Chapeau @mmalex.bsky.social

Pinky+ synthesizer and a pair of attached headphones

New Toy (oh-eee-oh)

Where's my fangamer merch

Symmetry demands a contraption for joining tubes by their cut-off ends as well.

Nanite + Reyes Let's get into the details of how this integrates with Nanite. We aren’t replacing anything Nanite already does. Nothing is changed about th...

2 more Nanite Tessellation posts are up. graphicrants.blogspot.com/2026/02/nani...,
graphicrants.blogspot.com/2026/03/vari...

GitHub - adobe/openpbr-bsdf: Adobe's reference implementation of the OpenPBR BSDF Adobe's reference implementation of the OpenPBR BSDF - adobe/openpbr-bsdf

My team just open-sourced our internal implementation of the OpenPBR BSDF from our path tracer: github.com/adobe/openpb...

You'd think they'd have the decency to wait for the body of "Web 3.0" to cool.

Firing the Tesla Tower as a Plasma Cannon YouTube video by LightningOnDemand

SRL's Tesla coil, reborn and, um, upgraded:

youtu.be/RoGbrgOhPes?...

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Nice, thanks!

I sent out my #ptpx2025 cards yesterday. Here's what's on them: iq0.com/ptpx2025.html

Normal people don't act that way!

Hey look it's fir-dimensional.

Go Gentle: Max Eider, R.I.P. Marcia and I just got back from a hike, and I was most dismayed to see this Facebook post upon sitting down and logging into my computer: Born Peter Millson, Max Eider first crossed my radar screen…

A lovely tribute to a recently-departed singular talent. jericsmith.com/2025/12/17/g...

goddamnit

The Ten Best Photography Books of 2025 Our favorite titles this year invite readers to take in the beauty of nature and our cultural rituals

Nice! My better half's new YA book about Anna Atkins is on a number of Best of 2025 lists, including: www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...

How to Get Started with Neural Shading for Your Game or Application | NVIDIA Technical Blog For the past 25 years, real-time rendering has been driven by continuous hardware improvements. The goal has always been to create the highest fidelity image possible within 16 milliseconds.

I got to do an explainer of neural shading-- with my NVIDIA hat on this time, and still full of Slang goodness! It's posted over at the NVIDIA developer blog: developer.nvidia.com/blog/how-to-...

ChatGPT and the Meaning of Life: Guest Post by Harvey Lederman Scott Aaronson’s Brief Foreword: Harvey Lederman is a distinguished analytic philosopher who moved from Princeton to UT Austin a few years ago. Since his arrival, he’s become one of my …

Really think this Shtetl Optimized piece by Harvey Lederman is worth reading: scottaaronson.blog?p=9030
Not sure it's an optimistic future, but it is a future that is still joyful

Ooh time to queue up Manic Pop Thrill

Bonsai Diorama Demo | NVIDIA RTX Unreal Engine 5.6.1 YouTube video by NVIDIA Game Developer

Today we released a new demo showcasing RTX Mega Geometry, ReSTIR PT, and DLSS all running together in our NvRTX branch of UE 5.6.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qyo...

And so it begins

Vibe-coded build system NX gets hacked, steals vibe-coders’ crypto NX is build software. You write your code on your laptop, you press “build”, it runs NX, and you get a built version you can put onto your web server. If you could hack NX, you could hit a lot of p…

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pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/29/v...

Subtly downgrade a band

They Are Unlikely To Be Giants

If only Darwin had taken care of those prone to believing that cooked food was just a scam perpetuated by Big Fire.

We as a species are distressingly prone to correlating the accuracy of a statement with the apparent confidence of the speaker.

"How many strawberries are there in The Garden of Earthly Delights?"

Many a time has somebody in my family tuned some crap into a crepe.

Tom Lehrer - "Silent E" YouTube video by Edgar Aldrett

Our family is also forever indebted to him for providing the foundation of and endless set of goofy dinnertime riffs: youtu.be/91BQqdNOUxs?...

Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

My Dad played "An Evening Wasted With" for me when I was a very wee kiddo, and I remember being pleasantly shocked that grownups were allowed to be hilariously and cleverly snarky and sarcastic. A truly formative moment. He had a great run, but still: Damnit.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

GitHub - chrisant996/clink: Bash's powerful command line editing in cmd.exe Bash's powerful command line editing in cmd.exe. Contribute to chrisant996/clink development by creating an account on GitHub.

Today in "why didn't anybody tell me about this a decade ago": github.com/chrisant996/...