nicebyte
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the only good anime pfp acct · http://gpfault.net
If the portal gun existed in real life and you put two portals on the ceiling and stood under one of them, would you get pulled up and into the portal to fall out the other one?
"Beyond the staples center you can see america, With its tired poor avenging disgrace"
it's very disheartening to see a competent person you looked up to go off the deep end with "here's my ai friend"
I will be at siggraph in LA this year, hmu if you are also there and would like to grab a drink/coffee/lunch/whatever
I made a video about the smooth-maximum function, I hope you like it! youtu.be/6Qb6QtC6QMs
A function you cannot do without
YouTube video by Inigo Quilez
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nanite this virtual geometry that. artists using analogue media had to solve a lot of fundamentally the same problems as computer graphics practitioners, and they've had a lot more time to do it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cd5...
Stop Drawing Objects -- Draw the Effect We See
YouTube video by Stephen Travers Art
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Wait Oliver Tree is _actually_ dead? I genuinely thought he was pulling a stunt. But now Wikipedia has been updated and there are actual news reports about it...
I'm going to go against the grain here and say that I'm happy about blueprints' demise. There should be a designer and artist friendly system to author behavior but it should be TEXT BASED. Nothing to do with ai: text is actually human-friendly. Easily editable, shareable, compact.
Chet Faliszek@chetsucks.com · 2mo agoBlueprints going away... not AI compatible?
trowbridge-reitz/ggx models the distribution of micro-normals within a surface patch as if the patch was part of a perfectly reflective ellipsoid. alpha controls how squished the ellipsoid is: zero alpha = no curvature at all (degenerates into flat disc) so all micro-normals are oriented the same.
Same applies to programmers. If you choose to rely on assisted programming, you should at least be running local models with "open weights" (still very problematic but that's the least worst option for now)
nicebyte@nicebyte.bsky.social · 2mo agoI agree with you but this goes both ways. Professionals should use these tools to help shape their direction. It's in their interests. The alternative is a world where two companies own all of the creative software and charge monthly subscriptions. You should not want that as a pro.
only difference between these two images is the tone mapper. First one is Khronos PBR neutral. Second is ACES filmic. Entire quad has the same roughness value. But you wouldn't think that, looking at the khronos tonemapper 😅
great, VVL silently crash when initialized by a DLL loaded from blender. pretty sure this is a new behavior too, this didn't happen on an older vulkan sdk. thank god for windbg, this could have turned into a multi hour wild goose chase...
Remaking an old CS meme video in Blender youtu.be/AnBbrMMdMgY?...
Door Stuck, Remade
YouTube video by 3kliksphilip
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trick question, it's whatever software I'm actively working on at any given moment because all those are my problems to fix 😭
transmutrix@transmutrix.bsky.social · 3mo agohey you! what’s a piece of software you use / have to use day to day that drives you nuts with bad performance, crashes, bugs, and frustrating UX? be specific!
every hash table implementation in c is an awkward mess and to me that perfectly illustrates why c is a fundamentally defective programming language
i cannot believe X flew under my radar for so long. blue blood is banger after banger, and yoshiki was only 24 years old when it released. just insane pure talent.
nicebyte@nicebyte.bsky.social · 4mo agotype of shit that you see on the tv or some vhs tape once, when you're 9 years old, and then spend your teenage and young adult years wondering whether it was some fever dream or implanted memory, until one day you stumble upon it on youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1dc...
Inspired by 2000's FPS like Half Life 2, F.E.A.R, Halo, and so much more. In SPRAWL zero you are a cybernetically enhanced super soldier in a brutal cyberpunk city collapsing under military rule and cult fanaticism.
New blog post! In "Quantizing tangent frames", we look at various established methods to represent tangent frames in the vertex data, squeeze a few variants into 32 bits per vertex and look at the resulting precision. zeux.io/2026/04/30/q... Share, like and subscribe!
Quantizing tangent frames
I’ve been working on tangent space generation recently, and also pondering the tradeoffs between QTangent and normal-angle storage. So when, in a completely unrelated discussion, someone said “you cou...
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apropos of nothing, a thread of armenia travel pics from various years. lake sevan
it still breaks my brain that even HASKELL never did this to me.
nicebyte@nicebyte.bsky.social · 6mo agoFrustration is usually just fighting some compiler error that is beyond cryptic. Swift is legitimately the only language that has hit me with "err the type checker couldn't figure this out so you have to rewrite your code, we won't tell you how though"
i am surprised at the reception of pragmata. from the moment i saw the trailer i was viscerally repulsed by the child-shaped robot. well, back then i didn't realize it was supposed to be a robot, since kids in videogames often look uncanny anyway. knowing it is in fact a robot gives 10x the ick.
while prepping that spherical harmonics post i was going through some of the old books on analysis and differential equations and the whole process reminded me just how much i miss my time at the university.
