A bit technical thread 🧵 I’ve been improving the in-game ambient occlusion system - and ended up with something I call: Blob-based Analytical Ambient Occlusion on Primitives Here’s what it does to the final image: (more examples later in the thread) (1/16)

🧪🌊🌋 Many scientists have a single field moment that changes how they see their work. Mine is in this video clip. What’s yours? Video source is in the clip - see more below (1/3)

Hey @ramiismail.com, do you think Saudi Arabia bought EA to fix backward Arabic signs in battlefield games?

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Also, I have a DIY telegram channel, where I write in russian (to make it as low effort as possible). I post there my pottery, pottery firing attempts, wood and leather works, and my cyberdeck diy laptop. t.me/cyndll

In other news I published a game I made on TIC-80 together with my kids. Its about Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, famous Serbian linguist and teacher. You can try it here, be mindful of level design done by 7 year old: tic80.com/play?cart=4378

Here is what I've been cooking for the last three years with awesome team at Fantastic Signals youtu.be/8iGRmcVYV8w

Returned to my desk this week to find that the kind folks at Google Earth Outreach have uploaded the entire latest version of the ArcticDEM mosaic (v4.1) to the GEE archive. developers.google.com/earth-engine... Presently cleaning ~17tb from my hard drive :)

This is some of the hardest shit I've seen in my life

My good friends are cooking something truly unique. A game about flowers growth simulation and genetics.

This madlad m.youtube.com/watch?v=qoCW...

New blog post: What Chert Means

WarGames movie remake where instead of chess there is sassy waifu chatbot.

Some interesting new upscaling technique from the almighty Suslik www.shadertoy.com/view/MXjcWK

Make sure your RPG battle transitions, scene composition, and attack animations are at least as cool as this Taiwanese DOS RPG from 1995

It is actually

Follow-up with a little extra something... For those of you who'd like to peek behind the curtain a bit, I've uploaded one of my unreleased early maps from the game as a Steam workshop level, complete with little 'commentary' stations where I go into the process. steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/...

I saw this oldie-but-goodie in my LinkedIn feed & was blown away. Read more here: nightingaledvs.com/exploring-hu... #dataviz 📊

Questo è il fronte della colata attiva sull' #Etna! Si tratta di una colata di tipo 'A'ā, caratterizzata da una superficie ruvida e frastagliata formata da veri e propri blocchi di lava solidificata. Il suo spessore è di circa 9 m, come un edificio a 3 piani. Foto di Antonio Zimbone

Still working on this. For smooth continuous zooming it's better to disable font hinting (FreeType hinting snaps glyphs to pixels, for obvious reasons) so I'm looking into ways to provide hints when changing size. (I'll rework the text layout functions separately from the font system)

The final part of my "Demystifying the PVS" blog series is now out! In "Portal flow brings it all together" you'll find an illustrated step-by-step example of Quake's recursive portal clipping. Also touches on Doom 3's interesting super-fast PVS builder. 📜 https://30fps.net/pages/pvs-portal-flow/

Always wanted to figure out imposters. Here's a use case: cheap light shafts!

Somehow I missed this cool 3D radiance cascades demo: shadertoy.com/view/X3XfRM

Are there any #largeformat photographers in here? Follow along in the coming month or so, as I build my 16x16 inch hybrid, loosely modelled after Zev Hoover’s camera. youtu.be/0ZixDTrQdzo?...

Treeverse.app now shows the conversation thread as you mouse around. Nice way to navigate deep threaded conversations on here. It doesn't have a way to load more than what the initial API call returns, yet. Other than that, I think it's now at parity with the old Twitter version.

What a cool game. In no way am I a target audience, but it's fun to pretend.

Gigi v 0.99.3 released. * Two raytracing bug fixes From Ivar Jönsson (Thank you!!): * Updated OpenFBX and made it support multiple materials in a single mesh. * run viewer with "-renderdoc" to get a renderdoc capture button. github.com/electronicar...

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I have been experimenting various representation techniques of geomorphological features. Here is 3D "metallic" renderings of Rishiri-yama lavas in Kussharo caldera, Hokkaido, Japan, by BlenderGIS. From the 5 m resolution DEM of Geospatial Authority of Japan. maps.gsi.go.jp#13/43.595311...

"You've crashed into an asteroid belt. Explore this extra-terrestrial world and find a way to repair your spaceship." store.steampowered.com/app/3051070/... #VideoGame #IndieGame

Double Pendulum Map Every pixel corresponds to a double Pendulum (x-axis theta1, y-axis theta2) Written in Metal and code is here: github.com/timHau/Doubl...

So, what you all use to transfer followings?

Experimenting in blender