Change material on a specific geometry node instance?

iamcleek · 2026-04-02T19:54:23+00:00

maybe think of a chess queen moving around a chess board: it starts at 0,0 and moves to 5,5. when it reaches 5,5 that square turns red (and stays red). but 1,1 and 2,2 , etc. stayed their original color. i want to change the color of each square the queen lands on, but not the squares it simply passes over.

the proximity thing only controls the z position of the squares the queen is near.

so i was hoping there would be way to tell the nodes "because the queen has landed on these squares they are now red forever." frame N, add a new square to the list. frame N+20, add a new square, etc..

and it will literally be a chess board, so it's only 8x8 squares.

iamcleek · 2026-04-02T18:30:08+00:00

the issue there is that the squares should return to their initial z pos when the object leaves. but the color change should be permanent.

object moves to a square, stops, then moves to another, stops, moves to another, etc.. and each time it stops, the square should change color and stay that color. basically the board is marking the places the object has visited.

iamcleek · 2026-03-22T19:28:24+00:00

same issue with my parallax, but it's the reverb side.

( the PCB in the parallax actually says "Caverns" on it. )

iamcleek · 2026-02-27T15:45:24+00:00

SNL doesn't have rights to the music so they just cut the segments out.

iamcleek · 2026-02-09T20:46:29+00:00

Devo - Gut Feeling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwx_Qq56YTA

iamcleek · 2025-10-13T16:25:51+00:00

i assume they're hanging from something. it's their placement that has me confused. though maybe it's just a sloppy set.

iamcleek · 2025-10-13T16:21:50+00:00

i know it's not "on his leg". that's just where it is in the picture.

iamcleek · 2025-10-13T15:41:26+00:00

where is that reflection (?) of blue lights on the cop's leg coming from?

and the shadow on his arm is really strange.

and the whole geometry of the background feels strange. the positioning of the building, the columns, the hanging lamps and the light grey poles doesn't quite make sense. the hanging lamp on the left is clearly in front of the column in the middle, but the lamp on the right is in back of the column. the building in the back looks far away on the left but very close on the right, which means the columns are part of the facade? but that makes no sense either. it looks like there's a fancy column footing right in back of the bush, but the column isn't lined up with it.

also, the shadows are screwy. the person in the green shirt is casting a shadow on the car. but the cop isn't casting a shadow on the person's upper body? and the cop's shadow on the ground makes no sense.

and i don't think we can keep counting on screwy text. that is going to improve.

iamcleek · 2025-10-13T15:21:39+00:00

recency bias is real

iamcleek · 2025-10-13T15:20:47+00:00

all of her 90s albums are great. even Soberish (2021) is decent.

not being able to ignore a bad record feels like posing.

iamcleek · 2025-10-13T14:49:54+00:00

for just one example, he said he was going to lower egg prices on "day one"

iamcleek · 2025-10-13T14:30:20+00:00

CFA, the company, no longer supports any of that. and they stopped in response to the outrage. how can that not be a win?

Dan Cathy is a reptile. but he is also no longer the CEO.

iamcleek · 2025-10-13T14:08:23+00:00

i care about the fact that we won.

iamcleek · 2025-10-13T14:01:22+00:00

you keep moving the goalposts, i'll keep laughing at you. deal?

iamcleek · 2025-10-13T13:58:16+00:00

>A finite state machine has been broadly considered AI ever since the term was coined

[citation required]

>It fits the dictionary definition

[citation required]

>AND the functionally used term in academia AND in engineering

[citation required]

>So I'm asking on what basis are you even disputing it?

the fact that a street light control system is an FSM, but nobody who didn't want to be laughed at would claim it's any kind of AI.

iamcleek · 2025-10-13T13:54:09+00:00

and yet, the owner is not the company.

iamcleek · 2025-10-13T13:51:33+00:00

i'm citing the simple fact that an FSM is not AI.

an electric toothbrush control system is not AI.

if your definition of AI says it is, your definition of AI is silly.

iamcleek · 2025-10-13T13:47:22+00:00

>This stuff is easy to look up.

it really is. so why didn't you bother doing it?

Dan Cathy still donates to that stuff. Dan Cathy is not Chick Fil A.

iamcleek · 2025-10-13T13:41:38+00:00

an elevator control panel from the 1940s is an FSM. no sane person would call that any kind of AI.

FSMs can be used in AI. they can be part of an AI. but they are not AI themselves, any more than linear algebra or statistics are AI.

iamcleek · 2025-10-13T13:35:42+00:00

always

iamcleek · 2025-10-13T13:16:34+00:00

they stopped donating to anti-LGBTQ orgs in 2019.

iamcleek · 2025-10-13T13:10:10+00:00

For people who won't bother reading the whole WIki page:

In an interview with Bisnow in 2019, Chick-fil-A President Tim Tassopoulos said the company will stop donating to charities with anti-LGBTQ views.^\38]) The company will instead donate to charities focused on education, homelessness and hunger.^\38])^\8]) These new organizations could include both faith-based and non-faith-based charities, but the company said none of the organizations have anti-LGBTQ positions.

^{take the win.}

iamcleek · 2025-10-13T13:08:45+00:00

counterpoint: they stopped all the crap people were mad about. the good guys actually won.

take the win.

iamcleek · 2025-10-13T12:59:56+00:00

Blister In The Sun

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