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Huge shout-out to @daisylovesart.bsky.social for this piece - it turned out amazing and is exactly what I wanted!

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

and we're back with more funky images. Currently trying to wrap my brain around the SimplePathIntegrator from pbrt - it's such a huge jump from a random walk integrator

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Want to buy: a human artist version of my avatar (which was generated by... some AI several years ago). Does anyone know of any artists with similar styles that take commissions?

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK no time like today to discover that there's a bug in my ray-triangle intersections.... somewhere

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Well clearly something is messed up I've changed the scene so it's entirely closed, which means rays will always bounce as many times as they can. I think this shows I'm weighting the results of bounces too highly.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

now that's a funky image

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

Sharing a work-in-progress image. Yes this looks like ass but it's 1 sample, 3 bounces, and I'm not even properly doing light sampling properly.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Genuinely cannot believe this is where I was 3 weeks ago. Yes, technically "raytracing in a weekend" can get you far better images in a few days, but I've never been very fast at programming

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

and now in color (and with correct aspect ratio calculations, in case anyone noticed :) )

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Same scene, but now powered by BVH trees so I can render a pretty high-res image in not a lot of time.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

we are COOKING

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

These normals are so normal

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

lets go

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

it's a new year and I spent my first workday writing a quick ★ terminal survey ★! it should take about 5 minutes and I'd love for folks to fill it out, I'm writing a zine about the terminal and my goal is to understand who we're writing it for a little better s.surveyplanet.com/wkepwlsp

submitted 50 days ago • 7 comments

Does this count for genuary

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Nothing like getting sick the weekend before going back to work 😔

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

It's a huge shame that Claude doesn't have token-based pricing for the UI. I've been using it via the API for a few days and my bill has been.... $0.05. I really don't want to shell out $20/mo for that

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

The fates have no power over me

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

The surreal thing about working with LLMs is that sometimes they tell me things I don't know, but sound reasonable! But I don't know how to verify the information 😔. Today Claude explained to me how alignment works (in the memory sense) and IDK if I should trust it

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

and all it cost was a huge performance regression (memcpy is NOT FREE kiddos)

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

I am so delighted to learn that ghostty uses nix natively, so I don't need to futz around with packaging it :) (and I can use the upstream flake instead of nixpkgs? how nice)

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

zig is so great but wowee the stdlib bitset types are surprisingly lacking???????

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

I am rewriting the read path in this database for the... 3rd(?) time? Maybe 4th. One day I will actually work on the raytracer

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment