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Katie

@katdiedagain.bsky.social
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27 🚺 Hi! 💕 3D hard-surface artist, obsessed with gun optics, kitty mama, musician, and PC gamer 💖 but NO AyEye/EnEfTees/cr*pto! 🚫 I make cool stuff in Blender! Come say hi! 🩷 Portfolio: www.artstation.com/katdoes3d

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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Might delete this account. Sorry!
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I can't believe I get to put it up with all the rest lol. So exciting
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I tweaked the color ramp positions slightly for more pleasing color blending, as you can see here, but here are the nodes I chose. 💕
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Here's how I made the dichroic coating on my red dot sight!
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I should get back to this... 👀
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
What an amazing game The Minish Cap has been. I can't believe I got this far in my life missing out this much!!!!!!
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
So pretty!!!!!
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
You have NO idea how much grass I cut to get this.
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
wish drones were less expensive...
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
“I step on my mom’s boobs as if they’re the only platform on her body!!”
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I think I’ve decided these are my least favorite colors.
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
The Caterium Ore sprite from Satisfactory is *gorgeous.*
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
WHAT THE FLIP?? 😨😨
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
But also... piiiiiink...
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I love the dark gray one!
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Does anyone know what this patch is??
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Does this slap or nah? Wait for the actual beat to kick in before forming an opinion, of course.
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Here's how the HPG works!
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I love making the same cover art every time. 💕
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Can't wait to show you all what I've been cooking for the past two months. It's the coolest device I've ever designed, both in aesthetic, and in functionality. Have a GREAT day! 💕
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Why go holographic? Well, there are a number of reasons. 1. Anti-reflective glass, and barely any signature downrange. 2. Very minimal distortion, if any. 3. The dot can be microns thick, meaning magnification preserves precision. 4. Can be NVG friendly. 5. Generally more durable.
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The reason two types of projections are needed is that a hologram is a physical etching of recorded light waves, and thus cannot be used as a dynamic display; it is unchanging. In contrast, a reflex display is only a reflection. (Left: Hologram. Right: Reflector.) www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Together, these lights, mirrors, and holographic glass create a combined image of the reticle and its associated information superimposed on the operator's field of view.
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The holographic projection originates from a laser diode. The coherent light from the diode is folded with a mirror to extend its path, collimated with a curved mirror, directed and modulated by a holographic diffraction grating, then steered and shaped by the final reticle image hologram.
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The HUD image originates from a backlit LCD screen within the device. A collimating lens makes the light beams parallel, virtually placing the image out at infinity. This light bounces off of two mirrors, then directly backward, through the hologram, and into the eye of the operator.
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The HUD would appear superimposed on the target at the same plane as the reticle. It would show information such as brightness, windage and elevation, and perhaps a magazine capacity readout.
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Those old aircraft reflex sights work by shining a reticle image up through a magnifying lens, then bouncing it off of a beam splitter at a 90 degree angle. If we were to add a second beam splitter, then make the first one a full mirror, we'd have my HUD design!
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Much like how WWII aircraft gunsights use a collimating lens and beam splitter to project an illuminated reticle at infinity, this design enables an integrated reflex heads-up display inside the unit for high quality visual feedback -- all without compromising the parallel holographic projection.
A WWII-era aircraft reflector gunsight, with a yellow illuminated reticle.A WWII-era aircraft reflector gunsight, with the reflected reticle turned off.
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I have devised a concept for a holographic gunsight with an internal HUD! Let's take a look at how it works. 🧵 #b3d #optics #simulation
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I did this. It's still not the same because they're completely different things, but the HUD reflection looks pretty cool now. Thank you for the pointers!
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
These two emission materials have similar strengths, but one of them does not have nearly the same brightness due to being a reflection. How can I make it just as bright?
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Playing Peak right now.
A screenshot of Twilight Princess on the GameCube, but it's suspiciously high resolution...
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Alright man. Cool ad. I'll be sure to check it out
An ad on a website containing only a tessellated pattern of rhombuses. No text or defining imagery is present. But it's an ad with the "Ads by Google" symbol to the upper right of it.
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
My baby is so cute.
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
WIP #b3d #hardsurface
A hard-surface model with beveled edges, with a dark, smooth, metallic material. Some screws, curves, and cutouts are visible.
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
LETS GOOOOO
The Rod of Discord in Terraria.
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I'M LEARNING SUBD, FUCK QUITTING‼️
A softball, screaming.
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Do you guys like our Terraria house? 💕
A Japanese-style, four-story house in Terraria. The basement is full of crafting stations and chests. The roof is made of blue shingles, while the walls are made of dynasty wood and white dynasty walls. Lamps and candles decorate the rooms.
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Awww! I just got my Spoony in February!
My cat, Spoony, laying on her cat tree, gazing at me at my desk.
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Don't worry, guys. I saved you. You're safe
A Blender mesh with a smooth intersection between a curved edge and a boolean cutout.
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
AAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
A Blender mesh with zig-zaggy, ugly intersections between a curved edge and a boolean cutout.
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
I have over 800 photos of my cat, Spoony. I got her in February.
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
On a side note, they totally changed the wording. It used to be "Showing results for," but now it's "These are results for."
These are results for football
Search instead for foot ball

Showing results for nixon
Search instead for nixion
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Weird question: How does Google choose between correcting a search with "Did you mean" and "These are results for _____. Search instead for ______"? I'm assuming that it's based on spelling, but I don't understand the nuance. Sometimes, spelling it wrong triggers both. I'm too curious.
compture
Did you mean: computervenesuela
These are results for venezuela
Search instead for venesuelaThese are results for football
Search instead for foot ball
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
A comic. The first panel shows a frustrated man with crossed arms, and the second one shows him throwing his arms in the air and yelling "I GUESS"
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I really like when bubbles do this.
A simple drawing of two circles intersecting with a straight line between them instead of making a Venn diagram shape.
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
A woman in great distress, with her hands covering her mouth.
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
WORST DAY OF MY LIFE
My left hand, with long, glossy, french-tip painted nails.My left hand, with trimmed nails, shortened down to the fingertip.
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Look how they massacred my boy.
Modern Warfare (2019)'s Merc Thermal Optic, with its white-hot grayscale thermal readout and circle-T-dot reticle, pointed at the sky.Modern Warfare 2 (2022)'s Teplo Thermal Optic, with its RGB thermal readout and non-uniform T-chevron reticle, pointed at a test dummy.
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Katie @katdiedagain.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
This background rainbow is gorgeous.
A screenshot of a contract in Marathon (2025).
The text says:

"PRIORITY CONTRACT
SELECTION PRESSURES [2/4]
Resourcefulness is a virtue on an exoplanet.
Find the equipment you need among the abandoned laboratories, and exfil with it intact.

Collect and exfil with a T-Scan Neural Kit in South Relay (Perimeter)
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Collect and exfil with an Organic Sequencer in Bio-Research (Dire Marsh)
0/1
Collect and exfil with an Organic Data Matrix in Greenhouse (Dire Marsh)
0/1"

The background of the contract window has a soft, pastel rainbow sheen.
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