Honored to see my site 🍆🥵.ws officially included on theuselessweb.com!

I lowered WireTool's price to $5 on gumroad :)
maxvanleeuwen.gumroad.com/l/wiretool

#augmentedreality #gamedev #indiegamedev #AR

made a cute convolution kernel explainer infographic
for maxvanleeuwen.com/unblur

#convolution #imageprocessing

I un-blurred this video

This works on digital blurs, too. Some blur types are more 'safe' than others

Read more about the process of deconvolution here: maxvanleeuwen.com/unblur

Don't blur sensitive information.

Certain blur types can be un-blurred, I wrote about how this works here: maxvanleeuwen.com/unblur

#imageprocessing

attempting to unblur Captain Disillusion's image

This was the furthest I got!

Not sure if just ringing artifacts, or perhaps a Captain coming out of an egg? 🐣

Hi @captaindisillusion.bsky.social!

Would you be up for sharing another image, using AE Camera Lens Blur instead? I'd love to give that a shot! :)

(AE Fast Box Blur defaults to 3 iterations, which dampens high frequencies more strongly)

Here's my deconvolve attempt, still needs some imagination..

I published Bitmoji Crowds to the Asset Library!
🧍🧍‍♀️🧍‍♂️🧍🧍‍♀️

(it's a handy shader that makes audiences for your games)

easy to use and super performance-friendly, also works on Spectacles!

#LensStudio #AugmentedReality #shaders #Spectacles #AR #gamedev

// x^6 in 3 different ways (GLSL) // 1. pow: slowest (3 slow operations) float a = pow(x, 6.); // under the hood this uses pow(x, y) = 2^{y*log2(x)} // 2. naive: slightly faster (5 fast operations) (often auto-optimized by compiler into option 3) float a = x * x * x * x * x * x; // 3. binary exponentiation: fastest (3 fast operations) float x2 = x * x; // 1 operation float a = x2 * x2 * x2; // +2 operations

shader trickery:

in some cases, pow() can be optimized using binary exponentiation!

modern compilers sometimes do this for you, but it's a good habit to have

#shaders #maths #programming #gamedev

I did a very fun collab with the #Spectacles: Multiplayer racing with physical steering wheels 🏎️

Snap built the installation, and I teamed up with the great Nina Lijzenga to develop the game

It was shown at Lens Fest & AWE!

More info: maxvanleeuwen.com/project/spec...
#AR #AugmentedReality

November 6, I'll be hosting a talk at nextReality festival in Hamburg!

Come join me - I'll go over everything the Spectacles (AR glasses) can do and more, showing fun projects and weird experiments!

nextrealityfestival.com/en/our-speak...

@nextrealityhamburg.bsky.social #augmentedreality #AR

WIP sundial in AR! 🕰️🌞

using the sun's real-time position + my self-shadowing renderer (LUX)

the dial is rotated based on latitude. then its shadow reads solar time!

sundial from muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-l...

#gamedev #AugmentedReality #shaders

Using the sun's real-time location in AR, for more realistic shadows!

My Lens Studio code uses GPS + time of day to track the sun and moon in the sky 🌞🌙

Asset Library & GitHub: github.com/max-van-leeu...

Lens: www.snapchat.com/lens/1b41e32...

#augmentedreality #gamedev

updated my Nuke tools for Nuke 16 / PySide 6 compatibility!

will update on Nukepedia soon, in the meantime find them at maxvanleeuwen.com/downloads and github :)

#nuke #vfx #compositing #foundry

I added highscores to AR Flower Drawing!

The length is now added to a global leaderboard. Let's see how long they can get 🌷🌺🪻

If you have Spectacles, go try and break my humble record of 20.77m / 68'2''!

#augmentedreality #snapAR #gamedev #lensstudio

Sprite Crop: a simple & useful Lens Studio shader!

(I posted it to the Asset Library just now :)

crop a texture and automatically resize to fill. great for UI elements & sprite sheets

Texture credit: assetstore.unity.com/packages/2d/...

#AugmentedReality #gamedev #SnapAR #lensstudio

The vibrancy node in Lens Studio's shader graph

2. Vibrancy

A saturation boost where saturation is lowest. With option to preserve skin tones.

#vibrance #saturation

A Cubic Bezier curve

I'm sharing 2 new Lens Studio subgraphs!

1. Cubic Bezier (CSS-style)

Create a custom falloff using 4 values, like in CSS: cubic-bezier.com#.19,.67,.83,...

Download: github.com/max-van-leeu...

#shaders #lensstudio #ar #gamedev

had an idea for a new emoji so I officially proposed it to @unicode.org

my proposal & more info: maxvanleeuwen.com/emoji

if you have ideas too: proposal form is open till end of July! unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html

I'll hear back from them in November 🤞

AE Pixel Repeat 1.1 is out!
It's on discount this week @aescripts.com :)

Transparency now works in Visualizations, and I fixed a couple small issues.

Download: aescripts.com/pixel-repeat/

AoM water shader in Lens Studio, explained:

the water uses repeating sprite sheet animations for bump (normals) and highlights (emission) in a simple PBR setup

the waves are on separate planes w/ 2 static textures (cross-fading and animated stretch)

🌊 super simple, but effective 🌊

#gamedev #xr

Age of Mythology in AR!
> Experiment/Fan art (not affiliated)

I wanted to see what AoM & Age of Empires would look like in Augmented Reality :)

Captured in real-time on the Spectacles!
#xr #gamedev #augmentedreality #ageofmythology #ageofempires

Go check out my AE plugin Pixel Repeat!

aescripts.com/pixel-repeat
#aftereffects #glitch

@aescripts.bsky.social

My first ever After Effects plugin is live!

Pixel Repeat is perfect for glitch art, looping patterns and stylized distortions.

Go check it out! aescripts.com/pixel-repeat

#aftereffects #glitchart

#augmentedreality #immersivetech #gamedev

#augmentedreality #immersivetech #gamedev

#augmentedreality #immersivetech #gamedev

#augmentedreality #immersivetech #gamedev

#augmentedreality #immersivetech #gamedev