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canmom @canmom.art · 14/10/2026

shaderland colours incoming. soon you'll be able to solve three puzzles at once~ (also get ready for nega-swizzle) #shaderland #demoscene #gamedev

A screenshot of 'Shaderland' showing a test of multicoloured channel outputs

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canmom @canmom.art · 22/09/2026

wrote this shader in a latex suit and it definitely helped :>

over the shoulder shot of yours truly writing the shader shown above, dressed in a translacent latex catsuit

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canmom @canmom.art · 22/09/2026

Last night's @field-fx.party jam shader, playing in the space of 'swizzle combined with physarum'. original plan was to have swizzle melt away but instead we've ended up on psychedelic space explosions x3 swizzle features in shaderland.net music: esper99.bandcamp.com/album/king-q...

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canmom @canmom.art · 18/08/2026

lol i was there this year. it takes place in the woods across the road from the Assembly demoparty/gaming event. afaiu the logic is 'Assembly doesn't allow alcohol' -> 'let's have another demoparty outside' -> Boozembly exists -> 'we need a compo for it to be a demoparty' -> amiga hardcore compo

Miku the raccoon and a small blue shark hanging out on top of the speaker at Boozembly.

A bunch of mostly Finnish people hanging out in a small woodland area with some speakers.

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canmom @canmom.art · 10/08/2026

also rasterisation is performed entirely in the fragment shader. we calculate UVs for each ring and then draw a swizzle inside each UV patch. luckily swizzle does not have a ton of tris. doing this does have the advantage that we can easily distort Swizzle with noise, put her in rings, etc.

A screenshot of the UV coordinates used to create this effect, arranged in concentric rings of blocks

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canmom @canmom.art · 10/08/2026

this shader was coded in Amsterdam airport last week. yes it turns out free airport wifi is good enough to join a @field-fx.party shaderjam. featuring Swizzle from Shaderland, who's pretending to be a cat for this cat-themed shader jam :3 and set here to music by @laurenbousfield.bsky.social

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canmom @canmom.art · 30/07/2026

now that's more like it, I'm a real gamer now

the laptop with blender open, a trans flag and some rgb led splurge

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canmom @canmom.art · 30/07/2026

all these Finnish gamers have their huge beautiful custom pc dioramas but we've at least got the important stuff (shark, laptop stickers, slightly battered copy of GEB)

photo of a desk at the Assembly demoparty with a laptop, a nonstandard blue shark plushie, and a copy of Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter

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canmom @canmom.art · 27/07/2026

first @field-fx.party shaderjam since EMF, we made a rotozoomer rasteriser featuring Swizzle from Shaderland! (here set to a bit of laurenbousfieldanyev3r.bandcamp.com/album/locked... by @laurenbousfield.bsky.social ) github.com/canmom/jams/... #demoscene

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canmom @canmom.art · 22/07/2026

who knows whether masamune shirow ever figured out you could get this kind of sensory boost with a little estrogen... but the spirit is there also. motoko's leatherdyke fit??

Still from 'The Ghost in the Shell'. A surgeon explains to Motoko Kusanagi how cyborg bodies transmit sensations. She's wearing an incredibly cool leather outfit with big shoulders.

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canmom @canmom.art · 22/07/2026

saru!GitS just adapted our favourite chapter in the manga - the point when Shirow really just all out gushes about the sensory potential of cyborg bodies. this line though. you could say, word for word, the same thing about GRS techniques

Screenshot from 'The Ghost in the Shell' episode 3. Major Kusanagi is saying 'So the hair implantation is already complete at this stage nowadays.' while looking at a cyborg.

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canmom @canmom.art · 21/07/2026

if you tried Shaderland, my learn-graphics-programming zachlike, in the arcade at #emfcamp - or for that matter if you didn't and you're like 'hold on what?' - pop a wishlist on steam and get the (slightly fixed up) demo in the next couple of weeks! store.steampowered.com/app/4487340/...

Screenshot from the intro screen of Shaderland, showing the ferret creature Swizzle over a huge nest of complex wires. Text: 'You created Swizzle to go where you cannot... into the depths of computational space, a strange realm that we call SHADERLAND'

The level select screen, with the player explaining to Swizzle that they are not someone called Lilith. The selected level is a transparent plastic shell gadget with a big green arrow saying 'begin' coming out.

Screenshot of 'Shaderland', showing the editor screen and some text explaining how the ferret creature walks on white pixels and falls through black pixels

The circuit board part of the Shaderland UI, decorated with cute messages and Goetic sigils.

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canmom @canmom.art · 07/07/2026

left is no diffuse, right is just reading and writing the same texel after drawing the particles which *should* be a noop. if each shader invocation only dealt with one texel it would be fine. but the particle can be drawn anywhere, so it can get overwritten by the blur from another invocation.

just particles drawing dots, producing a nice homogeneous pattern

reading and writing the same texel creates a pattern of triangles and square tiles

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canmom @canmom.art · 07/07/2026

today we implemented a dialogue system in shaderland and it's all starting to get Quite Pretty =)

a screenshot of Shaderland's level select screen. the player is having a conversation with Swizzle the ferret. the text boxes have a blurred transparency effect. Swizzle is surprised to learn the player is not someone called Lilith. there is also a UI element for a level select widget, which looks like an old transparent plastic gameboy or similar device.

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canmom @canmom.art · 07/07/2026

tonight for the @field-fx.party shader jam, recreating flopine's shader from the @revision-party.bsky.social shader showdown. github.com/canmom/jams/... #demoscene #shader #glsl

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canmom @canmom.art · 23/06/2026

'nobody' was as good as @ani-obsessive.bsky.social promised, goddamn. and director yu shui even stuck around to sign stuff after ♡

director yu shui with me and yvette after watching 'nobody'

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canmom @canmom.art · 21/06/2026

annecyblogging, dimanche! www.tumblr.com/canmom/82003... www.tumblr.com/canmom/82005... only a couple of blocks to write to today but they were pretty cool ones! city seems especially lively; market in the morning, bands playing every street corner in the eve. as beautiful as ever

a view of the annecy lake at sunset, with a metal sculpture in the foreground and the alps rising behind

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canmom @canmom.art · 20/06/2026

bonsoir à annecy! with @yrgirl.bsky.social :3 if any of you are in town for the film festival (or some other mysterious reason...) and wish to say hi, lmk ^^

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canmom @canmom.art · 09/06/2026

last week we showed up to the shader jam while in a very altered state, and tried to express something rather inscrutable as a shader (sphere = blahaj = memdmp = transfemininity = recursion) well the idea was sound?? this week i got the thing working and damn, we were onto something #demoscene

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canmom @canmom.art · 06/06/2026

and yesterday, a monster of a chapter with much to theorise... and a chance to find out how to spell '-dunnit' words in japanese canmom.art/livereads/um...

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canmom @canmom.art · 19/05/2026

other D&G insights include: Nietzsche was plural actually

excerpt: ...nature of the violent oscillations that overwhelm an individual so long as he seeks only his own center and is incapable of seeing the circle of which he himself is a part; for if these oscillations overwhelm him, it is because each one of them corresponds to an individual other than the one he believes himself to be, from the point of view of the unlocatable center. As a result, an identity is essentially fortuitous, and a series of individualities must be undergone by each of these oscillations, so that as a consequence the fortuitousness of this or that particular individuality will render all of them necessary."20 The forces of attraction and repulsion, of soaring ascents and plunging falls, produce a series of intensive states based on the intensity = 0 that designates the body without organs ("but what is most unusual is that here again a new afflux is necessary, merely to signify this absence"21). There is no Nietzsche-the-self, professor of philology, who suddenly loses his mind and supposedly identifies with all sorts of strange people; rather, there is the Nietzschean subject who passes through a series of states, and who identifies these states with the names of history: "every name in history is I. . . ."22 The subject spreads itself out along the entire circumference of the circle, the center of which has been a

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canmom @canmom.art · 19/05/2026

judge schreber is like the paradigmatic case of a schizophrenic person from freud's writings or something but like... this person is just trans?? which makes it quite funny that D&G then start in on this egg thing

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canmom @canmom.art · 11/05/2026

for tonight's @field-fx.party shader jam, a tribute to 'Empires' by @conspiracy.hu - obviously far short of the real deal (and if you crank up the depth of field, a real gpu-killer), but pretty happy to get this effect working in an hour or two! github.com/canmom/jams/... #demoscene

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canmom @canmom.art · 30/04/2026

my @revision-party.bsky.social shader showdown entry... with a fair few more hours on it. quadtree + semi-analytic marching + camera moves + a whole lot of figuring out tricky bugs, pretty happy with where it ended up though :3 (music: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND5d... by PAON)

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canmom @canmom.art · 03/04/2026

a year ago I heard about shader livecoding and resolved to make it to the #RevisionParty2026 shader showdown stage... and guess what :3 time to see where all that mountaintop shader training at fieldfx got us!

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canmom @canmom.art · 06/03/2026

'style copyright' is thankfully recognised as a trap, except... instead they want to propose a new copyright-like thing for protecting a 'persona', such as voice. exactly what that would entail is hard to imagine. it is dystopian to imagine you might sell your 'persona rights' to a corpo!

Copyright protects specific expressions, not general ideas, themes or style.178 As Dr Guadamuz noted, this approach is “foundational to copyright systems worldwide”. He explained: “Protecting style under copyright would come dangerously close to granting monopolies over artistic techniques and conventions, which would chill the very creativity that copyright is designed to promote.”179 AI systems can therefore generate convincing stylistic imitations without necessarily engaging copyright in any individual underlying work, leaving a structural gap for creators whose economic position depends on the distinctiveness of their style.

82.Dr Trapova said that new protections from the harms posed by deepfakes should not be framed as providing “a licensing opportunity or another stream of revenue” for individuals. In her view, “this area deserves legislation of its own”, rather than being tackled through an expansion of copyright.197 In its report, the ISM proposed that:

“New statutory personality rights, or reforms to existing performer and image rights, could sit alongside the copyright and performance rights framework and be supported by related areas of law, including data protection and privacy law, consumer protection and misrepresentation law, contract law or competition law.”198

83.The absence in UK law of a robust personality right or specific protection for digital likeness means that creators and performers lack an adequate basis to challenge harmful outputs that imitate their distinctive style, voice or persona without reproducing a specific underlying work.

84.The Government should introduce protections against unauthorised digital replicas and ‘in the style of’ uses. Any new framework should give creators and performers clear, enforceable control over the commercial exploitation of their identity, while appropriately safeguarding freedom of expression and other legitimate uses.

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canmom @canmom.art · 06/03/2026

notable they describe the 'soft power' created by the UK creative industry in such specific terms. it does not sit well to have my works be recognised as an element of UK soft power to be exploited; I want it to belong to the international mycorrhizal tranny society, not its current host nations

quote from the report: he UK creative industries are an economic powerhouse with huge growth potential, and a vital part of the UK’s soft power. Their success has been underpinned by what witnesses described as an internationally-respected “gold-standard” copyright framework.

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canmom @canmom.art · 10/02/2026

This octree tracer idea was one of the very first things I tried doing at the @field-fx.party shader jams when I started, finally have a version of it that works! #demoscene

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canmom @canmom.art · 02/02/2026

glaswegian trans people! do you want to see some sick animation? tomorrow at the Small Trans Library we're showing Jonni Peppers's compilation WASTELAND! a profoundly emotional collection of five thematically linked short films about flat-earthers, UFO cults and hotdog eyeball surgeries awaits~

poster announcing a screening of Wasteland at 978 Govan Rd, G51 3AJ, at 6pm on Tuesday 3rd Feb 2026. it is illustrated with cutouts of characters from the film

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canmom @canmom.art · 13/01/2026

For this week's @field-fx.party shader jam, I extended my fragment shader pathtracer to use cosine-weighted sampling and support multiple spheres. plus a small box blur ('we have restir at home'...) Catnip suggested a cute little rolling shutter effect to make the spheres wobbly.

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canmom @canmom.art · 05/01/2026

I can't claim it's efficient, but for this week's @field-fx.party jam, I made a little pathtracer in a fragment shader! featuring the world's hackiest temporal accumulation #demoscene src: github.com/canmom/jams/...

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canmom @canmom.art · 24/12/2025

I wrote about creating intricate twisty shapes by integrating divergence-free fields, using Rust, wgpu and compute shaders! github.com/MagnusThor/s... You can run the effect in a WebGPU-enabled browser here: canmom.art/noodles/ src: github.com/canmom/noodles #demoscene #graphics #wgpu #rust

A screenshot of the effect, showing complex spiralling strands of white material.

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canmom @canmom.art · 07/12/2025

updates!! canmom.art/livereads/um... canmom.art/livereads/um... canmom.art/livereads/um... canmom.art/livereads/um... canmom.art/livereads/um...

Screenshot of Umineko, with Erika Furudo reciting her catchphrase: All it takes is the presence of that magic circle, and a deduction like this becomes trivial for Furudo Erika. ...Your thoughts, ladies and gentlemen?

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canmom @canmom.art · 04/11/2025

I finished writing the story of going to Revision this year. It ended up some 17,000 words long because I wanted to cover *everything*. And... I did! Eventually! Retrospective, exposition of the scene, archive... I don't know, but I'd be glad if you read! #demoscene canmom.art/adventure/de...

A view of the Revision hall from the Beam Team platform.

The front of the E-Werk where the event takes place.

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canmom @canmom.art · 03/11/2025

Tonight's @field-fx.party shader jam... plus a bit of extra time. I want to play around with divergence-free 3D noise but to begin with I made a 2D effect advecting along a 2D slice! Finally starting to get somewhere resembling fluid sim ^_^ #demoscene #shader github.com/canmom/jams/...

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canmom @canmom.art · 25/10/2025

divergence-free fields are neat! #blender #geometrynodes

A Blender render with bokeh of some colourful strands flowing around the camera.

A Blender render of a dense spiral of white strands, a la Junji Ito

A Blender render of a strange, organic spiralling shape.

A screenshot of the Geometry Nodes setup used to integrate the field.

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canmom @canmom.art · 24/10/2025

still a few bugs to iron out, mind you! #indiegame #gamedev

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canmom @canmom.art · 24/10/2025

Swizzle the ferret now runs through through the world you generate in Shaderland. same pixel-precise automaton under the hood, but much cuter. #gamedev #demoscene #indiegame #proceduralanimation

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canmom @canmom.art · 13/10/2025

Tonight's @field-fx.party shader jam, I am casting rays out against an infinite field of the Game of Life. github.com/canmom/jams/... Each pixel essentially owns its own game of life cell on a toroidal play area which tiles the plane. A noise texture is added based on the FFT. #demoscene

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canmom @canmom.art · 22/09/2025

Tonight's @field-fx.party shader jam - particle sim in a fragment shader using image atomic operations. (I apologise to any vertex shaders in the audience for my shameful disrespect of the proper render pipeline!!) #demoscene #livecoding source: github.com/canmom/jams/...

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canmom @canmom.art · 05/09/2025

can't decide if this article was written by LLM or just full of really corny similes, either way not inspiring a ton of confidence (& to compare two translations into chinese, surely it should show us the chinese text, not just a 'what it would have sounded like in english' representation?)

Quote: One can imagine the reaction. Players did not feel immersed in Pharloom; they felt trapped in a high-school drama club’s Elizabethan improv night. Instead of fighting for survival, they were decoding riddles with the cadence of a failed King James Bible. It is impossible to perform platforming precision when the screen itself sounds like a plague sermon.

Quote: Was it the surgeon, delivering language as clinical as a scalpel cut? Or the scholar, enamored with baroque phrasing, flooding the text with archaic cadences? Or, in a twist worthy of Silksong’s own lore, was it both — a dual identity, two Wus fused together, creating a translation equal parts sterile and flowery, stitched into a monstrous hybrid?

Quote: Localization is best when invisible — players notice the world, not the words. Here, the translators demanded the spotlight, breaking confidentiality and smothering Silksong’s brilliance under theatrical ornament. Team Cherry once said Hornet was “too tall” for DLC. In China, the tragedy was that the text itself became too tall to climb — a tower of gilded verbiage that collapsed under its own weight. Silksong promised silk. Instead, players got burlap stitched with expired Shakespeare. Not a design flaw, not a delay — just translators who fancied themselves poets.

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canmom @canmom.art · 05/09/2025

i spent like. an hour or two trying to get the perspective lines to match up so that i could estimate the size of the rectangle and I just can't get the perspective to line up. i can only guess that some kind of shear transformation has been applied to the image or your house is on a slant

the image in the above post with perspective lines drawn over it. some of them are drawn in krita and match features in the image, others are cuboids created in blender. the z-axis doesn't line up

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canmom @canmom.art · 04/09/2025

this week's 1h @field-fx.party shader jam. a rotating cube is a very stereotypical demoscene motif, but I need to practice raymarching and I think the chromatic aberration carries it haha. (aberration and rounding are tuned to different FFT bins) #demoscene #livecoding

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canmom @canmom.art · 31/08/2025

fr though: i visited the czechoslovak videogame archive, all sorts of fascinating computers and lore there. it's cool seeing games magazines being preserved as historical materials! i have a couple of photos here, more tomorrow when i get them off the nice camera

A Sharp MZ-800, a Japanese computer which was surprisingly imported into Czechoslovakia.

A shelf with a PMD85, a 1985-era computer manufactured in Czechoslovakia.

Two cassette tape boxes storing Czech indie games from the old days. They are illustrated with simple photocopied ink drawings.

A stack of Czech documents and magazines. The top one says 'Robotizaci' and 'JAK-KDY-KDE-PROČ'.

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canmom @canmom.art · 30/08/2025

just found out the crytek sponza scene was based on a real place (and also that it's called the crytek sponza scene). it would be so weird to go there. like you'd stepped through into a global illumination demo. they should hang up coloured flags there year round

a render of the widely-used crytek sponza scene by wikipedia user kickair8p

a photo of the real atrium of the Sponza Palace in Dubrovnik by wikipedia user Joanbanjo

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canmom @canmom.art · 25/08/2025

yeesh, that is not how you do a 'HD' remaster...

the histogram of the first image, showing a nice clean spread over colours

the histogram of the second image, showing a spiky, more bimodal distribution

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canmom @canmom.art · 25/08/2025

no, apparently! 🙃

itch.io notice saying that I can't view the page due to the UK online safety act

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canmom @canmom.art · 22/08/2025

great article! I especially liked the bit where you talked about how societal transmisogyny and the continual forcible coding of biology through ideology shaped the dithering techniques for Ayaka-san's talksprites, ingenious

A (sfw) screenshot from the visual novel "Sex 2" taken from VNDB, featuring the game's protagonist Ayaka in a flower shop. She is saying 「モモちゃん！？どうしたの、息切らせちゃって。。。。。。」

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