![]() ![]() He respects Harry as a hero and protects him like a son. While everyone tries to keep Harry in the dark, Hagrid felt it was important to keep Harry in the loop. But there's a whole field of study around the concept of perceptual super resolution, and competing AI implementations for how to upscale images with the best results. Hagrid has a mature, matter-of-fact conversation with Harry about all the good and evil in the Wizarding World. OK, that name is a mouthful, and I'm not about to pretend I fully understand how it works. But what if ~the magic of AI~ could analyze the image and more intelligently resize it? That's what ESRGAN, or Enhanced Super Resolution Generative Adversarial Networks, are all about. The backgrounds can be blurry or oversharpened-just like if you opened a jpeg in Photoshop and tried to blow it up to four times the original size. Square simply upscaled the low-res files from the original games to 1080p and called it a day. They captioned the clip, 'Hagrid fucks off to the pub and leaves a child to do his work. But the art files on those discs were naturally low resolution, and sloppy archival meant that when Square Enix finally ported games like Final Fantasy 8 and 9 to PC in "HD" form, it didn't have the original art files to use for modern high-res displays. Harry Potter And The Philosophers Stone Is 19 - Happy Birthday, PS1 Hagrid Ewan Moore Published 10:50, 09 December 2020 GMT Featured Image Credit: EA Its a little hard to stomach this, but the original PlayStation release of Harry Potter And The Philosophers Stone was released 19 years ago. On May 20th, 2022, the TikTok account psmemories 1 posted a scene from the PlayStation game Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in which Hagrid informs Harry that he's headed to the Leaky Cauldron, a wizarding pub and inn located in the series' universe. Many of them, from series like Final Fantasy, are still stunning today: Detailed, stylized, beautiful works of art you could walk through as you went on an adventure. With over 200 game of the year awards, before the release this game happens to be a more than worthy successor to its predecessor. Twitter: Lolscrubs#0442 (for feedback, ideas, questions, etc.A little background: When 3D was in its infancy, PlayStation game developers compensated for the hardware's shortcomings by pairing 3D character models with pre-rendered 2D backgrounds. Hagrid makes his return in this mind-breaking sequel to the all-time bestselling piece of software junk 'Escape PS1 Hagrid'.
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