Most AI image generators work in a pretty similar way. ![]() Seriously, the only real limits are your imagination, the AI image generator's ability to comprehend your prompt, and any content filters put in place to stop bad actors flooding the internet with AI-generated violence or other NSFW content. I made this with DALL♾ 2 using the prompt "an impressionist oil painting of a Canadian man riding a moose through a forest of maple trees" This opens up some wild possibilities, since your prompt can be anything from "an impressionist oil painting of a Canadian man riding a moose through a forest of maple trees" to "a painting in the style of Vermeer of a large fluffy Irish wolfhound enjoying a pint of beer in a traditional pub" or "a photograph of a donkey on the moon." The best AI image generatorsĭALL♾ 2 for an easy-to-use AI image generatorĭreamStudio (Stable Diffusion) for customization and control of your AI imagesįirefly (Photoshop) for integrating AI-generated images into photosĪll these AI image generators take a text prompt and then turn it-as best they can-into a matching image. It's worth taking a few hours to play around with one of these text-to-image AI apps-even just so you can appreciate them from a technical perspective. Instead, I'll focus on the fact that these AI image generators can now produce fascinating results from written prompts. I'm going to try to avoid the thorny discussions around artistic merit and copyright infringement in training data. That's about as long as anyone realistically has been thinking about these tools, and it's really exciting for me to see how far they've come. ![]() I've been writing about AI image generators since Google Deep Dream in 2015.
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![]() Please note that this is a template database. A Canned Invoice report is also included in the database including the ability to email the invoice. The WSI Basic Business Invoicing/Purchase Order/Inventory database offers the ability to set up customers, contacts, salespersons, Inventory set-up, Transaction recording, Employee setup, Supplier setup, vendors, and purchase order types and invoice types as well as the ability to input invoices into your Basic Business Invoicing/Purchase Order/Inventory database. This aspect allows for tight integration into your existing Microsoft Access database. This database template has the advantage of being fully 100% Microsoft Access based. The Microsoft Access Basic Business Invoicing/Purchase Order/Inventory Database is a full-featured Basic Business Invoicing/Purchase Order/Inventory system built completely in Microsoft Access tables, forms, reports, and VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) code. This template will give you a great jump start on the development of those modules. Invoicing, Purchase Orders and Inventory are three of the most critical aspects of any business. Basic Business Invoicing | Purchase Order | Inventory Template Database Basic Business Invoicing/Purchase Order/Inventory Database/Template System With a base membership, you get access to cardio equipment, weights, and other machines. This only get you access to one single location, so you need to make sure you can consistently go to that one gym if you sign up at this level. The base price will run you anywhere between $9.95 and $19.95 a month. Ultimately, there are three tiers you need to be aware of. Plus, prices can vary depending on location. The price structure for Crunch Fitness can get a little wonky if you don’t know what you’re looking for. ![]() Let’s take a closer look at what Crunch Fitness costs and how far a membership there goes. Some amenities only included in higher membership tiers Pools & childcare only available at a few locations It’s a better value than Planet Fitness for most people but doesn’t quite stack up to mid-range gyms like LA Fitness, Anytime, or Gold’s Gym. You’ll pay more to access the group classes, which are a huge fan favorite, but even at the base membership level you’ll find good equipment selection and decent amenities at Crunch. Prices for Crunch Fitness vary by location, but it’s one of the most affordable gym memberships out there no matter how you slice it. Clean equipment, a welcoming vibe, and a wallet-friendly price.īut is Crunch Fitness worth it? Here’s my review: stirwise/ Flickr For others, they don’t care about anything else as long as the equipment is clean and machines are working.Ĭrunch Fitness aims to offer the complete package. What quality matters most to you when finding a gym?įor some people, it’s all about finding the right atmosphere where they feel welcome. ![]() ![]() Let’s do the numbers! The DMG is on the low side with 24.83, and the Blog of Holding’s 26.83 seems more accurate. Since it’s also known as “Curse-Striker” its claws can inflict special woes on its foes, and it’s getting a little more ground-related love with Tunneler and a faster recharge on the World Tremors trait from its smaller counterpart. When Ragnarok is finally nigh it will be known because Níðhöggr will finish chewing through the roots, causing the world tree to wither and bringing about a 3 year long winter for all, at which point the serpent will fly out from the underworld to wage war upon the gods of Asgard.ĭesign Notes: From the lore it seems like Níðhöggr is even bigger than Jörmungandr so this wyrm’s got more hit points, more Strength, and a tail attack that hits an even larger area. ![]() Within the wyrm’s lair is Náströnd (aka Nadastrond or the much cooler Shore of Corpses), a hall made from woven serpents and dripping with venom from its ceiling where adulterers, murderers, and perjurers go in the afterlife (that is at least after the Christians got involved). This figures into the balanced and cyclical nature of the greater Norse mythology, whatever damage the two inflict on Yggdrasil healed by water from the wells of Urd. Atop of the world tree sits a great eagle that represents wisdom and virtue-Níðhöggr reviles it, trading insults and threats by way of the squirrel Ratatoskr running messages between them. Traditionally known as Níðhǫggr (or the anglicized Nidhogg), this serpent gnaws on the roots of Yggdrasil because these form the prison keeping it from the world. Quick Note: Speaking of Norse mythology this column has two other scaly baddies ( Jörmungandr and Fafnir), the Allfather Odin, his boy Thor, the mischievous Loki, stalking Fenrir, dismal Hel, and fiery Brünnhilde. 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Studio One ® is a modern, cross-platform DAW that is capable of operating as a 32-bit or 64-bit application. With the lowest price allowed by the manufacturer there is no better time to buy than right now! And best of all with STAGEPASS downloads there is no waiting. From all the choices out there, this one is a no brainer. ![]() ![]() Yes, Notion is a professional notation program but it's clearly much more! Process your audio with the built-in reverb, guitar-amp simulator, and Native Effects EQ, compressor, and limiter plug-ins from PreSonus’ Studio One DAW. Import audio files and mix them with your score using the built-in software mixer. Notion even offers features you expect in a digital audio workstation. Performing your scores has many uses but it’s especially great for music students and educators. Jump in and out of repeats, vamp measures, fade in and out, and navigate live from your computer keyboard or a MIDI controller. Notion lets you play back a score with playback following metronome marks but you also can perform your scores live, continuously controlling tempo and velocity. Don’t just play your music: perform and produce it, too ![]() 90% of the prompts included in our writing prompts newsletter are inspired by simply staring out a window and watching people go by.Ģ) Forget what you already know: Have you ever become trapped in a “but why?” loop with a child? It’s enough to make your head spin or an existential crisis occur. There are therefore a countless number of stories to be found by observing human nature. All stories, even ones about robots or plants, have some element of humanity at its core. Here are four of our go-to tricks when thinking of interesting things to write about.ġ) People-watch: Hands down, this our favourite way to come up with story ideas. We get it: writing prompts are an excellent resource, but you want to know how to come up with your own story ideas, maybe even ideas for a book-length project. How to come up with short story ideas yourself It reappears with a bite taken out of it. ![]()
![]() In the first list, write down “concept words”-words that cannot be physically touched. grab a sheet of paper and write down two lists. ![]() To practice writing metaphors and similes, let’s create some literary device lists. ![]() So, in the metaphor “the tree is a god of the forest,” the tenor is the tree and the vehicle is “god of the forest.” The tenor refers to the subject being described, and the vehicle refers to the image that describes the tenor. Most metaphors and similes have two parts: the tenor and the vehicle. Simile and Metaphor Writing Exercise: Tenors and Vehicles Learn more about the difference between similes and metaphors here: Both devices are equally haunting, and ending the poem on the mother’s voice tells us the central emotion of the poem. Consider Louise Gluck’s poem “ The Past.” Gluck uses both a simile and a metaphor to describe the sound of the wind: it is like shadows moving, but is her mother’s voice. Similes are better as a supporting device.ĭoes that mean metaphors are better than similes? Absolutely not. Simply put, metaphors are better to use as a central device within the poem/story, encompassing the core of what you are trying to say. In a simile, the reader understands that, although the tree is certainly large, it isn’t large enough to be a god the tree’s “godhood” is simply a description, not a relevant piece of information to the poem or story. The obvious difference between these two common literary devices is that a simile uses “like” or “as,” whereas a metaphor never uses these comparison words.Īdditionally, in reference to the above examples, the insertion of “like” or “as” creates a degree of separation between both elements of the device. What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor? OR: This tree acts as the god of the forest. Read on for an in-depth look and analysis at 112 common literary devices.Įxample of simile: This tree is like the god of the forest. They are what sets literature apart, and what makes it uniquely powerful. What all these literary devices have in common is that they create new connections: rich layers of sound, sense, emotion, narrative, and ultimately meaning that surpass the literal details being recounted. Alliteration uses the sound of words itself to forge new literary connections (“alligators and apples”).īy enabling new connections that go beyond straightforward details and meanings, literary devices give literature its power. For example, imagery, vivid description, connects writing richly to the worlds of the senses. Other literary devices forge connections in different ways. A simile is an indirect comparison-“the tree is like a giant.” In both instances, the tree is compared to-and thus connected with-something (a giant) beyond what it literally is (a tree). A metaphor is a direct comparison of two things-“the tree is a giant,” for example. Metaphors and similes are the most obvious examples of comparison. One common form of connection in literary devices is comparison. In that sense, they are techniques for helping guide the reader in how to read the piece.Ĭentral to all literary devices is a quality of connection: by establishing or examining relationships between things, literary devices encourage the reader to perceive and interpret the world in new ways. Literary devices are ways of taking writing beyond its straightforward, literal meaning. They help guide the reader in how to read the piece. Literary devices take writing beyond its literal meaning. What are literary devices? What are Literary Devices? Getting off the ground is only the first small step for Kerbal kind. Quick and fun experimentation is the name of the game. If my design was clearly a failure, I could revert right back to construction. If you don't like the way a launch went, you can just revert back to the launchpad with no penalty. It wasn't a big issue when a chute would deploy on launch, but it did cause me some grief when I was later into a mission and an engine would separate instead of fire.īut even when things went wrong, Kerbal makes getting it right easy. Shuffling parts around during a build would sometimes cause parts of my ship to fall off in flight when I wasn't expecting it. The one area where building proved to be a hassle was staging. When I took it to the launch pad and set it off and it didn't immediately explode, there was a brief second, just before the whole thing failed violently, where I thought "Hey, maybe I'm onto something here." It was a glorious second. I didn't design it for science, or for speed, or to see how far I could make it fly I built the thing just because I could. Leaving the symmetry option turned up to its highest setting, I quickly built an excessively powerful pinwheeling rocket. Sandbox allows for truly ridiculous designs - the sort of insane, utterly impractical rockets I built just to see how far I could push Kerbal’s physics. When I'd get to a point in Career where I was having trouble progressing and started to get frustrated, I'd switch to Sandbox and build to my heart's content. Without the goals of Career mode, I'd rather be playing Sandbox, where everything is unlocked and my imagination is the only limit. It retains the tech tree progression of Career mode, but removes other restrictions so the stakes aren't as high. Striking the perfect balance between thrust, weight, and fuel with only the parts and funds unlocked in Career mode made me feel like a brilliant rocket scientist. A heavier ship needs more thrust to go higher, which requires more engines. Bigger engines require more fuel, which make the ship heavier. Going higher requires more thrust, which requires bigger engines. Balancing funding, scientific progression, and reputation forced me to put thought into each launch, and the limited selection of spaceship parts made me think hard about how I could get the most from each rocket engine, fuel supply, or science module. All the challenges that come with actually blasting an object into space come into play. I spent the majority of my time in Career mode. It's a lovely feedback loop that I can't get enough of. Every success (such as reaching a new record altitude) is really just a place to start over, only with better stuff. Through hours of trial and error, I finally came to a design and flight technique that did what I wanted it to, and it was fantastically satisfying because each accomplishment is just a step toward bigger and better things. In its Career and Science modes, Kerbal Space Program creates an incredible sense of accomplishment with each successful feat of rocketry. ![]() ![]() It’s 9:45 & I’m sitting here reading this while nursing my 6 wk old while my 18Mon old 3 yr old and 6 yr old are in bed. I’ll watch a TV show on Netflix, work a little, and take a quick disco nap before the kids wake up. When the older kids are down I feed the baby and try to get some rest. One can wake early, wake crying while teething, etc. I use white noise for every child so no one wakes anyone else up. I put the older 3 kids down for a nap in their own rooms. Read: 5 Truths About Parenting Toddlers - That We Tend To Forget 1:00 // Nap + Feed newborn Eating before nap means they sleep sounder and longer, or at minimum they don’t wake early from their naps due to hunger. I used to stress about activities or organized playtime, but I take the terms loosely and have found lots of things on Pinterest that are basically very minimal prep and high returns on kid excitement and learning! 12:00 // Lunch I find the kids need some structure after they’ve been left to their own devices for most of the morning. This is when we’re doing our homeschool preschool curriculum, crafts, or an activity, or we all go outside to play ball or run around. The Sample Newborn Routine That Works Everytimeīy time I am beginning to put the baby down for a nap and the kids are out of independent play.I run around like a chicken with my head cut off and my kids are aimless. If I don’t have things flowing properly, I forget to do basic things. Have you ever had diapers explode on you? It’s simply impossible for me to get through our day without losing my mind if I don’t have a basic schedule. Sample Daily Schedule for Babies, Toddlers, & Preschoolers Or, at least, they keep us all running around in the same direction. They prevent us from all running around like chickens with our heads cut off. We have a few key routines throughout our day that keep us sane. Right now, I have a 9 year old, 8 year old, 6, year old, 5 year old, and 3 year old.Īt one point, not long ago, I had a 6 year old, 5 year old, 4 year old, 2 year old, and a newborn.īut really, there are some pros and cons to having children close together, but it isn’t as hard as you think. ![]() Here’s a sample daily schedule for stay at home moms who have a baby, toddler, and preschooler at home. ![]() We can either do this by adding a data-rellax-percentage value to each of the rocks, or we can set this globally in our original JavaScript at the bottom of the page. This will adjust the element’s position so that when we scroll to it, it’ll still be visible on the page. This means that elements further down the page will have moved more than elements at the top, as by the time we’ve scrolled all the way down there, they’ve been parallaxed to somewhere we may not expect. Im working on a website and am trying to implement a parallax effect on an image and title (possibly other elements too). When Rellax calculates how far to move the elements it does so based on the height of the page. Lastly for planet earth we’ll set it far back into the scene with a speed of “-4”. The next rock is also far back so we’ll give it a speed of “-3”. The next one in front again, so we’ll give a positive value of “3”. The second one is far back so it’s going to have a speed of “-2”. The first rock is a small one that sits in front so we’ll give it a fast speed of “8”. when i remove the fixed from the position css and change it to absolute, its move clearly and smoothly, but i most use fixed elements. In our index.html file, just before the closing body tag, add a reference to the script. In IE, when i scroll, the image is jumping/flickering/lagging. We can use Rellax to have these elements scroll at different speeds. Then set the perspective value, for this tutorial we’ll use 1000px but you change it as you like. First, set the transform-style of the card element to preseved-3d. To get started we have a space-themed page taking us on a trip to the moon. There are lots of customizable options with tilt.js but the coolest feature that I really like is parallax. ![]() Let’s use it to bring our page some parallax movement. ![]() It’s worth taking a look through how this was built if you’d like to see how a nice simple JavaScript utility can be written and shared. It sets up a loop variable using “requestAnimationFrame”, and then in each iteration uses CSS to translate each object by a calculated offset. Looking into the code we find that it’s using a very similar approach to our “show-on-scroll” code. It’s lightweight and has no need for jQuery, and we can call it in from either local file or by using a CDN. The JavaScript utility Rellax is a handy, and quite simple plugin created by the design agency Dixon and Moe. In this example I’m using a tool called Rellax. This means that if I was to scroll the page up by 100 pixels, the “faster” box actually scrolls something like 130 pixels, and the “slower” box moves about 70 pixels. To it’s left is a box that scrolls faster, and the box on the right scrolls slower. ![]() The box in the middle, marked “No parallax” is scrolling at the same speed as the page. In this example we see how parallax works when scrolling a website.Įach of these boxes scrolls upward as I scroll down the page. The technique is popular in many places including video games, where it’s usually seen in the layered backgrounds. Manipulated through html data- attributes or jQuery options. While scrolling elements can move: vertical, horizontal. You can use it on elements with background property or on any other element. If we’re moving, we see objects close to us move faster than objects further away. paroller.js is a lightweight jQuery plugin that enables parallax scrolling effect on selected elements. It’s a popular effect that can be used to create an illusion of depth. To fix this, we’ll add the same border-radius amount as your element to the js-tilt-glare element.Parallax movement is when things move at different speeds relative to each other. Now the problem is with adding glare effect is you’ll see the glare sharp edge if the element has border-radius. I’ll set it to 50 percent for this example. We can control the glare value using data-tilt-max-glare. įor the glare effect, we can add them pretty easily using data-tilt-glare attribute. I’m going to add 10 percent scale to the first card. For example, you can set the perspective to control how much the the tilt effect should be or you can create the scale effect along with tilt. Now you can customize the tilt effect by adding more attribute next to the data-tilt. In this case, we’ll add it to the card div. Īnd to add the tilt effect, just add data-tilt attribute to the element you want. However, there is some nuance to this that we’ll clarify later. There are 3 cards on the page so I’m going to collapse the code to make it easier to understand. In the simplest of terms, parallax scrolling is a three-dimensional effect for adding more depth to a webpage. |
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