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tmilard

259 karma · joined October 19, 2010

Java architect and developer. I love : - OO design, simple and good ones. - Coding nice and comprehensible gui. - geometry of things. - sound, music, ect
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tmilard··on Fei-Fei Li: Spatial intelligence is the next frontier in AI [video]
==> And now the LLMs, to feel Spacial knowledge, will have a very reduce dataset. This will make spacial data reasoning very less intencive than we can't imagine.
tmilard··on Fei-Fei Li: Spatial intelligence is the next frontier in AI [video]
I do agree with you. We have an natural eye (what you call a 'biological brain') automat that inconsciouly 'feels' the structure of a geometric of the places we enter to.

Once this layer of "natural eye automat" is programmed behind a camera, it will spit out this crude geometry : the Spacial-data-bulk (SDB). This SDB is small data.

From now on, our programs will only do reason, not on data froms camera(s) but only on this small SBD.

This is how I see it.

tmilard··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
Still working an an immersive tour maker. A visit example : https://free-visit.net/fr/demo01
tmilard··on Show HN: Spark, An advanced 3D Gaussian Splatting renderer for Three.js
Personaly I have been using babylonJs for five years. And I just love it. For me it's so easy to program ( cleanest API I have ever seen) and my 3D runtime is so light, my demos work fine even on my android phone.
tmilard··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
Working on a 3D-Editor that transforms photos of a place into an FPS game. - Editor : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEsqp93sq3w - FPS Example : https://free-visit.net/fr/demo01

This has been my WE project for a long time. But it's only working really now.

tmilard··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
A visit generated by the tool.https://free-visit.net/fr/demo01
tmilard··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
A Unity for immersive visit : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEsqp93sq3w
tmilard··on Bolt3D: Generating 3D Scenes in Seconds
Impressed with Bolt3D AI model ! - Speed of the 3D generation, - Accurate 3D mesh deduction. It's a wonderfull chock.

I agree, this is the way forward: - "some photos" as imput. - Convenient, a camera is in every pocket (Smartphone).

On WE, I have been trying for years to generate 3D from photos.My tool now works well, but there is still this big problem of the time it takes to "recreate" the 3D mesh from photos. I remind that photos are in ... 2D.Not convenient. Here is an example of my Tool's generation : https://free-visit.net/fr/demo01

Here, Bolt3d takes away the 4 hours combersome work into a automatic process. Wahoo !

So Bravo to the Bolt3d team of researchers.

tmilard··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
It look fun. Good look and feel. Resumés are quite ok. Witch AI service do you use ?
tmilard··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
A no-code video game builder: Example made in 3 hours

https://free-visit.net/fv_users/garance/vis/VisiteBNF001-004...

tmilard··on Show HN: Making AR experiences is still painful – had to make my own editor
I agree 100% : Too many tools is awfull. Really. - Bugs in the transfert of data betwwen each, - slowness of the full creativ process. - new gui to learn for each tool.

Good luck for your adventure

tmilard··on Taking a Look at Compression Algorithms
Tanks for the easy explantations. Very Clear. Doing Compression of Data using different strategies are always usefull to understand : After all, many of us software developers are dealing with saving Data with size issues, speed loading of junk of data. Interesting...
tmilard··on Trellis – 3D mesh generative model
It's a game changer
tmilard··on Lessons I learned working at an art gallery
This essai reminds me of someone a few years back telling me that Artists and Startups where very similar. - "What ?" I replied confused. - "Yes ! We work for nothing, crafting a unique skills and hoping to find Product Market Fit. Of either an original Software or an special Sculpture. The economic is for both an economic of big incertinity.

Galleries bet on a few Artists among many just like YCombinator bets on a few startups every years hoping for the best.

tmilard··on Show HN: I 3D scanned the tunnels inside the Maya Pyramid Temples at Copan
lukehollis, it's true 3D gales are so long-and-didfucult to build. Maybe you get in xontact with me : I'm testing a tool that generate 3D Orlds easilly and fast. Mytoo is called free-visit thierry.milard@gmail.com

https://free-visit.net

tmilard··on Steve Jobs Swore the 10-Minute Rule Made Him Smarter. He Was Right
- I walk thus I feel happy, at least happier. - I feel happier this I feel better to think.

This is all

tmilard··on Ask HN: Did you personal website help you get hired? Tell about it
Very good one I did not know ! :-)) Everything is in reading the classics
tmilard··on Ask HN: Did you personal website help you get hired? Tell about it
Ha ha ! When you want if you are in Europe (on WE)
tmilard··on Ask HN: Did you personal website help you get hired? Tell about it
And also here at yc : - Younger you are, More likelyhood you will believe a guy in his 50s comes from the dinausaurus times. :-)
tmilard··on Ask HN: Did you personal website help you get hired? Tell about it
Yes a bit true.
tmilard··on Ask HN: Did you personal website help you get hired? Tell about it
I am 56 yo. Well, we know how people are when technical people like me get more mature. They could be afraid the guy might not be 'Up to date'... My personnal project I do on WE ( https://free-visit.net ) always gets me a nice technical interview and the consulting job. https://free-visit.net/fr/

In a way my personnal website sells myself.

tmilard··on The only tourist in Moldova
Yes, I have been there in march. I loved it. I think Moldova is changing. For the good.
tmilard··on Show HN: The Tomb of Nefertari [QV 66] Guided Virtual Tour
Nice. But transition between 360-Photos is important in this Area.

I have also developped a personnal solution to do "Immersive visits". The visual quality is not as good as your exemple(Nefertity) but I feel immersion is very good.

- My website :https://free-visit.net

- Example of an immersive visit : https://free-visit.net/fr/demo01

I would love to have your feedback.

Thierry

tmilard··on HybridNeRF: Efficient Neural Rendering
Everyone I believe... - Light data for Rendering and - fast 3D Reconstruction ======> Big winner.

So many laboratories and software dev have given a shot at this. None have yet won.

Success often lies in small (but important ) details...

tmilard··on Equinox.space
Very nice graphics and design. I wonder who would ne the client for such a 3D game. And how much (about) it cost to build such a game.
tmilard··on Programming Is Mostly Thinking (2014)
...and getting stuck.
tmilard··on El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour
Thanks faloon for the link. It's the best 'fuid'virtual visit I have seen in recent months. Gaussian Splatting algorythm seems to be the 'game changer' thing in VR we were waiting for.... This is fantastic times in this area. what a time to be alive !
tmilard··on El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour
I may be biaised but I believe this "tour" is not good. Not immersive enough. Just not really something we want as client. - The moving/walking part is just bad. Even Matterport does much better with its technology.

- The zooming-on-painting part is good though.

The point : I am building a much more immersive technology . Here is an small example. https://free-visit.net/fr/demo01

If you like this visit, and if you know a museum who needs my immersive technology, please send me a mail, I would be glad : thierry.milard@gmail.com

tmilard··on 3D-GPT: Procedural 3D Modeling with Large Language Models
Pass the "Wahoo" moment, I kind of see the problem with this 3D-modeling-from-a sentence : - You have to take the given 3D model without a possible raffinement on important things like : - the form/geometry, - the texture style, - ect...
tmilard··on The White Gold of Turda, Romania
I have been to Cludj. Quite beautifull. Next time I travel to Romania, I should really try to go down this mine because it looks amazing... Romania, which has a poor reputation as a touristic country (from France where I live at least) wass really the best surprise this year for me: - Wonderfull historic city like brazov, - Many wonderfull Castles, - Wonderfull countryside.
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