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If you need a random color (e.g. procedurally coloring objects), you should use Oklab or Oklch color space instead of RGB or HSV. RGB may span the whole spectrum, but it does not pick fairly (leaning dark/muddy). Oklab is designed to more closely map to how we perceive color

Great explainer video going over the GJK algorithm (from 5 years ago!) (GJK is commonly used in game physics for collision detection.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajv4...

Lovely installation at Tate Modern

This week’s Frankly builds on my recent conversation with systems theorist Greg Elliott, who came on the platform to discuss why our institutions themselves have become psychopathic and how that affects the behavior of the average human.

I made a video about the smooth-maximum function, I hope you like it! youtu.be/6Qb6QtC6QMs

If domination isn’t an aberration but a predictable output of the game board we’ve built, what does that mean for how we try to fix it?

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This week’s Frankly is an episode from summer of 2023, which is being re-released to provide context for one of the most important questions we face today: What is the role of energy, specifically oil, in the global economic system we’ve built?

Jon Bumstead does really fascinating work with unintuitive optics, like generating 3D data using a camera without a lens.

Our feature tutorial/artist today is by the talented @StanProkopenko! This is a GREAT reminder that limbs AREN'T symmetrical, and that the shapes that form each side have DIFFERENT PEAKS, CURVES & ANGLES! #gamedev #characterdesign #anime #manga #comicart #drawing #illustration

Jordan Matelsky's 2D plotter delivers 3D holograms, etching a programmatic interference pattern into the surface of old CD jewel cases.

A Procedural Sparkle ✨ #indiedev #gamedev

This week, I take on a tension I have been navigating for years, at the heart of communicating about the metacrisis: the hazards that arise from sharing true information with a global audience.

This week’s video examines how thoughtful planning requires balancing action with humility, while avoiding solutions that unintentionally deepen the problems they seek to solve.

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How might oil supply disruptions reshape the things you do, consume, and think about in your daily life?

normalMagic now available on Superhive! 🐝 Link in thread 👇 #b3d #normalMagic

Wonderful Christopher 3D video looking at some of normalMagic youtu.be/Fna4uisMbnE?...

non-destructive panel cuts/trims are about to get real nice

PANELS! (Progress on "Solidify Pro" coming to normalMagic soon) #normalMagic #b3d #geometrynodes

"Cut Groove" modifier progress! #b3d #normalMagic #geometrynodes

automatic UVs have never been more stable! Check out uvFactory if you haven't already 🏁 #b3d #blender #geometrynodes

Nested trims from a simple cutter with normalMagic 2.0 #b3d #blender #normalMagic

normalMagic 2.0 example file now available! - Every new modifier demonstrated - Descriptions for each example - Several workflow tips and insights #normalMagic #b3d

Non destructive panel lines using normalMagic 2.0 #normalMagic #b3d

normalMagic 2.0 is here 🥳 #b3d

The first step towards a "smart bevel" in Blender... Now all I need to do is fill the gap, how hard can it be? 👀

Today, in Part 5 of the “How to Think About the Future” series, I scale my exploration of civilizational futures down to the future of a single human life and analyze how the same patterns that shape economies, power, geopolitics, and Earth systems turn inward.

In today’s edition of "How to Think About the Future," I build upon the frameworks outlined in part three to create four distinct future worlds – composites that emerge from various combinations of economic conditions, geopolitical scenarios, power structures, and Earth systems stability.

As I've said many times, the absolute molten core of right-wing media is that Democrats are deranged, queer, socialist, anti-American traitors. That -- not anything positive about the Republican Party -- has been the basis of their communications strategy for 50+ years now. And it has worked!

We’ve seen robotics applied to chess many times and the projects always fall into one of two categories: a robot arm that picks up and moves pieces, or an under-table motion system that grabs pieces with magnets. But 3DPrintedLife took a different approach by making each chess piece a tiny robot!

♥️💚Turned my 2D OC into LowPoly 3D ✨ #lowpoly #pixelart #oc #webcore

When learning shaders most tend to overcomplicate common practices like noise or color corrections. Here are 5 common noob mistakes:

Ever wanted to learn how to implement grid-based fluid simulation? 🔥 I've got you covered! A step-by-step guide 🧑‍🏫 with robust explanations available on my blog: myzopotamia.dev/navier-stoke... Example is in Godot but the concept is easy to translate #gamedev #indiedev #godot

Trump is very deliberately & visibly killing the US wind power industry. Nobody even seems to be putting up a fight. As far as I can tell, the ACP -- the utterly fucking useless, spineless, compromised clean-energy trade association -- is responding with sternly worded letters.

Subtle things to make your shaders better: 1) Anti-aliasing - Real life is not limited to pixels so unless you're specifically going for a pixelated style, you should be anti-aliasing everything! mini.gmshaders.com/p/antialiasing

This week’s Frankly is part two of the series How to Think About the Future. Today, Nate expands on the case for holding a distribution of possible futures rather than a single preferred one, and walks through a structured scenario-building exercise. www.thegreatsimplification.com/frankly-orig...

Mist, Mirrors, Laser : Multi-view 3D Projection

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

Today’s Frankly frames the entire arc of this three-part series through the concept of the carbon pulse: a one-time inheritance of ancient stored sunlight that humanity is burning through in a few hundred years. www.thegreatsimplification.com/frankly-orig...

This installment explores how modern society has been built on the assumption of cheap and abundant energy, and what happens when that assumption breaks down. www.thegreatsimplification.com/frankly-orig...

This week’s Frankly is the first in a three-part series on the role oil plays in modern civilization, prompted by the recent flow disruptions and geopolitical conflict surrounding the Strait of Hormuz. www.thegreatsimplification.com/frankly-orig...

Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins has determined that "there are plenty of affordable nutritious meals. It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing.” Welcome to Trump’s Golden Age where we feast like kings.

May he choke fellating Netanyahu