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aeva

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I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not.

I like to post about my personal research, various side projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, and occasionally also art I made out of math. I like implicit surface modeling the normal amount. Amateur spoonie. ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ

Curses are just blessings with caveats.

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aeva, to random
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I've been experimenting with using a fast approximate voronoi diagram rendering technique as a point cloud renderer. This is a voronoi diagram with a million cells :3

hikari, to random EN
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the french revolutionary calendar had such pretty month names, can we bring them back

aeva,
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@firefly @hikari still beats having multiple "caesar wuz here" months

efi, to random
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when they made the current version of votv, they put the south at zero degrees and that is wild to me

aeva,
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@efi if it's a top down game like the old zeldas where north is at the top of the screen, the 0 degrees is the direction that faces the player

shanecelis, to random
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MICROSOFT: Wait, I can explain!

GOOGLE: You spy through the whole OS?? I only spy on the web.

APPLE: Your users know that you're spying?

LINUX: You guys are spying?

aeva,
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@shanecelis if linux isn't spying on me then who does sudo keep reporting incidents to

aeva,
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@beatricejess @shanecelis to whom???

ramon_wilhelm, to random German
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The day before yesterday I've lost one follower. Yesterday I've lost another follower again. Today it seems like I've lost a mutual, because both of the counters of following and follower decreased one more time.

I don't force my followers to keep following me, but it's annoying to see how the follower counter keeps decreasing in a very short period anyway.

aeva,
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@ramon_wilhelm if it bothers you, I think mastodon has a setting to hide those numbers somewhere (I might be confusing it for tusky though)

efi, to random
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do sex workers call their clients cumstomers?

aeva,
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@efi the one I used to live with just referred to them as visitors or guests

aeva,
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@efi I don't think he saw it as anything more than a temporary way to make ends meet though

YoSoyFreeman, to random
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Hi, i'm totally illiterate here. Explain me why what i say is nonsense:

If we can use the GPU to shoot and obscene amount of rays (Even without an RTX) why it is not used as the "default" way to do ray intersections?

aeva,
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@YoSoyFreeman With GPU ray tracing, perf degrades tremendously as rays diverge, and if you want to hit the fast path at all you need to conform to a strict subset of the functionality available. You end up with a mountain of hacks to make it workable for anything beyond trivial applications.

Using GPU ray tracing to accelerate CPU computation usually means 1-3 frames of latency for readback, so it's an impractical substitute for stuff like physics queries.

aeva,
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@YoSoyFreeman it's also often not the fastest or even the most accurate way depending on what you're doing

aeva, to random
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It would be neat if there was a website dedicated to cataloging and evaluating common rendering techniques, focused on practical use a with straight forward explanations and reasonable examples for each entry and a discussion of tradeoffs.

daridrea, (edited ) to random
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Whenever someone from today's Gen Z generation tells me they're tired, I reply that I understand today's world is crazy (I have a brother who is 10 years younger, so I'm up to date with "we're a tired generation"), but imagine that I, at your age, studied two majors a day, I had three jobs (I worked in an advertising agency, partly in IT and worked casually in a company writing applications for EU funding) and in the meantime I paid off the loan for my first apartment. #easy #fรผntimes

aeva,
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@daridrea i've never not been tired. just insomnia tho

evan, (edited ) to random
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How long have you been on the fediverse?

#EvanPoll #poll #Fediverse16

aeva,
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@evan at least 12 years? I forget when I made my old identica account but I'm pretty sure I had one by the time I was working at Creative Commons which would have been around 2012

aeva, to random
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ah yes, 4 am, the time where all other living things on earth are asleep. well, besides my wife. and the cats. and "europe"

aeva,
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@lritter allegedly,

aeva,
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@lritter the public urination fountains were a bold choice, but it did have kinda a theme park vibe to it overall I guess, so maybe it was one afterall? just like, a really sleazy drunk theme park

aeva,
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@lritter the other europe was nice though, but it's entirely possible that I never left chicago and just ended up in west town. just felt too normal to be europe, you know?

aeva,
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@lritter (guess which two cities I visited!)

aeva,
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@lritter nope and nope

aeva,
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@lritter amsterdam and warsaw

aeva,
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@mrsbeanbag @lritter for some reason I just assumed you were from Iowa

aeva,
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@mrsbeanbag @lritter wow look at the time I gotta go. to sleep.

aeva,
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@Farbs yes

aeva,
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@jkaniarz @lritter seemed kinda tiny tbh

aeva, (edited ) to random
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graphics research lifehack: you can cut out a ton of paywall scams and inscrutable academic wankery by excluding "we present" from your searches

aeva,
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@fl0_id @klara affirmative

BartWronski, to random
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I am excited to finally share our recent paper "Filtering After Shading With Stochastic Texture Filtering" (with Matt Pharr, @marcosalvi, and Marcos Fajardo), published at ACM I3D'24 / PACM CGIT, where we won the best paper award! 1/N

aeva,
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@BartWronski @mattpharr @jesta88 oh yeah I figured the scare quotes were because it referred only to the set of people who knew this particular thing

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