Andrew Willmott
@andrewwillmott.bsky.social
Machynlleth / London Graphics / Systems / R&D Work: Helioflow, Odyssey, Wayve, Football Manager, Spore, SimCity, Sims https://github.com/andrewwillmott https://www.andrewwillmott.com https://soundcloud.com/radiator-8/albums
$ME - KATIE PLANS CAREER IN DRESSAGE, POWERED BY TAMAGOTCHIS
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 9h ago$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
Much like a football club buyout TBH, buying an entertainment business by raising a large amount of debt against its ongoing cashflow. Anyway, end of (some kind of) an era. Hopefully the $210 a share will help some employees cope with the inevitable mass layoffs. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Saudi-led group completes $55bn purchase of gaming giant EA
The deal takes the maker of titles including The Sims and EA FC into private ownership - and loads it with debt.
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Just found a 500gb SSD that I bought 18 months ago and never installed and so I believe that - on paper - I'm now part of the Sunday Times Rich List
32 degrees C. Ahahaha. God bless them.
Dorian Lynskey@dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 3d agoIt's weird reading John L Williams' (v good) Heatwave, about the summer of 1976, and seeing temperatures over 32 described as so extreme that people lost their minds. At least it seems they invented road-building material that doesn't melt. And we don't have a ladybird plague.
Finding out which bins to put out when is the primary benefit of the Internet.
Why the Pico-8 is underpriced as the next generation console leader
Alex Hutchinson@bangbangclick.bsky.social · 4d agoEvery generation hubris afflicts one first party console dev which gives the next generation to someone else. Nintendo killing the Sony co-dev launched the Ps1. Arrogance and a clumsy architecture on the ps3 gave the Gen to the 360. Then ‘always online’ gave it back…
“We’ve moved into the Age of the Oligarch which is defined by a network of the rich and powerful and the authoritarians they prop up. The group transcends national borders and has zero interest in the countries that elevated them to power.”
The Third World War Is Here
And it's not what you think
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I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:
How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
The question is: what on earth is Google doing?
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You can live-edit a smaller box3d demo here, if you want to play around with the source code without downloads: minc.dev/playground/g...
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9/10 Reddit users agree - barycentric coordinates are useful. Thanks AI!
I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...
Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You
An atlas of the vibrance of the real world
moultano.wordpress.com
Fascinating. I knew a bit of this (e.g., fingers/pick near the bridge on a bass gives you a harsher sound with more bite due to the differing harmonics), but the variety of oscillating shapes from different excitation methods are wild. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYdX...
Strings Don't Vibrate The Way You Think
YouTube video by minutephysics
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New video: Supercharging my procedural mountain forest Two years of landscape progress in one devlog! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACjl... #GameDev #IndieDev #ProcGen
At #SIGGRAPH2026, I presented "points as tori" (PAT) for fast pointwise evaluation of signed distance for point clouds. Some code (Python w/ C++ extensions) and demo up: github.com/nzfeng/point... Contributions from people/LLMs welcome. Explainer thread below for the project: 🧵
Muhammad Anas and Alan Wolfe: A Texture Lookup Approach to Bézier Curve Evaluation on the GPU jcgt.org/published/00...
She was Hayao Miyazaki's "right-hand" collaborator from the '70s onward. Her name was Michiyo Yasuda -- the best color designer in animation. Yasuda's eye for color gave Ghibli's work a totally different look. We explore her methods: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-artist...
SIGGRAPH 2026 links: blog.selfshadow.com/2026/07/26/s.... I'll continue to add to the list as more things show up online.
SIGGRAPH 2026 Links
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Plug-in solar panels are coming to the UK from August 27th! It's been in the pipeline for a while & it's already common in Germany. But it's BRILLIANT because it opens up these technologies to renters & ppl w/o their own roof. Plugs into a normal socket & supplies ~ 10-20% of household needs. ☀️🎉
UK households free to install plug-in balcony solar panels from end of August
Law change means renters and flat owners may be able to cut bills as energy costs soar amid Iran war
theguardian.com
Today, Zelenskyy will be discussing this phase of the war with Russia, which began four years ago, with his fifth UK prime minister. Really brings it home, doesn't it.
🌡️ Planetary warmth check: In ESCAPADE’s thermal infrared view, Earth’s dark side glows from atmosphere & ocean heat (-10°F to -44°F). Lacking oceans or atmosphere to retain heat, the Moon’s shadowed side plunges to a freezing -280°F! 2/4
Dear lord I really hope they don't stuff this up www.youtube.com/watch?v=g79G...
Neuromancer — Official Teaser | Apple TV
YouTube video by Apple TV
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Here’s a cool-looking indie game with a 2D embroidery art style. At first I thought “wow that’s a nice embroidery shader! I wonder how that shader works.” Then I got to the last 12 seconds of the trailer and my mind was thoroughly blown. Boy every guess I had was wrong. youtu.be/0AlNT7rtnMY?...
Scarlet Deer Inn - Launch Trailer
YouTube video by Attu Games
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Red hot take: not only should open source AI models/weights be allowed, there should be a law so that if a model is trained on data that the lab doesn’t own (i.e. by scraping the internet), then the model is legally mandated to be both open source/weights and freely distillable.