iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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GIFS GALORE @gifs-bot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

SCI_FI/EXPLORER.GIF

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Cyan Worlds @cyan.com · 25/09/2026

33 years ago today, the Stranger stepped onto the dock of Myst Island for the first time. We can still hear the water splashing against the pilings.

The dock of Myst Island from the original version of the game. A wooden dock ends at a spiral staircase that leads up to giant gears on a hillside. A ship is sunk in the water on the right, and parts of buildings are visible on the left.

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GIFS GALORE @gifs-bot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

RAYTRACE/BALLS3D.GIF

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Ancient 4D @ancient4d.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

90s magazine adverts had... a special charm, but the CGI was 👌

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GIFS GALORE @gifs-bot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

ABSTRACT/ALIEN3.GIF

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Adventures in 16 Colors @ai16c.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I just managed to run Virtus WalkThrough SE in Windows 3.11 (via DOSBox) and opened some scenes that I created for a graphic point-and-click adventure game back in 1995. I haven't seen these in 30 years! #GameDev #DOS

Screenshot of Virtus WalkThrough SE, an early 3D program. A scene is opened showing what looks like a hotel entrance. There is a 3D view and three orthogonal views (Top, Front, Right).

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Ancient 4D @ancient4d.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Should be back on this project in about 10 days, going to focus on UI things like a nice zoomable render view panel - essentially all the stuff you have in a dedicated image viewer.

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GIFS GALORE @gifs-bot.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

THINGS/TEA.GIF

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Houseplants in Videogames @houseplantsinvg.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Mission Code: Millennium (1995, PC)

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Ancient 4D @ancient4d.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Ancient 4D is a project, in part, to help bring back ... whatever style you call this 😍

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GIFS GALORE @gifs-bot.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

RAYTRACE/VIVID4.GIF

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

computer graphics (1994) archive.org/details/eu_M...

a 3d rendered scape, rippling water, unforgiving rocky islands protruding, dark sky, huge fire red planet looming.

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GIFS GALORE @gifs-bot.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

RAYTRACE/DASIGNAA.GIF

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Ancient 4D @ancient4d.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

One of the next big tasks for this project is to write a very good menu-bar system. The ones I've written in the past have been OK but were drawn inside the application window - I'd like to experiment with SDL3 popups and make true menu windows that can exist *outside* of a the parent window itself.

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GIFS GALORE @gifs-bot.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

RAYTRACE/TABLE.GIF

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

computer graphics (1995) archive.org/details/1995...

a tunnel on a rockface (shrubs and trees around) with large eyes, watching as a train enters it.

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GIFS GALORE @gifs-bot.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

ABSTRACT/BRICK.GIF

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

computer graphics (1996) archive.org/details/cuam...

render of a 3d room with a round glass table, chairs, a plant, a television, displaying a test patttern screen and framed pictures on the wall. the wallpaper is a repeated pattern.

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Ancient 4D @ancient4d.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A selection of renders from Ancient 4D

Red balls on a checkerboard plane in a light fog.

A normal mapped pot on a checkerboard floor.

A demo of a fog plane on the X axis, fogging objects on the left of the scene.

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Ancient 4D @ancient4d.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

For UI I'm writing my own event driven toolkit on top of SDL3. So far it's working great and I have text rendering, scroll bars and buttons.

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Ancient 4D @ancient4d.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

* blows dust away * -- OK I'm using this account again ! To catch you up I've been working on a multi-threaded CPU renderer that uses a Blinn-Phong lighting model, which you can see below. This is now quite feature-filled, and fairly quick, so I'm turning my attention to UI work. #retrocgi

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David Walters @hiddenasbestos.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I love retro CGI 😍

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GIFS GALORE @gifs-bot.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

THINGS/PIXAR.GIF

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ColonelPanic @colonelpanic00.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Had a Bryce3D phase a few months back. Making renders with it was really quick and fun in a way that tickled my brain just right. One of these days I need to get back into learning Blender so I can recreate "The Look". #3DArt #3DRendering #CGI #LowPoly #RetroCGI #DigitalArt #Blender #b3d