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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

floating soft glass made with WebGPU, compute shader, and a fully custom material r3f.maximeheckel.com/webgpu/glass

Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

broke new grounds on my quest to increase my aerobic capacity 6.3mi in 1h03 at 128bpm avg first run I felt fully in control

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

On top of that, you'll also see some more advanced techniques like "shadow mapping": The key technique for the Volumetric Light to take into account object on the scene which allow from beautiful dynamic shadows when the light source is occluded

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Luckily, through post-processing, you can just do that By raymarching a light in world space to draw the right set of pixels you can enhance your scene with beautiful atmospheric light

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

✍️ Can’t wait to share with you everything I’ve learned about Volumetric Lighting on Tuesday So many new fun shading techniques to tell you about

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

sneak peek of some diagrams that will make it into the next blog post translating concepts that feel super clear in my mind into those is hard but the result is super satisfying when it it works

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

got tempted to rebuild this (x.com/5tr4n0/statu...) in webgl using my volumetric lighting shader work not as good but still a fun one to build r3f.maximeheckel.com/tunnel

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

first draft for my upcoming blog post on volumetric lighting excited to tell you what I've been learning and experimenting with

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

volumetric x lens flare (in orbit) r3f.maximeheckel.com/solar

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

volumetric lighting post-processing effect implemented with raymarching r3f.maximeheckel.com/arches

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

reached central park today

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

they finally match (new blog design is out, not perfect yet, but better nonetheless) personal: maximeheckel.com blog: blog.maximeheckel.com

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

20k 2 bridges 2 blisters

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

took me so long to get this to feel somewhat right 🧈

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

it's been 3 days since I've been looking at this version and I don't hate it, so it may survive next up, need to polish/redo some aspect of the article layout

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

little sneak peek at a potential new blog landing page I've been working on for the past few days still early, and I have a lot more I want to experiment with

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

got my US citizenship 🇺🇸

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

410 mi later - time for a new pair of running shoes the difference of the state of the cushion between the new and the old one is pretty mind-blowing

Picture featuring to white nike running shoes on top of one another
- the bottom one is the older pair which after 410mi of usage has its cushioning slightly broken/compressed
- the new one at the top features no tear or usage

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

📝 New Blog Post 📝 I recently went on a "shader creative-spree" where Post-Processing became my main tool for transforming 3D scenes into stylized art In it, I share the techniques behind the many effects I built and how I combined them in unique ways blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/post-p...

Post-Processing as a Creative Medium by Maxime Heckel

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

✍️ Excited to share with you everything behind my post-processing shaders this coming Tuesday Built a lot, learned even more

Screenshot showcasing a web browser displaying the first paragraph of my upcoming blog post titled "Post-Processing Shaders as a Creative Medium"

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

spending an ungodly amount of time on Figma to draw these to illustrate some patterns for my upcoming blog post 5 more to go

screenshot showcasing the figma canvas displaying 3 frames

- one containing an isometric depiction of a "paper receipt post-processing effect" floating on top the scene it stylized: a 3D blue cube slightly pixelated to simplify the output
- one containing an isometric depiction of a "pixel pattern" floating on top the scene it stylized: a 3D blue cube slightly pixelated to simplify the output. The pattern changes the pixels (from dark to light) to: pure white, white with a blue circle in the center, blue with a white circle in the center, pure blue.
- The final one showcases the UV coordinates of an ASCII texture containing the characters "." "," "=" and "@" displayed on a pixelated grid

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

slowly recovering from the holidays: first 10mi run of the year and a fast one!

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Depixelizing "La Corniche near Monaco" r3f.maximeheckel.com/pixel-loading

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

started writing down my thoughts on my recent post-processing work and how to share what I learned with you all lots of behind the scenes demos coming

Screenshot of my desktop featuring the draft and notes I took for my upcoming blog post titled: "Beyond Pixels: The Infinite Possibilities of Post-Processing"

First part featuring titles, introduction themes, and the "Pixel and sub-pixel patterns" part

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

VHS post-processing effect inspired by the work of @polygon1993.bsky.social r3f.maximeheckel.com/vhs

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

fluted glass post-processing effect with dynamic lighting r3f.maximeheckel.com/fluted-glass

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

some sub-pixel pattern experiments first one is inspired by the work of John Provencher the rest are entirely hand crafted threshold matrices r3f.maximeheckel.com/pattern-art

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

cooking some new stylized shaders r3f.maximeheckel.com/pixel-statue

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Latest little post-processing experiment: applying an effect on a scene based on a dynamic texture The mouse trail is rendered in its own separate enclave and then passed as a texture to apply this pixelate effect based on the velocity and direction of the cursor r3f.maximeheckel.com/flow

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Added an extra 13.3mi this morning and reached my final yearly running goal of 500mi Despite an injury and the humid nyc summer, I’m happy that I was able to maintain consistency throughout the year

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

latest little post-processing effect experiment: turn any scene/image/video into legos added a small lighting/shadow effect to make the studs more visible r3f.maximeheckel.com/lego

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

the blog is getting some bsky related updates 🔵

Screenshot of the commit log of the repository of blog.maximeheckel.com featuring two commits:

- style: Use new Bluesky icon and Anchor
- chore: Add bsky links and shortcuts

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

little mosaic post-processing effect to overlay some of my volumetric raymarching work the tricky part here was to make: - each pixel have rounded corners - divide the screen in 8x8 blocks and have those feature more rounded corners Inspired by x.com/misaki_mofu/... r3f.maximeheckel.com/mosaic

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

in an attempt to distract myself from *waves arms around* I took another stab at this crochet shader - got a more organic look by shifting each row - added some noise for each cell to mimic fabric - pick a random neighbor color (based on the hue) love the output so far r3f.maximeheckel.com/crochet

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

first attempt at porting the same crochet stylized shader in GLSL still got to improve the shape and randomize the yarn color a bit r3f.maximeheckel.com/crochet

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

didn’t get to run the NYC marathon this year but still pushing to be at my best for next year

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

6. Painted orange tree: Similar than the one above but this time it's an anisotropic Kuwahara filter. Used this specific scene in the headline and preview image of my latest post because I liked it a bit too much

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

5. Painted clouds: Here I combined an old volumetric raymarched cloudscape scene with the Kuwahara filter from my latest blog post. The effect is not the most obvious, but if you look closely and pause, the painting effect should be more visible. Love the effect and the colors I ended up with

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

4. Retro: Still going down memory lane but this time not just with dithering and pixelization but also with a CRT cell effect

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

3. Dithered waves: same as the previous one, but this time I applied pixelization + ordered dithering on top of some Fractal Brownian Motion

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

2. Dithered Blob: did a pretty big deep dive into dithering, and it was interesting to put together work I've done previously with this style. Love the contrasting aesthetic of this organic/smooth raymarched blob with the low-res/ordered dithering

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Thread of a few WebGL scene I made this year that I really like (but could not share on here because no video support) 1. Moebius stylized shader: built a post-processing effect to reproduce the style of French artist Jean Giraud

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Maxime @maxime.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

mission accomplished! now setting the goal 500mi ran for the year

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