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aeva

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I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not.

I like to post about my personal research, various side projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, and occasionally also art I made out of math. I like implicit surface modeling the normal amount. Amateur spoonie. 🏳️‍⚧️

Curses are just blessings with caveats.

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aras, to random
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0x2B or 43

aeva,
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@aras depends on context?

aeva, to random
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I've been experimenting with using a fast approximate voronoi diagram rendering technique as a point cloud renderer. This is a voronoi diagram with a million cells :3

aeva,
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@sirjofri Here's the code https://github.com/Aeva/tangerine/blob/chemical_lemonade/03_paraboloids/Experiment.cs

You just need monogame installed, and then you can run it with dotnet run in that directory.

The demo just barely (15.2 ms) hits 60 fps on my laptop (GPU is a recent Intel Xe chipset), but that's in part because I have the splat count set super high as a stress test. The demo only really needs about 100,000 splats to look good, and that runs more around 450 fps (2ms). Average FPS is in the window title.

aeva,
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@sirjofri I have not attached a software license to this branch because it's essentially just throwaway code, but if you require one I'm willing to apply the Apache2 license to it.

hikari, to random EN
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the french revolutionary calendar had such pretty month names, can we bring them back

aeva,
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@firefly @hikari still beats having multiple "caesar wuz here" months

efi, to random
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when they made the current version of votv, they put the south at zero degrees and that is wild to me

aeva,
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@efi if it's a top down game like the old zeldas where north is at the top of the screen, the 0 degrees is the direction that faces the player

shanecelis, to random
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MICROSOFT: Wait, I can explain!

GOOGLE: You spy through the whole OS?? I only spy on the web.

APPLE: Your users know that you're spying?

LINUX: You guys are spying?

aeva,
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@shanecelis if linux isn't spying on me then who does sudo keep reporting incidents to

aeva,
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@beatricejess @shanecelis to whom???

ramon_wilhelm, to random German
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The day before yesterday I've lost one follower. Yesterday I've lost another follower again. Today it seems like I've lost a mutual, because both of the counters of following and follower decreased one more time.

I don't force my followers to keep following me, but it's annoying to see how the follower counter keeps decreasing in a very short period anyway.

aeva,
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@ramon_wilhelm if it bothers you, I think mastodon has a setting to hide those numbers somewhere (I might be confusing it for tusky though)

efi, to random
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do sex workers call their clients cumstomers?

aeva,
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@efi the one I used to live with just referred to them as visitors or guests

aeva,
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@efi I don't think he saw it as anything more than a temporary way to make ends meet though

YoSoyFreeman, to random
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Hi, i'm totally illiterate here. Explain me why what i say is nonsense:

If we can use the GPU to shoot and obscene amount of rays (Even without an RTX) why it is not used as the "default" way to do ray intersections?

aeva,
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@YoSoyFreeman With GPU ray tracing, perf degrades tremendously as rays diverge, and if you want to hit the fast path at all you need to conform to a strict subset of the functionality available. You end up with a mountain of hacks to make it workable for anything beyond trivial applications.

Using GPU ray tracing to accelerate CPU computation usually means 1-3 frames of latency for readback, so it's an impractical substitute for stuff like physics queries.

aeva,
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@YoSoyFreeman it's also often not the fastest or even the most accurate way depending on what you're doing

aeva, to random
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It would be neat if there was a website dedicated to cataloging and evaluating common rendering techniques, focused on practical use a with straight forward explanations and reasonable examples for each entry and a discussion of tradeoffs.

daridrea, (edited ) to random
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Whenever someone from today's Gen Z generation tells me they're tired, I reply that I understand today's world is crazy (I have a brother who is 10 years younger, so I'm up to date with "we're a tired generation"), but imagine that I, at your age, studied two majors a day, I had three jobs (I worked in an advertising agency, partly in IT and worked casually in a company writing applications for EU funding) and in the meantime I paid off the loan for my first apartment.

aeva,
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@daridrea i've never not been tired. just insomnia tho

evan, (edited ) to random
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How long have you been on the fediverse?

#EvanPoll #poll #Fediverse16

aeva,
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@evan at least 12 years? I forget when I made my old identica account but I'm pretty sure I had one by the time I was working at Creative Commons which would have been around 2012

aeva, to random
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ah yes, 4 am, the time where all other living things on earth are asleep. well, besides my wife. and the cats. and "europe"

aeva,
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@lritter (guess which two cities I visited!)

aeva,
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@lritter nope and nope

aeva,
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@lritter amsterdam and warsaw

aeva,
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@mrsbeanbag @lritter for some reason I just assumed you were from Iowa

aeva,
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@mrsbeanbag @lritter wow look at the time I gotta go. to sleep.

aeva,
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@Farbs yes

aeva,
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@jkaniarz @lritter seemed kinda tiny tbh

aeva, (edited ) to random
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graphics research lifehack: you can cut out a ton of paywall scams and inscrutable academic wankery by excluding "we present" from your searches

aeva,
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@fl0_id @klara affirmative

BartWronski, to random
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I am excited to finally share our recent paper "Filtering After Shading With Stochastic Texture Filtering" (with Matt Pharr, @marcosalvi, and Marcos Fajardo), published at ACM I3D'24 / PACM CGIT, where we won the best paper award! 1/N

aeva,
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@BartWronski @mattpharr @jesta88 oh yeah I figured the scare quotes were because it referred only to the set of people who knew this particular thing

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