Being to collaborate in real-time around the rendered image is the special sauce for me. It’d be amazing for Ryan to ask you “Where would you make the cut?” and you can show him and he could critique your decision. Being able to pan around and see a branch post-cut from any point of view would be amazing as well. Better yet, the ability to work on a virtual tree that reacted to your cuts vs a render of a real world tree. It’d be interesting to see what other students came up with after starting with the same baseline tree.
Idk, I’ve watched a stream or two on my Oculus and even the small amount of 3D it’s able to create with a 2d image made a huge improvement whenever they were using the detail camera. So much about bonsai is about space allocation. It’s interesting to have a better sense of space. Couple that with real-time interaction/collaboration and it’s a gamechanger.
i think it would be interesting to show case bonsai from different areas and trees native to those regions, for example bottle brush trees from Australia. maybe even have guest talk about how they design those trees in their area
the world is an interesting place with unique trees and environments. im sure a lot of people could draw inspiration. youd also help bring more diversity. maybe even bring some new excitment to some people who have been into bonsai for awhile.
From my perspective, the one thing we could do in the present would be to have a shared virtual view of a tree. To expand on your collaboration scenario: you could be in a virtual consultation and Ryan could turn and orient a tree to show what he’d pick as the front. You’d see it exactly as he sees it. If he wants to change the potting angle, he could make the small but important change and you’d see it. You could point at the tree and discuss the finer points, with the ability to zoom in to focus on details.
When you start to talk about rendering what the tree would look like with changes, I think things get harder. The branches are obscured by the foliage. So any model created from images would not know where the branches were. Even if you had a tiny camera that could get a view from underneath, there’d be a lot of branching you couldn’t get good images of. I also don’t know if NeRF has any limitations about getting the “inside” of an object ( like the inner branches ) vs. the “outside” ( like the foliage/canopy).
I do agree that being able to work on a virtual tree would be a great learning tool. The idea of having a model tree (perhaps one constructed by hand instead of created from images like in NeRF) and being able to prune it is something one could do with today’s technology. Going the next step to bending and twisting the branches gets harder. But if anything is suited to the task, a virtual reality environment is, one in which you could “apply forces” with your virtual hands. Applying those same forces via a 2D computer display is something I just don’t think would work well.
A use that I would think is worthwhile for technology like this would just be to document the evolution of my trees. It would be the same as taking pictures, but it would be 3D, which gives you much more ability to view details and the changes that have been made.
I wonder if any professionals (Ryan or anyone else) thinks there are uses for this that would really matter, that would allow them to do things they just can’t do any other way.
Minor feature request, but with all the new educators coming to Mirai live, it would be nice to see a library feature where we can filter by the educator
On the same lines as field growing, how about a stream on how to handle B&B products? Initial care, repotting, the extent of the work that can be done in a b&b state.
Hi Mirai team, greetings from Australasia! Would love-love-love a follow up to the Monterey pine stream! how did Ryan’s exploration of this species as a short needle single flush pine go?
Ryan just did one on Tuesday’s livestream. Should be up in the library soon. (Answering less for you, who probably knows this already, than for some future newbie who wonders if that ever happened.)
I would love to see a stream about character branches (not meaning defining) and the nuances about things to identify, what makes one as opposed to a defining branch, material that will lend itself to this. Seeing examples of them and techniques to design and style using themes of harmony, tension, and dynamicism. Also maybe a critique of some examples. A stream about really unusual material would be cool as well. The funkiest quirky and strange all wrapped up in one video. I would also love to see more videos on following Ryan’s growing interest into deciduous and see his evolution of the air layers which I’m sure you guys are doing. More videos about ceramics and when we may continue to stay within the norms of accepted pot selection and when we break that mold for an out of the box choice. I would love to see some videos on stewartia, rough bark japanese arakawa maple, Fuji cherry, amur maple, camellia sasanqua, winter hazel, persimmon, spindle tree, barberry, deciduous oaks, winterberry,etc. I would also like to see a ground up creation of a root over rock whatever lol. Also a video about developing exposed root systems on Japanese black pines and whatever. I would also like to see that deep dive into akadama you mentioned awhile back. Maybe we could create a contest or put out a challenge to discover the next closest substitute lol. A tree anatomy fundamentals would be cool too as well as root anatomy. An exploration into penjing or getting a guest speaker could be cool too. A video about the work of your students and their trees progress could be cool too. Also a mirai live stream auction of trees or pots we could bid on through the chat while Ryan showed and discussed them would be awesome. Then you could place an opening bid or just a sale price and we could purchase live with everyone. Hope one of these ideas may be of use lol. Happy holidays. Ricky
Just searched and found that there has never been a repotting stream for Cedrus. Rumor has it they do not like root disturbance/reduction so I would really like to learn the nuances to handling this root system before I dig into the ones I have still in nursery containers.
Watching the subalpine fir programs in the library with the feature content in the Olympic peninsula, it was great to see the natural environment.
I thought it would be pretty cool to see some feature content following a dig crew around some unspecified region showing the collection of some yamadori.
I notice there isn’t any videos in the library that cover Early or Mid Spring work on multi-flush pines. If there isn’t enough to be covered in a full live stream, maybe some pre-recorded “extra” content would be possible.
How bout 2 hour Super Tuesday tour of mirai. All the great trees with maybe before and after pictures. Where they came from and any special challenges in their design
After watching the “Cold shelter” content in the library, I’d like to see a 10 to 20 minute video on the Mirai greenhouses.
How are they built? What materials? Why they’re built that way? What position they’re in, in the garden? Stuff Ryan would like to improve on in future greenhouses?
Like Ryan said in the video, building a greenhouse is a science and now is the time to start thinking about it how to handle coming winter. I think this would be a nice bookend to all the winter content popping up the library. Thanks.
I don’t know if this has been suggested before but I think a bookshelf tour would be really interesting - bonsai/horticulture would be great but also just any book on any topic that Ryan/team would like to highlight.
I would love to see some information on handling Amur Maple. Working on one from Todd’s garden, and would love to hear and see more about them from your perspective.
Le dirette sono tutte bellissime e molto interessanti,complimenti Ryan!
Vorrei conoscere meglio come coltivare il pinus thunbergii cork bark,poiché è una varietà un po più complessa della specie standard di pino nero giapponese.
Poi vorrei sapere più notizie sulle malattie degli aghi dei pini…riuscire a capire se un ago ingiallito è un normale invecchiamento o è dovuto a qualche patologia (animale o vegetale),oppure se si tratta di problemi alle radici o ancora a qualche carenza di elementi minerali.
Grazie mille e cordiali saluti
Roberto
