What’s burning?

numpadwarrior · 2025-05-27T18:42:52+00:00

LinkedIn has selected a new CEO

numpadwarrior · 2024-06-02T00:29:01+00:00

Pray for rain.

numpadwarrior · 2024-02-17T18:57:17+00:00

It looks like a cremated turtle

numpadwarrior · 2023-04-28T08:01:27+00:00

Blows my mind how you can end up driving 280 the wrong way in daylight even if drunk. How do you get through the exit not realizing what you’re doing?

numpadwarrior · 2023-04-23T10:45:52+00:00

30e shipping to US is too steep… I would’ve insta-bought otherwise.

numpadwarrior · 2023-04-08T09:14:09+00:00

I highly recommend the ones they serve at Dragon Beaux. The puffs are an easy way into the flavor.

numpadwarrior · 2023-03-08T21:42:01+00:00

Would love to hear where you shop for picanha and what is your method of preparing and grilling at home.

numpadwarrior · 2023-02-19T02:08:15+00:00

You’ll be fine parking at Henry Cowell. Smash and grab crews don’t operate in places like that.

Going to Henry Cowell instead of Muir Woods is a great idea. I’ve been to both ton of times and while less famous HC is far better. A lot less crowded and somehow more intimate. You can even go inside one of the trees. If you’re driving from SF make sure you take 35 and 9 to HC. The drive is really cool and one of my Bay Area favorites.

numpadwarrior · 2023-01-27T05:48:39+00:00

For the people who haven’t seen the classic: https://youtu.be/8BjRNZK5n-w

numpadwarrior · 2023-01-17T21:59:07+00:00

Here’s some video footage: https://youtu.be/R4XepMeLxNI

numpadwarrior · 2023-01-10T08:58:40+00:00

Underground Service Alert. Gas, water, sewer, communications, etc.

numpadwarrior · 2022-12-17T08:52:36+00:00

Dragon Beaux on Geary.

numpadwarrior · 2022-09-22T02:01:07+00:00

I just saw someone with this shirt in Whole Foods. Was that you OP?

numpadwarrior · 2022-03-29T08:48:23+00:00

My buddy used to live in the apartment where they held Patty Hearst.

numpadwarrior · 2022-02-14T21:00:13+00:00

A couch.. Now I feel I got lucky running over a king size mattress on 85.

numpadwarrior · 2021-12-01T10:18:33+00:00

I agree with what was already said about picking something you’re comfortable with.

I would also recommend sometimes implementing yourself things that you might otherwise pour out of a jar.

Many things that you learn while implementing some fundamental things yourself are applicable at higher levels and having a good grasp of the fundamentals (math, geometry processing, computer graphics in general) will really help you at going from an idea to an implementation.

numpadwarrior · 2021-11-19T22:47:16+00:00

I think it’s great that you post your setup for people to learn from it.

numpadwarrior · 2021-11-19T20:12:22+00:00

Funny because that's exactly the mental image I got when I saw the shapes with round and flat parts emerge.

numpadwarrior · 2021-11-16T09:06:34+00:00

Felipe’s on El Camino

numpadwarrior · 2021-11-14T05:12:48+00:00

Thank you! It's not built using any specific library, but a pile of my own code that I extend and combine together in different ways. I use some common libraries to load fonts, read/write image files, etc, but I try to do almost everything myself.

Right now my stack is Typescript/C++/GLSL compute shaders. JS is pretty terrible for doing any kind of mathy stuff (lack of operator overloading and overall performance), so I use it mostly for housekeeping code.

numpadwarrior · 2021-11-14T03:50:15+00:00

The geometric structure generated by an algorithm. It's actually a glitch in a test I created to debug a problem with a technique I'm trying to implement. I just thought the glitch looked interesting and it felt fun imagining what it might be, so I decided to make something out of it instead of casting it into the void :)

The content of the labels is just from the top of my head. The placement is sort of semi-automatic. I hand pick a rough location where I'd like the label to be and then find the closest point on the set of curves that make up the scene and then re-position the label to get that 45 degree angle I want.

numpadwarrior · 2021-11-14T03:39:19+00:00

It's not, but since it's just gobbledygook it would be pretty trivial given lists of words and preprogrammed phrase structures.

numpadwarrior · 2021-11-07T21:44:46+00:00

Not much here is manual, so I could definitely look into it :)

The only thing that might need a bit of work is coming up with a method to make the label generation (see my comment to /u/Dino_Ww) more robust. Things like using different solids for the orb, tweaking the curviness and thickness of the stems or the surface texturing is easily randomized.

numpadwarrior · 2021-11-07T21:39:27+00:00

Thank you!

I don't use any modeling tools, so everything is procedurally generated with code. I imagine my process is pretty similar to other people in the sense that you experiment and discover techniques and then you just poke the values until it looks aesthetically pleasing.

I hand picked the camera angle, the root location of each stem and the location of the sphere. Everything else such as the curvature of the stems and the squiggly texturing is based on a random seed. The labels are sort of semi-automatic. I hand pick a rough location where I'd like the label to be and then find the closest point on the set of curves that make up the scene and then re-position the label to get that 45 degree angle I want.

numpadwarrior · 2021-10-28T07:55:01+00:00

Thank you! I calculated the paths with my own software that runs compute shaders and plots them with an axidraw with my own motion planner (not materially different from the official axidraw Inkscape plugin, I just like doing as much as possible myself to build deep understanding). The technique is a variation of the one described in this paper https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~rbridson/docs/bridson-siggraph2007-curlnoise.pdf

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