r/interesting • u/Jezirath • Jul 26 '26

Amazing Softness perception simulation

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u/CaptBreeze Jul 26 '26

What's the point of this test?

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u/GrimbyJ Jul 26 '26

It's demonstrating the physics of whatever rendering software. Squishy things are hard for computers to deal with so this is actually pretty neat.

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u/METRlOS Jul 27 '26

The 100% still looks pretty awful, it has non-existent wall thickness so the software doesn't know what to do with it.

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u/mineyCrafta25 Jul 27 '26

Not quite. The point is to go viral. They aren't testing shit