Lyra recommends: How to rig a dog leg in #ControlEngine dev.epicgames.com/community/le...

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

1. I'm half way through listening to this, which is horrifying. The question for me is, as a potential traveller to the US: "Is CostOfDetention*P(detained) - BenefitOfTrip * (1 - P(detained))" +ve or -ve? www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

Heute abend auf twitch.tv/ard findet die Preisvergabe für den Puls GameJam statt. Es wird spannend in 5 Kategorien. Es sind einfach tolle Spiele entstanden.

Whenever there's an internet outage here I always do a little ratty web search to check if it's back. But... is this the most horrific episode of Dexter ever?!

Learned a new spring fact from my colleague @rat-face.bsky.social recently. For a critically damped spring tracking a target moving at a constant velocity, the amount of time the spring will lag behind the target is given by "halflife / ln(2)". Added to my blog post theorangeduck.com/page/spring-...

My best typo ever. How did that happen?!

@chrisbrooke.bsky.social Does this count as a credit or debit on my #FestiveBrookeEntryTax bill?

Very impressive (and fun!) demo: metamotivo.metademolab.com/demo

UE sample Project Titan is now available, and it looks great (I don't care if I'm biased!) - www.unrealengine.com/en-US/news/t...

Just stumbled across this old video by accident (from WeightShift days) - I remember having fun with this chap!

My latest article is about one of my favorite techniques in graphics - Müller's method of Polar Decomposition. It also details some variations, including one which is ~2x faster to compute with more regular convergence. theorangeduck.com/page/variati...

I'm a physicist and I don't major in complex emotions, but when I think about my subject my spine tingles. Me reading from my book. Let's see how this compares to the other place. (Split in two as videos have to be less than 60 secs)

Now that Bluesky has native video support, I figured it's time for a repost: Teaching a biomechanical model to run using reinforcement learning. New results coming soon! #BiomechSky

His Dark Materials - this is the bit where Mrs Coulter shouts "Lyra!", and I sit up straight and quiver, but Lyra just carries on snoring. #NervesOfSteel

Wanted to showcase some of my early experimentation with the physics control plugin in Unreal Engine. Physics control allows direct tweaking and modifying of a physics asset's "ragdoll behavior" on a bone-per-bone basis through blueprints, making it modifiable in runtime and highly customizable!

Do you like Gameplay Animation and want to learn more about how it works? Well we just released an update to our Game Animation Sample project for #UE5 .5! Get it here - fab.com/s/46a85e1ef0c5 P.S. You may have to remove local content in the EGL library in order to get the 5.5 version.

Control physics-based characters at interactive rates to climb over tables and more. No learning! Key ideas: (a) partwise MPC: switch between full-body and factored body-part MPC as convenient; (b) strategy guidance via sparse contact keyframes. SCA 2024 www.cs.ubc.ca/~van/papers/...

Derek Sivers is a smart guy and likes rats. I approve. t.co/ZTYiMdM8wh