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Software Dev & Psychologist, I will mostly share my creative coding pieces and visual illusions here with code πŸ¦€ :-) And for keeping track of new things/discussions in the science of course :-) https://github.com/altunenes

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Showerthoughts
What if we treat a long audio file's spectrogram as one "optical 2D map"? Then use a DeepEncoder style model (deepseek-OCR) to compress that entire "image" into just ~256 vision tokens.a decoder could then try to decompress those tokens back into the full transcript & speaker labels.🫠

21.10.2025 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think this comment could provide a similar insight into the illusion in our example. Beyond that, I don't have any further comments at this time. If anything comes to your mind, don't hesitate to share the knowledge 😁

27.09.2025 12:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

comment from the paper: "The reason is that the black/white contrast signals between adjacent dots along the length of the line are stronger than black/grey or white/grey contrast signals across the line, and the motion is computed as a vector sum of local contrast-weighted motion signals"

27.09.2025 12:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

well I just discovered this illusion, and it doesn't really resemble the other illusions I've experiment πŸ™ƒ. The one it most resembles is the following:

bsky.app/profile/altu...

27.09.2025 12:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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You are right, but when there is no "movement", the effectβ€”at least in my perceptionβ€”seems quite weak :-)
Also, a bit to test what you said: When I increased the bg brightness, this time I definitely needed the motion now...😁

24.09.2025 08:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Brightness induced by motion
Instruction: Without blinking, follow the green ball :)

live version with shader code:
www.shadertoy.com/view/tc2fDD

#illusion #perception

24.09.2025 07:59 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
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attractor of the universe
rust + wgsl code:
github.com/altunenes/cu...

#rustlang #creativecoding

03.09.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

codes:

WGSL compute shader (with my Rust backend):
github.com/altunenes/cu...

and our beloved Shadertoy version:

www.shadertoy.com/view/3Xj3zz

27.08.2025 10:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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You can render anything with this tech, for instance, my sdf neuron compute:

27.08.2025 09:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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One of the most interesting ways to render a fractal.... I learned from Wyatt on Shadertoy.
rust code:
github.com/altunenes/cu...
shadertoy:
www.shadertoy.com/view/wfB3Dy

#rustlang #fractal

26.08.2025 13:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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also ported on my rust + wgsl -wgpu based- engine too πŸ¦€:

rust back:
github.com/altunenes/cu...
wgsl shader:
github.com/altunenes/cu...

#rustlang #wgpu

02.08.2025 11:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sinh() on the Plane 😁
code/live version:

www.shadertoy.com/view/wXcSDl

#creativecoding

01.08.2025 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Brightness induction 😁

25.07.2025 22:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ray marched headless cross (from Black Sabbath)
code:
www.shadertoy.com/view/3XGGWc

#creativecoding

18.07.2025 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I coded a simple game using the Cuneus (Rust + wgsl) πŸ¦€
(I used to play this game on my phone, a very long time ago 😁)
code
rust:
github.com/altunenes/cu...
wgsl:
github.com/altunenes/cu...

#rustlang

15.07.2025 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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spiral with Gabors πŸ˜€
code:
www.shadertoy.com/view/w3K3Rw

10.07.2025 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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also ported on my Rust + WGSL engine: πŸ™‚
github.com/altunenes/cu...

#rustlang

03.07.2025 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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volumetric passage :-)
code/live:
www.shadertoy.com/view/w33GRl

#creativecoding

03.07.2025 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A fun experiment: how LLMs see illusory faces with different spectrums:
altunenes.github.io/posts/pareid...

22.06.2025 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Now motion without movement version.
The bike wheels aren't turning, and the small circles aren't changing position.
code:
www.shadertoy.com/view/wfySWm

#illusion

18.06.2025 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

included some post-processing etc, to polish it, but still need to look at full-screen. seems not a strong effect.

15.06.2025 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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I was reading this book over the weekend. Until I got to this page "Motion Perception in the Human Vision". I stopped reading the book and tried to code the illusion 😁
Look at full screen
live code (try with different colors):
www.shadertoy.com/view/wcKSzw
book:
visionbook.mit.edu/motion_estim...

15.06.2025 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Also, praise to winit + egui. for this 13.8 mb app... πŸ˜ƒ

13.06.2025 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Spiral chaos:
Depth of field is really cool trick when you work with thousands of particles....
code πŸ¦€
github.com/altunenes/cu...

#rustlang

13.06.2025 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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path tracing fractal via rust + wgsl πŸ¦€ 🌈

code:
github.com/altunenes/cu...

#rustlang

31.05.2025 00:21 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rotating spiral illusion: tried to create a new pattern by following the idea of asymmetric luminance steps...Not very powerful, more for experimental purposes (see fullscreen)
code:
www.shadertoy.com/view/3fKGWc
cool paper about this kind of illusions:
jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...
#illusion

30.05.2025 10:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mirror experiments: How many spheres are here? 😜
(added hdri/exr support to my engine πŸ¦€)

code:
github.com/altunenes/cu...

#rustlang

30.05.2025 10:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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weekend sketches for my fantasy world :-P
Note: the waves are indeed sine waves :-D

code:
github.com/altunenes/cu...

#creativecoding

25.05.2025 08:38 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

codes:
Rust
github.com/altunenes/cu...
wgsl:
github.com/altunenes/cu...

15.05.2025 18:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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