Peter Falkingham
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Peter Falkingham
@peterfalkingham.com
Professor of Palaeobiology, specialising in locomotion in the fossil record, #dinosaur footprints, #photogrammetry and #simulation. Liverpool/Wales UK

https://peterfalkingham.com
I don't know exactly what it is, but this email we just got makes me cringe:
November 3, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Congrats to @rebeccalowes.bsky.social on deservedly winning best talk at morphupnorth and a new office mug!
October 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
You mean you want more than this?
October 10, 2025 at 8:24 AM
There's been voice activation for a while in Copilot
September 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The new focus stack + pixel shift on the new Nikon Z8 firmware is awesome! Those numbers are mm. 25 focus positions, with 32 pixel shift images at each position, totaling 64GB of RAW images before merge and stack. Nikkor MC 105mm.
July 24, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Probably gonna need to downsample that 1.5 /billion/ triangle mesh.
July 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
This person is on fire and about to get strangled. Still better than sitting through a 3 minute non-skippable video about not clicking dodgy links.
July 2, 2025 at 8:22 AM
I hate everything about this.
July 2, 2025 at 8:20 AM
How do they come up with such cringey titles for mandatory online training...
July 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
And a buzzy little bee (youtube: youtu.be/T3rqVRVTu_o)
June 19, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Sparrows feeding in slow motion (available in 4k on my youtubes: youtu.be/YTVgpIOIxrE)
June 19, 2025 at 9:50 AM
June 5, 2025 at 11:46 AM
*SERIOUSLY PYTHON???*
June 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Crows!
May 9, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Did some bird photos at the park, here you go:

Ducks!
May 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The Peppa pig "guinea pig"...
May 3, 2025 at 9:22 AM
In case anyone finds this useful, I've now added a 'shape fitter' to the #blender extensions library, allowing you to fit spheres, planes, and cylinders to vertex selections:

extensions.blender.org/add-ons/shap...
May 1, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I really like @zen-browser.app but any site that requires username password like this just always fails, and I have to return to a chromium browser. I think this is a firefox issue, but does anyone know a solution?
April 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This would be the same expensive "custom" grants portal that includes the classic toggle:

"Click "no" to add staff"

When I asked years ago if our "custom" portal could have the wording changed: "no, that's beyond the scope of what we can do"
April 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Yesterday my lab and @arielcamp.bsky.social 's lab met up at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social for an #XROMM workshop. A fun time was had by all.
April 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
My Blue Oysters just today!
April 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Ultimately, this frivolity was so I now have a complete workflow in one software, so can combine #xromm data with simulation data all in the same world space and time in Blender.

Data here from 2014: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Never before viewed in this integrated, complete, way
March 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
In a fit of coding insanity, I decided to port my Maya tools for generating LIGGGHTS input files to @blender.org as an addon (github.com/pfalkingham/...) AND I made a LIGGGHTS/LAMMPS importer for Blender to visualize outputs (github.com/pfalkingham/...)

Very janky and buggy, but working:
March 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Genuinely one of my driving factors for moving as much research t @blender.org as I could was the amount of crap Autodesk installs:
March 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Same trackway, but 5 days later after baking in the sun, then getting rained on and being underwater for a day, then partially drying out again:

This'll get uploaded to the same figshare link shortly
March 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM