So much work went into this recent Nature paper showing the 'clearest sign of life so far' on Mars. So many great people working for years to get here! Feeling humbled to have worked on the software (PIXLISE) that supports the mighty scientists on the PIXL team.

glass discs

New workflow I’m loving: when designing updates to a feature in a complex app, ask Claude code to do a roundup of all the possible states and data inputs to that feature. Much easier to get a full picture of what to design against

wip shader ui

stylized trees with webgpu / tsl / threejs

circles

honestly this also rips without the frosted glass

dither + animation

finally found a way to animate these random gradients without jitter

more contrast grain

grainy websites are cool but what if the grain was an interactive shader?

tweaking a few settings gets stylized clouds

testing sdf gradients

garden icon pack

its working! already printed a few and results are solid

threejs lamp generator looking good on the screen

updated preview card for gradient generator

bees & trees

added a super scientifically inaccurate rover + Raycast vehicle controller to the mars playground heavily inspired by @bruno-simon.bsky.social's new portfolio :) #threejsjourney

updated the knobs and added a fixed stop mode. also added copy + paste for hsl code

built a little chat app to explore a few ideas - local first using @rocicorp.dev zero → instant sync - visualizations using #threejs and #r3f - using @anthropic.com api

📝 New Blog Post 📝 I recently went on a "shader creative-spree" where Post-Processing became my main tool for transforming 3D scenes into stylized art In it, I share the techniques behind the many effects I built and how I combined them in unique ways blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/post-p...

I really look forward to these!

shipped this! lots more I wanted to do with color selection and ui, but its in a good place. #threejs #r3f lyleklyne.com/builds/gradi...

Finally a ceasefire. Took far to long

People, animals, houses, forests… heart goes out to all of LA 💔

Great thrift store find for $40

HAPPY WINTER SOLSTICE TO ALL WHO OBSERVE! (Happy summer solstice to the rest of you.)

cone sketch #threejs #r3f

Orbital theme toggle

Have been playing around with this and am seriously impressed so far. Great DX and insanely performant. Congrats on the alpha launch!

decal fail

Getting closer to wrapping up this little gradient tool

scooped Berkeley Mono and its 🔥 also really appreciate their design philosophy

Trying to work on a new pfp thing for my website and its... not going according to plan

Overlap!

“We could be choosing to create software that is local-first, more private, and more thoughtful. Still, we're choosing to build for the machine—not for each other.” … yes

changing perspectives #threejs #webgl

If you’re in to weird old electronics and are in LA, go check out apex surplus. Does not disappoint

time is an illusion #threejs #webgl

Working on download functionality for these generated gradients. I have downloads hooked up at a consistent 1920x1080 via threejs render targets. Now trying to sort out how to scale the grain properly so its crispy

r3f + nasa 3d tiles + rapier physics + character controller = jetpacking on real mars terrain #r3f #threejs #3dtiles

I'm curating a list of designers creating on the intersection of: - XR - AI - haptics, - robotics - other emerging fields If you want to join: 👉 comment about yourself 💖 Like this post for the algo push 🔄 Repost for visibility #XR #VR #AR #MR #design #ui #ux #ai go.bsky.app/9PXTvjm

making progress on the portfolio refresh. testing out a time machine inspired video stack with generated gradient backgrounds

random gradient generator

glass orb #threejs #webgl

Completely rebuilt my character controller from a while back. Was able to build it over a few days this time, instead of months. Perf is 3x better, way fewer bugs, and I added jetpacks! #threejsjourney #r3f #threejs

Flame shader