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incubator of shapes and noises
trans::she/her; anarcho

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I finished writing the story of going to Revision this year. It ended up some 17,000 words long because I wanted to cover *everything*. And... I did! Eventually!

Retrospective, exposition of the scene, archive... I don't know, but I'd be glad if you read! #demoscene
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An Apple computer displaying a demo. A view of the Revision hall from the Beam Team platform. The front of the E-Werk where the event takes place. Master Boot Record's concert.
November 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Tonight's @field-fx.party shader jam... plus a bit of extra time. I want to play around with divergence-free 3D noise but to begin with I made a 2D effect advecting along a 2D slice! Finally starting to get somewhere resembling fluid sim ^_^

#demoscene #shader

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November 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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divergence-free fields are neat!
#blender #geometrynodes
A Blender render with bokeh of some colourful strands flowing around the camera. A Blender render of a dense spiral of white strands, a la Junji Ito A Blender render of a strange, organic spiralling shape. A screenshot of the Geometry Nodes setup used to integrate the field.
October 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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still a few bugs to iron out, mind you!
#indiegame #gamedev
October 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Swizzle the ferret now runs through through the world you generate in Shaderland. same pixel-precise automaton under the hood, but much cuter.
#gamedev #demoscene #indiegame #proceduralanimation
October 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Tonight's @field-fx.party shader jam, I am casting rays out against an infinite field of the Game of Life.

github.com/canmom/jams/...

Each pixel essentially owns its own game of life cell on a toroidal play area which tiles the plane. A noise texture is added based on the FFT.

#demoscene
October 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Tonight's @field-fx.party shader jam - particle sim in a fragment shader using image atomic operations. (I apologise to any vertex shaders in the audience for my shameful disrespect of the proper render pipeline!!)
#demoscene #livecoding

source: github.com/canmom/jams/...
September 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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can't decide if this article was written by LLM or just full of really corny similes, either way not inspiring a ton of confidence

(& to compare two translations into chinese, surely it should show us the chinese text, not just a 'what it would have sounded like in english' representation?)
Quote: One can imagine the reaction. Players did not feel immersed in Pharloom; they felt trapped in a high-school drama club’s Elizabethan improv night. Instead of fighting for survival, they were decoding riddles with the cadence of a failed King James Bible. It is impossible to perform platforming precision when the screen itself sounds like a plague sermon. Quote: Was it the surgeon, delivering language as clinical as a scalpel cut? Or the scholar, enamored with baroque phrasing, flooding the text with archaic cadences? Or, in a twist worthy of Silksong’s own lore, was it both — a dual identity, two Wus fused together, creating a translation equal parts sterile and flowery, stitched into a monstrous hybrid? Quote: Localization is best when invisible — players notice the world, not the words. Here, the translators demanded the spotlight, breaking confidentiality and smothering Silksong’s brilliance under theatrical ornament. Team Cherry once said Hornet was “too tall” for DLC. In China, the tragedy was that the text itself became too tall to climb — a tower of gilded verbiage that collapsed under its own weight. Silksong promised silk. Instead, players got burlap stitched with expired Shakespeare. Not a design flaw, not a delay — just translators who fancied themselves poets.
September 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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i spent like. an hour or two trying to get the perspective lines to match up so that i could estimate the size of the rectangle and I just can't get the perspective to line up. i can only guess that some kind of shear transformation has been applied to the image or your house is on a slant
the image in the above post with perspective lines drawn over it. some of them are drawn in krita and match features in the image, others are cuboids created in blender. the z-axis doesn't line up
September 5, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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this week's 1h @field-fx.party shader jam. a rotating cube is a very stereotypical demoscene motif, but I need to practice raymarching and I think the chromatic aberration carries it haha. (aberration and rounding are tuned to different FFT bins)

#demoscene #livecoding
September 4, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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fr though: i visited the czechoslovak videogame archive, all sorts of fascinating computers and lore there. it's cool seeing games magazines being preserved as historical materials! i have a couple of photos here, more tomorrow when i get them off the nice camera
A Sharp MZ-800, a Japanese computer which was surprisingly imported into Czechoslovakia. A shelf with a PMD85, a 1985-era computer manufactured in Czechoslovakia. Two cassette tape boxes storing Czech indie games from the old days. They are illustrated with simple photocopied ink drawings. A stack of Czech documents and magazines. The top one says 'Robotizaci' and 'JAK-KDY-KDE-PROČ'.
August 31, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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just found out the crytek sponza scene was based on a real place (and also that it's called the crytek sponza scene). it would be so weird to go there. like you'd stepped through into a global illumination demo. they should hang up coloured flags there year round
a render of the widely-used crytek sponza scene by wikipedia user kickair8p a photo of the real atrium of the Sponza Palace in Dubrovnik by wikipedia user Joanbanjo
August 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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yeesh, that is not how you do a 'HD' remaster...
the histogram of the first image, showing a nice clean spread over colours the histogram of the second image, showing a spiky, more bimodal distribution
August 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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no, apparently! 🙃
itch.io notice saying that I can't view the page due to the UK online safety act
August 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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great article! I especially liked the bit where you talked about how societal transmisogyny and the continual forcible coding of biology through ideology shaped the dithering techniques for Ayaka-san's talksprites, ingenious
A (sfw) screenshot from the visual novel "Sex 2" taken from VNDB, featuring the game's protagonist Ayaka in a flower shop. She is saying 「モモちゃん！？どうしたの、息切らせちゃって。。。。。。」
August 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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photo courtesy of @violet.pm ^^
your author speaking into a microphone while playing Shaderland on the compo machine!
August 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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after some desperate late night partycoding to finish it in time, @evoke.eu had me up to the beam team platform to demo 'Shaderland' ^_^

releasing this prototype on Itch soon as I'm home! lots of ideas how to develop it further for a Steam release later this year...

#demoscene #gamedev
Screenshot of the solution of the first level of 'Shaderland'. A node graph is creating a ramp level and the automaton is sliding down it. Photo from the beam team platform at Evoke, during the Interactive compo. Me smiling on the beam team platform. Some of the compo computers are visible.
August 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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hello from @evoke.eu, doing my best to figure out copper showdown in the next few hours, i have a whole triangle now!
August 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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yeahhhhhh that's the stuff
A screenshot from Freya Holmer's video on the continuity of splines showing how to calculate a cubic Bézier in three different ways.
August 11, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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fwiw you can install ublock origin for mobile firefox, and a lot of other security extensions!
Mobile screenshot showing a number of security extensions running in Firefox, including ClearURLs, Decentraleyes, Ghostery, NoScript, Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin
August 8, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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pretty good post, amused by

> That is what the Transformer is doing: it is **transforming** collections of words into more abstract concepts.

was gonna quibble this nice reasonable etymology since I recalled it was named after the cartoon robots ^^' but seems like I'm overstating 'named after'...
Screenshot of the Wikipedia article for the 'All You Need Is Attention' paper. The quote says 'An early design document was titled "Transformers (...)", and included an illustration of six characters from the Transformers franchise. The team was named Team Transformer.'
August 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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I screened the animatrix at the small trans library in glasgow today. got to go full sakubuta for everyone for a couple of hours, tell everyone who shinya ohira is, share anecdotes from production, it was great
August 5, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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lol. if the payment processor thing wasn't bad enough, looks like Itch is just straight up blocking you from looking at certain users' pages if you're in the UK. like not just the games, the entire user page. no "age verification" either, just hard block

thankfully you can pretty easily VPN past it
screenshot of a 'content unavailable in your region' notification from itch.io
August 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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"pay us to not track you", holy shit
A GDPR notice from the Guardian. Presents the options to accept personalised advertising and all cookies or reject all at the cost of £5 per month, which still shows ads to you.
August 3, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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hell yeah. i'm partial to P. Craig Russell's take
A page from the 'The Dreaming City' comic adaptation from the 80s, illustrated by P Craig Russell with gorgeous wastercolours.
July 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM