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Alex Warnes
@awarnes.bsky.social
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web developer & dad-joke teller (fmr intelligence analyst). digital & film photography, 3D modeling & VFX

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Anderson Japanese Gardens (August, 2025)

Shot on:
- Kodak Pro Image 100
- Minolta XD w/ Rokkor 35mm lens

#photography #kodak #shotonfilm
A Japanese tea house in the woods. Looking up at waterfalls with tree branches reaching out across the rock face. Looking across a murky pond with a rock in the middle. Tree branches reach across the frame in the foreground. A wooded trail leading toward a covered nook with a bench. The sun shines through an opening on the wall and casts a spot of light on the otherwise shaded bench.
September 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Svelte's easing fns re-applied to control erosion of gravitational strength over distance in threlte 🚀

Add static gravity sources (suns?) or dynamic bodes (comets?) with their own ~random gravity.

Try it out: stackblitz.com/edit/n-body-...

#svelte #threlte #threejs #threebodyproblem #stackblitz
September 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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What an awesome site!

This sent me down a rabbit hole to update a threejs project from two years ago. I'm repurposing easing functions to determine gravity strength over distance with some fun results.

Here is @svelte.dev elasticIn example where you can see the elastic wobble in orbit.
Screenshot of a simulated orbital path tracked around a central star where gravity is based on an elastic easing function. Consequently the orbit line wobbles in a strange splat or flower like shape.
September 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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lastly, here is a calculator setup where the product from each clac is linked to the feed in the next. Pretty cool to see how much small tweaks can change the ratios!

#nukesky
Screenshot of three enrichment calculators showing the SWU required to enrich uranium in three steps: first, 1000kg of natural 0.7% feed material used to enrich 120kg up to 5%, linked to the second calculator enriching 26kg up to 20%, linked to the third calculator enriching 5.6kg up to 90% (all with 0.2% tails)
August 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Attached here is the WNA graph that shows "how one tonne of natural uranium feed might end up: as 120-130 kg of uranium for power reactor fuel, as 26 kg of typical research reactor fuel, or conceivably as 5.6 kg of weapon-grade material."

source: world-nuclear.org/information-...

#nukesky
A chart showing the SWU required to enrich one tonne of natural uranium feed up to 120-130 kg of uranium for power reactor fuel, as 26 kg of typical research reactor fuel, or conceivably as 5.6 kg of weapon-grade material.
August 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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making progress, slowly but surely.

#UE5
August 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Wu-Tang cloud spotted at the park today
A cloud that resembles the Wu-Tang logo
August 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Time to learn some Unreal with @gamedevtv.bsky.social!

Navigation is so different from Blender and will take some getting used to, blueprints are exciting, and there's a lot built in that is extremely convenient.

After lesson one I made this awesome and totally safe teeter-totter 😂

#UE5
August 9, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Views from a morning hike up Grassi Lakes trail near Canmore, Alberta (June, 2025)

📷 Lumix S5IIX
🔍 Panasonic S 85mm

#photography #banff #mountains
A waterfall down a rocky mountainside surrounded by green trees. A trail through the woods with rocky outcroppings and pools of light coming through the trees. The beginning of a waterfall flowing between trees with moss around the edges and shadows cast by nearby trees. Rocky steps up a trail with green trees and waterfalls in the out of focus background.
July 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Sunrise at Lake Louise in Banff National Park (June, 2025)

📷 Lumix S5IIX
🔍 Panasonic S 85mm

#photography #banff
Warm sunlight shining onto mountainsides over Lake Louise, with snow capped mountains in the distance. Warm sunlight shining onto snow capped mountainsides. Warm sunlight shining onto snow capped mountainsides.
July 4, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Sunset in Wisconsin (May 2025)
🎞️ Kodak Pro Image 100 35mm film
📷 Minolta XD with Helios 44M

#filmphotography #photography
A red sunset behind silhouetted trees in the foreground. In the corner, a glass bulb refracts a smaller view of the blurry sunset and black horizon.
June 12, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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now onto panels, detailing, and concealing anywhere I couldn't get the normals looking good 😅

#blender #b3d
Blender render of a shallow cylindrical robot with two thrusters and a transparent tank on top. The render shows some paneling around the cylinder.
June 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Olbrich Botanical Gardens (May 2025)
🎞️ Kodak Pro Image 100 35mm film
📷 Minolta XD with Helios 44M

#film #photography
Image of a bridge across a small pond with pink flowers blooming on a distant tree.
June 9, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Olbrich Botanical Gardens (May 2025)
🎞️ Kodak Pro Image 100 35mm film
📷 Minolta XD with Helios 44M

#film #photography
A photo of red flowers in focus with the background trees out of focus.
June 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Plug the given values into a Product Mass and SWU calculator (enrichment-calc.netlify.app)
- Feed: 408.6 at 60%
- Product: unknown. depends on how you define weapon-grade levels. assume 90%
- Waste: unknown. assume 0.3%

Result: 1235 SWU required to produce 272kg U enriched up to 90%

So what?... ⤵️
Screenshot of an enrichment calculator for determining product mass and SWU. It shows that with 409kg of 60% enriched feed material, assuming waste material has 0.3% enrichment, it would require 1235 SWU to produce 272kg of 90% enriched material.
June 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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some claw refinements 🤌

#b3d
Blender render is a close up of an untextured hard surface claw.
June 4, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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I certainly wouldn't want to put a glass tank on my fishbot.

The tank here has a tweakable plastic material made from @raphaelrau.bsky.social very cool sub-surface scattering tutorial: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VYX...
Blender render of a flying robot with a fish tank-like dome made of a slightly foggy plastic material. A human mesh stands in the distance for scale.
May 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Happy Fishbot Friday 🐟🤖

#b3d

Starting chapter 2 of @louisdumont.bsky.social Robotic Planet course from CG Boost. Following along for the first pass, and then trying to recreate the blockout again from memory helps me to remember some of the techniques.
A Blender render of three flying robot blockouts with a water-tank style dome, claw from the bottom, and a set of thrusters on each. Plus a swarm of seven tiny versions of the same kind of bot.
May 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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🧮🧮🧮 Create multiple calculators to see different scenarios side-by-side

🧮➡️🧮 Link values from one calculator to drive values in another (e.g. product from one calc is feed in the next)

📊 Visualize the mass and enrichment for feed, product, and waste material

#nukesky

Code updates: ⤵️
May 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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A few random blender renders from the last week that I took through Resolve to grade and try some F1 LUTs.

#b3d
Blender render of a glowing ring, modeled after a glow globe from Dune, floating through the dark past mossy rocks toward a barely visible archway. Blender render of a flying robot hovering toward a flower growing out of a rock. The flower sits near to a water pump located amidst several large mossy rocks. Blender render of a fluid simulation where a clear fluid flows from a metallic blue ball inside a plastic cube sitting on a wooden table.
April 24, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Getting film scans back is a special kind of feeling. I had this roll in my camera all winter, taking photos here and there, and it was a lot of fun to go back through those memories over the course of 35 shots.

Here are few at sunset from a nearby park.

🎞️ Kodak Pro Image 100
📷 Minolta XD
Sunset over a field with a forest on the horizon and leafless trees dotting the foreground. An orange glow from sunset behind a silhouetted trees on the horizon. A dimly lit sky at sunset with a gradient from orange to dark blue, with silhouetted leafless trees and some tall grass catching some of the setting sunlight. A path cross through a field under a dark blue sky with orange light covering the field and hitting a barn in the distance.
April 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Eid Mubarak! 🌙
Decorative paper lanterns strung across a dimly lit room with string lights in the background. The lantern in front says Eid Mubarak written in Arabic, and the text Eid Mubarak is overlayed on the image.
April 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Some stills from a walk around the Royal Thai Pavilion at Olbrich Botanical Gardens.

📷 Lumix S5IIX
⚪ Minolta Rokkor MC 35mm
⚪ Helios 44M
Gold leaf etchings on columns of a Thai pavilion/sala are lit by the sun with leafless trees in the background. Gold-decorated columns and a red ceiling of a Thai pavilion/sala frame a bench in the distance. The gold rooftops of a Thai pavilion/sala against a bright blue sky. The Royal Thai Pavilion/Sala sits on the bank of a frozen river framed between two tree trunks.
February 25, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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A flying robot joined me on a cold walk through the park.

The robot was modeled in Blender as part of @louisdumont.bsky.social's Robotic Planet course from CG Boost. Composited in Fusion.

#b3d #vfx
January 26, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Some brutalist architecture on @uwmadison.bsky.social campus, taken last summer.

📷 Minolta XD
🎞️ CineStill 400D

#filmphotography #minolta @cinestillfilm.bsky.social
Photo of a pedestrian bridge from under a concrete overpass. Photo of a tree in the courtyard of a concrete building. Photo of a narrow sidewalk between two concrete buildings, with tall columns on the right side of the sidewalk.
January 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM