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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 29/09/2026

very cheap and simple outline shader using wireframe mode and displacing the vertices outwards render_mode unshaded, cull_front, wireframe; void vertex() { VERTEX += NORMAL * 0.01; } #godot

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 04/09/2026

Raycast in Geometry Nodes is very useful for making procedural geometry interact with its surroundings

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 12/04/2026

Not sure when this happened, but the Wikipedia app now rocks! It gives you a daily/discovery selection of articles in your languages of choice, and it has a map feature that is useful for spotting cool places when traveling

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 06/03/2026

It looks like indie games are off to a great start this year too!

Comparison between the recent launch of slay the spire 2 and resident evil requiem. It’s even made in godot

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 03/02/2026

I think we ended up with a rather good looking game, and people were having a blast arguing about directions and clearing the levels together

Screenshot of the final level. More complex than the previous picture. There are lots of floating platforms

Some friends playing our game. There are two people playing wearing the goggles

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 03/02/2026

Then we thought of a co-op puzzle game in which each player only has partial information for solving the level

Screenshot of the game featuring 2 players in 3d space. They have to follow a path made of light blue and yellow tiles

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 03/02/2026

Using old school 3D glasses, we made our custom visors, that mask either light blue or yellow. Getting the effect right was a lot of trial and error

The special goggles we made for the game, made from cardboard 3D glasses. We swapped the filters to make them only red or blue

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 17/12/2025

But this is the best bit 🐧

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 17/12/2025

Good year. I’ve had time to get to some big games I had pending

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 11/12/2025

That one looks slick! Welcome to the Keychron club

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 03/12/2025

Happy 3D Day everybody! Today I’m sharing this procedural teapot 🫖 you probably know well, to use in Blender

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 22/10/2025

Godot viewport makes this cool effect when the compositor output goes below 0

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 15/10/2025

The new SDF grids add so many possibilities. I did a small test for procedural cave generation #geometrynodes #procgen #b3d

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 14/10/2025

Does this count as an Inktober post?

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 14/10/2025

Inflating a bezier into a distance field with some noise

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 14/10/2025

The new SDF geometry nodes in Blender 5 are really interesting

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 30/09/2025

It’s beautiful. It also guessed a color I like!

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 22/09/2025

As I feared, Liquid Glass comes with inconsistent UI. It’s still using the old keyboard for apps that didn’t update it I guess

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 19/09/2025

Lately I’ve getting my Obsidian second brain up to date I enjoy watching the graph animation now that it’s big

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 20/08/2025

I also took the chance to buy a good mouse for cheap while in Shenzhen. This has a led screen where I can display 1-bit art!

My new mouse that has led rgb lights and a led screen to display pictures and data

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 20/08/2025

Back to Huaquangbei museum, they had this cool holographic, interactive panel to explain the electronics production/distribution chain

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 20/08/2025

This was in Shenzhen too: the construction cabins featured a stacking modular design and glass panel windows. Note how they can be joined horizontally to make meeting rooms and vertically to make staircases

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 20/08/2025

We took this super long bridge-underwater tunnel from Hong Kong to Macao 😮

Overview of the bridge. The bridge is very long, but not too tall, so it goes under water to make way for ships to get into the bay

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 20/08/2025

In this case I was surprised by the low-tech solution still employed in Hong Kong for scaffolding

A huge bundle of very long bamboo rods in the middle of the street

Bamboo scaffolding in use around a building

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 20/08/2025

Huaqiangbei street in Shenzhen is the electronics hub of the city. There’s a museum explaining the history of their industry, and hundreds if not thousands of small electronics shops, many of them are wholesale

Picture from the museum showing an old radio assembly line

Microchip lithography plate showcased in the museum

Mechanical keyboard store showcasing dozens of custom keyboards

Interior of a 6 story mall filled with electronics shops. Most of them are wholesale shops

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 20/08/2025

Urban planning exhibition about the city of Shenzhen. It was cool to see how they’ve build it from the ground up in a few decades, making sort of a prototype model for other new city developments. People’s first approach with use of vertical and subterranean spaces, and lots of green areas

Huge model of the city with the different sectors highlighted. A lot of green spaces can be spotted

Panels explaining housing planning, public services, transport system, etc

Model of a section of a city block, showcasing how the city looks vertically and underground. Underground you can see malls, public services, parking and the metro

Other model of the city highlighting green areas

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 20/08/2025

Here testing out some drones at DJI flagship store in Shenzhen

They had a couple of rooms to help you try them out safely

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 20/08/2025

This transparent led floating advertising placement looks so sci-fi, but it’s a bit loud

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 20/08/2025

This is a “date house” that uses AI for match making. Interesting that it’s still a physical place

It’s an old, but well maintained Chinese house. In the exterior, it advertises about their AI powered algorithm to find you a date

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 20/08/2025

Take a look at this “old” automatic Mahjong table 🀄️🤯 This was at a rental room that you could access with your phone, looks like it is quite common to find them at hotels and malls

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 20/08/2025

Most beverage machines now are just open fridges, even the ones placed in public spaces. You’re supposed to select what you want on the screen, pay with your phone and just take it

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 20/08/2025

With public toilets, aside from the data screens that you’ve probably seen on TikTok, now they’re going beyond with the design. Like this one in a park that blends in almost completely

This public toilet has a wavy mirror design, making it appear almost invisible, but to make sure you can spot it, it has a bright colored tower where the faucets are placed

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 19/08/2025

This machine takes your blood sample that the doctor asked to analyze. However, people didn’t seem to trust them and preferred the human nurses todo the job.

Machine tat takes blood samples it has a hole to insert your arm, and it will take care of everything. There’s always a nurse by them to help you out regardless

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 19/08/2025

Moving signal post that rotates to be able to show more that three directions

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 19/08/2025

In this booth, you could take a medical check to renew your driving’s license.

Booth that looks like a photomaton, but it’s actually for taking the medical test

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 19/08/2025

In the arts museum they had AI audio-guides, while also providing regular audio-guides. Both worked automatically depending on your location in the museum, even changing subject to each individual object when you were in front of it

Audio guide rental booth, selling AI guides

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 19/08/2025

Right next to that, I saw this portable 5G antenna. It was necessary for sure, because there were thousands of people on top of that wall, in the river walk.

Big van carrying two 5G antennas, which are deployed and reach about 10m high

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 19/08/2025

This exhibition center next to the Bund in Shanghai has this metal tubes forming a curtain that moves throughout the day, so it doesn’t ever look the same twice

Building with a three layer curtain formed from metal bamboo tubes. It moves so slowly that it can’t be seen moving without a time lapse

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 19/08/2025

Solar and battery powered benches, equipped with wireless chargers. These were not just a gimmick, but actually found often throughout Shanghai

Solar powered bench even though it’s raining

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 19/08/2025

Huawei and Xiaomi stores often combine their usual smart products with their new electric cars on display

This store has watches, phones, and cars!

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 19/08/2025

In Shanghai there was a street with fashion stores that held art exhibitions to bring people in. These are moving sculptures spotted at two different places

Moving accordion like sculpture that opened and closed. It used origami like folded canvas. The store specialized in good quality silk and this folding technique

Huge woman robot faces at the Gentle Monster sunglasses store

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 19/08/2025

These cool traffic lights had animated comics, sometimes showing road crossing rules and tips for children

Rectangular shaped traffic light for pedestrians that has a comic under the green light. It also displays the seconds left to cross

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 19/08/2025

Not too impressive, but I saw this in museums and old buildings, also in my last trip in 2023. It’s just a big, vertical screen with a Kinect, you could make arm gestures to change outfits, and had a QR code to download the picture

Me in a AR environment dressed up as an ancient Chinese magistrate

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 22/06/2025

Apps are installed through a very user friendly shop

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 22/06/2025

The pc starts to Steam Big picture, and also has a neat desktop environment

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Daniel Fdez Marqués @danifm.com · 22/06/2025

It took a while to set up everything, but I finally have exactly the setup I wanted in my TV pc, with LINUX. And it was very user friendly (no commands)

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