in the US. The reason for buying this book is that I wanted to build my own world view. Although this book is mainly about Matte Painting in film production, just as we sit in the cinema and watch a movie, we do not feel that there is such a group of artists behind the scenes serving the story of the movie, our thoughts are moving forward with the story. Similarly, in other fields, after we use technology to complete the whole, we should let the user or the admirer feel the art itself, not the technique, the technique is to serve the art, through learning Matte Painting, we always need to remember that Matte Painting is to serve the story, when leaving the story behind to express your ideas through gorgeous technology, no one can understand you, because the viewer has already seen you in the work, he already knows this is a gorgeous special effect. Do some thinking divergence, like playing music, at first we focus on the technique, and finally the musicality, we want the music to tell the story, this time we have to learn the Invisible Art technique, to let the listener be attracted to your music, not as a spectator to listen to your performance, great Matte Painting work is all about creating physically realistic scenes. The same of good musician is to let you understand the meaning of each note, Invisible Art is about taking every detail to the extreme and then building a magnificent world in which every sculptural detail of the artist is hidden, which is why I created invisibleart.pro. To learn a field, you first have to like it, and then you explore the details in it. ...

Disney+ announced that on July 27th it will launch a documentary about Lucasfilm - ‘Light && Magic’, a total of 6 episodes, focusing on the film effects filming techniques currently used by Industrial Light & Magic, allowing us to learn more about how the film effects are done. And gives us a better understanding of how the behind-the-scenes filming of special effects is done, thus promoting the development of the creative art of filmmakers worldwide. If you are interested, don’t miss this series of documentaries, which can only be viewed on Disney+. ...

Invisible I set up an online studio named invisibleart, inspired by a book about Matte Painting, book’s name is “The Invisible Art: The Legends of Movie Matte Painting”. Because I’m particularly interested in Matte Painting, and because the book is so scarce that the price on Amazon is already selling at 1600RMB, I purchased a copy through ebay in May, hoping that I would receive the book properly in June. My main concern is the invisibleart, which is a film visual effects creation that allows you to see no traces of artificial processing in the work, as if directly shot with a camera directly to the original scene. To create these images in the digital world requires us to train our eyes to discern the real details in them. In a grand sense, every work of art by an artist is rooted in authenticity, as we know from painting, music, and the ancient people who first learned from nature imitation in their creations, the closer the characteristics of the artwork are to nature, the more we can feel the authenticity of the art. Based on this idea, I set up the website invisibleart.pro. The purpose of the website is to tell the latest film technology, including the interpretation of professional papers and articles, and the release of works, invisibleart.pro is different from blog.cineneural.com differs in that the former focuses on the details of the technical field, while the latter focuses mainly on a summary of my life and thinking. ...

Book’s Contents Weta workshop Weta Digital Recently I spent a month reading the two books of weta digital && weta workshop, in which weta digital is mainly engaged in computer 3D image creation, while weta workshop is mainly engaged in pre-film concept creation, such as creature and character sculpture, weapon and prop design, actual concept design of the scene, all these are done by weta workshop. And then weta digital makes CG characters and creatures according to the concept design of workshop, and makes these CG move, what interests me more about workshop is their special effects makeup and fine creature sculpting technology, and weta digital we need to learn their all techniques. The main focus of this article is the digital part, and I have pasted screenshots of the technical points of concern into this article, because each key technical point in time and cost breakthrough will bring a qualitative leap to film post-production, and by breakthrough I mean that the technology can achieve the height of the previous failure at low cost. ...

After I joined the sparkpool team with the job of Devops in 2018, I broadened my knowledge of digital cryptocurrencies, and in these close to four years of work, I learned about digital finance and traditional financial system, what is a sound monetary system, the difference between cryptocurrencies and traditional currencies, so to speak, at sparkpool I learned a lot of financial knowledge, and also taught myself the technology related to cutting-edge such as deep learning and quantitative trading after work, although I haven’t made a complete set of related products myself, but I have been working hard in this direction. I am very glad to join the sparkpool family, and I would like to thank the two founders of sparkpool. The last of the last, the gathering is a fire and the scattering is full of stars. ...

Tidbits A month ago, when I was looking for books about Industrial Light and Magic, I found a treasure book “The Art of Film Magic”, which focuses on Weta Workshop’s film special effects achievements in the last 20 years, I wanted to buy this set of books through domestic purchase channels, but finally found that some of the contents of the book are in conflict with Chinese laws, and the conflicting parts of the book was torn from the pages by a third party. So I found Weta Workshop’s official store and bought this set of books directly from Europe, and it arrived yesterday through UPS. ...

reference http://alvyray.com/Pixar/documents/Pixar_ImageComputer.pdf https://ohiostate.pressbooks.pub/app/uploads/sites/45/2017/09/pixar-image-processor.pdf Pixar Image Computer What inspired me to write this article is that last month, March, I took a quick look at The Renderman Companion A Program’s Guide To Realistic Computer Graphics, which mainly describes how to use the Renderman C API interface to achieve 3D image rendering. The book was published in 1989, when Pixar had developed the Renderman rendering interface standard and implemented the PRMan PhotoRealistic Renderman implementation that is now widely used in the film industry. One of the interesting things is that in 1986 Pixar also developed a computer graphics hardware system similar to today’s Nvidia general-purpose graphics cards - Pixar Image Computer. ...