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Formation went live today on the App Store. It’s the first step into the full blown DCC for iOS. Lots of updates coming to it soon apps.apple.com/nz/app/formati…

Fed up with the appalling swimwell website and trying to find an opening in the next session for my kid. So I wrote an app auto check the website every hour and alert me when a space opens up. #techdad #swimlessons #rust

@maxliani Going well?

Oh boy, I am letting Cursor run automated mutation testing in Workbench... 🍿

@maxliani Tha is looking great! Love the interactivity

Finally, I came around at implementing DOF and wiring it to the camera manipulator system. Click and drag to samples the scene to estimate the focus distance, while scroll to modulate the aperture.

@christophercrzt 😂

@SimonBAnderson I wish... alas, I'm using a custom memory allocator that's not only all over the place, but also riddled with leaks, and nearly impossible to debug. Talk about technical debt... 😁

Day 1 of my 40s and the hardware is already unstable: sore throat and a sprained neck... from *sleeping*. Looks like a fun debugging cycle for the decade ahead 😅

@timd_ca @AppStore Congratulations!! That is huge news

@CelWalkApp is a finalist in this year's Apple Design Awards. Ahhh!! I'm beyond excited. Woww! What an incredible honor. Thank you Apple. @AppStore #WWDC25

@phyronnaz Any chance the talk will be made available online?

Doing a talk about ISPC in Linköping :)

@pikuma Ooo the pain!

@SimonBAnderson Remember when the disk 19 out of 24 failed?

Look at all those different shades of beige. I love it! 😅

When you havent checked your commuities in a while and it says 30+ people waiting... more like 1000+ 😱 Graphics Programminy Community I am coming! we need more admins

@idobbins @TheAnimator Thanks for the @ Isaac, I will add you. I didn't realise how many people are waiting to be added... 😱

@SimonBAnderson or @TheAnimator any chance I can get approved for the Graphics Programming community?

@AtTooMuchNoise Are you making the image on the left? Looks great? Is that generated using a program?

Still working on a simple explanation of Pointers / Stack and Heap memory… #progeamming #stack #pluspluspixel #ccp #computergrahics

@EricLengyel I want them all 🥹😅😁

In the GDC bookstore.

@maxliani Yes!!

Who would be interested in reading a post about edges? I am not sure how often devs have to deal with mesh edges as an enumerable quantity. You may have topology, half edges, but if you need to select or operate on edge 27 in a mesh, which one is it? How do you efficiently build a table of edges?

@yiningkarlli Reboot got me into 3D

No joke Bionicle 3D renders is one of the things that got me into computer graphics. To this day my personal hobby renderer project is named after a Bionicle character.

@AtTooMuchNoise @maxliani Awesome! I look forward to following your progress! Can’t wait to see what you make

@SimonBAnderson @maxliani Super cool 👌 good luck with your project in a new year! I am planning to finally start building metal app as well, spend this year learning basics of computer graphics and swift… So fingers crossed 🤞

Workbench lacks the concept of interactive geometry editing. I have only a couple of commands (delete component, extract/extrude face...) which execute on the click without a manipulator. Today I started toying to define that missing infrastructure. This is a "bridge" tool to connect edges: select two edges to bridge with a new polygon, it opens a tool that identifies the edge loops (continuation) and previews the strip of adjacent polygons it could create. Hover the pointer to the desired end of the strip and click to complete, or click-drag, which behaves like a slider. The look and affordances are still very rough around the edges (pun not intended), and the implementation is bit of a mess... but it's a start.

@AtTooMuchNoise @maxliani Hey @AtTooMuchNoise , it’s been a busy year and sadly not much progress was made on it since March. I am getting back into it lately so hopefully updates to come in the new year. Yip everything was done using bare metal. No SceneKit, I wanted to integrate USD, maybe this year

@SimonBAnderson @maxliani Hi 👋 @SimonBAnderson while you’re here;) how is your app getting on ? Have you done everything in metal including camera controls? Or you had to use SceneKit in a few places?

@SebAaltonen @acohade1 Do it! 😁

@acohade1 I am considering joining. Is the party any good?

Is this where the party’s at ?

@christophercrzt 😂

@SimonBAnderson Thanks! Yeah, we were joking she'll go back to her waitress job from 10+ years ago, but this time around with a second degree, what an achievement! 😁

My wife is about to graduate with a Computer Science major in Machine Learning & AI, so she started to look for a job except that... we're living in #NewZealand, which isn't typically known for its tech industry 😅