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Peter Richardson @mxxtxr

3D animator/cartographer – making code for making tools for making maps

Joined September 2012
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I love shaders
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This reminds me I forgot to propitiate at the shrine of NaNdar over the weekend [sounds of spaceport janitor floating skull gnashing its teeth]
Noah Veltman@veltman
1 Dec 2021
dealing with all my bugs this way from now on "Don't try to rotate your phone, Zeromus may choose to expunge you!"
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Tom Stochastic | Making Tiny Glade 🏰🌿@h3r2tic
20 Nov 2021
Second attempt at reflections via ReSTIR ratio estimation; this time seems to work without massive bias 🥳 Also improved diffuse GI. Still some temporal lag and flicker from surfels, but getting there 😄 #rustlang #Vulkan #screenshotsaturday YT 60fps: youtu.be/AQXRiP6XQdo
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I love this quote so much <3
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casey@varcharr
4 Oct 2021
have you tried turning it off and keeping it off
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Looks like I missed a bunch of terrain-mapping progress in the last four years 😅
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Rye Terrell
@wwwtyro
24 Mar 2019
Alright, finally finished my write-up on advanced map shading: wwwtyro.net/2019/03/21/advan… Source for the examples can be found here: github.com/wwwtyro/map-tile-… Enjoy and share! 😊 #regl #webgl @MapTiler @Mapbox
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Getting some @TangramJS vibes here! Seems to be based on regl – I think @patriciogv was the first to use this trick in a Tangram map, looks like this example might be using github.com/sasakiassociates/…

GitHub - sasakiassociates/png-db: a simple database that uses PNG image compression to send large...

a simple database that uses PNG image compression to send large numbers of rows to the browser - sasakiassociates/png-db

github.com
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The Heightmapper got an update from a contributor for rendering higher-resolution screenshots! Thanks Andrew! github.com/tangrams/heightma…
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daniel singer
@danielsinger
22 Sep 2021
Making maps feel like a video game is amazing. This is so delightful.
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Joel Eastwood@JoelEastwood
14 Sep 2021
If anyone's curious, here's my most recent job hunt visualized. The hunt took roughly 8 months and ~20 interviews.
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"don't forget to add a boolean modifier before the end of class"
JK@HuntingFluff
13 Sep 2021
If you get tokens back for each crash then this could turn out to be a great deal.
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Tess✨@tessamonash
13 Sep 2021
The best part of the rigging process:
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chris xu@xuhulk
9 Sep 2021
for me: scarcity, ownership, and speculation are and will always be the most boring parts of what it is to engage with art. i would much rather actively work to definancialize things that are important to me than the reverse.
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John Wiseman@lemonodor
18 Aug 2021
"Thomas Kinkade xenomorph" (I'm very surprised that the query [thomas kinkade xenomorph] turns up no results on twitter before this.)
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Aaaaahhhh I've been wanting to try something like this since I discovered that regular tetrahedra don't tessellate 😤
Hedron App@HedronApp
19 Aug 2021
If you put together enough straight edges of the same length, baroque shapes will emerge by themselves.
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Now we're getting somewhere
Charlie Verdel@CSVerdel
20 Jul 2021
Replying to @CSVerdel
Drone model from the same flight. 25 cm elevation contours @MapsMadeEasy @CopterusApp #rayshader #QGIS
This feels ... ominous.
Caster Communications@CasterComm
9 Jun 2021
Today, @thekhronosgroup announces the 3D Commerce Viewer Certification program, enabling 3D viewers across the industry to demonstrate that they can accurately and consistently display 3D products. Get the details from @VentureBeat: bit.ly/3grbrOG #ecommerce #graphics
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Das 🧢@wholetthedasout
7 Jun 2021
The Apple Maps redesign looks like a new level straight out of Monument Valley. #AppleWWDC2021
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