Kenny.wtf

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My side project is weird

i think this is kinda not exactly true, its more like corporations struggling to cover liability, which is caused by a reactionary project by politicians and their constituents

might retire and spend my time hunting through telescope data for dyson spheres arxiv.org/abs/2602.23270

Very happy to announce that @chatto.run, the amazing little team chat app you can self-host from your own infrastructure (and quite easily so), is now available & Open Source. ✨

Things are looking good pairing the terrain-diffusion model output with hello-terrain!

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This is too much fun #HelloTerrain #threejs #r3f

Late night terrainposting

Software engineers don't need engineering demands like legal constraints and certifications, we need priestly demands like ritual purity and mandatory contemplation.

inverted torus world

Refactoring #HelloTerrain (hello-terrain.kenny.wtf) so you can create arbitrary topologies. Here's a torus-world example. I can't wait to try out a planet-scale example of this with atmospheric scattering! #theejs #r3f

its not a zero sum game, you idiots

audible sucks because you can only get very bad voice actors for the audio books that are region locked. the good name of the wind narrator is barred from you. I feel sad for the the Americans who dont know the good audiobook version

Kiel is an interesting german city and I miss it

I've implemented better fog (atmospheric perspective) in my shaders, so distance fades not just towards a single color (like classic fog), but a color which itself gets paler with distance. This adds so much depth to distant parts of the view and I feel it makes the landscape "breathe". #GameDev

I made an interactive "poster" for next week's creative coding meetup! ccnyc.space inspired by doom metal album covers~

stylized foliage

if you appreciate experiments like the raycaster work i've been doing recently, please consider suppporting me on patreon! i hate doing self promotion but i've been better about it lately, and it's been helping a lot. i'm currently trying to get up to $1100 a month. patreon.com/vacuumflowers

This is amazing. First page of how to build worlds. "Games don't need REALISM with unnecessary details! That's just excessive. No, something simpler will suffice. Here we model air currents as they flow around a planet at various degrees from the equator..." 🥰 #worldbuilding #procgen

Still at awe that a relatively simple algorithm can produce such gorgeous rivers 😍 #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

this is making me want to try again to finish up and release my space game...

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Currently trying to figure out how to do some medieval land use simulation, but I'm having trouble thinking about the "substrate" or like basic node primitives are. Perhaps subdividing voronoi?

If anyone thought LLMs would actually get to AGI this clause would still exist, just sayin www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Ok I'm pretty sure I have something I can make a first implementation of, which supports the following: new_entity = spawn(humanoid, goblin, leader, mountainous) No paths, no resources, just tags for spawning a totally custom procgenned data driven entity with awesome design salt-bae control.

in our world, in many ways "tech" companies are actually anti-technology. they're more interested in austerity, devaluing labor, squeezing more surveillance out of existing systems. consumer available tech is only dubiously increasing. moore's law died.

I've published my first pass at a React API for #HelloTerrain, available now on npm. It's a lot easier to use when developing a react-three/fiber scene. Try it out! #r3f #threejs hello-terrain.kenny.wtf/docs/react

Raycasting character controller + terrain heightmap stamps (from github.com/Roland09/Ter... ) #threejs #r3f #helloterrain

Slow Roads: Web Edition: A casual driving game all about finding peace in a long, scenic journey. topographinteractive.itch.io/slow-roads

Terrain raycasting API is working so well~ First time I've ever been able to embody a character and walk around one of my terrain scenes! #threejs #r3f #helloterrain

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My hello-terrain library is finally getting picked up by game devs :) hello-terrain.kenny.wtf #threejs #webgpu #r3f

per-tile bounding boxes~

Incrementally improving libraries you consume yourself because of use cases you uncover while working on other projects is a special joy. I imagine it's a bit like writing characters in fiction, you "discover" them as you go on. github.com/kenjinp/hell...

I changed the backend of #HelloTerrain to use a texture atlas instead of a flat buffer, hopefully that will make it easier to interpolate between values, because I want to start putting trees and stuff on these terrains! #threejs #r3f #webgpu hello-terrain.kenny.wtf/docs/core/el...

Updated the hello-terrain library to alpha.5. Now you can provide an elevation function using #threejs's #TSL to create procedural terrains or consume heightmaps (or both). ⛰️ hello-terrain.kenny.wtf/blog/posts/e...

goals

I've got the heightmaps + normalmaps generating smoothly now, both implemented as extensible little worklets. I love it when a plan comes together~ It's cool to see that uniforms and parameters update and see the effects in real time #threejs #webgpu

I've reached the first milestone of creating an extensible terrain system for #r3f and #threejs next step: heightmaps via #webgpu compute hello-terrain.kenny.wtf/examples

Introducing hello-terrain/work! A small reactive work-graph library for typescript! Organize compute with automatic dependency detection and aggressive memoization. Especially made for hot loops like your renderer update cycle~ hello-terrain.kenny.wtf/work