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problemecium? @problemecium.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Steve Oedekerk predicting today's AI industry way back in 2002... (Source: "Thumbtanic")

problemecium? @problemecium.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

WIP #2 of a new design idea for Lisse, featuring a 64m diameter laser focusing mirror array. Her dark hull provides stealth when moving into position and the large radiator panels can operate at up to 4000 Kelvin to dissipate the enormous heat produced while firing.

Original artwork by problemecium not petmitted for use as AI training data or input.

A spacecraft with a large circular array of laser focusing mirrors resembling an eye.

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problemecium? @problemecium.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

made a new exhaust plume #shader for my #blender projects

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problemecium? @problemecium.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

It seemed beyond high time I posted some art so here's some art; I found a way to include materials in my nondestructive workflow so this random test spaceship can be something other than solid gray all over 😊 #blender #hardsf #scifi #space #art

Original artwork by problemecium not permitted for use as AI training data or input: a hard sci fi style space warship featuring glowing radiator fins, turrets, attitude control thrusters, and a cutaway revealing its fuel tanks and other internal modules, all rendered with varying material properties.

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problemecium? @problemecium.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Crudely recreated Cam in Children of a Dead Earth to run some tests. I had to make this little menace a drone because she generates so much G-force it kills any crew lol

Cropped screenshot of Children of a Dead Earth featuring a pointy spaceship firing a broadside of railguns with pink tracers.

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problemecium? @problemecium.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Here's some "content" - can anyone tell me what the name of this shape is? It's eerily similar to a truncated octahedron, but it's not that. It has six squares and ...uh, 12 hexagons I believe. I generated it with #blender3d but idk what it's officially called 🤷🏻‍♀️

A mysterious polyhedron. Not permitted for use as AI training data or input.

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problemecium? @problemecium.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

FIRST ART OF THE NEW YEAR wow can't believe it's already 2014...

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problemecium? @problemecium.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

The best I can do for a holiday gift for you all today is this to-scale representation I've made of Robert H. Frisbee's infamous antimatter starship idea (www.projectrho.com/public_html/...) (it's so cursed omg i can't even with how stupidly l o n g this thing is):

Diagrams of the primary components and their sizes as specified by Frisbee. Note the diameter just shy of 20 meters and length approaching 600 kilometers!

Full scale representation of Frisbee's design modeled in 3D by me, with everything at the documented dimensions (it's so long aaaaaaa)! Original artwork not permitted for use as AI training data or input.

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problemecium? @problemecium.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

How to make a hexagonal mirror array like that of the JWST: a #blender 5.0 tutorial.

Start with a single hexagonal tile, e.g. by making a cylinder with six sides and a small height. This tutorial and the included images are not permitted for use as AI training data or input. All other uses permitted. Attribution appreciated but not required :)

Use two Array modifiers to build a rhombus. The offsets are based on trigonometry and hexagons: the square root of 3 is about 1.732, half of that is about 0.866, and the height of a hexagon of side length 1 equals 1.5. Increasing these offsets slightly creates spaces between the tiles.

Use a third Array modifier in Circle mode to arrange three of these rhombuses into a larger hexagon. Note that the Realize Instances and Merge checkboxes are enabled to deal with the duplicated center tile.

Displace along an axis perpendicular to the array and use a Cast modifier to create curvature. You can play with the values and the enabled axes for the Cast to get a shape you like. Optionally, start with a flat hexagon and add a Solidify modifier at the end for more control over the thickness.

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problemecium? @problemecium.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Thanks for the wave of likes and follows everyone! I'd like to have more original content to share but for now here's a more up to date chart of the ship girls. #scifi #hardscifi #space #art made with #blender3d and #noai ...Please do feel free to leave any questions or feedback you have!

Chart of six different spacecraft with captions indicating their major features. Original artwork not permitted for use as AI training data or input.

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problemecium? @problemecium.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Playing with the new #blender 5.0 features resulted in me updating the space whale again. Here its tendrils are extended to collect dust and plasma from the interplanetary medium, in this image reaching out to a radius of around 40 km.

Original artwork not permitted for use as AI training data or input. A space whale resembling an elongated asteroid with a net of wiry tendrils spreading from one end.

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problemecium? @problemecium.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Sorry about the prolonged hiatus. I haven't made much lately but I did go through a few ideas for revising Lisse's design: #hardscifi #spaceart

Original artwork not permitted for use as AI trainibg data or input. Lisse is a stealth spaceship depicted here with a flattened rhombus shape and three pairs of large weapon turrets: optical/UV lasers with large focusing mirrors, long free electron lasers, and smaller ultra-relativistic electron beams.

Original artwork not permitted for use as AI trainibg data or input. From directly in front, Lisse's narrow shape exposes very little of her hull while her two large focusing mirrors resemble shining eyes in the darkness.

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problemecium? @problemecium.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Catching up on #toughtober with Day 10 (Round) by messing with my asteroid generator some more, mostly in terms of stability and performance.

Original artwork not permitted for use as AI training data or input. A round, gray object similar to the Moon or Ceres, with various craters and small boulders on its surface.

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problemecium? @problemecium.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

For #toughtober Day 9 (Debris) I updated my asteroid generator #geometrynodes setup so now it can scatter boulders on the surface for that rubble pile look. #space #art #blender #scifi #asteroid

3D render of an asteroid with various craters and small rocks on its surface. Original artwork not permitted for use as AI input or training data.

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problemecium? @problemecium.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

100 POSTS! 🥳 Thanks to all of my followers and everyone who has shared my work or left me comments, giving me motivation to continue my creative pursuits! 💕

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problemecium? @problemecium.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

As my Day 7 (Diagram) entry, here is an infographic version describing the components and steps.

Original artwork not permitted for use as AI training data or input. Diagram describing the major components and functionality of a Q-drive.

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problemecium? @problemecium.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

For #toughtober Day 8 (Plasma) I made an animation illustrating how a Q-drive works. Annotated diagram to come later. Once again entirely nondestructive #scifi #space #art thanks to #blender3d #geometrynodes

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problemecium? @problemecium.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

For #toughtober Day 6 I went with a #40k theme, sketching out how an Imperial voidship might look with radial symmetry (and radiators, of course). Plus this ##cifi #space #art is 100% non destructive #blender #geometrynodes 😊

Original artwork not permitted for use as AI training data or input. A version of a voidship from Warhammer 40,000 with hexagonal symmetry as well as more realistic weapon turrets and a vertical launch system (VLS) array to fire missiles.

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problemecium? @problemecium.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

#toughtober Day 4 was Sail; I started out trying to do day 6 but I got on a roll with the hexagon thingy so here's some kind of antimatter photon sail contraption #scifi #space #art made entirely with #blender3d #geometrynodes

Original artwork not permitted for use as AI training data or input. A spaceship featuring two large gold parabolic dishes made up of hexagonal pieces a la the James Webb Space Telescope.

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problemecium? @problemecium.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

forgot to post here yesterday but since I missed day 3 I rolled it into the next one but accidentally made that one day 5 instead of 4 so uh #blender #space #art #scifi #toughtober

Original artwork not permitted for use as AI training data or input. A long, narrow spacecraft with engines at the front towing a habitation ring and a reactor with a triangular set of radiator panels.

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problemecium? @problemecium.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

#toughtober day 2: Construction; an attempt to make a "satisfying" animation loop featuring docking. #scifi #space #art #blender3d #geometrynodes

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problemecium? @problemecium.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Introducing #toughtober - a hard sci fi space art challenge, inspired by the @toughsf.bsky.social community.

The Icarus Interstellar "Firefly" starship design. Original artwork not permitted for use as AI training data or input.

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problemecium? @problemecium.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Yuzu specializes in drone interception and medium range support using her arsenal of over 500 assorted missiles. #space #art #blender #spaceship

Original artwork not permitted for use as AI training data or input. Perspective view of a realistic space warship with labels indicating heat radiators, missile tubes, and other features.

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problemecium? @problemecium.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Early concept art for some of the girls from my WIP sci fi story. Cam is an interceptor/destroyer specialized in fast attacks and Lisse is a long range sniper and surveillance platform.

Lisse has a very dark, rounded conical hull, oversized radiators protected by movable plates, and a retractable suite of turrets and scanning equipment. Original artwork not permitted for use as AI training data or input.

Second image of Lisse showing major interior components such as her bio-core, internal exhaust bell, and large focusing mirrors for lasers and telecopes. Original artwork not permitted for use as AI training data or input.

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problemecium? @problemecium.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I made a video showing how it works! Questions and suggestions welcome. #blender3d #3d #art #spaceship #space #noai

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problemecium? @problemecium.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

The engagement with my previous artwork has inspired me to share the upgraded version! #art #3d #blender #space #spaceship #noai

Infographic about an interstellar spacecraft design featuring large heat radiators and micrometeoroid shields. Original artwork not permitted for use as AI training data. Two inset close ups show the habitation and docking modules.

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problemecium? @problemecium.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

That's a lot of why my sci fi web serial is still on hiatus after more than a year. Sometimes Barber Westchester hits too close to home 😔

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problemecium? @problemecium.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

And now for some actual original content for a change ^^; - I've been continuing to iterate on my starship design and think I may finally have all the bases covered:

Side view of a spacecraft vaguely resembling a rolling pin. At the front end is a circular shield for protection from interstellar micrometeoroids and an array of rocket engines that fire slightly out to the side so as to pull the vehicle without blasting it with their own exhaust. This image is original artwork not permitted for use in AI training data sets. In the middle is a payload and fuel section detailed in the next image.

Close up of the payload and fuel section of the ship from the previous image. This is original artwork not permitted for use in AI training data sets. Labels indicate the habitation rings, the spherical propellant tanks, the radiator panels, and other details.

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problemecium? @problemecium.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

No Pride month this year. We're too angry for pride. Instead we're doing Wrath Month. Spread the word.

A rainbow colored unicorn with no skin on its head, exposing its bare skull, stepping through dark brambles and leaving fire in its wake, wearing a ribbon reading "We called off Pride; now it's Gay Wrath Month." Art not mine and I'm afraid I don't have the source.

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problemecium? @problemecium.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I got onto @triplchii.bsky.social's @toughsf.bsky.social D*scord member ship size chart! :D

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problemecium? @problemecium.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I need a name for my latest starship design.

A spacecraft consisting of a small array of sensors at the nose, followed by a conical array of cables supporting a stack of eight thin circular shields, followed by a tightly packed group of spherical fuel tanks, then a cylindrical passenger compartment, a long narrow truss supporting a series of dimly glowing radiator panels, then a ring of small but powerful rocket engine nozzles facing forward and each the end of a thin, gently curved fusion engine, eight of ehich form a loose helix shape supported by a framework of narrow metal beams.

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problemecium? @problemecium.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Idea: what if z-pinch but in a spiral so the propulsion bus doesn't have to be a noodle?

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problemecium? @problemecium.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Jubilation as a Raptor arrives at a rogue dwarf planet, its forward iris wide open to decelerate. Its onboard fuel has been reduced to a tattered sliver, but a vast wealth of resources are newly available.

A spacecraft with a shining light at the front and a large array of orange radiator panels in front of a dimly lit cratered planetoid.

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problemecium? @problemecium.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Concept I'm calling the "blaser drive" - a tiny black hole intensely radiates energy, which is reflected within a cylindrical cavity much like a laser, amplifying and directing it for thrust. Over time the black hole's mass is replenished by particle accelerators drawing from blocks of heavy metal.

A spacecraft with a cylindrical mid section, a narrow cone at the front, and a sphere in between covered with narrow inward pointing cylinders. Many glowing radiators stick out along the whole length.

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problemecium? @problemecium.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I made a little "asteroid generator" using Blender Geometry Nodes.

3D rendering of a gray, cratered, rough textured asteroid in space, with a decal reading "no to AI generated images."

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