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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I am beyond proud to finally be sharing a peek at what we've been working on at Aphelion Software - A new kind of digital audio workstation that merges DJ quality visuals, video, synthesis, and more under a single unified application. Coming soon to Mac and PC. #music #software #programming #synth

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Introducing Phonon - An audio-visual DAW like no other.

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The Quaternion Julia set, in my custom rendering engine.

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

🔊 Procedural murmuration of fish as they avoid a predator drives a generative synthesizer, responding to the fish's movement patterns and level of anxiety. #indiedev #gamedev #procgen #proceduralgeneration #synth #art

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

🔊🔊 3D tensor field streamline vis w/ procedural synth. Every synth osc driven by the underlying tensor. Single streamlines pluck, general oscillations control melody, and the behavior of singularities controls filter cutoff and drones. #indiedev #solodev #programming #generative #art #synth #music

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

🔊 Sound on. Dynamic synth controlled by metaballs - 14 harmonized voices, the pitch determined by the blob's position, the filter cutoff determined by the total convergence of blobs as they drift and combine. 🎧🎶 #synth #art #programming #music #procgen #proceduralGeneration

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I'm calling these Koonsballs, metaballs with the luster reflectivity and coloring of a Jeff Koons balloon sculpture. Love him or hate him, you can't deny those things are shiny. #art #indiedev #proceduralGeneration #procgen #programming

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Tensor fields two ways - 3D and 2D. Unmute - it's music I wrote in college! #electronicmusic #indiedev #solodev #programming #music #art #math

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Quaternion Julia Fractals, sliced into 3D, and the sliced in half #math #programming #render #indiedev #solodev #fractal

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

The Coastline Paradox - Deep Zoom Terrain Generator #indiedev #gamedev #solodev #programming #coding #procgen I wanted to make a terrain you can zoom into like a fractal...

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I really enjoy explaining to people just how fucking weird my rendering pipeline is and having them go "You're insane"

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Simulating the convective smoke emanating from an superheated source, such as a pyroclastic flow, with three dimensional Navier-Stokes voxel interaction w/ high vorticity. #graphics #indiedev #solodev #programming #algorithm #procgen

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Overkill: Using custom raymarching to render floating 3D voxel blobs. Irony: You probably need a decent GPU to even see them #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #programming #graphics #coding

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Market research: I've been posting a lot of mathematical and algorithmic art experiments rendered in ASCII. If I wrapped a bunch of these up together, with full parameter control and seed save ability, for say 99 cents would anyone be interested? #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #gaming #indiegame

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Formation of stable self-similar mandelbrot-style formations within a fractal flame simulation! Fascinating stuff! #gamedev #indiedev #graphics #programming #shaders #algorithm

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Simulating... something based on branching and attraction to voronoi points. #gamedev #indiedev #programming #shaders #coding

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

If I have any success as a game developer it will be because I never stopped to ask if something was possible. #indiedev #gamedev #solodev #programming

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

One more. 3D fractal rendered entirely as text. #indiedev #solodev #indiegame #programming #coding #algorithm #fractal #shader #procedural HOW? HOW YOU ASK? A magician never reveals their secrets (DM me for details. It involves the GPU...)

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The compute shader that maps ascii characters into a rendertexture was the complicated part. Once you have that you can draw *anything* that can be represented on a grid. This projects rays from the "camera" through a 3D multi-octave noise map. Selects chars and gradients from the terrain height.

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Procedural planet generator rendered entirely in ASCII text #gamedev #indiedev #programming #coding #procedural #simulation All in under 300 lines of code (Not including the terminal shader)

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Hydraulic erosion simulation with animated terrain generation - each octave adds detail, then rainfall floods the valleys + sediment buildup (All in ASCII) #gamedev #indiedev #programming #shaders #procedural #simulation

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A. Marmot 🌱 @aminus.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

PS artists if you want a #PortfolioDay boost, just reply here and I'll repost. Want to take advantage of my decent size platform to boost artists!

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