Amazon has acquired Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM), a long-standing Hollywood studio. Amazon has reached an agreement to own movie studio MGM for $8.45 billion, the company announced on May 26. This is considered a significant step forward for the e-commerce giant when Amazon will add to the available content store about 4,000 titles and 17,000 hours of TV series. The deal helps Amazon attract more Prime users, in order to compete fairly with rivals that own a diverse stock of original movies like Netflix or Disney Plus. MGM is the Hollywood studio behind hit franchises like James Bond and Rocky, but also modern adult series like The Handmaid’s Tale and Vikings. In addition, this studio also owns popular TV shows such as The Voice (Vietnamese Voice) and Shark Tank (Billion Billion Deal). However, the most famous and best known by Vietnamese people is the animated series Tom and Jerry. “The real financial value behind this deal is the IP treasure (copyright) that we plan to renew and grow with the talented team of MGM,” said Mike Hopkins, vice president. in charge of Prime Video and Amazon Studios said. Amazon’s television business is still only a very small slice of an e-commerce empire worth $ 1,650 billion. However, to date, there are more than 200 million subscribers to use Amazon Prime monthly service, with a service fee of 5.99 USD/month. News of Amazon’s acquisition of Hollywood’s 97-year-old studio emerged in mid-May. On May 24, the Wall Street Journal revealed that Amazon was very close to a deal to acquire MGM. MGM is owned by a group of investment funds including Anchorage Capital Group, Highland Capital Management, and Solus Alternative Asset Management. Reports about investors wanting to sell MGM to recover capital have surfaced since the end of December 2020. Currently, Hollywood film studios are in a fierce race to fight against the powerful forces of the day like Netflix or Disney. Last week, telecommunications giant AT&T also planned to merge WarnerMedia with Discovery to create the world’s second-largest media giant, after Disney mouse house. At that time, AT&T ambitiously merged HBO Max and Discovery Plus to create a video-on-demand service with a rich content store that could beat the competition. Phuong Nguyen (according to TheVerge)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is programmed so that machines can have intelligent and automated behavior like humans. Right from the dawn of the 4.0 technology era, everyone can see the presence and application of AI in many different fields such as economics, health, engineering, etc. daily life through smart home appliances. AI has been supporting people in many ways as well as helping to improve people’s quality of life. AI technology is also featured on recent Samsung home products. In the past, people used to struggle with thick TVs with unclear curtains, noisy washing machines that disrupt a good night’s sleep or good night’s sleep. Air conditioner with cold air. Today, everything seems to be easier with advanced technologies on home appliances such as NEO QLED TV, AI Wash washing machine, AI Windfree air conditioner… Recently, Samsung launched a washing machine. intelligent new generation AI technology with many outstanding improvements at the workshop “New era of smart home appliances”. This new generation of smart washing machine is a differentiator on the market, helping to personalize the washing experience at the touch of a button. Ms. Nguyen Y Mai – Deputy General Director, Head of Consumer Electronics Industry, Samsung Vina Electronics Company said that Samsung’s vision is to improve users’ lives through technology. And the fact that Samsung is ahead of the trend, bringing AI into household products to make users’ lives more meaningful and light. The heavy or time-consuming housework has been taken care of by Samsung’s smart home products. Ms. Nguyen Y Mai – Deputy General Director, Head of Consumer Electronics Industry, Samsung Vina Electronics Company shared about the new generation Samsung AI smart washing machine at the product launch. At the workshop “New era of smart home appliances”, AI expert Mr. Nguyen Xuan Phong, currently working at Mila Institute (Canada) also highly appreciated the application of AI in daily life through through smart home devices. AI will create more value when it is attached to daily life, “freeing” people from low value-added jobs, so that they can focus their minds on things that bring material value as well. like higher spirits. How does AI help improve the quality of life? Samsung’s AI-integrated smart home products have helped “simplify” housework, reduce burdens and contribute to improving users’ lives. Samsung Family Hub refrigerators with AI applications can notify users when foods are about to expire in the refrigerator, saving time and money. Samsung also has WindFree air conditioner with intelligent AI cooling feature that can recognize when the user is present and not in the room to adjust the temperature accordingly, helping to save and optimize power usage, reduce the burden of electricity bills each month for families. The new generation Samsung AI smart washing machine with AI wash intelligent washing technology is capable of analyzing the volume and soiling of clothes, thereby automatically optimizing the entire washing process… New generation Samsung AI smart washing machine has just been launched Thanks to the integration of AI and the AI ​​Control panel, the smart washing machine will constantly be updated and learn user habits, thereby improving and personalizing the user experience, providing perfect washing efficiency. without much effort. Specifically, with intelligent and automatic washing modes, the product helps to clean clothes, optimizing the amount of washing and rinsing water at each wash. With the AI ​​Contro smart control panel, this smart washing machine also eliminates most of the buttons so that users are not confused by the wide range of functions on the control panel, simplifying laundry. Users will no longer have to spend time customizing each setting for each washing batch as before because the washing machine will remember and analyze itself, learn and recommend the most suitable washing process based on washing habits. According to Samsung’s introduction, this product is also equipped with many other supporting technologies. Typically, EcoBubble technology helps create super-fine bubbles to ensure deep cleaning effect, and QuickDrive 39′ Super Clean mode helps stains on clothes will be dislodged in a split second. The washing machine is also equipped with a Hygiene Steam steam washing feature that removes bacteria and allergens to the entire surface and deep inside each fabric. The new generation Samsung AI smart washing machine helps raise the quality of life with many outstanding new technologies The more civilized and modern life is, the more people want to shorten the time spent on simple and repetitive tasks such as washing, cleaning the house… to invest more time and energy more for your family and yourself after a hard day’s work. Samsung’s smart devices in general as well as AI Wash smart washing machines are the solution to this desire.

Stilt house is a typical type of house in the southwest river region. The old house was formed in 1968, so it has revealed many traces of time. In addition, the flood season in Hong Ngu does not rise to the residential area as before, so the stilt house becomes no longer suitable for the current life rhythm. Tien’s house is located in Hong Ngu City, Dong Thap province, adjacent to a river. Tien’s house has an area of ​​119 m². The problem posed for the Ha workshop design team is to create a close, open, cozy space. At the same time, to overcome the problems of the old house, especially bringing a new color in the model of the house in the suburban area. The Ha design workshop team designed an open space that is both open and cozy The gate of the house is unique because of the steep sloping roof lines. Viewed from above, it can be seen that the sloping roof system turns down to make the main space of the house. In it, the worship area is placed in the center of the house. The altar space connects with the living room and other spaces. All the spaces in the house seem to touch the garden space, which was also the design team’s purpose. The objects in the house bring intimacy. Separating the worship room, living room from the kitchen is a separating wall. Ha workshop design team shared: “This house marks the maturity of a child and is a place to once again demonstrate the family love after the days of building together.” Although the design of the house has antiquity, there are a number of highlights that bring fresh colors different from those in this suburban area. The house mainly uses wooden materials. The glass doors and the slope roof are built firmly to bring the building elegance and ventilation. In addition, the washing corner is arranged neatly with many surrounding trees. The design team also takes advantage of light sheet to create enough light for this space.

My name is Phung Quoc Huy Hoang, born in 1995 in Nha Trang, and currently live and work in Ho Chi Minh City. I have been pursuing printing 3D products for 5 years now. Previously, I studied restaurant management at the Industrial University, but decided to stop studying in year 2 because I felt this was not my passion. During my self-study, I knew a brother on social media who worked on clay. A monkey head statue made by this man based on the movie Planet of the Apes was so beautiful that I was constantly learning about clay making. Those were the first steps that brought me into the 3D printing industry. Since October 2018, I founded Craftech – a combination of craft (craft) and tech (technology) – with the desire to create printed products based on these elements. The 3D printing market in Vietnam started to emerge from 2017, and has grown quite strongly up to now. Before that, when making a machine part, the worker had to cut CNC with iron and steel. In terms of art, it also takes time to hire people to carve or make from clay. In addition, cost is one of the reasons 3D printing is increasingly popular. Before that, people often covered with earth or porous to create shape. Then comes the process of making silicone molds, pouring plastic and removing it like jelly. It is this mold making step that causes the cost to be high. With a total of 10 employees, we only perform some main stages such as mechanical design, art drawing, accounting … Processes such as CNC cutting, mold making … will be assigned to the unit. other for cost optimization. All drawing design operations will be done by computer simulation software. The 12 V printer consumes electricity about 3-4 million / month. When printing, the layers are overlapped and formatted under the control of the computer. These printers were bought by me at a local company with the price of over 10 million VND / 1 machine. The drawing is fed into the machine. I make some adjustments before printing starts. The material is melted before printing. Depending on the nozzle, the plastic wire is packed into rolls of different size. The ingredients are quite easy to buy in Vietnam. The glue part helps the sample stick to the 3D printing table. For large-sized products, we will assemble each part instead of printing the whole, because the printing size of the machine is only 40 cm2. Small printers also work in a similar way to large machines. This is a product of a small printer. We used to produce finished products with sizes as low as 2 cm. Some products are forced to print on a liquid machine because they require many small details that take weeks to complete. Not to mention, for products to achieve high perfection, manufacturers also need to coordinate many materials. Depending on the order, we will choose the appropriate production method. For example, direct printing would apply to event bookers requiring 10-20 products. With the requirements of mass production, quantity of tens of thousands, we have to make silicon molds or steel molds. This is a product we made for the dinosaur program organizer in Hai Phong. However, this project is manufactured from composite or silicon, not 3D printed. The biggest, most expensive 3D printed product we’ve ever made is a 5-meter bear delivered to a milk tea shop. In the workshop there are now more expensive projects, but made of silicon resin and molded composite, not 3D printing. A shipment is transported by us to customers in Phu Quoc. For bulky products, I have to pay a car rental fee. Up to now, the highest value project the company has ever implemented is a miniatures set at 1.8 billion dong. We do daily activities right at the factory. Currently the company is preparing projects for customers in the central region. I have surveyed but still have a lot of work in progress.

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In order to allow beginners to better learn the basics of computer graphics, a Harvard brother created graphics-workshop , Has been available on GitHub in about a week 1K star.

It contains 5 sub-projects: quilt block pattern, procedural texture generation, rasterization and coloring, stylized rendering, and ray tracing.

Users need to use npm To install, install dependencies and start the development server by running the following code.

3packages arelooking forfunding run npm fundfordetails

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$ npm run dev

vite v2 .1.5dev serverrunning at:

Local: http://localhost: 3000/ > Network: http:// 10.250.14.217: 3000/

ready in555ms.

How to use it? Let’s see it together.

Quilt block pattern

First, you can make a quilt block pattern as Starter project , It shows the 2D grid The process of rendering in the middle.

The author gave the corresponding code in “shaders/quilt.frag.glsl”. The fragment shader traverses each pixel and passes the pixel number into gl_FragCoord.xy to draw a 2D grid.

Novices can pass Uncomment , To change the graphics, including drawing, flipping the shape and changing the color.

For example, modify the if statement, you can change the geometric shape of the pattern;

If you want to generate richer RGB colors, you can modify the variable c to achieve:

Finally, use gl_FragColor to output the color of the pixel.

Procedural texture generation

In addition to making quilt block patterns, you can also create scenes similar to those in “Minecraft”:

To generate a natural look, the developers used a common graphics primitive called simplex noise. The function float snoise(vec2) is used to receive the vector and output a smooth scalar noise value at that position.

Since the noise values ​​at different positions are roughly independent, changing the seed at the top right of the screen will enable you to see the new shape output after rendering.

Uncomment the first code block in turn, learn to combine noises of different pitches to change the texture; uncomment the second code block, learn to use thresholds (especially mix and smoothstep functions) to adjust colors.

In addition, you can also add parameters, such as: using temperature, independent sampling from the noise map to change the shadow, etc.

Rasterization and shading

Same algorithm as most video games, using rasterization method to render 3D triangle mesh , Presenting a more realistic effect:

Decompose the 3D surface into triangles, and then draw each triangle independently on the screen and insert variables between them.

The image is stored as a triangle mesh, and the fragment shader will evaluate each fragment of the triangle once, not for each pixel.

Users can click and drag to view different angles of the graph, view shapes other than the teapot through mesh, and use kd to change the color of the object.

With the illuminate function, the position of the light source and the effect of the light source on the color of the current pixel can be expressed.

The code currently only supports diffuse reflection, users can also update the code and add Phong reflection of mirror Components.

Stylized rendering

The code for this project is very similar to the above project.

But after the lighting calculation, the color will not be output immediately, but According to the brightness intensity threshold , Discretization and processing of different styles.

Ray tracing

Ray tracing is the gold standard in photorealistic rendering.

By shooting a ray for each pixel, the fragment shader is used for geometric calculation, and the trace function is used to return the color corresponding to the given ray for modeling.

Use the intersect function to calculate the first intersection of any ray in space; illuminate is used to add the effects of two point light sources to calculate the illumination of a given point.

Before performing lighting calculations, add conditional statements to check whether the rays from the point to the light source are blocked. If it is occluded, it should immediately return to vec3(0.0) to simulate shadows.

By modifying the code, you can also select the intensity and add a third point light source at a different position.

About the Author

Developer Eric Zhang , Is currently a master’s degree student at Harvard University. His main research direction is machine learning and programming languages. He had an internship at NVIDIA.

He has won two IOI gold medals and wrote a book for high school students Physics book , And provide a free electronic version.

Not only that, the younger brother is also good at music and has won many awards for his viola performance.

He often shares articles on his personal website, and has published multiple projects on Github, all of which have had a good response.

Interested friends, please click the link to learn more~

Reference link:

[1]https://github.com/ekzhang/graphics-workshop

[2]https://www.ekzhang.com/

[3]https://www.aapt.org/physicsteam/2020/pastexams.cfm

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In courts and palaces, elaborate and splendid woven rugs play an important role in the interior decoration of large and small rooms. There was a time when wool carpets were sold very expensive, becoming a valuable product in the treasure of kings and used as tribute between nations. Until now, the hand-woven and elaborate traditionally woven rugs are still expensive decorations for luxury villas. The art of weaving wool carpets imported to Vietnam has no long history, only about a hundred years. In 1926, in the village of Hang Kenh, Hai Phong, a 13-year-old boy named Dang Huu Binh broke up with his family to make a trip. Binh traveled all the way to Tianjin province in China, where he practiced carpet weaving centuries ago, which has produced the most beautiful and famous carpets in Asia, to learn the craft of carpet weaving. After 6 years studying, he returned home and worked at the Hang Kenh carpet weaving factory – Hai Phong, one of the largest carpet weaving factories in Southeast Asia at that time. The document does not indicate that this weaving workshop belongs to Mr. Binh, his family or that of another person. The Saigon Book looks back one hundred years. Photo: Phanbook. An article (without author’s name) on the page vinacarpet.vn said “wool carpet making appeared in Hang Kenh, Hai Phong around 1930 (?) and stopped around 1944. At that time, every year Hai Phong exported to France and Hong Kong about 1,000 m2 wool carpet. The color, pattern, layout, decorative concept of Hang Kenh wool carpet was almost like Chinese wool carpet at that time. Although there was a painter (graduated from Indochina Fine Arts College) at that time gave some new wool carpet samples to the Hang Kenh wool carpet weaving establishment, in order to lessen the Chinese carpet look of Hang Kenh products, but he did not. accepted by customers because they used to use Chinese-style carpets ”. Mr. Binh is not really the first person to learn the profession of carpet weaving, but perhaps a rare Vietnamese artisan learns the craft of weaving traditional high-class wool rugs from a country with more sophisticated carpet making. After working for a while at the Hang Kenh textile company, Dang Huu Binh moved to the South to set up a career in Saigon. From 1955, Mr. Dang Huu Binh officially established Dong Hung carpet weaving company, also known as Vietnam Industry of Weaving Carpet, concurrently held the position of technical director. His workshop was set on 2,300 square feet of land, consisting of a painting office for design and a weaving workshop of thirteen hand-woven wooden frames, of which a giant 13-meter-wide frame, 8 meters tall is the largest. Products of Dong Hung carpet weaving company. The picture in the Saigon book looks back a hundred years. The drawings are all sketched by Mr. Binh, two sons and a grandson. Weavers are completely women, there are up to fifty permanent workers, including people in the family of Dang Huu Binh. The process of weaving carpets in Dong Hung carpet company was reported Free World Volume IX, number 9 describes in the article: “To weave a rug, first of all, sketch a small model with all colors and images. Then, depending on the size and proportion, magnify on a glossy paper. The weavers base on the pattern and the scale of the carpet will weave, base the frame with cotton thread “. “This cotton thread is called the vertical thread. Then the wool color is chosen to weave the weft. The tools of the carpet-weaving industry are a sharp, sharp knife, a pair of scissors and a beating table with teeth like a comb. Every time a knot of wool is tied, between two standing cotton threads, the worker uses a knife to cut off the wool and knots the next second like that for the rest of his work, for there are at least four on the loom. five workers work together. After tying all the wool knots in a turn, push down one of the cotton threads and press down hard with the table to tighten the knots. At the same time, a second cotton thread is also pushed down diagonally so that the wool knots cannot move. For every cross-street to make another road ”. The average weaver completes a square meter in 5 days. The best or medium rugs differ in the thickness of the knots. For example, the premium type has a square meter of wool with four kilograms of wool with 100,000 knots, the second three and a half kilograms with 67,000 knots, the third 3 kilograms of wool with 45,000 knots. The hand-woven textile industry in the South at that time was considered to be very sophisticated and was on the rise. In Saigon before 1975 there was an exhibition of tapestries and wall rugs for decoration, held at Thanh Le’s shop, Tu Do Street (Dong Khoi), to introduce to the public. the prosperity of the wool carpets industry and the latest art products of this small technology industry. The rugs displayed here are all produced by Dong Hung firm of Dang Huu Binh at 270 Le Van Duyet Street, and by the Thanh Le house as an agent.

This was a challenge because the requirement was to produce an unconnected whole rug, up to 27 meters long, 11 meters across, a total of about 300 square meters, which is very large. The weavers are trimming the watermarks and trimming the flowers on the giant rug located in the Independence Palace ceremony room at the Dong Hung carpet weaving factory. The picture in the Saigon book looks back a hundred years. Realizing this sheet, Mr. Binh considered the continuation of the tradition of his hometown’s Hang Kenh weaving profession, making the carpet for the most important mansion in the South. To make a large carpet, there must be a large loom, Mr. Binh himself had to design a giant loom made entirely of wood, with a trunk of a wood with a diameter of 50 centimeters. A document showing his own drawing and the Gia Dinh Fine Arts School made. To weave the carpet, Mr. Binh built his own workshop, with up to 60 artisans and craftsmen directly sitting and weaving. The carpet is located in the Independence Palace Palace room built in 1966. Photo: The TGTD newspaper episode XVI number 1. The mat is exactly the same size as above, 1.8 inch thick. The main tone of the carpet is red, the white daisies are scattered prominently on the red background and the border has blue patterns. The design is generally luxurious and modern, elegant and no frills. This giant carpet is heavy and very bulky. When bringing the carpet into the room to use a crane and many helpers. The carpet was used regularly for nine years in the Khanh Tiet room, the largest room of the palace with an area of ​​448 square meters, where it was used to hold large meetings, entertain guests with solemn ceremonies from 1966 until 1975. Fix the carpet in the Unification hall. Photo: Hans Peter Grumpe. It was not until 1991 that this large rug was repaired and thankfully, German photographer Hans Peter Grumpe came to capture this rug repair scene. Dong Hung carpet weaving company probably ended in 1975. The pictures here are published from The Gioi Tu Do, volume IX, number 9 and volume X number 5 (no publication date, about the second half. 1960s) are the remnants of a time when Saigon has developed a proud high-class wool carpet weaving industry.

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