making reliable, flexible, and functional UI is always an interesting challenge

I wonder if there's any benefits not having tabs for multiple images you're editing, and they all just exist in one big space... This would be quite useful for referencing or dealing with multiple textures 🤔 hmmm

Episode 4 is out! I talk about the frustrations of modern OS-applications, while trying to find a Fortress in the Nether: youtu.be/9Up5l0IE5NU

wouldn't it be cool to have a hyper-minimal pixel art program that's able to use the most efficient OS methods to render directly to the window to reduce the overhead as much as possible, prioritising memory and speed, while also being <30KB for the entire executable?

Episode 3 is live! I talk about food, I try to find lava for obsidian, and get distracted a few times. Enjoy~ youtu.be/n4kJm4UKAt8

Episode 2 is live! This one has more talking about some serious topics, and lots of resource gathering. But I enjoyed blabbering about what was on my chest; I mention NYKRA quite a lot near the end. Enjoy~ youtu.be/W8NjPW9Pgq4

started a little casual series where I play a Minecraft survival map of New Zealand, and it's just 1 hour of unedited ramblings. if you like that sort of content, have a watch! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M60...

> TinyGW _ With C on Windows it's not very easy to get GCC for compiling code. Most portable environments are bloated. So I made my own build automation which makes one that's as minimal as possible! Only just enough for low-level games/tools: github.com/ENDESGA/TinyGW

> you are loved, you are safe _ had some time with my synths and samplers, decided to capture a particular deep feeling that has been hard to express with words these 2 singles will be on all streaming services soon~ or get it now for free on my bandcamp: endesga.bandcamp.com/album/you-ar...

it's interesting how often ideas come to me when I'm sitting in silence at a park/garden/forest. I realised a very efficient and minimal way to do tile-based shadow-casting (in C) that's completely software rendered - not using the GPU at all. this draws in <1ms

I find it fascinating that even when I try to contribute something to society, even when I make it public domain, people still find something to complain about. This is why I miss doing pixel art, because the worst complaint is "that doesn't look good to me" hahaha Which is easy to shrug off

Just pushed version 0.2: - If the image has more than 256 colors it just uses the first color. - PEP now supports RGBA/BGRA/ABGR/ARGB, and dynamically reformats depending on your input. - You can now choose to make the first color transparent when using pep_decompress(). <3

I am proud to announce... PEP: Prediction-Encoded Pixels This format is able to compress images (up to 256 colors) smaller than GIF, PNG, QOI, BMP, in almost all cases. A lot of passion and research (and fixation) has gone into this: >> github.com/ENDESGA/PEP <<

bluesky finally supports gifs?!

3 years ago I had an idea to make a metaprogramming language that would utilize TCC's near-instant compile times to also act as a scripting language. last night I finally realized the final piece to make it work... it's Python-like, via a macro-abstraction.

please for the love of all things good have higher standards for the tools you use. stop using Unity, stop using Adobe tools, stop being complicit and actually support tools made by people who care about the tools and the customers. please, it's getting to the point where I'm genuinely worried.

Nightdive just announced System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster! been working hard on it, and I can't wait for people to enter the Von Braun again!

I've gotten to the point where I'm convinced that anyone who justifies using humanoid robots has premeditated ways to justify human slavery. There is no reason whatsoever that a robot has to be humanoid, it's completely redundant, and only facilitates those who wish humans were more controllable.

I'm sick of 2024, I wish it was the next year alread- oh hey

your ability to learn dramatically improves when you seek how not to do something: every failure and mistake leads to more correctness. drawing a circle requires not drawing a not-circle. try to enjoy knowing how to do something via knowing how not to do it~ onwards to 2025

> Moa Vertebra ( water colour and pencil, 2 hours )

mmmm gradient

a reminder that it is possible to sit in a random river

ground skewers

bluesky... please... I need gifs before I can justify being here more...

people deeply underestimate the power of fearmongering and propaganda.

For a several years now I've had this completely ridiculous dream to "redesign math" The idea that you can condense and optimize what we know and what has been discovered; down into a cleaner foundational form that's easily understandable, reliable, free, and accessible.

> 3dmath.xyz _ + Added Next/Previous links + Included interactive Shadertoy for motormath.xyz + Fixed motors rotating incorrectly, which lead to: + Observers now align to being an inverted motor! All code is CC0, free, and also accessible on your mobile!

when anyone complains about C and how it's easy to make mistakes, I just think about this moment from 'The Incredible Machine' from 1968. the computer never makes errors, it is doing exact what you told it to do.

a quick tree, with some bugs

a quick evening #pixelart cave entrance

> 3dmath.xyz _ a suite of concise explanations and examples covering vectors, rotors, and other things in 3D reality: - vectormath.xyz - rotormath.xyz - motormath.xyz - projectionmath.xyz rotors in action: www.shadertoy.com/view/M3jBDW

> 3dmath.xyz _ a suite of concise explanations and examples covering vectors, rotors, and other things in 3D reality: - vectormath.xyz - rotormath.xyz - motormath.xyz - projectionmath.xyz rotors in action: www.shadertoy.com/view/M3jBDW

proud of my shader work for Killing Time: Resurrected. give it a play, and support game preservation! store.steampowered.com/app/1733170/...

had a day of reading code, needed to throw pixels onto the screen to get it out of my system crazy how much I've improved over the decade...

still no gifs...

some stuff I've done over the past couple years

bsky still doesn't support gifs...

> 100,000 enemies _ main thread rendering at about 800fps, second thread (the one that does all the collisions, bucketing, and motion) at 120fps. the idea is that you'll never actually need to have this many entities at once, but hept can at least handle it well~

hept can render 2 MILLION cubes at around 90fps on my RTX2060 (the backface and depth culling helps a lot, but wow!)

more hept progress

getting more and more people to test and help build the future of hept~! so happy to see it's coming together in a reliable way

> hept _ 1000 dynamic lights at 3300fps

> heptaplex-collapse noise _ came up with a novel method for inducing extreme amounts of entropy to the bit-planes of 3D values, allowing for noise that doesn't use magic numbers and is completely deterministic: >> www.shadertoy.com/view/ms3czf <<

a lot of posts here will focus on the things I'm making, I wanna have a fresh slate~