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mmalex

@mmalex.bsky.social

synth tinkerer (plinky); nvidia research (InstantNGP/NeRF); cofounder MediaMolecule (Dreams, LittleBigPlanet); demoscene/vj (statix/bluespoon)

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07.03.2026 17:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

nice floorplan

07.03.2026 15:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

...and putin. ykwim

07.03.2026 15:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

depressing for someone outside usa used to thinking 'wow trump miller et al are evil war criminals, beholden to Netanyahu and trump, congress at some point will wake up & impeach' to be forced to admit its more accurate to think of us as a whole as a pariah with no clear path towards humanity/sanity

07.03.2026 15:03 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

yup! the 2 girls are probably fine with it; the lil boy dreams of chasing birds so we take him to the park from time to time

06.03.2026 23:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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yes! maybe an 11ses coffee somewhere nearby kcl?

06.03.2026 20:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

also bonded with mike over speccy colorclash while he demod this to me irl.

06.03.2026 16:18 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

i love everything about this pico based visuals tool -- so cute

06.03.2026 16:17 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

hopefully they took the well deserved day off after coming up with that banger

06.03.2026 10:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

i think it was just a dubious cross-lingual pun :) tom's gonna tom :)

06.03.2026 10:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

TIL the French for "open source". To my disgust it is not "roux ouvert"

06.03.2026 08:35 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

hes definitely getting even more handsome as he gets older eh!

06.03.2026 08:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

oh that is awesome, well deserved! congrats @ocornut.bsky.social

06.03.2026 08:10 — 👍 64    🔁 13    💬 4    📌 0

kinda but not in a conventional/3d sense: tthink of the line as a ball of 32D spaghetti; it tries to find a slowly shifting 2d 'projection' that best shows it, and orthographically projects from 32d->2d. so a kind of camera, but no step is 3d

06.03.2026 08:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Screenshot showing skin with micro-occlusion at the top, and micro-shadowing below.

Screenshot showing skin with micro-occlusion at the top, and micro-shadowing below.

I finally wrapped up the second post on the series about micro-shadowing. On this one I go over a basic approach based on a microsurface, and I show results for different materials and lighting conditions.

irradiance.ca/posts/micros...

05.03.2026 21:49 — 👍 41    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 0

magnificent

05.03.2026 20:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

im feeding these pics to my partner who is now tasked with finding siberian #4 or else

05.03.2026 20:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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also this guy - this guy is the menace. 💯 naughtiness 24/7.

05.03.2026 20:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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:) i leave that to my 12yo :) he makes clay villages

05.03.2026 18:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

lol

05.03.2026 18:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

yeah motionflow 'whats a few frames between friends'. dreams had 1khz usb polling for performing the instruments (like rockband) and <256 sample latency at 48khz and then... SORRY IM A TV I WILL SIT ON THIS FRAME K THX BYE

05.03.2026 18:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

i remember tv soundbars totally f***ing this up too lol

05.03.2026 18:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

interesting! thanks so much for the wisdom :) i never realised it might be so much. super interesting

05.03.2026 18:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

(i was originally thinking about ways to classify rhythms and textures, but this viz happened by mistake along the way, lol)

05.03.2026 17:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

yeah i felt the same way! its actually based on a super smeared view of the sound, so its also totally legit i think. its like it was drawn with very fat market pens, i should totally eyeball a different 'centerline'! thanks for the nudge

05.03.2026 17:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

the scene around it is really welcoming too! i made myself a live coding/visuals tool so i could figure out how strudel works by reimplementing the language. eye opening :) i still suck at it but enjoyed playing a couple open mic slots last year...

05.03.2026 17:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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here's a longer example where it transitions from spoken word into repetitive music. the looping patterns at the end was what i was originally after... (soundtrack from the awesome soundcloud.com/attlas/story...

05.03.2026 17:29 — 👍 16    🔁 1    💬 5    📌 0

scratches chin contemplatively...

05.03.2026 17:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

last night was a super fun & inspiring-as-ever algorhythms night. having filled up on live-coded inspiration, I ended up walking home from peckham to central london late(ish) at night with headphones on. fully 100% the thing burial always talked about as inspiration right there, iykyk.

05.03.2026 17:19 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0