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lardratboy.bsky.social
Brad P. Taylor
@lardratboy.bsky.social
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Past lives include, LucasArts, Humongous Entertainment, SillyBytes, Beep Industries, iWin. I like tinkering and playing games. Husband, Father, Nerd and Game Programmer
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some fun colors for your feed
9 spheres, clipped to -1,-1,-1 to +1,+1,+1 with gradients
October 27, 2025 at 6:36 AM
lardratboy.bsky.social
lovely gradients for your timeline.
nine spheres clipped to volume -1,-1,-1 to +1,+1,+1 - shader https://www.shadertoy.com/view/W3lyzB
October 7, 2025 at 1:32 AM
lardratboy.bsky.social
Lovely gradients for the day :-)
data extracted from .sog file upper bits of the position means, tool used https://codepen.io/lardratboy/full/NPGQPJq
September 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
lardratboy.bsky.social
some color for your timeline
asymmetrical patterns with lovely colors
August 30, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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toying with dataprism and projections, choose the data type, endianness and projection mode and discover something about your data :-)
experimental projection mode for dataprism point cloud data as (col, row) = z % sqrt(2^q), floor( z / sqrt(2^q) ) - normalized color at col * 2^q + x, row * 2^q + y. q is quantization bits
August 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Just what you've always wanted - a tool to 8 fold mirror point clouds, best used with smaller data files (small is defined by your GPU) codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
colorful point cloud from image -> B2PLY https://codepen.io/lardratboy/full/GggvVjz -> int8 -> quantized mirror https://codepen.io/lardratboy/full/OPyPReb -> ply
August 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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3D or 2d projections of a flat data file - if that is your type of #nerdything go try out my latest tool update. It now supports even more data types, more projections, more fun. Use fractional chunks sizes (0.0625) on old game data/ROM files it is a hoot. codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
Image of colorful points from stereographic projection of data. tool used https://codepen.io/lardratboy/full/QwwrXKb
July 5, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Updated my chunked bytes to points tool - added tanh normalized float 16/32 support, updated ply exporter, added quantization. Give it a shot if you like looking at reasonably big data files and exporting them as point clouds.

codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
June 7, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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curious shapes in motion (controls: mouse movement, left click pan, right click zoom)

glslsandbox.com/e#75464.130
interesting shapes with colorful gradients - https://www.glslsandbox.com/e#75464.130
May 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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#Claude + #methehuman produced something fun to play with, try it out on numpy files, uncompressed data, #gamedev assets/rom files etc - if you try it out let me know if you find have any #feedback

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May 23, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Fresh from #Claude4 here is an updated UI and improved ply exporter. #threejs continues to surprise, my m2 mac 32GB can stay interactive up until about 90M points; if you have a beast of a rig I'd be curious what is the upper range of points this thing can handle. codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
bunch of colorful points from an uncompressed spz file
May 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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I love looking at encoded data as points, wish I had the ram and compute power needed to do this 20+ years ago. (try your own data codepen.io/lardratboy/f...)
colorful display of ~98MB of data from moondemo.(a) viewed by https://codepen.io/lardratboy/full/QwwrXKb
May 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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#colorful gradients for your feed
colorful gradients with interesting shapes forked from https://www.glslsandbox.com/e#77292.1111
February 18, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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fun shape and colors
https://www.glslsandbox.com/e#75464.99
January 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
lardratboy.bsky.social
Here's an mockup of a slide puzzle game, still thinking it might be too complicated for us mere mortals with wetware brains.
game mockup screenshot. Shows a grid of slidable grids, with too many controls
December 2, 2024 at 5:35 PM
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I should make a version of TurnOns that looks like this :)
screen grab of a J2ME game image projected to 3d in a naive way
December 2, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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#bugsftw what started as a software defect is the whole app now.
Image shows a projection using x,y,rgb/3 as the coordinates, sort of looks neato
December 1, 2024 at 6:24 AM
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let's try again, this hopefully animates
November 30, 2024 at 6:48 PM
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that preview image... here is a screen grab
Image of a gameboy advance game rom as rgb data
November 30, 2024 at 3:48 AM
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messing around with #anthropic #claudeai, it really does feel like the future to me.
point cloud of a data file, unexpected obvious pattern
November 18, 2024 at 3:30 AM
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Colorful gradients, 9 spheres, clipped to -1,-1,-1 to +1,+1,+1
Colorful gradients, 9 spheres, clipped to -1,-1,-1 to +1,+1,+1
November 12, 2024 at 9:25 PM
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20+ years ago I was doing games for the J2ME/Brew mobile market, here is a cut-scene from TurnONs a maze/puzzle game. I put a few .jar/win32 files up on github a while back, still looking for a J2ME emulator that runs in the browser. github.com/lardratboy/S...
TurnONs circa 2003/4 game circa 2003, scene shows introduction of grouped tile turning and the hazards of of not planning ahead.
November 1, 2024 at 8:09 PM
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From three or four simple prompts in a chat window I got more or less what I described working and live on the internet, amazing times we live in. #anthropic #claude #artifact
A of limited use but visually interesting projection of raw mixed endian byte order interleaved modulo 3
October 27, 2024 at 5:44 AM