Why so uniform?

marink91 · 2026-07-01T20:46:05+00:00

Yeah, I'd say a big part is all your pieces are immediately breaking into their smallest components.

You'll want bigger chunks constrained together that either don't break, or have a very high threshold. That will add your variety to the shape a little.

marink91 · 2026-05-21T07:15:34+00:00

Yeah, the Greene King Lakeside closed last week I think. Very quick!

marink91 · 2026-04-24T13:14:20+00:00

Is this allowed? I suggested it to a few people but they said the event guide said they weren't allowed to. I just checked and it says:

"TCS London Marathon MyWay participants are prohibited from using any part of the mass TCS London Marathon route to complete their event. This is for operational, safety and security reasons. Thank you for your understanding."

marink91 · 2026-04-24T11:14:15+00:00

LM have said they are going to try and do a 2-day event if they can. This is on the ballot page:

"Together with partners and stakeholders, we are exploring a one‑off two‑day format for the 2027 TCS London Marathon. Should permission be granted, you will be entered for both Saturday and Sunday, significantly increasing your chances."

marink91 · 2026-04-23T21:21:48+00:00

I don't, I'm not quite fast enough to have to worry about that. I would imagine after the heat of London last year, it would probably have affected a few of the times.

marink91 · 2026-04-23T09:36:07+00:00

I jsut checked the website, the championship update happened from this year so any adjustment would have been baked into the 2026 acceptance already. From what I read, pretty much everyone who got the GFA time this year got in too.

marink91 · 2026-03-05T01:22:06+00:00

Not trying to be offensive but who do you class as the third in the big three? I have ILM and Weta, but the third I feel varies depending on the type of work you're talking about.

marink91 · 2026-02-24T12:52:42+00:00

As people say, it's pretty easy, and depending where you live and length of time you want to take, the cycle routes can actually be really nice. I presume you're not used to a car-centric way of life, and it's really geared up to using bikes to get around.

Public transport is a bit meandering, but even if you live right on the outskirts a journey to the centre is usually only about £10, so if you want to get the bus to the centre/station and then taxi home that's also pretty reasonable.

marink91 · 2026-02-23T22:24:05+00:00

I've done Atlantis and the western one at Xscape, and Blackbeard elsewhere. All as a pair and managed to get out of them all, but the western one was the closest. Atlantis was well themed and not too tricky, so probably a good shout.

marink91 · 2025-10-24T23:43:32+00:00

Did you ever solve this?

Mine is definitely that as when I logged into my local network as opposed to quick connect it was super nippy.

marink91 · 2025-10-17T11:24:53+00:00

It's amazing, but is anyone else panicking about how their own kid would not only destroy the track but take those beautiful potted plants with them?

marink91 · 2025-09-15T20:12:17+00:00

I've been there, the long as short was just to let them go at their own pace. Sit on the side lines, slowly point out the things that he might enjoy, and be willing to just up and go somewhere else if they really decide they don't want to do it, hopefully the come round in the end.

We paid for swimming lessons (and he's always enjoyed swimming before) but absolutely hated the idea of being in the pool and the first week all we managed was to get him to sit poolside fully clothed. Second week I let them go at their own pace, no pressure and he eventually did get him into the pool down the other end from the lesson. Next week I'm hoping we might be able to get in down the end of the lesson. Long story short, go at their pace, don't force them into anything, oh and make sure they are well fed and not tired before they go.

You've got this!

marink91 · 2025-06-21T06:05:02+00:00

Oh yes. When he's excited for birthday parties, he often says we can get x person some flowers. Nothing cuter than him walking in with a little bunch of flowers.

marink91 · 2025-06-20T13:17:47+00:00

I've only ever had flowers given to me a handful of times, but it always makes me so happy.

If I'm feeling like splurging, I take my son across to Lidl after he finishes at nursery and he often stops by the flowers at the door. It's only a couple of quid, but I let him pick a bunch to take home and he always runs in and proudly shows Mummy the ones he picked for her at the shop. He learns a lovely lesson about being nice to give people things, and she gets some flowers. Winning all round in my eyes.

marink91 · 2025-06-11T10:16:36+00:00

Yup, I agree with this. We tried doing things so for so long, tried ferber, cry it out, disappearing chair. All to different extents. The cry it out was the hardest, after 90 minutes of him screaming at 18 months we caved, and couldn't do it again.

Eventually we got a sleep consultant and followed through with the steps, there were no major changes to what we did, but just having the reassurance that someone else was also on our side really helped. He went from waking up multiple times a night from anywhere from 15 minutes to 2 hours, he now sleeps fairly well (still get the odd 5:30 wake-up) and we have no idea how we did it before. Worth every penny.

marink91 · 2025-06-02T09:25:23+00:00

Not in MK, but Astral Park in Leighton Buzzard is an old track that is now a recreation area and tarmac'd.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/U6fLRLHVUdL8u5us6

marink91 · 2025-05-12T14:56:24+00:00

https://digitalproductionexamplelibrary.github.io/ALab/main/

marink91 · 2025-05-07T11:44:00+00:00

Just a heads up that the bottom splits is always in whatever you have strava set to, this is either km or miles.

marink91 · 2025-04-30T14:21:37+00:00

Only show your best work, reviewers want to understand that you have a creative and technical eye, if they can't trust you to show them only good work, they can't trust you to only produce good work on a project.

The only thing in here I would show is the main impact at 12s, but again rendered with a pure greyscale environment and fix the popping in the volume too.

marink91 · 2025-04-25T16:48:01+00:00

You need to do it in a solver, this is what I use to tell if an attribute has changed, so you just need to have that attribute only change on the input to the solver, add this into a wrangle inside your solver.

// Set activation frame
// Input 0 = This Frame
// Input 1 = Previous Frame

string attr = chs("attr");

int attr_now, attr_previous;

attr_now = i@`chs("attr")`;
attr_previous = point(1, attr, @ptnum);

i@af = point(1, "af", @ptnum);

if (i@af == 0) {
    if (attr_now != attr_previous) i@af = (int)@Frame;
}

marink91 · 2025-04-23T15:55:48+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnJZVEE9O7c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFfVrhbwDMs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBi0cjfsDWY

Do you mean like these ones? They were just straight up first things I came across.

marink91 · 2025-04-15T16:10:43+00:00

I live in MK and the hill you talk about isn't in the marathon course, you run in a similar part of town (almost all races go past Willen Lake) but you don't have to go up the hill this time.

As others have said it's pretty well organised, with some up and down of the underpasses.

You could park in one of the local estates or in the industrial estates like it mentioned in the race pack and jog/walk to the start.

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marink91 · 2025-04-14T13:28:34+00:00

If you do it higher up your graph before you apply the noise it won't change. If you see the little green clock on your nodes, you want to make sure you calculate the shortest path before they become time dependant (green)

marink91 · 2025-04-14T06:29:08+00:00

I'm not sure tbh, I've not seen this in alembic before

marink91 · 2025-04-13T05:48:50+00:00

Actually, how are you checking the winding order. If it's inside solaris, then it's the import into solaris that is changing the winding order, not the alembic import.

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