A Young Person didn't recognise what game this was, so after I'd finished crumbling to dust I made a video showing the original view synchronised with the volumetric version.
Fiddling around with Doom in 3D, and struck by how well the Doom engine maps to cylindrical scanning - column-based and only horizontal and vertical planes (almost-horizontal planes stairstep quite badly).
I'm rendering to a voxel buffer then scanning out from that, but I think I could avoid some aliasing by rendering straight to the panels on the fly.
An increasing number of websites seem to be popping up boxes telling me I can't proceed until I disable my ad blocker, even though I don't use an ad blocker.
@ancientjames@bobulous Maybe. I always have my browser auto-refuse website requests for my location and for showing notifications, so that could explain it.
If a website thinks I'm going to share my location or enable unwanted notifications, then that website will simply lose this visitor.
I needed some hydrogen peroxide, so I ordered some online from a place that seems really into hydrogen peroxide as a lifestyle choice. It came accompanied by a leaflet which uses the term "nature's own magic water".
I've decided to find it charming.
Someone building their own voxel display got in touch asking for the BOM and I thought that might be of interest generally, so here's a list of the components I used in mine.
It's a collection of things I had or could easily get in New Zealand, rather than necessarily the best part for the job. If I made another, I would change some of it (lazy susan bearing, finer pitch LED modules, shorter motor) but this configuration has at least been shown to work.
Me designing a mechanism with a cool nonlinear motion path: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me writing the software for it: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
I don't know if this is a known technique, but I've developed the habit of printing screw holes too small, and then heating the screw to cut the thread without splitting the print.
(Sadly I haven't developed the habit of checking my hands aren't obscuring the camera on the first take.)
@ancientjames Because Mastodon is moving slowly on a version of quote posts that lets people choose whether their posts can be quoted (basically honoring a user preference), some clients are just implementing it on their own without that preference. Attached is phanpy.social's rendition of your post.
It's a lovely still hot day, perfect for throwing open all the windows and doors. And whoever it is in my neighbourhood who's currently learning how to play "Eye of the Tiger" clearly agrees.
Idly thinking about making a replica of Box from Star Cops, and my mind has been blown by the discovery that the original prop was reused for Talkie Toaster in Red Dwarf.
I've seen a few people recently complaining that Google search is becoming worse, but I didn't really pay much attention because people are always saying things.
But twice in the past week I've been unable to find something on Google where it insisted on changing my search term from one which would only return a few (correct) results, to one which would return lots of (identical, irrelevant) results. It's quite jarring after 20 years to be getting better results from different sites.
@ancientjames I hate that I've had to append "Reddit" to most searches for answers to questions... and I hate it even more given reddit corp's shenanigans