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Pekka Väänänen @pekkavaa.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

A new article on my website about a small thing that has bothered me for a long time: Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256? 30fps.net/pages/255-vs...

A number line where 3-bit integers in the range [0..7] being mapped to real numbers with two approaches: the standard (top) and alternative (bottom).

On the X-axis we’ve got a number line and the locations of brown circles on it represent the decoded floating-point values. The numbers inside are the integer inputs. Each integer has arrows pointing to it; these show a range of floating-point values that round to it. I’ll call these ranges “bins” in the rest of this article.

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Edd B @kiwi-tiki.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I uploaded a new 60hz capture of the NES game I made with @prismbeings.com last year, since the old capture played back at 30hz on YouTube... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr-S...

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Cybercoaster (NES game)

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Edd B @kiwi-tiki.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Here's a new video of my port of Another World for MSX TurboR: youtu.be/kZkBG8rP1RE Also, the ROM is now available for download! #msx

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Another World for MSX TurboR (Now Available!)

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mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

i mean... its not really a pathtracer until you've done hall of mirrors is it

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mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

been a couple years since I wrote a dumb pathtracer-in-a-shader; felt that itch again and decided to brush off the cobwebs by 'covering'/'blatantly ripping off' noby's brilliant 10yo 4k www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r8p...

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noby @prismbeings.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

normal people: hey man how’s it going lofi aesthetic grift accounts: andrei tarkovsky's polaroids

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

this place is okay but i wish it had more annoying people and more evil people

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noby @prismbeings.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

do YouTube video essayists know that titling your video in the form "The Adjective Noun of Adjective Nouns" or anything similar immediately signals that it's absolutely not worth watching at all

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noby @prismbeings.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

played at the MTG premodern finnish nationals yesterday with this Replenish deck, 4-2 results for a 10th placement overall :) tied in points for top-8, not good enough in the tie-breakers to qualify, but very happy with the result anyway!

4× Opalescence
4× Parallax Wave
4× Parallax Tide
4× Attunement
4× Replenish
4× Frantic Search
2× Careful Study
3× Intuition
3× Seal of Cleansing
4× Swords to Plowshares
4× Flooded Strand
4× Skycloud Expanse
4× Adarkar Wastes
4× Ancient Tomb
2× City of Traitors
3× Island
3× Plains

3× Chill
3× Hydroblast
2× Mana Leak
1× Annul
3× Orim's Chant
1× Seal of Cleansing
2× Meddling Mage

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Pekka Väänänen @pekkavaa.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

We made a Nintendo 64 demo for Revision 2025! 📺 youtu.be/v3wYV6gxJII It has baked lighting with normal mapping, specular shading (at the end), and of course bloom. The beautiful song was made by @prismbeings.com with guitar performed by soundcloud.com/sou_andrade Some development notes below.

A screenshot of a graphics demo with an arched outdoor hallway made of rock walls with the sky seen behind, with the out-of-frame sun casting its light to the cobblestone floor and walls.

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Edd B @kiwi-tiki.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

@prismbeings.com and myself released a NES game called "Cybercoaster" this weekend at @revision-party.bsky.social ! YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JSs... ROM Download: prismbeings.com/files/public... #demoscene #nesdev #gamedev

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NES Game "Cybercoaster"

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Edd B @kiwi-tiki.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I made an attempt to create this kind of material. Also, this is the first shader I'm posting about on this new Bluesky account! www.shadertoy.com/view/Wfs3RN

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I’m dreaming of a world where everyone steals OpenAI’s world consuming garbage and gives it away for free.

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Gargaj @gargaj.umlaut.hu · 28/01/2025

I got tired of people relying on other people's code to build demos (or games for that matter) so here's a tutorial in 40 steps and ~400 lines of C++ on how to build a renderer (with music) in DX11: gargaj.github.io/demos-for-du...

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noby @prismbeings.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

My father-in-law is a producer. He is insanely gifted. We were listening to Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites together and I asked him what it would cost to make the FM8 growl patch today. I will never forget his answer… “We can't, we don't know how to do it.”

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mcc @dryad.technology · 16/11/2024

⚠Invalid Handle is the new blue checkmark

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noby @prismbeings.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

add to this RME TotalMix, Digicheck NG and iLok, then Linux might be a viable consideration for music production

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Pekka Väänänen @pekkavaa.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

I wrote about video game shadow techniques on my blog: 📜 30fps.net/pages/videog... I've always liked different ways to draw shadows in games. I went and tried to find visually distinct examples and explain their differences. I hope you'll find it inspiring!

Super Mario 64 (1996, Nintendo 64) uses blob shadows for characters.
Left: A blob shadow overlapping with tree shadows. Center: A blob shadow getting clipped using a hardware decal feature. Right: All moving characters and objects have their own shadow. The clipped shadow inside that transparent bubble shows the limitation of the Nintendo 64 decal feature. Screenshots taken in the ares emulator.

Left: Crash Bandicoot: Warped (1998, PlayStation) renders shadow textures at runtime. Right: Soldier of Fortune (2000, PC) also does but at a lower resolution.

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noby @prismbeings.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

music production tip: make all the mistakes immediately upfront to save yourself from second guessing every change while comparing to earlier revisions

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noby @prismbeings.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

bluesky image upload backend still needs a lot of work… resizing to max 2000px on the longest edge is barely acceptable, but always recompressing the input to ~500kb JPGs is just terrible. and none of this is even documented anywhere.

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noby @prismbeings.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

series of computer graphics fantasy artwork i made in the past few years these are all rendered with a simple custom GPU path tracer that fits in a 4 kilobyte executable, along with scene being traced

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 07/02/2024

"every furry is a programmer genius singlehandedly holding up the internet and keeping nazis out" like nah i bet a lot of em are just regular people with boring jobs in sales or whatever

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 07/02/2024

after years of unfair internet abuse i fear the pendulum's swung too far in the other direction and we're starting to see what i call "philo-furryism"

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

every so often i think about people buying $500 aeron chairs, they're awful, bland chairs you see an aeron chair in an office you know someone's about to say "we're all family here" and ask you to come in on a weekend they also suck at being a chair too, deeply uncomfortable

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mogu @mogumu.bsky.social · 26/07/2023

moon bunny

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noby @prismbeings.bsky.social · 10/07/2023

as much as we lament the death of the public online forum as they're being replaced by less accessible discord communities, let's not get ahead of ourselves and forget what the reality often is

An online forum post that says:

"Ok, I found it out. I just had to click this button: [You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.]"

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Catherine @whitequark.org · 10/07/2023

if you're publishing open source code, your enemies will use it. personal enemies, political enemies, class enemies. they will use it and derive benefit from it and there is _nothing you can do to stop it_. (no, licenses aren't it.)

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noby @prismbeings.bsky.social · 05/07/2023

as twitter gradually evaporated over the course of about a year i severely lost interest in contributing to any sort of public facing social media. building an audience is utterly frustrating and i'm not sure if i feel up to it anymore, and the still persistent volatility certainly doesn't help.

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Luna @moonbase.lgbt · 04/07/2023

I think one of my struggles at this time of everyone flocking to alternative apps, besides desperately trying to follow all of the people in all of the places, is it’s hit during a time where I feel I have very little to actually say anywhere.

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