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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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downloading & installing a win11 vm to test something out, im staggered how many gb of updates and how many hours (!) it takes to install and update itself from a freshly downloaded 4gb ISO. modern OSes man. smdh

09.03.2026 22:09 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Squirmbox | Reveal Trailer
YouTube video by BONK! Squirmbox | Reveal Trailer

madness via @boggo.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQPA... id love it if dreams had some influence in this madness. the direct puppeteering being front and center is <chef kiss> reminds me of our ps4-announcement live puppet jam

09.03.2026 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i feel seen

09.03.2026 18:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ai: *predicts the next token*
Bro: oh my god this thing is alive we must give it rights, it has anxiety
People: *flees conflict and asks for a minimum of kindness*
Bro: we must abolish human rights before it’s too late

08.03.2026 10:13 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

😭

07.03.2026 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

nice floorplan

07.03.2026 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

...and putin. ykwim

07.03.2026 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 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 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 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 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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yes! maybe an 11ses coffee somewhere nearby kcl?

06.03.2026 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

06.03.2026 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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

06.03.2026 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

06.03.2026 10:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

06.03.2026 10:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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

06.03.2026 08:35 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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

06.03.2026 08:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

06.03.2026 08:10 β€” πŸ‘ 68    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 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 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 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 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

magnificent

05.03.2026 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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

05.03.2026 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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also this guy - this guy is the menace. πŸ’― naughtiness 24/7.

05.03.2026 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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:) i leave that to my 12yo :) he makes clay villages

05.03.2026 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

lol

05.03.2026 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 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 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

05.03.2026 18:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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

05.03.2026 18:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 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 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 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 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0