iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

garett 🤓 @garettbass.com · 08/10/2026

Saw one of these at a car show this week

garett 🤓 @garettbass.com · 13/09/2026

I’ve been making a retopology tool in Blender to rebuild existing meshes as a set of 8x8 vertex patches for my patch-based renderer

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garett 🤓 @garettbass.com · 31/10/2025

Once upon a time, I wrote a behavior tree debugger that rendered thought bubbles over the AI characters 💭

A blue bubble floats above a video game character, with cryptic text, “perform ability: slot 3, wait until ready”

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garett 🤓 @garettbass.com · 26/10/2025

I love them all, but I love this one most

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garett 🤓 @garettbass.com · 26/10/2025

I really love this hat, and I’ve been wearing it more this year to keep the sun at bay. Sadly that beautiful blue band began to show some green streaks. I took it to a hat shop today for a new band 🤞

Photo of a smiling fellow wearing a woven fedora.

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garett 🤓 @garettbass.com · 17/10/2025

My daily carry is a WW1 gas mask bag replica, originally procured for an Indiana Jones halloween costume. It totes the card wallet, some writing instruments, my other glasses, earbuds, sometimes a lightweight jacket or, lately, my cappuccino mug.

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garett 🤓 @garettbass.com · 17/10/2025

Corduroy Coffee in Galveston has now twice served me the best triple latte in recent memory. Today I showed up with my own cappuccino mug because I prefer it over the paper cup routine.

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garett 🤓 @garettbass.com · 06/10/2025

@buehlmeister.bsky.social I just finished Between Two Fires, found the tale fascinating. Following The Blacktongue Thief, I recognized this cover before realizing it was your latest. Thank you for the inspiration and entertainment. It may be time to catch up with some corvids.

The cover of Christopher Buehlman's novel, "Between Two Fires", features a black ink print of skeletal knight in armor on a solid red background. The novel is self described as, "An epic tale of medieval horror".

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garett 🤓 @garettbass.com · 20/09/2025

Played this all night long when I was in the hospital earlier this year. **nostalgia intensifies**

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garett 🤓 @garettbass.com · 11/09/2025

I wrote a tiny Marvel Snap style card game with terminal UI. A very fun programming project for a job interview. Got a little carried away with the UI

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garett 🤓 @garettbass.com · 26/08/2025

Game devs post your first shipped game and your latest shipped game:

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garett 🤓 @garettbass.com · 26/08/2025

Made this Animation Timeline editor in UE5 to remix multiple mocap sequences into unique animations that accompany voiceover animation. Animation Timeline asset can be used anywhere animation assets are used in UE editor, UI is custom IMGUI, much easier to iterate on than myriad Slate widgets

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garett 🤓 @garettbass.com · 26/08/2025

Made these juicy donut rings for the transform tool in @recroom.bsky.social, because I wanted a combo transform tool, and I wanted the rings to be as attractive as the translation and scale handles. I wish I had a good animation of the way they plump up when the player interacts with the rings.

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garett 🤓 @garettbass.com · 26/08/2025

This is another instanced rendering experiment, this time in Unity. Rendering many different shape primitives in a single draw call by decomposing each shape into triangle strips (meshlet rendering wasn’t available at the time). @zeux.io meshoptimizer to slice and dice the geometry.

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garett 🤓 @garettbass.com · 26/08/2025

First is tiling grid patches onto the visible surface of a sphere, a Godot experiment in instanced rendering, using GDExtension just for the experience

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garett 🤓 @garettbass.com · 26/08/2025

Fun stuff I’ve made through the years

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garett 🤓 @garettbass.com · 20/03/2025

This bespoke wood keyboard tray was built by my dad based on a foamcore prototype I made.

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garett 🤓 @garettbass.com · 30/12/2024

Very cool, thanks for sharing. I always enjoy reading others’ approach to these common fundamentals. I suggest preferring `int` for int32, since `long` is 64 bits on all of the modern platforms apart from Windows.