I managed to get FlexAvatar to run fully in browser with ONNX WebGPU ! 🎉 since inference is now rea-ltime, it's running fairly fast (20-40fps) so I added an audio analysis tool to make the various expressions reactive to sound 📢

now working in glorious WebGL !! added the morph target and wasted a lot of time trying to *ahem* _improve_ the avatar generation ; I noticed the tooth & back were poorly reconstructed so my idea was to synthesize and use multiple views to inject them at fitting time, not my finest idea

the problem with Novel View Synthesis, in a nutshell. ( MV-adapter & SDXL, first image is the input )

managed to drive the Flex Avatar GS models with my webcam, also computed custom avatars (created with FLUX KLEIN) and added a feature to compute a 3D avatar from the webcam and it makes me happy :)

I wanted to run a custom app on a Xiaomi Smart Band 10, what a ride! I wrote an (AI-free) blog post to document the process, it's aptly entitled: "the Xiaomi debacle" barradeau.com/blog/?p=1346 enjoy! P.S. it feels good to spend time on a silly project and blog post :)

This study conducts a Fourier analysis of the wave contours in five paintings by Bridget Riley, in order to estimate the extent and character of their harmonic distortion. github.com/golanlevin/r...

excellent dataviz about fungal networks (mycorrhizal network, mycelium, hyphae) a-hidden-infrastructure.spun.earth/story/a-hidd... quite instructive and well executed

pretty cool demo of a Gaussian Splat relighting engine-3vv2rs8cx-playcanvas.vercel.app#/gaussian-sp... not sure how it works but they seem to use a proxy mesh to cast the shadows (which is smart)

this is lovely and very insightful (via James Merrill bsky.app/profile/jame... ) staniks.github.io/articles/cat... that Voronoi decomp is 🤌

I finally made a proper website for Fragment 🎉 Right now, it is mostly a wrapper to the documentation available on GitHub but this is only the beginning! fragment.tools Built on top of @vite.dev, @svelte.dev and Mediabunny by @vanilagy.bsky.social

after 6 years repeatedly contracting for Google Arts and Culture, today is my first day working at the intersection of nonsense and fuck-all. can't wait to see what future holds, stay tuned!

need to try this github.com/Eyeline-Labs...

a good writeup / tips / how to use Gaussian splats to make a playable FPS level blog.playcanvas.com/turning-a-ga...

This tool from NASA uses fractions of the earths surface, taken by satellite, to spell out your name. science.nasa.gov/mission/land... This one says Bluesky

the HTML in canvas github.com/WICG/html-in... proposal is both a long awaited bliss AND an absolute blasphemy. I'll keep an eye on it though :) in the same spirit, have mixed feeling about pretext (github.com/chenglou/pre...) it looks pretty hacky but could prove super handy, need to try.

at this point, you probably thought I'd abandon my cube right?! ridiculous! I was just busy adding sound FXs, a music player (loosely based on Otomata) but more importantly LIGHTNINGS !!! wanted it to shriek "HMMETAAAAAL!🤘" in a high pitched voice when turning on but I failed...

"you can now run model blahblah locally!" checks GPU requirements : 4 to 8 A100 "I don't think 'locally' means what you think it means..."

kept working on the 2.5D smoke thingy, it works by raymarching a 2D fluidsim and achieves interactive framerate on mobile (45-60fps) by reducing some settings. it"s quite limited but allows some cool variations. video captured on a (5 year old) iPhone12 mini. demo soon ™

currently testing Ace-Step for music generation ace-step.github.io/ace-step-v1.... fun but I guess one needs to be a musician to get the best of it. it's crazy how unforgiving music is; the ears instantly catch AI slops (general weirdness, off beats, glitches) VS the eyes on genAI images & videos

few people realize the level of craftmanship & involvement it takes to create a page like this oryzo.ai by the @lusionltd.bsky.social team not to mention the industry-grade disruption level of the AI product itself!

DLSS anything huggingface.co/spaces/victo... via @victormustar.bsky.social 🙏 (it uses FLUX.2-klein which I'll have to try at some point)

cool paper/repo of the day: lukashoel.github.io/video_to_wor...

reactions to Nvidia's DLSS 5 announcement really made my day 😂 bsky.app/search?q=DLS... thank you internet 🫶

ooof ! amap-ml.github.io/RL3DEdit/ GS editing capabilities are getting serious

super nice! all of it :)

Blog post: I've been working on a guide to SDF font rendering, and I kept getting stuck. The blog post is about the things that didn't work www.redblobgames.com/blog/2026-02...

Not sure what it is, but it is.... My new Portfolio! (best on desktop/laptop) neuroproductions.be

passing on the good word: "Threejs Conf Paris, here we go ! 🚀 --> threejs.paris Waitlist open !" organized by David Ronai (et al.), already a solid lineup :)

I did a rogue version of the "sphere encoder", it's a smart way of embedding images that avoids having too large "gaps" between embeddings. it brings back the 2016 GAN vibe just that it runs at 60FPS in browser with a pure #WebGPU implementation now :) demo & code below

how a 64k game was made! What impressed me the most was the texture editing tool. youtu.be/qht68vFaa1M?...

(no one) yes I DO keep working on that Cube thing! added a floating UI, improved the texture management and added animations, also animated the cube itself, I noticed a super nice volumetric smoke effect in "no rest for the wicked" so I slapped it in too... #threejs

will have to take a closer look at Embedding Atlas apple.github.io/embedding-at... released OS by Apple (!)

WIP generative hex maps with modular wave function collapse. super satisfying to see the road and river systems matching up. #threejs #webgpu

since no one asked, my pet project is doing great! I gave up on the inner parts and now I use a fairly sophisticated instanced geometries to handle sub-geometries, multiple UV sets and N-dimensional layouts. #debugviewart

satrted a silly side project, the goal is to make a good looking procedural object with nice lighting and surprising procedural animations. absolutely no idea where this is heading but it's just the perfect balance of fun, silly & challenge I need right now 😀 made with #threejs

currently writing a CV. it feels weird and quaint, especially after 16 years finding work exclusively through a network of people... next up I'll probably have to "revamp my folio" ™, can't wait...

had a silly idea for #genuary 20 "One line.." this is the world's longest possible walk, 23,068 km from L’Agulhas, South Africa to Magadan, Russia. I "straightened" the path and made evenly spaced slitscans along the path, each region becomes distorted yet continuous.

"Order and disorder." probably my last take at #genuary26, uses a 3D pathfinder to go from neatly ordered stacks to a random layout. #genuary2615 BTW, I'm available for freelance work (2 days a week for now). HIRE ME, I'm GOOD (& CHEAP! 😁) also ok with collabs, mentoring, Q&As, AMA...

"Create an invisible object where only the shadows can be seen." the source image is converted into a set a 2D primitives & rendered using the shadow of a morphing object. the video compression won't do it justice but the outcome is quite gorgeous ✨ #genuary #genuary2615

"Everything fits perfectly" #genuary #genuary2614

"self portrait" still lagging behind #genuary and this took me forever but it was fun. mediapipe, three.js and a bunch of custom shaders. barradeau.com/2026/genuary... if you want to try it at home (you won't see my pretty face though 🤷) audio 'Brooklyn' by Young Brass Band #genuary13 #genuary26

more progress on "self portrait", BEHOLD the mighty skull dance !💀

making GREAT progress on "self portrait" 😆 #genuary #genuary13 #genuary26

"Boxes only" I wanted to create an infinite Klotski, a sliding puzzle game and it was going fine until I realized it was NP-complex and cowardly chose to display 4 of them side by side instead ^^ music: "Prickly pear" by Portico Quartet #genuary #genuary12 #genuary26

"Quine" always wanted to do a Quine, it's both very silly and very challenging technically. here I print an ASCII rendition of my avatar then re-render it using the source code that can then be copy/pasted to re-create the whole animation ♾️ #genuary #genuary11 #genuary26

"Polar coordinates" explores some famous conformal maps (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conform...), I still remember being galaxy-brained when I discovered this principle ✨ boids for scale. #genuary #genuary10 #genuary26

"Crazy automaton. Cellular automata with crazy rules." not strictly speaking a CA yet inspired by @sakana.ai latest paper on core wars, it uses tiny neural nets (10-12-6 p) to play a core wars in 2D, the fittest agent becomes the "Digital Red Queen" #genuary #genuary9 #genuary26

"A City. Create a generative metropolis." Jared Tarbell's Substrate (www.complexification.net/gallery/mach... ), PSLG (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planar_...), simplification, finding cycles (the "blocks"), relaxation, *ahem* "clouds", tilt shift and voilà! #genuary #genuary8 #genuary26

"Boolean algebra." treat, trick, treat OR trick, treat AND trick, treat XNOR trick... #genuary #genuary7 #genuary26

'Lights on/off. ' explores the Art gallery problem, vision cones, floorplan generation, nav-meshes, avoidance and such #genuary #genuary6 #genuary26