could be almost anything yeah! any water splashes tend to show up, so the bathroom and kitchen walls are full of small droplet shapes

UV light revealing stains on the wall between a door and a light switch

I got a UV flashlight to debug some cat smells but now I'm in a bit of a careful what you wish for type of situation

salad (the cat) peeking over a piece of furniture, in hiding (allegedly)

i am hiden ,

dont tell anyoene

it's really unintuitive how translucent your hands look with all this subsurface scattering, and yet it's too diffuse to make out a clear shadow cast by the bones in your fingers

or, at least I'm hoping I have bones in there, I haven't actually checked

sunlight illuminating and scattering inside Freya's hand through sub-surface scattering, with mostly red wavelengths escaping into the camera as the blues and greens were absorbed or reflected

the terror of going to bed and noticing your hands are drenched in sunrise 😔

I'm never visiting australia if so

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

Experimenting with the idea of running save files on the title screen for very smooth game-loading ...

Kit (the cat) rolling around in a pile of nature. The nature is scattered all over his fur (he's adorable)

Simba (the cat) looking important and majestic in front of a blue sky

Zelda (the cat) getting bribed by her owner to come back inside even though she slept all day and would like to be outside all night

Jocke (the respected elderly cat) who had wandered a little too far one day and got lost, pictured here after he was eventually found and taken home safely again by some weirdo game developer with a camera

updated my cat photography album

photos.app.goo.gl/CVdrQdszfdVz...

but you see they were in an arms race against china to develop ARS (attach rock to stick) so they had to move fast

plus, moral philosophers were hard to come by at the time, that technology was about 3.3 million years away

knives might be like the second technology ever invented, second only to "pointy stick"

AI companies really think they can solve the alignment problem when we still haven't aligned the technology of like, knives

one of the things that sets humans apart from other animals is our elevated capacity to use language to exchange valuable information

anyway,

his stubby little leggies

it's a great way to erase any kind of work/life balance and to perpetually feel guilt whenever you're not working, and even when you do get work done, you feel guilty for not doing any of the other things you should've been doing

it's a big downside of living on your own, everything kind of slips if you're out of it for a while, and just getting back to normal takes way more effort than if you're living with someone

this is doubly true if you're self-employed, everything just, grinds to a halt

I've been pretty exhausted the past three weeks after catching some kind of virus, and so I'm very behind on responding to emails/messages/support requests and my streaming/video work, sorry about that ;-;

an orange cat is sitting alertly in a slightly squashed storage basket. he has a sweet and simple expression

Do you have cat food in the apocalypse kit? If so what kind and what if I stop liking it

a YouTube thumbnail of a video with a title that starts with "evolution of the wumpa fruit", with a thumbnail featuring a suspiciously mango-like fruit from the crash bandicoot series

i have excellent news

thanks for sharing! I've felt a similar way about AI, that it's the most useful to me when I already know the answer before I prompt, when I know I can validate the output

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics
ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

it's not raycast-based or even numerical! it's an analytical angular coverage calculation

nah, it assumes the light is coming from infinitely far away at the moment

yep!

a 2D tileset lit from the top with a green light, and lit from the right with a red light, leading to red/green/yellow mango color gradients

I'll never get tired of growing tech art mangos

baked at the moment! and will probably remain baked, but I do want it to be able to recalculate quickly, like, updating on a single frame and then remaining static

you need a surface area to reflect light into your eyes!

you can sort of visualize it in 2D space, but even then you're not really seeing light bounce towards your eyes, you're visualizing how much light is passing through a given point (though not towards your eyes)

I've seen how it works and whatnot! it's super neat, but I've never implemented it myself

2D lighting system shading the background of a set of tiles on a grid

2D ambient occlusion!

It's a bit of a hack since real light requires 3D space, but it is cool to see analytic penumbras like this c:

yeah! it always looks like rooftops to me too