iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Damien Seguin @dmnsgn.me · 07/09/2026

I'll be doing a "Lightning Talk" Thursday at threejs.paris for @variable.io, giving a quick insight into our biggest project of last year. Come say hi!

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Man, we just spend a week fighting through edge cases in Rye's when porting to our engine. Yours was so much more robust but all the generated code was a big gate keeper. Thank you for this WebGPU version, hopefully I can learn from it.

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

They don't make them like they used to.

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Same project code in NotePlan, Notion, Figma, Slack channels and invoices . I experimented with including short git hash in file name but it requires too much setup.

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Nothing crazy. I have project codes "PEX YYNNN Project Name". My repo is called PEX-yynnn-project-name" eg "pex-24001-genuary" or "var-25004-nike-project" and same named folder in Dropbox/Screenshots/PEX-24001-genuary. Then my files are named by graph/experiment-name-version-timestamp.

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

AWS situation is now stabilising so it's good to see how the number of incidents spiked during last couple of days. As AWS was on fire i've looked into service status visualisation we did for Maintel last year. variable.io/maintel-digi...

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

All great things come to an end. Extremely happy I could contribute Spirit Plant to this year Expo. Seeing people experiencing your art is the biggest award.

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Exploring the personal archive. Early UI for reverse image search of my 65k images WIP screenshots collection.

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Thank you Szymon! It is one of my favourites too!

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I've finally put together a v1 of full case study including info about data, algorithms, behind the scenes and whole look dev process. Video content to follow!

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

How will the flower bloom in 2100? We collaborated with artist Annelie Berner to create a generative web tool that visualizes how the Circaea Alpina flower might evolve in response to future climate conditions. variable.io/plant-futures/

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I know them well and microdose their visuals on regular basis.

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

When you work on something and stumble upon unrelated look and feel that makes your synapses fire in a cascade. Could be Data, could be AI, or just bunch of real-time glowing cuboids. Up to you.

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I would love Ben Navis icon to be somewhere on the left. It took me a second to decode that Munros are not 10x bigger than it. It looks a bit as Ben Navis is there on the far right tiny and shy.

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

When I started @variable.io I dreamed of project breakdowns like this: hardware, networking, software architecture, rendering behind the scenes, data and lessons learned. Check it out.

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variable @variable.io · 31/07/2025

What if brand was an algorithm? Our latest case study is a motion design tool for HebbiaAI developed for @pentagramdesign.bsky.social Building upon a stunning brand we've created a dynamic grid that moves, adapts and is intuitive to use.

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Procedural. 100% JavaScript baby!

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

3d flowers have 3d meshes. 3d meshes are 3d. Let's do more 3d things with them.

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I might like the B&W edition a bit more. Have a nice weekend!

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Uint16 Can do 0 Can do 65535 I want more GPU Says "ok"

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Another floral project documentation is in the works. #variablenature

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Gemini-cli was breath of fresh air and I hope to play with it more.

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Another reason is that I don't have 19.99$ * N for all models out there. I already pay for Twitter Pro so I might as well use it. Less friction. Gemi is some cluster fuck of auth/logins ( I have company and personal account and 2 comps and need to re-login 8x a day) and whatever Vertex AI is...

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Because I think it is wrong to say FU to 10y of relationships I build there in name of politics and current CEO/owner. I'm happy to be the counter example of all shit that is there. Bluesky is nice but nobody is there or people are just cross posting like me.

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Works with FigJam and big Figma boards too.

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

This really does open new era of 2d/3d mixing in Nodes.

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

So Grok 4 came out and I always wanted Figma integration in nodes.io so I vibe coded myself one. No more genAI videos in your mockups. Bring mockups to you art instead!

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Current LEGO setup at my home studio. Modular and geometric. With a print of Urban Flora #0 in the background.

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Only pex-math library needed more help as Gemini tried to use gl-matrix syntax. All I had to do is copy generated node into my graph. So far impressed. One login. No API keys, auth, uploading files to the cloud or managing subscriptions. See video for the results.

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Can gemini-cli learn how to program in @nodes_io? Let's find out. I've scanned all nodes from past projects and prompted Gemini to create new node converting 3d mesh into Octree representation. It was able to get the right node+port syntax on first try, same for geometry outputs, onChange handling

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Picked yet another veg from my garden to feed the algorithm. The flowers should be instanced only on the end of smallest branches but instead they got instanced at every vertex creating this centipede.

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Strange new worlds. Following the rabbit hole of broken Spirit Plants.

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Spirit Plants depends on a Draft WebGL extension (WEBGL_multi_draw_instanced_base_vertex_base_instance) and disabling it creates strangle looking and repetitive aliens.

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

It's a trend to overlay visuals with diagrams that don't make sense and are there just for aesthetic. Here is some debug view art where the opposite is true. Real data, broken visuals.

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Almost a year in the making. Supper happy with the results! Full of ideas how to make this project last for years...

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

To make it even more Lego like?

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Working on full case study as we speak. More info here bsky.app/profile/vari...

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

What if we could deconstruct plants into primitives? Testing idea of breaking apart Spirit Plants into components they are made of. Just like LEGO. But a bit torn before releasing too early: "Until it's done tell no one" vs "Share more. Become a vector (of ideas)." What camp are you on?

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variable @variable.io · 11/06/2025

It's not every day that your generative art ends up on a stamp released by Polish Post. Great to see Spirit Plant out in the real world! First WebGL / generative post stamp ever? #spiritplant #Expo2025

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Cloth simulation with metallic material is a beautiful mix. Counterintuitive (metal should be right) yet feels natural.

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Deep work in headphones mode. No I don't need the quadtree. But it looks cool. #variablenature

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Did this go anywhere? Love the rendering style.

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Instead of proompting GANs for inspiration I browse WIPs of my past projects using a homebrew software. Not enought days in a year to publish it all but so many forgotten ideas and paths not taken. Just wondering if my resistance for AI is just a comfort zone. Bg by www.instagram.com/ballonandon

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

noise-streams-flat-2024-07-29 Living, breathing, self-intersecting. One of our WIP for Maintel Digital Landscape that didn't make it into the production. Would love to see it on a big screen one day.

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variable @variable.io · 05/06/2025

Stunning photos of our artwork Spirit Plant in Poland Pavillion at Osaka Expo 25. Congrats to the whole Variable team: @marcinignac.bsky.social (Art Direction and Generative Design), @dmnsgn.me (Technical Lead & Creative Development), Daim Yoon (UX and UI Design) and Molly May (Research and PM).

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Messing with tree structures and multi light setup.

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