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My final post as Chief Scientist at Roblox, looking back at our company's amazing R&D success in 3D and AI over the past four years: www.linkedin.com/posts/morgan...

It’s @morgan3d.bsky.social’s Markdown on Steroids (which you can implement with a single JS include) casual-effects.com/markdeep/fea...

A brand new website to celebrate 10 YEARS (!) of beautiful markdown documents with Markdeep: casual-effects.com/markdeep/ Same efficiency, 100% data privacy, and client-side processing. New agentic AI support, fancy CSS styles, and compatibility for a seamless document experience.

Also, here's a glimpse at my rotoscoping process... #LUNARK #pixelart

Every lens leaves a blur signature—a hidden fingerprint in every photo. In our new #TPAMI paper, we show how to learn it fast (5 mins of capture!) with Lens Blur Fields ✨ With it, we can tell apart ‘identical’ phones by their optics, deblur images, and render realistic blurs.

The scenery at Zion National Park in Utah, USA, is truly breathtaking! #FridayFeeling #FridayMorning

The magic of B.C. at the end of summer #sailing

Square sails clearly follow a variant of the "New Version-final-new-revision-last" naming convention

More scenes from the sea this week #sailing

My lab will be recruiting at all levels. PhD students, postdocs, and a research engineering position (worldwide for PhD/postdoc, EU candidates only for the engineering position). If you're at SIGGRAPH, I'd love to talk to you if you are interested in any of these.

I put a massive number of changes in today's release of the new version of the #quadplay retro fantasy video game console. Available now at: morgan3d.github.io/quadplay/ The main focus of these changes was mobile: new aspect ratios, new battery saving optimizations, new exported game UI options.

I didn't realize we were trying to keep it a secret

20kts of wind makes for a lot of miles put away! I just marvel at the free energy of wind and current--I'm moving my *home* around with minimal effort, cost, and environmental impact, while sitting here making a sandwich and coffee enjoying the ride. #sailing

#sailing

Worth watching presentation, also provides some background info on how ReSTIR came to be and where it is heading: "ReSTIR: Traveling the Path of Reuse" www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRg9...

#sailing

matklad.github.io/2025/07/16/f... convinced me to try the "font-size-adjust" feature — it's now live on redblobgames.com . I'm using it to to keep the body text and code (monospace) text matched. caniuse.com?search=font-... shows Firefox (partial) support started in 2008, Chrome in 2024.

Unusually calm Salish Sea off the WA coast #sailing

La Colombie-Britannique

Added UI improvements ( a chain meter). Lights that spin when the boss is active and an animation for the boss door opening!! #gamedev #pixelart

Nowadays, most scientific papers must include an ethics declaration, about potential conflicts of interest among the authors. I just found this ethics declaration, in a paper written in 1729 : "I Profess, in the sincerity of my Heart, that I have not the least personal Interest

A 1966 NSF grant of $80,000 finds totally unexpected “thermophile worms” living in Yellowstone’s hot springs. The discovery sits on a shelf till 1983, before becoming key to the development of PCR genetic testing. Invest in basic research. @radiolab.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

I retired 5 years ago at age 67. I feel that is when my “real career” began. I have never been more engaged, productive, and fulfilled. It was incredibly liberating to decide I could switch to working for no salary: no boss to argue with and working purely on topics that inspire me. It is magical.

It’s been 3,174 days since I escaped corporate life. I was 44. My children were tiny. Now they're teenagers. Today I turn 53, and we are infinitely happier here, in our farmhouse by the ocean. No more meetings. No more commute. If I can escape, you can too (because I'm a dumbass). #Life #Art

Too much of my boat storage is for shoes! Hiking boots, offshore boots, ankle sailing boots, reef shoes, slippers, slides, sailing sneakers, shore sneakers, hip waders, and lightweight summer sailing sneakers. And I still have nothing "nice" to wear on shore for socializing... #sailing

Come to my HANDS-ON Lab at SIGGRAPH 2025 and teleport a quantum state! Wednesday 13 August, 3:15-4:45, in the beautiful Vancouver Convention Center, West Exhibit Hall B s2025.conference-schedule.org/presentation...

This is a long shot, but someone sent me email about a performance issue with a negative lookbehind regexp in Markdeep and now I can't find the email to follow up. If that was you, please email me again :)

It was quite peaceful at this anchorage (and charming, including a tiny working commercial fishing dock). However, the names on the chart of Skull Rock, Massacre Bay, and Victim Island reflect tragically violent histories of tribal warfare among the Salish peoples in the area ~150 years ago.

At a mooring, enjoying the evening on Meridian. We've had an unexpected amount of wind lately in the Salish sea (from corresponding huge barometric pressure changes) but otherwise mild weather and mostly clear skies. #sailing

Making very good time through the Haro Strait north of Seattle. #sailing

View from the Juan de Fuca strait #sailing

Hiking the San Juan islands #sailing

View of Mount Vernon in Washington state from the sea. #sailing

Annual reminder to self: "My single threaded code can't have race conditions!" Does it use a clock? Poll input devices? Read from files? Send network packets? Then your code is mulithreaded. You just can't see the source code for the other threads. It *can* have race conditions and deadlocks.

Casting off again...