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Danny Chapman @rat-face.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

It also uses a totally non-standard (and unintuitive) icon for the sun, and an ugly (unbalanced) icon for rain+cloud. By giving an hourly forecast at this range, it misleads regarding accuracy.

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Danny Chapman @rat-face.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

The blue/beta version has a more distant location, crams ALL the information in the bottom half of the screen, shows six times, but only up to 10am, obscures what is shown with an unnecessary overlay, and only shows a subset of the info - not useful at all unless I scroll vertically & horizontally.

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Danny Chapman @rat-face.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Here are screenshots from the live and beta versions, from a few days ago, for a forecast two days away. The former distributes the info cleanly and evenly using the whole screen, at my correct location, with all relevant info at six times, across the entire useful day, without me needing to scroll.

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Danny Chapman @rat-face.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Lyra recommends: How to rig a dog leg in #ControlEngine dev.epicgames.com/community/le...

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 08/04/2025

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

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Danny Chapman @rat-face.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

2. The current/Trump-inspired administration has clearly and intentionally increased the actual magnitude of the first two terms, and has dramatically increased the perceived magnitudes.

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Danny Chapman @rat-face.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

1. I'm half way through listening to this, which is horrifying. The question for me is, as a potential traveller to the US: "Is CostOfDetention*P(detained) - BenefitOfTrip * (1 - P(detained))" +ve or -ve? www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

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Is it safe to visit the US? – podcast

Adam Gabbatt reports on the visa and green-card holders being held in US detention centres

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Andreas - Match Tree, Wishlist on Steam 🐑 @andidev.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Heute abend auf twitch.tv/ard findet die Preisvergabe für den Puls GameJam statt. Es wird spannend in 5 Kategorien. Es sind einfach tolle Spiele entstanden.

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Danny Chapman @rat-face.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Whenever there's an internet outage here I always do a little ratty web search to check if it's back. But... is this the most horrific episode of Dexter ever?!

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Danny Chapman @rat-face.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Definitely better to see photos of a pretty boat than your blisters!

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Daniel Holden @theorangeduck.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Learned a new spring fact from my colleague @rat-face.bsky.social recently. For a critically damped spring tracking a target moving at a constant velocity, the amount of time the spring will lag behind the target is given by "halflife / ln(2)". Added to my blog post theorangeduck.com/page/spring-...

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Spring-It-On: The Game Developer's Spring-Roll-Call

Computer Science, Machine Learning, Programming, Art, Mathematics, Philosophy, and Short Fiction

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Danny Chapman @rat-face.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

You could fit a couple of cats in that gap instead. Much more useful.

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Danny Chapman @rat-face.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

As in - All the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order...

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Danny Chapman @rat-face.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

My best typo ever. How did that happen?!

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Danny Chapman @rat-face.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Rats are lovely. But protesting against films with bad rats is silly. They should just make a film showing how nice they really are.

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Danny Chapman @rat-face.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

It's a sample project for a big open world, but one of the nice things is that the assets were created by the community. I wasn't involved, apart from right at the end when took a look to help get some physics working! I believe the project will receive ongoing improvements too.

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Danny Chapman @rat-face.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Not at all. Three abreast requires an extra 2m of road/lane width (assuming cyclists are 1m apart), and can be very hard to find on many roads. Three inline requires you to overtake a formation that is maybe 8m longer - but that is only one second if passing at 15mph faster than the cyclists.

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Danny Chapman @rat-face.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

And here's another. I called him Ed (after the Labour politician). Wireframe shows the target motion.

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Danny Chapman @rat-face.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Just stumbled across this old video by accident (from WeightShift days) - I remember having fun with this chap!

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Daniel Holden @theorangeduck.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

My latest article is about one of my favorite techniques in graphics - Müller's method of Polar Decomposition. It also details some variations, including one which is ~2x faster to compute with more regular convergence. theorangeduck.com/page/variati...

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Danny Chapman @rat-face.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I loved your talk at the physics dept a few Saturdays ago - an exceptionally memorable telling of the universe's story, and a reminder that our spines _should_ tingle whenever we think of it!

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Joseph Conlon @josephpconlon.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I'm a physicist and I don't major in complex emotions, but when I think about my subject my spine tingles. Me reading from my book. Let's see how this compares to the other place. (Split in two as videos have to be less than 60 secs)

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Danny Chapman @rat-face.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

It's so hard to pick a favourite here - they're all adorable :)

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Thomas Geijtenbeek @tgeijten.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Now that Bluesky has native video support, I figured it's time for a repost: Teaching a biomechanical model to run using reinforcement learning. New results coming soon! #BiomechSky

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Danny Chapman @rat-face.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

His Dark Materials - this is the bit where Mrs Coulter shouts "Lyra!", and I sit up straight and quiver, but Lyra just carries on snoring. #NervesOfSteel

Dog called Lyra sleeping and snoring whilst Mrs Coulter shouts "Lyra" in a scary voice

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Danny Chapman @rat-face.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I'm going to pinch this for when I have to write the docs for it :)

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Remco Nijs @remconicedev.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Wanted to showcase some of my early experimentation with the physics control plugin in Unreal Engine. Physics control allows direct tweaking and modifying of a physics asset's "ragdoll behavior" on a bone-per-bone basis through blueprints, making it modifiable in runtime and highly customizable!

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Caleb Longmire @clongmire42.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Do you like Gameplay Animation and want to learn more about how it works? Well we just released an update to our Game Animation Sample project for #UE5 .5! Get it here - fab.com/s/46a85e1ef0c5 P.S. You may have to remove local content in the EGL library in order to get the 5.5 version.

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Game Animation Sample

This project showcases fully functional animation systems that are commonly needed in games. It is built using current best practices and can be used for learning or to help you kickstart your own cre...

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Danny Chapman @rat-face.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

It's funny how, after 18 years or so of living with cats, it's impossible not to hear the "meow" when watching your little clip, even with the sound off! Greetings from Meg:

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Michiel van de Panne @mvandepanne.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Control physics-based characters at interactive rates to climb over tables and more. No learning! Key ideas: (a) partwise MPC: switch between full-body and factored body-part MPC as convenient; (b) strategy guidance via sparse contact keyframes. SCA 2024 www.cs.ubc.ca/~van/papers/...

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Danny Chapman @rat-face.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Derek Sivers is a smart guy and likes rats. I approve. t.co/ZTYiMdM8wh

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https://sive.rs/rats

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Danny Chapman @rat-face.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

choose between sacrificing my principles, or my daughter. I know I'm incredibly fortunate for that to be an option (and am happy to pay the VAT on our choice) - I hope she does too! We should just access to decent state schools, as an investment society makes in its future.

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Danny Chapman @rat-face.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I visited. Next nearest is Swan - that was brand new at the time, and we considered it. Glad we didn't go for it, as it is loathed by the kids we know going there (detentions for only scoring 80% in tests, detentions for looking the wrong way whilst walking in corridors etc). So I get to

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Danny Chapman @rat-face.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

One reason is that in some places, state school provision is terrible. Here in Oxford (Marston), we're technically in catchment for an OK state school (Cherwell), but in practice had no chance of getting in. Next nearest is Cheney school, but again marginal, and I found it utterly depressing when.

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Danny Chapman @rat-face.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

I paid my #BrookeEntryTax twice before even realising that it was my civic duty (assuming profile & banner counts), or that there was such a thing as an Intellectual History Starter Pack.

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