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aras, 3 months ago to random

Two largest unsolved problems in computer graphics? 1) computers, and 2) graphics

aras, 8 months ago to random

Oy! So this instance is now running Mastodon 4.2 which among other things has a "search" that works more like actual search :) Y'all might want to go to Settings -> Public Profile -> Privacy and enable indexing of your posts.

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aras, 11 days ago to demoscene

"Everybody Wants to Crank the World", a :demoscene: demo for :playdate:
@playdate. Took 4th place at @outline! #demoscene #playdate #outlinedemoparty

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjAKiwQxrQI
Playdate binary: https://aras-p.info/files/demos/2024/Nesnausk_CrankTheWorld-20240421.zip
Source code: https://github.com/aras-p/demo-pd-cranktheworld

Maybe I should write a short blog post about development for playdate, or somesuch. It is quite fun!

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aras, 9 months ago to random

"Running" a Mastodon instance (like this one - mastodon.gamedev.place - since late 2017) has a bunch of expected things about it, and several unexpected ones.

Expected ones: it costs money, and it costs time for moderation. These are somewhat easy and predictable costs (btw huge thanks for the handful of moderators who help me! ❤️)

aras, 8 months ago to random

Neat: SmolSharp, a way to (mis)use C# native AOT compilation to produce very small executables. There's a C# OpenGL water rendering demo in under 8 kilobytes. https://github.com/ascpixi/smolsharp

aras, 5 months ago to random

"Oof" is what it sounds like wrt the whole Unity x Wētā thing. https://www.fxguide.com/quicktakes/unity-software-with-a-company-reset-walks-away-from-film-vfx-and-the-weta-deal/

So basically, the end result is that 265 people are abruptly laid off right before holidays (I hope Wētā FX can take most of them back?), and Unity essentially pissed away $1.6B. Cool, cool. (not cool at all)

aras, 2 months ago to Playdate

Oh no #playdate #blender

aras, 6 months ago to random

So! Did you notice old conversations/favorites/bookmarks being "broken" here after a while, if they involve people from other instances? Turns out there was a Mastodon setting that, kinda, "breaks them by design", and it was set to "plz break conversations after 14 days" on this instance. Now that's fixed and 🤞 it should be better from now on. I might have accidentally set that setting myself without realizing the implications, sorry!

aras, 8 months ago to random

Several random thoughts about this whole Gaussian Splatting thing: https://aras-p.info/blog/2023/09/05/Gaussian-Splatting-is-pretty-cool/

aras, 6 months ago to blender

#Blender 4.0 is out! https://www.blender.org/download/releases/4-0/

aras, 3 months ago to blender

So! For two months by now, I've been part-time tinkering with #blender video sequence editor. Now that Blender 4.1 is feature-complete, here's wot I managed to sneak in: https://aras-p.info/blog/2024/02/06/I-accidentally-Blender-VSE/

Let's see what other ruckus I can cause within the sequencer for the next release.

aras, 3 days ago to Playdate

Short blog post about "Everybody Wants to Crank the World", a #playdate #demoscene demo I made recently https://aras-p.info/blog/2024/05/20/Crank-the-World-Playdate-demo/

Calculating only some pixels both spatially and temporally is pretty much the same as DLSS, right? :P

aras, 2 months ago to random

“The Return of the Frame Pointers” - Linux returns to the lands of where profilers work :) https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2024-03-17/the-return-of-the-frame-pointers.html

aras, 8 months ago to random

Oh ffs Unity. I love(d) you, but I guess enshittification must go on. https://blog.unity.com/news/plan-pricing-and-packaging-updates

aras, 4 months ago to random

Oy! I left Unity two years ago, so here's copy-pasta of my goodbye email with old man reminiscing. https://aras-p.info/blog/2024/01/02/Two-years-ago-left-Unity/

aras, 4 months ago to blender

A while ago I started to wonder why "bicubic" image filter inside #blender is exactly like that. And that led into a rabbit hole of trying to figure out what apps mean by "cubic"/"bicubic", and of course everyone means a different thing.

So I made a small html page to compare them! https://aras-p.info/img/misc/upsample_filter_comp_2024/

aras, 3 months ago to random

3D object representation landscape 1/2: meshes, voxels, signed distance fields

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signed distance field

aras, 5 months ago to random

"temp feature" <...> "14 years ago". Yup, checks out -- the best way to ensure anything stays alive forever, is to mark it as "temporary feature/hack" :)

(found in #blender video sequencer related code)

aras, 1 month ago to random

Great thread from @rygorous wrt open source libs maintenance (in wake of current xz situation): https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@rygorous/112186275901509504 (1/N)

aras, 1 month ago to random

"Remnants" by Alcatraz at #revision2024: holy moly. What can you (well, they) do in 256 bytes?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9jn6ExjDw8 and https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=96536

aras, 1 month ago to random

"Apple Silicon CPU Optimization Guide" looks pretty good! https://developer.apple.com/download/apple-silicon-cpu-optimization-guide/ (via @natbro)

aras, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Ok, the fact that the "AI" (NPU) chip controller inside Intel's new Meteor Lake CPUs uses SPARC instruction set (from 1990?) was not on my bingo cards for this year. https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/04/22/intel-meteor-lakes-npu/

aras, 3 months ago to random

I promised to not work on Unity Gaussian Splatting thing, but failed at that. Mostly because Thomas Smith contributed faster GPU sort. So here's a new release, v0.9.0: https://github.com/aras-p/UnityGaussianSplatting/releases/tag/v0.9.0

barrelshifter, 1 month ago to random

man cmake really is a box of surprises

aras, 3 months ago to random

Holy shit, waking up to a spambot flood. Luckily most of the spam accounts were from just several domains, so added some domain blocks, and now close to 1000 spambots should be suspended. But geez.