HSS, SSS, OMG... Where do I find out what all these abbreviations stand for?
static
Posts: 325
As I look through different threads, I often see abbreviations for products or parts of products that I don't always understand. Is there a list of abbreviations somewhere? All I have been able to locate, so far, are lists for character products, i.e., V3, M5, SP3, etc... I know these, but, what I don't know are ones like SSS, HSS, AO, and many others that are on the tip of my fingers, but I just can't seem to get them past that right now 9 (left my notepad in the other computer ;-) ). I just recall these as I have been looking at some Shader stuff recently, but, as so often happens, The people discussing the idea already know the abbreviated text, so joiners and watchers are expected to know it as well.
Daz 3D is part of 
Connect
DAZ Productions, Inc.
224 S 200 W, Suite #250
Salt Lake City, UT 84101
Licensing Agreement | Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | EULA
© 2024 Daz Productions Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Comments
http://www.abbreviations.com/ won't give you any clues,
HSS Human Surface Shader
SSS SubSurface Scattering
AO Ambient Occlusion
HSS Human Surface Shader
SSS Sub Surface Scattering
OMG Oh My Gosh....
There is a Index running around here some place I'll add a Link when I find it again.
Do you mean this one
noises I make doing,, :red: stuff
Well, that's a good start, but HSS and SSS aren't on that list. But thanks.
Sub Surface Scattering is, but spelled out, not abbreviated
It does need an addendum I know, not sure if we could persuade Lordvicore to add to it. That one was carried over from the old forums.
OIC :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhSsGerO42A
Static, definitions of the abreviations are needed and I would suggest saving any you find that are good, but these are advanced concepts not simply words. That is, a simple definition will only get one so far in understanding what is being referenced often. Each of these words incorporate a whole series of concepts with many attributes that are all necessary in understanding the conversation they are contained in. Basically, there is no shortcut sometimes... one needs to learn the associated concepts as well as the word definitions. I would even argue that many of the word definitions won't get one very far on their own as they would be too simplistic or complex in themselves due to the limitations of a single definition for them.
Well, that's what I was trying to get across above, I need to know what the abbreviations mean. not just the words they stand for.
However, if I can find out what they stand for, I can look up better references to the words in a different thread or try to find a related video.
Regardless, I still have to start with the words that the letters stand for in order to look for, ask for, or find those definitions.
So with the valuable information garnered from Totte and Jaderail, I now have a place to start my education. Before that, it was a lost cause.
Skin So Soft; High Speed Steel; Oh My Gosh. ;)
I'd be more than happy to update the previous glossary! In fact I was going to do it right before the site change, but then I figured I should just wait a few days till everything sorted out... but... lets just say in the interim I got distracted... maybe by something shiny or by some bacon or something... but in that elapsed time I forgot... I actually had a TextEdit document with all the new terms probably around 20 or more that were ready to be added... as well as addition notes on my iPhone. If SSS and HSS are not on there, they will be now. I'll repost the thread as soon as I locate the document...
actually... I just went and looked for it... apparently "it" is six separate documents... I think there are a bit more than 20 new terms... I must have been on another coffee bender... I'll have to sort it all out and see if it is all relevant... mostly it looks to be (from the first two pages)... If its too much I'll whittle it down... HSS and SSS are both there.
On a separate note, one definition that I will now be adding to the list...
AutoCorrect: (also Auto-Correct) An exciting feature found on most Tablets and Smart Phones that allows users to offend friends, family and important business contacts, by randomly inserting assorted oddly chosen inappropriate words into typed messages. . This also carries the added benefit of making simple text messages take up twice as long (three times as long for voice recognition based dictation software which attempts to auto correct you cursing at it). The software uses advanced algorithms to identify the word most likely to have been intended, and then inserts an entirely different word that either makes no sense or conveys the impression of having been written by an angry drunk.
Example of auto-correct logic: "You are fabulous" becomes: "You are fat" .... "I love you" becomes: "I loathe you" .... " I hope you don't" becomes: "I hope you die"... " I have forwarded you the requested documents." becomes: "I have burned your village and raped your cattle."
Really, I actually had to give up trying to write this post on my stupid Kindle because it butchered what I had written so badly... but the good thing is that prompted me to write this at home where I went and found the glossary documents again.
Yeah we had to carry it over in bits, because of the character count allowed on this new forum.
And LOL at the Auto Correct. Predictive text is another nice one. I am really gald I retired and no longer need tocarry a cell phone around with me.
I'd be more than happy to update the previous glossary! In fact I was going to do it right before the site change, but then I figured I should just wait a few days till everything sorted out... but... lets just say in the interim I got distracted... maybe by something shiny or by some bacon or something... but in that elapsed time I forgot... I actually had a TextEdit document with all the new terms probably around 20 or more that were ready to be added... as well as addition notes on my iPhone. If SSS and HSS are not on there, they will be now. I'll repost the thread as soon as I locate the document...
actually... I just went and looked for it... apparently "it" is six separate documents... I think there are a bit more than 20 new terms... I must have been on another coffee bender... I'll have to sort it all out and see if it is all relevant... mostly it looks to be (from the first two pages)... If its too much I'll whittle it down... HSS and SSS are both there.
On a separate note, one definition that I will now be adding to the list...
AutoCorrect: (also Auto-Correct) An exciting feature found on most Tablets and Smart Phones that allows users to offend friends, family and important business contacts, by randomly inserting assorted oddly chosen inappropriate words into typed messages. . This also carries the added benefit of making simple text messages take up twice as long (three times as long for voice recognition based dictation software which attempts to auto correct you cursing at it). The software uses advanced algorithms to identify the word most likely to have been intended, and then inserts an entirely different word that either makes no sense or conveys the impression of having been written by an angry drunk.
Example of auto-correct logic: "You are fabulous" becomes: "You are fat" .... "I love you" becomes: "I loathe you" .... " I hope you don't" becomes: "I hope you die"... " I have forwarded you the requested documents." becomes: "I have burned your village and raped your cattle."
Really, I actually had to give up trying to write this post on my stupid Kindle because it butchered what I had written so badly... but the good thing is that prompted me to write this at home where I went and found the glossary documents again.
You're not kidding on the AutoCorrect are you?
About Auto Correct sucking goat hooves or about it mangling what I was trying to post from a Kindle? I know some people like it (my wife) and some people shout at it and make threats against it's life (me)... for example when I tried typing "SSS" it kept inserting something completely stupid like "Harbinger"... it doesn't even begin with "S"... Never mind Siri who keeps thinking I'm shouting "Duck" and "Beach" at her... although at least she learned "UV" after I threw the phone...
@chohole... Hows this for Predictive Text?
Predictive Text: An input technology used where one key or button represents many letters, none of which will actually correlate to the word the user is trying to type at the moment. Each key press results in a prediction rather than repeatedly sequencing through the same group of "letters" it represents, in the same, invariable order. Predictive text allows for an entire word to be input by single keypress, yet usually not the word any sane person would intend to use in that sentence. The software is widely used to encourage smartphone users into shouting profanities in public. Future versions of predictive text will incorporate advanced technology that will enable the user to type entire incoherent paragraphs of random words with one keypress or harsh glance.
LOL!! Both are so true. If you think I'm kidding, buy Dragon Naturally Speaking and suffer through the two to four week Training period. It will type some words that you KNOW never even came close to your mouth let alone out of it. Then it will still get the easy ones all goofed up just because they all sound the same. Sail and Sale are fully transferable as far as it is concerned and sew, so, sow are as well.
dragons do not naturally speak, they blow fire.
That sounds about right. lol and it has led to groups where people have fun posting other peoples disastrous text messages that have been sent without correction.
Right now I think I'm glad I bought a standard Kindle since I really only wanted it for reading anyway and I only have a dumb phone that I never turn on anyway (it's dumb as in it only makes phone calls).
SSS gives you Harbinger? Really? I don't doubt that it gave you that, I just can't figure the logic of how it gets from point A to point B.
Predictive text. Why does this feel like another one of those one step forward and three steps back.
I tied Dragon Naturally Speaking years ago. IIRC it was version 3 or 4. I gave up after a couple of days. I could type faster and with more accuracy that it could.
<---grinning evilly</span>
Got a new one for you: OSD: OpenSubDiv :P
Too confuse things even more ;)
OSD: on-screen display
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-screen_display
Hmm, and I always thought that meant 'overtly sexual disorder' as in "Oh, you have osd? What are you doing friday night?"
I get very confused by HDRI & HDR both are high dynamic range images and both open interchangeably under hdri or hdr import in my programs
I guess it is like ATM machine or LAME encoder where the last letter or the acronym is repeated.
and how come I can take HDR images with my Android but they are jpgs?
below the two images taken in quick succession with diff exposures and the composite
might be "fake" as Gedd says below but I do like how it makes the colour and detail pop!
Because someone is lying to you basically. HDR is often used to refer to images that the color range has been extended in any number of ways but it actually refers to images where the color data has been captured using some method that goes beyond typical camera formats usually by taking multiple bracketed exposures in a raw format then combining them. Making an HDR image out of a single raw image, which is still more information then a jpg format can hold is called 'fake HDR.' The line between this and full HDR isn't as great as people would suspect however as Raw allows a wider range of capture then is able to be represented visibly in a single image so one can extract the data necessary to do a basic form of HDR. And to your first point, yes HDR and HDRI are the same.
The HDRI Handbook is a good resource for information on HDR.
I should mention, I've seen some pretty nice photo manipulation applets on Android/iOS and the one you mention might be one. It's just that people marketing things often misrepresent things because it implies something they are trying to get across with what their product does, not even intending to mislead in some instances.
I have a program that does it too btw
Ok, have to apologize. If it's using multiple jpgs, technically it could be considered HDRI of a sorts, and yes.. it does help extend the functionality of the camera over what it could do physically on it's own. It looks like a nice app :)
nice price too, free!
Yes, that's one of the nice things about the applet market format. When it does become more common to charge (I'm assuming it will) I believe the prices will stay in the 'consumable' range, like that of a candy bar or hamburger on average, as they have been for ones that do charge now.