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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Boldbobbin 1.3.1 brings gradient effects to your embroidery designs!

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Boldbobbin reached 600 users just on the 30th of September! The trend looks very positive and promising.

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🧵 Boldbobbin v.1.3.0 is out You can now directly use style transfer and auto-digitization within Boldbobbin to create your own embroidery design!

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Actually, I received this email yesterday. It's not true that you need a tutorial to use Boldbobbin, apparently. Too intuitive. (this is a redirection from my hostpoint email to my gmail, btw)

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just had one realisation: it's useless to build embroidery software if you're the only one who knows how to use it. So I made a full-fledged tutorial that even comes with basic digitizing theory to get you started on your creative journey. 👉 boldbobbin.com/tutorial

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

500 people are digitizing with Boldbobbin now! 👉 Check it out at boldbobbin.com

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’m working on a tutorial for Boldbobbin to teach people how to do basic embroidery. This will be what you will learn to do! Because yeah it’s nice to build but if I’m the only one who knows how to use it, that kind of defeats the purpose.

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Extremely hard problem to put so much into a 32x32 image!

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Boldbobbin v1.2.6 PRO gives you full stitch analysis. You'll know before you stitch where your design can be problematic!

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Boldbobbin v1.2.6 is out! New cool things: - an inner satin stitch pattern, so you can make patterns that are nicer than purely fill stitch (star example) - pixel art with mini-satin!! (super excited about the results there) And finally fixed an annoying .PES export bug. Enjoy! 🧵

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Testing out a new stitch pattern for pixel art. The change of satin stitch direction is what gives it this special pixelated effect! Also the route was optimised so that there is no trim. Some stitch connect the two eyes and are covered by the red pixels.

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Boldbobbin v1.2.4 just got released! "Pixel art" is a new object type in the software: with a dedicated mini-editor, you can paint a sprite on a grid and it stitches out as cross-stitch embroidery.

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Embroidery is fundamentally a vector field discretization problem. The cool part about it is that you can create textures. Here is a preview for what's coming soon in boldbobbin.com

An embroidery of an heart with heart texture.

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

When you create a satin stitch with a corner, it creates a small singularity. There are several ways to solve it as shown below, and the result can look pretty different depending on your choice.

Different satin stitch corner resolution methods.

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Boldbobbin v1.2.1 is out! You can create and edit your own embroidery font. Font auto-digitizing is also here to help you speed up the process. Now available at boldbobbin.com

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Boldbobbin Pro goes from $15 → $25/mo on August 10. Subscribe before then and you keep $15/mo for as long as your subscription stays active, even after the price goes up for everyone else. Lock it in 👉 boldbobbin.com

Launch price image describing the advantages for subscribing to Boldbobbin.

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Happy French National Day! (Image related to our next week's SIGGRAPH presentation 👀)

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The joy to unpack a GBA game as a kid during Chritmas is unmatchable.

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

There are some gold nuggets in old games. Chrono Trigger blew my mind, its gameplay still feels amazing for today's standards.

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Not Boldbobbin :p! staying loyal to the floppy disk

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

👉 Free for personal use: boldbobbin.com 👉 And if you want to shape what gets built next, come hang out in the Discord: discord.gg/wpnXsuxdkK I would love to know what you make! 🧵

boldbobbin.com

Boldbobbin — The Modern Workspace for Embroidery Digitizing

The modern embroidery workspace in your browser or on your desktop.

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I'm building it solo. Just one person who got tired of the existing tools and decided to make something better. Which means I actually read every piece of feedback. And I want yours!

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

It works natively on Windows/MacOS. Don't wanna install anything? Just use it in your browser. It's meant to be intuitive to use and features the most important things you'll need to start digitizing.

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Other software? Same UI style, prices to the thousands. By talking to digitizers, I realised that the gap I felt was common. We deserve better. That's why I developed Boldbobbin, the modern embroidery workspace for indie crafters and small embroidery sellers.

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Embroidery design is made on ugly four-figure legacy software. I felt it the first time I had use an embroidery machine. It was within a month of a paper deadline. I sat in front of my lab's software: a UI so unintuitive it took me 40 minutes to understand how to draw... a square (literally).

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Yeah, I unzipped an Overleaf .zip source file last time and it was not nested. So annoying when this happens.

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

🛠️ TetWeave can be used in many applications: ✅ Mesh compression ✅ Geometric texture generation ✅ Photogrammetry (8/9)

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

🏆 Results? TetWeave guarantees watertight, manifold, and intersection-free meshes, and outperforms FlexiCubes and DMTet in memory efficiency and mesh quality. (7/9)

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

👁️ Because we compute the grid on the fly, the point cloud can be located anywhere! We develop a resampling strategy that allocates more points where they matter most (like highly detailed regions) based on rendering error or customizable approaches. (6/9)

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

🎛️ We introduce a notion of directional signed distance, encoded as spherical harmonics on each grid vertex. This allows precise vertex placement and sharper details! (5/9)

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

💡 TetWeave solves this by dynamically constructing the grid via Delaunay triangulation! Our representation simply consists of a point cloud with an SDF value. To reconstruct a target mesh from images, we jointly optimize the grid and the signed distance at each point. (4/9)

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

🔍 Methods like DMTet or FlexiCubes jointly optimize the implicit representation and the grid structure from which the final mesh is extracted. However, they rely on grids with fixed topology, which leads to memory inefficiency and poor scaling. (3/9)

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

🤔 Meshes are ubiquitous in computer graphics. However, their fixed topology and the difficulty of recovering from a bad state make them a poor choice for gradient-based optimization pipelines, such as 3D reconstruction. (2/9)

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

🔷🦀 TetWeave: Isosurface Extraction using On-The-Fly Delaunay Tetrahedral Grids for Gradient-Based Mesh Optimization is accepted to #SIGGRAPH2025 (TOG). Done in collaboration with @rubenwiersma.nl, Philipp Herholz, and Olga Sorkine-Hornung. But why a new shape representation? (1/9)

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I remember playing this game! Such a great one!!

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

For me it’s somewhat in the middle of afternoon, so I tend to cherish this time slot to go to gym :D

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

PorcelAIn! Will AI be able to create porcelAIn pieces of artwork? 😉 At least it'd make a good AI company name

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Inspired by Clairen from Rivals of Aether II, I generated this futuristic black cat with SD-πXL. It turned out to look a bit evil, so I tried with a dog and... yeah, it feels different. Which one would you choose to side with?

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

What did this cat see on its laptop to look so shocked?

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Really beautiful! Is it done by hand? 😯

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Alexandre Binninger @alexbinninger.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

A few images made with my latest project, SD-πXL. All with a limited amount of colors!

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