nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"unintentional Soviet yaoi" is a phenomenon that needs to be studied 2130
nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Armenian kids are starting the school year with tung tung tung sahur themed notebooks 450
nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 15/09/2026about to see what zun cooked up this time. maybe i'll finally 1cc a tohou game... 100
nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 07/09/20262/2 the "evil eye" thing seems to be super deep rooted. For example, in india you ward off the evil eye from a child by circling peppers over their head then burning them. in armenia there is the same exact ritual except with salt. how tf it made it made it all the way across the asia i have no idea 120
nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I made this shadertoy five years ago because I'm fascinated by the belief in the "evil eye". this specific amulet should be familiar to anyone from armenia/turkey/iran and might be familiar to people from the balkans. 1/2 www.shadertoy.com/view/7ls3RM 3120
nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I hate this stupid bureaucratic nonsense so much. I shouldn't NEED https in the first place. I'm serving plain html pages from an s3 bucket. It should be fucking plaintext. But just because browsers shit their pants when they see an http connection I have to care about "certificates" 161
nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 26/08/2026it came out better than i expected. was my first time tracing over a concept sketch. the cool thing is that it only took a couple hours to get here. before i would try "ideas" directly in blender... i didnt realize how much of a time sink that is even for simple stuff like this 220
nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 21/08/2026now make the branches out of bezier curves so that they have that nice smooth bend :) 100
nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 21/08/2026yes i know these things would never fly. shmups have their own laws of physics though. 030
nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 15/08/2026more programmer art. probably going to stop there with this model. 4140
nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 21/07/2026"Beyond the staples center you can see america, With its tired poor avenging disgrace" 130
nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 20/06/2026relevant bit that defines the parameter of trowbridge-reitz distribution as the "squashedness" of the ellipsoid ("e" is basically alpha here, replace sin^2 with 1-cos^2 and the usual form will become apparent) 010
nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 14/06/2026only difference between these two images is the tone mapper. First one is Khronos PBR neutral. Second is ACES filmic. Entire quad has the same roughness value. But you wouldn't think that, looking at the khronos tonemapper 😅 2120
nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 06/06/2026great, VVL silently crash when initialized by a DLL loaded from blender. pretty sure this is a new behavior too, this didn't happen on an older vulkan sdk. thank god for windbg, this could have turned into a multi hour wild goose chase... 090
nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 28/04/2026morning in yenokavan i haven't been back to armenia since 2023 - probably the longest period of absence since i moved stateside - and i'm starting to miss it. 040
nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 28/04/2026while it was really cool to experience it raw like this it's also sad that no one really takes care of these structures, to at least preserve them as a historical object. 010
nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 28/04/2026same rot54 photographed from the nearby village of tegher, to give you a sense of scale. the nearby unfinished structure is the AREV solar powerplant. both brain-children of paris herouni 110
nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 28/04/2026rot54 radio-optical telescope in orgov. semi abandoned (the security guy grandpa let us go there and told about that one time someone filmed a music video inside this thing). absolutely massive. 230
nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 28/04/2026apropos of nothing, a thread of armenia travel pics from various years. lake sevan 1141
nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 27/04/2026for a person who supposedly understands TV he's demonstrating a shocking lack of awareness of how uttering that phrase makes one look. 120
nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 19/04/2026yeah i know it's probably sad and cringe to say that at over 35 years old. but it is what it is, that point in time was the apex of both enjoying the moment and having hopes and aspirations for the future in a way that hasn't been matched since. 070
nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 30/03/2026still cooking... another one of those posts that got out of control... 0120
nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 23/03/2026pretty sure Green's SH lighting paper (or at least the version i have) has a typo: l=2 m=2 should have a factor of 1/4 not 1/2. it's 3 vs 1: Sloan's paper, wikipedia and my own derivation agree. 280
nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 22/03/2026good suggestion, it didn't even occur to me and so many visualizations already use red/green! 210
