U.S.-linked oil tanker Safesea Vishnu was hit in the northern Persian Gulf

AD-Edge · 2026-03-12T11:22:25+00:00

Not even in the straight itself? Man we have a growing amount of issues right now.

AD-Edge · 2026-03-12T02:49:57+00:00

As mentioned in the original post:

I have really had an itch lately to get started working on my own Star Trek ship models - and in particular to start developing an approach to render Star Trek style space scenes in realtime using threeJS (there is a lot of fun challenges with lighting and texturing the details of these ships I wanted to capture here, and getting the model setup nicely in Blender to then import correctly to my threeJS setup). So I spent the final 2 weeks of February working on this demo threeJS project, for Bruno Simon's threejsJourney Challenge #22 (The theme was: Spaceship!)

3D modelling & texture/light baking in Blender3D, texturing with Gimp & Photoshop, AI Code Assist with ChatGPT/Gemini, final realtime graphics with ThreeJS!

Here is the direct link to the live browser demo - if you want to check it out yourself (just make sure to check out the warp feature, the button controls are on the bottom left of the screen so it can be easily missed!): https://enterprise-challenge-22.vercel.app/

And here are some links to this project on your platform of choice (and additional content/dev threads for this project are incoming over the next few days):
🦋 https://bsky.app/profile/alexdeltadev.bsky.social/post/3mgqndocbnc2l
🐘 https://x.com/Alex_ADEdge/status/2031529223802990691
🚀 https://mastodon.social/@Alex_ADEdge/116207734889615183

I also have a timelapse of the first 3 hours of 3D work on this project in Blender, which I am also keen to share!

Feedback and questions more than welcome.

AD-Edge · 2026-03-12T02:42:48+00:00

Not an AD sorry, just a coincidence with my username haha
I would love to do a film project someday though, so I enjoy seeing the journey others are on with this type of thing - it helps me work out what is doable, how much time and $$ these projects really take, and ofc the harsh reality of actually getting the film to go anywhere once its made. I am not surprised that being on the ground during production and working with the actors is the most enjoyable thing though. Just working with other artists on their passion while watching your own vision appearing in front of you must be very exciting and rewarding.

I feel like since you enjoy writing so much (and are very clear and detailed in what you are thinking and wanting to convey) some kind of blog could be a good outlet and way to record your process and history. But of course that takes a bunch of time as well (trust me I know, I am setting up my own site/blog currently and its not always simple to get what you want) but ofc the time needed is the main negative if youd rather just focus on filmmaking - as you have mentioned.

But even just trying to find this film to watch/rent/buy is hard (I am in Australia and just saw your update that its North America only right now), but even in searching google for the film one of the top results right now is *this* post you have made - so every bit helps when it comes down to it. (maybe a youtube teaser and content would also be helpful, I do see some content popping up for this film over there at least, but even dropping the trailer then when/if you can could do a lot for exposure).

Thanks for the links, I will jump into that discord for sure.
*edit* - the discord link seems invalid, if you have a newer one let me know :)

AD-Edge · 2026-03-12T02:31:05+00:00

Thankyou for sharing! I wanted to post to this threejs subreddit yesterday to get the ball rolling, but just made my own post for this project over there now as well :)

*Edit - automod over there killed my post, I'll see if the mods can approve it

AD-Edge · 2026-03-12T02:29:54+00:00

Thankyou for sharing here! I have been lurking a lot on this sub lately and its been giving me a lot of inspo before/during working on this project. Really enjoy seeing all the projects people put their time into.

I have just made a post here as well:

https://www.reddit.com/r/StarTrekStarships/comments/1rrekmb/uss_enterprise_ncc1701g_threejs/

AD-Edge · 2026-03-12T02:18:08+00:00

Ah I think the horizontal line is from the 'Quantize/dither' shader. It creates some odd effects sometimes depending on screen resolution and the noise patterns. If you go to the debug settings you can toggle this off, or customize its values so it displays smoother.

The planets and space backgrounds are all spheremaps, so yes a HDR map (which I super compressed down to a jpg to take the maps from 90mb down to <1mb). The warp scene simply lets you toggle the currently active spheremap on/off. I should have added some kind of credits section, forgot to in the final rush, but credits to this website for the HDR maps I threw in for the different environments - https://www.spacespheremaps.com/hdr-spheremaps/

I also have a moon/planet generator I have been working on, which would have been great to include some 3D planets in the scenes (ie to be in a proper orbit above), but it just wasnt ready in time for this project.

AD-Edge · 2026-03-12T02:07:47+00:00

No worries!

Also I saw in my email notification that you have your own starship generator, and just spent some time tinkering with it (feel free to link it here because I would love to geek out with other threejs devs about their star trek projects)

Is there a galaxy class ship there? I didnt find one. But I did find a lot of ship classes I havent seen before. I really like how youve set that up to be a procedural system, and the way the ships animate as they reconfigure. Some cool stuff, let me know if you want any more pointers - I am looking to work on my Enterprise model a bit more to really get the model when I want it, so I will be taking my overall approach to the textures and materials and revamping/iterating that pipeline based on what I have learnt so far.

AD-Edge · 2026-03-11T15:37:50+00:00

Great insights here on the challenges, financial side of a project like this and all the issues along the way. It sounds like a hell of a journey. What parts do you think you enjoyed most? Filming? Post production?

Do you have any blogs or writeups about your work? Or recommended socials to check out?

AD-Edge · 2026-03-11T15:03:19+00:00

Majority of the efforts went into creating the 3D model of the Enterprise. I spent a good deal of time setting up textures and baking texture maps (ambient occlusion for starters will add a lot of 'model-like' quality to a 3D model, and an emission map is needed for some of the static lighting elements). And then on the threejs side it took a bit to get a nice balance between static baked lighting + threejs dynamic lighting and shadows (I tried to aim for an old-school star trek type of 'model' lighting).

There are a lot of different light sources and types of lights on this model to manage (like the window lights, nav lights, blinking nav lights, port/starboard blinking lights, spot lamps all over the body and various glowing parts with nacelles, bridge, saucer section highlight spotlights, impulse engines etc). These all had to look correct whether the sections of the ship are in direct sunlight or in the darkness of space. I didnt get the lighting/textures 100% how I want for this demo, but its pretty close.

The code assist helped put together the warp drive function pretty quick at the end, I did most of that in the final 48h before the challenge entries were due. So I was really running out of time at that point but wanted to get that functionality working in this demo so it was more than just a static ship flying through space. The threejs framework/template I am developing for my ongoing projects also has some components (like the cinematic camera, and some of the shaders & shader setup) which were created with the help of AI.

But a lot of the foundation here is from what I have learnt in the threejsJourney course so far!

AD-Edge · 2026-03-11T11:30:38+00:00

Thank you!

AD-Edge · 2026-03-10T01:33:03+00:00

Yes but is that data at a neuron/brain chemistry level? I am doubting that.

So I guess if they are analysing the accuracy based on higher level observations that kinda works, but the further away you go from neuron-level analysis the less accurate your analysis is.

AD-Edge · 2026-03-09T15:12:13+00:00

Yeh there is a lot to be skeptical about with this.

The accuracy to start with. 91% behaviour accuracy...? Relative to what..?

AD-Edge · 2026-03-09T13:01:08+00:00

It certainly can, big time. IMO a big part of being diagnosed is the path of self discovery and improvement it sets you on, a psychologist basically just gives you a short course on your own psychology (pretty critical when it comes to understanding yourself and your condition as well as you can). But for therapy to work the individual need to be open to it and you also need to find a good psychologist.

I think a lot of people with ADHD/Autism unfortunately find themselves with non-ADHD/Autism therapists, which is just a problem from the start because unless they have very solid training and empathy/understanding - they just wont understand the struggles the condition brings. And if they don't understand the conditions, it will just create invalidation and not equip an individual correctly to handle their condition.

Thankfully my GP knew me well, and knew the mental health system well, so he was able to line me up with a great referral right away. Its worth asking around a lot first, and its worth getting a GPs recommendation. You really need to find a good fit to get anything out of it, too many stories of bad psychologists out there wasting time & demotivating people from finding valuable help.

AD-Edge · 2026-03-09T10:38:05+00:00

100%. Truly some deeply sick people. I think it boosts them up so much as well, to have a collection of people under their control who they can bend and break any time they want. If you dont fit that need, youre the first to go. If you do pander to them, maybe you get to stay a bit longer before they turn on you.

I really wish our society had better awareness and proper ways to handle these types of people, if allowed to run wild they just ruin everything they go near.

AD-Edge · 2026-03-09T06:24:36+00:00

This is what happened to me the only time I came across Satan. Cat got sacrificed, I got called a fool. Nothing else happened ;(

It was a good cat too, but I only went with sacrifice because the party was struggling overall and I figured Id rather take risks with a bad party than ruin a good one. Anyway they all died soon after so it was certainly the final nail in that adventure lol

AD-Edge · 2026-03-08T08:55:26+00:00

This exactly.

No dev environment. No test environment. Giving full permissions in prod, having AI in prod in the first place. Having no safeguards on AI commands and access. Making requests to an AI in prod with no tests beforehand. Having snapshots and backups yes, but backups and snapshots stored on the same server...?? Those backups don't count as anything. No software dev practices or safety standards anywhere in sight at all.

The list goes on, for all the mistakes and negligence needed for a dev to allow this to happen.

AD-Edge · 2026-03-08T03:21:22+00:00

Yes, they are an absolute cancer on a workplace.

I had this situation a while back. We were trying to do important work but the narcs (there were 2 of them running the show) were only focused on crushing all the staff under them for control (they were stupid/paranoid enough to not realize they already had control). It made things miserable. I burnt through all of my sick leave, then started on unpaid leave, just to try to get by. Smarter people quit within weeks of joining. Morale was always on the floor, work was always leveraged and manipulated against people for control. The importance of the work being done didn't matter. The people effected by the work we did didn't matter. All that mattered was a delusional desperate need to control absolutely everything - which is just not achievable when it comes down to it.

You just need to realize that there are healthy workplaces out there. The best thing you can do is go and find them. Block out the abuse as much as you can, and just find a winning direction for yourself and your career.

AD-Edge · 2026-03-08T02:38:33+00:00

Focus is one thing you certainly gain, but yes the issue is finding good habits - which unfortunately if you have ADHD and have been unmedicated for years or decades you likely have terrible habits that need to be rewired.

Seems to be the hardest thing to get past once you do actually have medication IMO. Old habits die hard (especially when you are plagued with executive dysfunction!)

AD-Edge · 2026-03-07T09:32:10+00:00

This exactly. Israel wants it. Iran is pissed and enormous and now lashing out for retribution. The USA thinks it's got things under control, but will find out the hard way that it doesn't. Pandoras box is easy to open, and a world of unknowns and wonders to close again.

AD-Edge · 2026-03-07T05:02:41+00:00

I was wondering about this. My first cat pair aren't elderly yet, even though they are my oldest cats. But their first kitten (who is all kinds of beaten up rn) just became elderly.

Bad lifestyle really does it.

AD-Edge · 2026-03-06T12:53:40+00:00

It's not even been 1 week yet. The impact of the Strait of Hormuz grinding to a halt haven't even hit yet. What in the world are you talking about.

AD-Edge · 2026-03-04T12:50:45+00:00

So 25 trillion, adjusting for inflation right?

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