Simulating a drone in Ghana for thermal footage collection to train a model...

Ghana Project (UF UAV Club)

MichaelT

So I'm learning to apply PPO which can be used in gamedev to drive all sorts of procgen. Its just a reinforcement learning algorithm, like, its rarely applied to procgen, but you could, and one day I might. For now though Im using it to 3D model optimal wings. This is what happens when my wing is distorted randomly in the first step of an episode >:D

Last night instead of sleeping I visualized and animated the ground coverage of the aerial photography I hope to perform using a drone early next year
It was my first time ever working with geometry nodes, and I pushed them so hard I found their limits - gonna be switching to houdini for this. Matlab nerds can seethe/cope/mald though, data visualization belongs in the 3D world.

Today I imported around 110 square kilometers of Ghanaian terrain into unreal engine, also simulated erosion to generate splatmaps for assorted quixel foliage native to the region. Having some issues with virtual texturing crashing my GPU though, but in due time Im sure ill fix it

Ghana Project (UF UAV Club)

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