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daniel

@daniel@social.dhelonious.de

🎓 Dr. rer. nat. in theoretical #physics
☁️ #cloud architect at #UniStuttgart
🦣 created a #mastodon #snap 📦
🇩🇪 based in #Stuttgart

Interests:
❤️ #scifi #books #SherlockHolmes #architecture #archaeology
🎮 #gaming #StarCitizen #StarTrekOnline
🎧 #audiobooks #podcasts #rock #alternative
🎨 #digitalart #aiart #photography
🌐 #technology #selfhosted #opensource #python
🎃 #autumn #halloween
🥦 #vegan

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metin, to nature
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From the ar(t)chive…

Low-polygon style 3D illustration for my 2014 holiday greetings card, made in Blender 3D.

The picture is a wink to my one-man company logo, which you can see in the top right corner.

#LowPoly #landscape #nature #mountains #trees #water #environment #logo #design #artwork #sculpture #3DModeling #illustration #illustrator #art #arte #artist #DigitalArt #ArtMatters #GraphicDesign #3D #blender #Blender3D #B3D #CreativeToots #FediArt #MastoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon

daniel,
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@metin Really cool composition that looks like your logo! Hiding symbols and images in the composition of another image is something a lot of people do these days using generative AI, but I've always liked this idea!

metin, to random
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@ephtracy You might like this:

https://blog.danielschroeder.me/2024/05/voxel-displacement-modernizing-retro-3d/

daniel,
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@metin @ephtracy Very interesting, thanks for sharing!

metin, to design
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Started a new modeling project…

Those who are as old… I mean… as experienced as I am, might already recognize what this is going to be. 🙂

More updates will follow.

daniel,
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@metin Really cool idea and I like the name Atarobot!

I tried to come up with another name, but Joybot sounds completely wrong 😂

daniel,
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@metin It is so satisfying to see all the details up close! MagicaCSG is perfect for models like this 🥰

metin, to design
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Work has started on the last of the four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Donatello. Watch this thread for updates.

View the previous 3D Turtles tributes here:
https://graphics.social/@metin/112460892970738498

daniel,
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@metin I really like the more realistic approach you take in terms of proportions! 🐢

daniel,
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@metin @mbt3d Haha, that confused me too 😂

I find it interesting that you use Dutch names. I'm always torn between English and German names. From programming, I'm used to using English so that others can understand the code. But this is not a requirement for private projects 🤷

daniel,
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@mbt3d @metin I find it strange to see variable and function names in languages other than English. But of course it's perfectly fine.

Yes, German is not an easy language to learn. That's why I'm not sad that I learned it as a child 😂

But then I learned French at school and French grammar is a complete nightmare 🙈

metin, to journalism
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Interesting approach. But it's commercial, not decentralized, and is backed by Sam Altman and more Big Tech honchos, so my first reaction is skepticism.

https://www.wired.com/story/maven-social-network-that-eliminates-followers-and-stress

#social #media #SocialMedia #news tech #technology #BigTech

daniel,
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@metin Interesting read, but I see some fundamental problems.

Even if this project were open source, it would still be impossible to know what the algorithm/AI is doing. Moreover, even if there are no followers, there will be some other not-so-obvious metric used to favor posts over others; there has to be, because the algorithm has to prioritize what to show you.

I think this is very dangerous and easily exploitable, just like existing platforms with non-transparent algorithms 😬

metin, to tech
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From the ar(t)chive…

Stylized 2D illustration for a 2009 business report, about the importance of establishing solid tech for a company, before looking ahead.

#tech #technology #hardware #management #computer #computers #business #work #design #artwork #illustration #illustrator #2D #art #arte #artist #DigitalArt #ArtMatters #GraphicDesign #vectorart #CreativeToots #FediArt #MastoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon

daniel,
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@metin A lot of these businessmen in your illustrations look like Trump. I know you said before that this was unrelated (although he was around as a businessman at the time), but the coincidence/stereotype is still funny 😂

daniel,
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@metin 😂

I also like this magazine illustration I saw recently 😏

metin, to scifi
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Started a new SDF modeling project in MagicaCSG.

It's going to be a sci-fi drone. More updates will follow tomorrow.

daniel,
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@metin I agree that the MagicaCSG rendering is perfectly fine for this model, as long as it looks factory new 👍

Really cool model! Although it is probably the simplest part, I really like the fan!

daniel,
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@metin Don't worry, I have no intention of leaving Mastodon! I was just on a business trip and my spontaneously booked "hotel" had no WIFI. 🙈 And since my instance is self-hosted and I only have an IPv4 at home at the moment, I cannot access my server from my mobile internet...

I really like the arrays in MagicaCSG. It's not obvious how to do it at first, but it's so powerful!

daniel,
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@metin Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the offline time (especially as I forgot to bring my laptop charger 😂). I spent the evenings outside, it was very healthy!

I agree 100%, the snapping for radial arrays is so good! It's a blast to create round structures like that. I can't believe that most of the other tools offer this as well 🤷

metin, to IT
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Follow @itnewsbot for the latest IT ne… Wait, what…?

daniel,
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@metin
In this case IT stands for intimate technology 😂

metin, to IT
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From the ar(t)chive…

Stylized 3D illustration for a 2006 business report, about combining separate company divisions for more efficiency.

daniel,
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@metin This reminds me of the container city I saw yesterday at our infamous local mega-project Stuttgart 21. But they were missing the studs 😁

metin, to blender
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Started a new sculpting project in Blender Sculpt Mode.

I love SDF modeling, but I also like to remain adroit in traditional 3D sculpting. Both techniques have their own charm.

In this stage I'm determining the global shapes and add some crude first details.

More'll follow soon.

#CharacterDesign #Blender #Blender3D #design #artwork #sculpture #3DModeling #illustration #illustrator #art #arte #artist #DigitalArt #ArtMatters #3D #B3D #CreativeToots #FediArt #MastoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon

daniel,
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@metin Sorry, but I can't unsee it 😂

metin, to mastodon
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A question for Android users…

I've been using Tusky for quite a while now, and I wonder if the official Mastodon app has become better than Tusky in the mean time.

In case there's a new superstar Mastodon app for Android, that'd also be interesting to know. 🙂

Thanks in advance.

daniel,
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@metin I used the official app for a while because I was not really happy with Tusky, and I think it is solid. However, they both had one big problem: when I open the app, my timeline starts with the most recent posts and I have to scroll down to see the older ones, with no indication of what I've already seen. The only app on Android that lets you customize this is @apps (Fedilab), which also has lots of other cool features!

Edit: Added the name of Fedilab for better readability.

metin, to blender
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In the 2000s, I used to give lectures in working with 3ds Max and the V-Ray renderer. My students were mostly architectural visualizers.

Here I'm giving a 3ds Max + V-Ray workshop at the Dutch EUE 3D event, in a cool old bunker. 🙂

daniel,
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@metin Oh, I never realized that Rhino uses NURBS 🤯

But this explains why I still do not know how to use Blender after that course 😂

Thanks for sharing, I did not know about MoI 3D, but this looks like a nice tool for CAD! The only other NURBS software I considered was Plasticity:

https://www.plasticity.xyz/

daniel,
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@metin Is there any 3D software you do not own? 😜

This is also what I like most about MagicaCSG. I can create whatever I like without the overhead of other 3D tools!

daniel,
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@metin Haha, you have single-handedly funded the 3D industry 😂

All kidding aside, since these are your work tools, I don't think these prices are that unreasonable 😅

daniel,
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@metin Really nice model, looks like a portable version of the HAL 9000 😁

metin, to mastodon
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Just discovered that most of the people I was following over at Bluesky haven't been active there in months, sometimes many months.

I've got a hunch that Bluesky is not going to be the Twitter successor they hope for. 🤔

There's this platform called Mastodon though… 😉👍

daniel,
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@metin That's good news (I didn't know that)! However, this could change in a few years. As Germany is a federal republic, each state is independent in its decisions, which are made by the currently elected parties. And sometimes decisions are not made with the future in mind, but according to personal preferences or because some companies pay a lot of money...

daniel,
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@metin This happened, for example, in the city of Munich. They had everything on their own Linux distribution and everyone was happy. Then the government changed and they ordered to remove everything and switch to Windows instead.

daniel,
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@metin One of the big downsides of capitalism. Communism would indeed be nice if this concept could ever work in reality...

metin, (edited ) to ElectronicMusic
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When I was a youngster in the late 1980s, I formed an Amiga game dev team with 2 friends.

Before making games, we started by trying to sell game music that used minimal RAM, made with our music editor SIDmon.

To promote our game music, this energetic music module was composed by our musician Ramon Braumuller. The file, including tiny sampled sounds, is only 22 kilobytes.

Check the #TeamHoi hashtag for more tunes.

#chiptune #amiga #commodore #synth #music #GameDev #RetroComputing #RetroGaming

daniel,
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@metin This is my favourite track in the game. I also really like the second level with all the elevators and moving steel beams. This track is so fitting with its industrial sounds!

At the moment, I'm still stuck in this level until I find the time to continue playing 🙂

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