Celestia VS makehuman

Celestia is a rare Linux app not on Flathub, but it is available from Fedora's Flatpak repo, which in theory should be usable on any distro: https://github.com/CelestiaProject/Celestia/discussions/1988

I remember going to a planetarium at the local university while in school some 15 years ago. They told us how they use Stellarium to create the skies and Celestia (https://celestiaproject.space/) to create scripted tours for their exhibits. Both were compatible with the hemispherical projector they used.

As soon as I went home I downloaded them both and spent hours visiting random stars in Celestia and exploring the sky in Stellarium.

I think Celestia will let you do this.

Have you tried Celestia? It has several stars (at least those ones from the Hipparcos catalog) plus some galaxies (at least Messier objects): https://github.com/CelestiaProject/Celestia

Need to link to it, otherwise folks can't find the work around: https://github.com/CelestiaProject/Celestia/issues/1672

Upstream is on github, and seems to have their own debian/* packaging scripts, so might just be a simple upload.

Human work is much more deterministic than AI as it encompasses a lot more constraints than what the task specified. If you take concept art creations, while the brief may be a few sentences, the artist knows to respect anatomy and perspective rules, as well as some common definitions (when the brief says ship, you know that it’s the ship concept approved last week). As an artist, I’ve used reference pictures, dolls, 3d renders and one of the most aspect these tools had was consistency. I don’t see Large Models be consistent without another models applying constraint to what they’re capable of producing, like rules defining correct anatomy and extracting data that defines a character. The fact is we do have tools like MakeHuman [0], Marvelous Designer [1], and others that let you generate ideas that are consistent in their flexibility.

I look at Copilot and it’s been the same for me. I’m either working on a huge codebase and most of the time, it means tweaking and refactoring, which is not something I trust a LLM with. Or it’s a greenfield project and I usually write only the necessary code for a task and boilerplate generation is not a thing for me. Coding for me is like sculpting and LLM-based solutions feel like trying to do with bricks attached to my feet. You can get something working if you’re patient enough, but it’s make more sense and it’s more enjoyable to just use your fingers.

[0]: http://www.makehumancommunity.org/

[1]: https://marvelousdesigner.com/

git clone https://github.com/makehumancommunity/makehuman.git

I am trying to get makehuman (http://www.makehumancommunity.org/) to run on my manjaro linux system, but so far I have not been able to get the viewport to display the 3d model like it should do - it's just black, or shows weird graphics glitches.

Dunno but you could do something similar in MakeHuman

What games really need to start doing is have one base body with a slider to transition seamlessly from masculine to feminine proportions, with controls to achieve a wide variety of bodies. MakeHuman does this, and makes a plugin for blender, and I keep wishing AAA games would take a hint and stop using completely seperate base models for "male" and "female".

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