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this generation is cooked
can’t even fry their dang eggs…

Btw: I don't dismiss the research and people verifying hypotheses. But what annoys me the most is: a) confidence, arrogance, and dismissal of art (whether of making fun gameplay, or beautiful assets) and effort. b) Pure bullshit. Holtz or Altman promised a "full holodeck" by the end of 2024. Oops.

I've begun developing a system for my UI which uses a spring-mass model to ensure elements never overlap in screen-space, while shadowing world-space bodies #gamedev

Someone really went above and beyond with the "Extrasolar planets in fiction" page. Each planet here has its own circular hitbox!

QA'ing a release

my lobes are tingling thinking about that much gold pressed latinum

in essence, the camera orbits in scene space and the simulated universe translates and scales around a fixed point
#gamedev #indiedev

infinite detail with new reference frame architecture in which each body's transform is local to a larger body, enabling extremely precise values over massive distances
#gamedev #indiedev

I needed a function for checking if a box intersected a circle. I could write unit tests for 3 lines of code, but it's usually way simpler to verify this kind of logic with a shader even though the function in question isn't strictly used in shaders.
#gamedev #shaders

275 new near-Earth objects were designated in March 2025, taking the total number of known objects to more than 38 000!

Find the latest asteroid news and a fun little quiz in the April newsletter from ESA's Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre: neo.ssa.esa.int/-/latest-new...

making some progress on the updated translation/scaling system in which the camera orbits a fixed point and the universe moves and scales around it #gamedev

And yet he was the only one spared getting turned into a pig by cerce

what a freak he could've simply put wax in his ears like the rest of the crew yet chose to goon

S1E1 Encounter at Farpoint is one of the best TNG eps ever made but theres an immediate drop-off in quality and concept until ~S4 or so

The upper leg of a gundam kit for a project I did last year #blender #b3d

TIL about semantic magic numbers en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_n...

0D15EA5E - "Zero Disease", a successful boot code used by Nintendo
0xDEADBEEF - "Dead Beef" for uninitialized memory in embedded systems
0XB16B00B6/0x0B00B135 - Used by Microsoft for various user-id constants

🌟New tapes and postcards just dropped!!!!🌟
New Coral set featuring some of my favorite little reef guys

[ #nightmarket #merch #stationary ]

I built a small visualizer for debugging a concept I've been struggled to wrap my head around - a data structure that enables a recursive hierarchy of reference frames for an infinitely deep 2D space. This will enable a lossless amount of detail at leach level
#gamedev

wow, now that is a cool article, I'll check it out

LLMs would be hilarious in these contexts. "You're right, there are 2 protons in a hydrogen atom!"

I think Dyson spheres resonate because in comparison to ZPE there's a clear path towards how they'd work today (ie lots of solar panels in orbit). But yes the logistics fall apart at scale.

Something I see often in SF is controlled fusion reactors in space (mini stars) which feel more feasible

Gaia spacecraft in space in front of the Milky Way galaxy

Today we say goodbye to ESA’s Milky Way-mapper Gaia! The Gaia spacecraft has completed its sky-scanning and will be switched off this morning.

it's firmly in the fantasy realm for sure, but do you think it's dumb from a logistics point of view, or an efficiency one? do you think we can do better than fusion reactions?

Learned about Moiré patterns the other day. They describe the interference effect you see when complex shapes overlap, and resemble the patterns that can commonly emerge from aliasing artifacts in graphics.

Nice to learn there's a formal name for this phenomenon

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moir%C3...

sweet! they get converted into looping videos now which is better than jpeg stills 6 months ago

are gifs supported here yet?

a table of world space coordinate system handedness and up axes across various digital creation software and game engines. Notably, Unity and Unreal are both left handed, but the vast majority are right handed. Additionally, Unreal is the only one that is left handed Z up

here, have a coordinate system chart~

I hope he found peace in his final days in the colonies

here's what 1 sample looks like though during gameplay, it's still pretty noisy but tolerable especially during gameplay when the scattering is influenced by time. plus, it looks kind of cool

I'm exploring blurring strategies, my current approach of resampling with a noise-based scatter seems to work really well during gameplay, but you can see the illusion when the game is paused. here's 1 sample, 10 samples, and 100 samples

Very interesting! thanks for sharing