Marcin Ignac

AWS situation is now stabilising so it's good to see how the number of incidents spiked during last couple of days. As AWS was on fire i've looked into service status visualisation we did for Maintel last year. variable.io/maintel-digi...

All great things come to an end. Extremely happy I could contribute Spirit Plant to this year Expo. Seeing people experiencing your art is the biggest award.

Exploring the personal archive. Early UI for reverse image search of my 65k images WIP screenshots collection.

Thank you Szymon! It is one of my favourites too!

I've finally put together a v1 of full case study including info about data, algorithms, behind the scenes and whole look dev process. Video content to follow!

How will the flower bloom in 2100?

We collaborated with artist Annelie Berner to create a generative web tool that visualizes how the Circaea Alpina flower might evolve in response to future climate conditions.
variable.io/plant-futures/

Hyperspeed

I know them well and microdose their visuals on regular basis.

When you work on something and stumble upon unrelated look and feel that makes your synapses fire in a cascade. Could be Data, could be AI, or just bunch of real-time glowing cuboids. Up to you.

I would love Ben Navis icon to be somewhere on the left. It took me a second to decode that Munros are not 10x bigger than it. It looks a bit as Ben Navis is there on the far right tiny and shy.

Eye of Boid

When I started @variable.io I dreamed of project breakdowns like this: hardware, networking, software architecture, rendering behind the scenes, data and lessons learned.

Check it out.

What if brand was an algorithm?
Our latest case study is a motion design tool for
HebbiaAI developed for @pentagramdesign.bsky.social Building upon a stunning brand we've created a dynamic grid that moves, adapts and is intuitive to use.

Procedural. 100% JavaScript baby!

3d flowers have 3d meshes.
3d meshes are 3d.
Let's do more 3d things with them.

I might like the B&W edition a bit more.
Have a nice weekend!

My drafting table.

Uint16
Can do 0
Can do 65535
I want more
GPU Says "ok"

Another floral project documentation is in the works.

#variablenature

Gemini-cli was breath of fresh air and I hope to play with it more.

Another reason is that I don't have 19.99$ * N for all models out there. I already pay for Twitter Pro so I might as well use it. Less friction. Gemi is some cluster fuck of auth/logins ( I have company and personal account and 2 comps and need to re-login 8x a day) and whatever Vertex AI is...

Because I think it is wrong to say FU to 10y of relationships I build there in name of politics and current CEO/owner. I'm happy to be the counter example of all shit that is there. Bluesky is nice but nobody is there or people are just cross posting like me.

Works with FigJam and big Figma boards too.

This really does open new era of 2d/3d mixing in Nodes.

So Grok 4 came out and I always wanted Figma integration in
nodes.io so I vibe coded myself one. No more genAI videos in your mockups. Bring mockups to you art instead!

Current LEGO setup at my home studio. Modular and geometric. With a print of Urban Flora #0 in the background.

Only pex-math library needed more help as Gemini tried to use gl-matrix syntax. All I had to do is copy generated node into my graph.

So far impressed. One login. No API keys, auth, uploading files to the cloud or managing subscriptions. See video for the results.

Can gemini-cli learn how to program in @nodes_io?
Let's find out.

I've scanned all nodes from past projects and prompted Gemini to create new node converting 3d mesh into Octree representation. It was able to get the right node+port syntax on first try, same for geometry outputs, onChange handling

Picked yet another veg from my garden to feed the algorithm.

The flowers should be instanced only on the end of smallest branches but instead they got instanced at every vertex creating this centipede.

Strange new worlds.
Following the rabbit hole of broken Spirit Plants.