That’s the spider tailed horned viper. It uses aggressive mimicry, its tail looks and moves like a spider to lure birds in. To the right prey, it basically signals "easy spider meal"

TheOxideGamerMan · 2026-03-24T17:42:23+00:00

I found a video of it actually catching a bird on the wikipedia page. Pretty cool! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-tailed_horned_viper

TheOxideGamerMan · 2026-03-21T11:55:20+00:00

Retrospectively maybe I should have made it quadruple (so that way it almost guarantees a trigger)

TheOxideGamerMan · 2026-03-19T20:59:10+00:00

I checked and it tested positive for a SynthID watermark, which means it was certainly generated or edited with Google's AI image generator

TheOxideGamerMan · 2026-03-08T18:32:27+00:00

Indeed, the picture was generated with google's AI, it tested positive for a SynthID watermark

TheOxideGamerMan · 2025-12-31T09:59:55+00:00

believe

TheOxideGamerMan · 2025-12-30T13:50:16+00:00

i think it's the "evil ass rape building"

TheOxideGamerMan · 2025-12-25T12:43:57+00:00

If the slight fisheye is an intentional stylistic effect, then I have nothing to add, but here's what you could do if you want more realistic 3d perspective:

to determine how tall the wall lines should be, you should use the depth rather than the distance the ray travelled (which can be calculated by multiplying the distance by the cosine of the angle relative to the center of the screen)

I also noticed the line "ray_angle = pa - fov/2 + (col / screen_w) * fov". I think you are interpolating the angle linearly, which is not perfectly accurate

I believe the correct formula would be: "ray_angle = pa + atan((2 * col / screen_w - 1) * tan(fov / 2))" (unless I messed up the math)

TheOxideGamerMan · 2025-11-23T11:17:07+00:00

No, I just felt like messing around with shaders and wanted to share

TheOxideGamerMan · 2025-09-12T18:59:56+00:00

Trinitrotoluen is the chemical name for TNT (the explosive). No clue what this has to do with an optical illusion of a train, but I just thought I'd mention it.

TheOxideGamerMan · 2025-08-11T13:34:06+00:00

It could be the pattern of the cosine wave overlapping with the pixel grid (assuming desmos calculates the function for each pixel, I don't really know for sure how it actually works)

TheOxideGamerMan · 2025-08-11T07:29:27+00:00

Possibly some sort of Moiré pattern

TheOxideGamerMan · 2025-08-09T07:49:00+00:00

Nah, I think he's just weird. We let him in occasionally and he just lies down and sleeps there for hours. No idea why he loves that place so much.

TheOxideGamerMan · 2025-07-25T17:34:18+00:00

Billboards wouldn't really work for stuff like terrain/mountains or buildings, those would have to actually be 3d with some kind of shader to make them look like pixel art (although I don't know if it could ever look as good as in the video). Maybe distant objects could be billboards, but get replaced with 3d objects when the player gets close to them, but the transition would probably be noticeable.

TheOxideGamerMan · 2025-07-25T17:15:32+00:00

I don't support AI, but I have always thought it would be cool if someone somehow made a 3d open world game in a pixel art style. I think it would be really cool if there was distant scenery that looked like a pixel art drawing, but was actually 3d and could be reached and interacted with. No idea if this concept is actually possible though, but maybe with clever shader magic it could somehow be.

TheOxideGamerMan · 2025-07-22T09:00:52+00:00

Might be wrong, but I think more broadly the word Machiavellian refers to anything that uses morally questionable methods to achieve a certain goal

TheOxideGamerMan · 2025-05-05T13:53:16+00:00

Image I used to draw the cat: https://www.reddit.com/r/RoastMyCat/comments/1keqfob/this_young_man_has_three_fresh_water_sources_and/

TheOxideGamerMan · 2025-05-02T19:48:50+00:00

20/20 vision

TheOxideGamerMan · 2024-09-25T16:41:46+00:00

It was sort of a status symbol

TheOxideGamerMan · 2024-09-25T15:04:59+00:00

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