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VNC Running

Ubuntu should already have a vnc server running on port 5900. The last 0 in this is the display number, and 0 refers to the default desktop. Additional desktops can be generated, but we shouldn't have to do that now.

You can / may need to install a vnc server with sudo apt-get install vnc4server

Enable Access

• Search for 'Desktop Sharing' and open the preference pane that comes up.
• Check 'Allow Others to Use Your Desktop' and 'Allow Others to Control Your Desktop' to enable access

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Installing Ubuntu

• Download ISO
• Create Bootable Media: https://business.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-bootable-ubuntu-usb-drive-for-mac-in-os-x--cms-21253
• Reduce Windows partition size
• Launch from bootable media (F2 on start) and install

Fix ubuntu startup glitches if on Dell monitor

• https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1487383

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#!/bin/bash

date +%s | shasum -a 256 | base64 | head -c 16 ; echo

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cd into texture directory and run the command below. It will set the textures to be non-writeable, set the max size to 2048, and set very aggressive compression settings

for i in *.png.meta; do sed -i '' 's/isReadable: 1/isReadable: 0/g; s/maxTextureSize: 4096/maxTextureSize: 2048/g; s/textureCompression: 1/textureCompression: 2/g; s/compressionQuality: 50/compressionQuality: 100/g; s/crunchedCompression: 0/crunchedCompression: 1/g;' $i; done

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Start with an mp4 video. Animations with large fiels of solid color and hard edges on their borders work best.

Currently 'threads' is set to 6, reduce if you have fewer cores available

Convert video to png sequence getting only the luma channel

ffmpeg -i source_video.mp4 -filter_complex "extractplanes=y" -threads 6 -vcodec png diffs_%05d.png

Get differences between frames, discarding other information

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VS Code Setup for Unity

Some references to get Visual Studio code set up and working properly on a Mac with Unity 5.5+. Remember that the 3rd party plugin is no longer necessary.

Make sure to follow the .NET Core installation guide for Mac. Don't ignore the openSSL portion.

Install the Mono Project package.

Set your preferences un Unity to open scripts with VSCode.

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ffmpeg

Reccomended ffmpeg install settings

brew install ffmpeg --with-libvpx --with-libvorbis --with-fdk-aac --with-theora

Or if you like LOTS of options:

brew install ffmpeg --with-fdk-aac --with-ffplay --with-freetype --with-libass --with-libquvi --with-libvorbis --with-libvpx --with-opus --with-x265 --with-theora --use-gcc

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#!/bin/bash

# Originally built to make a gif out of captured frames from a photobooth app
# Pass in destination file name - timestamps
output="$1"

# File paths are relative to your document root
# Framerate based on capture speed
# This site was insturmental in making this work: http://blog.pkh.me/p/21-high-quality-gif-with-ffmpeg.html
/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -y -framerate 15 -i assets/saved/temp/%*.png -vf fps=30,scale=-1:-1:flags=lanczos,palettegen assets/saved/palette.png && /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -y -framerate 15 -i assets/saved/temp/%*.png -i assets/saved/palette.png -filter_complex "fps=30,scale=640:360:flags=lanczos[x];[x][1:v]paletteuse" "$output" 2>&1

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import cv2 #Move this line to the beginning of the script, next to the caffe import

#Deep Dream Settings used: iter_n=30, octave_n=5, octave_scale=1.4, end='inception_5a/pool_proj'

def morphPicture(filename1,filename2,blend):
    img1 = PIL.Image.open(filename1)
    img2 = PIL.Image.open(filename2)
    return PIL.Image.blend(img1, img2, blend)

#Make sure to replace all image paths