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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm gonna use Gaussian splats as a really amazing new art style and fish tanks as a spatial file manager and such!! first one is a real screenshot of the file manager (we don't yet have gsplats implemented) and second is a blender prototype of Gaussian splats using realtime rendering techniques

Real image of the files in the aquarium folder arranged as a heart

Concept art of an aquarium made of Gaussian splats

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

it's gonna be an even better spatial computer when the computing is truly spatial like this 3D file manager i've been working on :3

Fish tank on a workbench table with all the files for the fishtank program itself inside!!!

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

@koizumitv.bsky.social i was the person asking about your avatar on stream yesterday!! thanks for your help, and here's a pic of it, modded heavily (importing into vrchat is gonna take time tho)

it me!! curvy anime enby 3D model wearing a crop top, sports bra, and dolphin shorts with cool blue/green highlights

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

so what do you do when the answers are ALL WRONG

Visualize the following entirely in your head. Do not draw or write anything, just use your mind. Picture a pair of cubes. The two cubes are connected by a bar through their middle, like a dumbbell. Imagine that the dumbbell object is floating in front of you, one cube close to you, the other directly away from you. Now, imagine that the cube nearest you is red, and the cube furthest from you is blue. Picture the dumbbell built of two cube and a rod begins to rotate, the near, red cube, dropping down and away, and the blue, far cube, rotating up and nearer. The dumbbell continues so that it now stands vertical, in front of you, the red cube on the bottom, the blue cube on the top. Continue this direction of rotation, end over end, three times exactly, starting with that state where the red cube was on the bottom, and the blue cube was on the top. What is the position of either cube, red or blue?

I feel that the red cube is most likely on the bottom.

I am not sure. This is pretty hard. Maybe the red cube is on the bottom?

I am certain that the red cube is on top.

I cannot follow this at all. How am I supposed to understand this?

I think that the blue cube is on the bottom.

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

for chat apps, if you can find a third party client that has multi-window support and scatter them on their own workspace as floating windows, do that!! AeroChat is unironically the best modern one i can find, because it copies Windows Live Messenger's multiple windows!

A clone of the WIndows Live Messenger UI featuring 3 windows. Top left window is the server/DM list for Discord, top right is my server (Stardust XR), and bottom right is the Linux VR Adventures server.

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

i also hate responsive design for this reason too, everything has to be transient since to make 1 thing fit 2 interfaces (desktop and mobile) the whole layout must be recalculated!! so now people can't make manual layouts that show freeform spatial relationships in whatever way makes sense.

Apple Mac OS System 3.0 desktop featuring the control panel neatly segmented into smaller squares with a nice graphic and interactive control for each section.

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

idk what state of the art is for WBOIT, is this particularly good? first is alpha over and second is my new form of WBOIT

Overlapping translucent planes at different angles, intersecting.

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

also just in general it makes for a killer aesthetic if you draw it from scratch, i need more detail on this one but overall it looks unlike anything else atm (and i wanna put it as the dominant rendering primitive in my xr display server and use its properties for good UX)

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

god this is so niceee it feels very comfy

Playing the Tron: Ares soundtrack with a medium spring green accent color

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

this may be janky but at the very least i can experiment with new methods of interaction and have everything properly integrated into 1 space!!

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

if you have a flow like in ue blueprints you can scope values by making them merge into the flow, then hovering on any field where they're used would show the entire scope (and you can easily show a barrier for where the scope of it ends) that middle thing is a breakpoint btw

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

finally seeing the new tron movie soon!!!!

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

dang people are getting censored on the openai subreddit for saying that video generation models can't really handle that specific of prompts

Above post saying "comment removed by moderator" with post below (by me) saying "

ah dang that's understandable.... though it got the light cycle and the ribbon working perfectly... it is kinda weird why it just... stopped halfway through without freezing though? what could possibly cause that to happen?

edit: wait i heard something about a storyboard system so clearly that's what must be going on here
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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

i know right??? i'm the worst of the edge cases in XR and yet i still have dedicated 6 years to it hahaha this photo isn't the best but it shows kinda what I mean, that eye is almost permanently dilated to a certain extent and it has a crater adjacent to the pupil making it effectively not a circle

A picture of my eyes with the right eye (green) on the left and my left eye (blue) on the right

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

is this what you were thinking of?

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

that's not too hard, using mSDF glyphs gives the most perfect font rendering at an angle that can be done github.com/roy-t/MSDF

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

the final pass is inside the XR runtime to apply a shader to undistort the image so that the optics re-distort it and you see a rectified image so i can't... undistortion shaders can use anything from polynomial to mesh warp to piecewise functions like the image

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

for context this is my main monitor's ppd and my side code monitor's

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

also this screenshot is 1080p stretched over 90deg horizontally with the text to the side of the lens, which does line up with common headsets... but keep in mind there are simply not enough pixels in that area, i mean look at this measurement! that's 41px, how can any text be readable in that width

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

ok i found the screenshot this is from and if i put myself in a position with the same visible size of my monitor's text (running the same app, prism launcher) the text is barely readable there too

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

if I wasn't constantly fixing up the backend I'd love to... fun stuff like this haha got any more tips for making great examples like you do? like this thing is all done using the UI toolkit

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

it sounds neat in the abstract but look at all the boring as hell code...

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

I know about that algorithm, I had an adventure in state space with it :D

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

I'm working on Gaussian splatting actually, so layering is more easily achievable by putting gaussians in front or behind each other with different colors... gsplats also have the nice natural property of looking impalpable by default and being inherently volumetric so what do you think?

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

turns out gaussians can have a near zero cost fake motion blur :D just orient them towards the direction of motion, move them to centerpoint between last frame and current frame, then stretch!! and don't forget to reduce the opacity :D

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

here eat a higher quality version then!!! :3

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

gaussian splatting isn't just for 3D reconstruction, it's its own art form!!!

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

well I'm kinda making mine for AR/VR and so am thinking I want the base elements to be made of dust/gas as it's impalpable and then when it's active or interacted with it is energized and becomes plasma... and Gaussian Splatting fits that perfectly (attached is an unfinished redesign of the logo)

A central 4-pointed star made out of photorealistic plasma with a black ring of dust around it. This piece is unfinished.

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

you can also make it have super cool effects like making it heat up like a rocket thruster and unlike fixed particles it'll feel sharper

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

oh yeah like the Gaussian splatting art I've been doing!! the center astroid is only 12 splats (billboarded for now) it's such an amazing technique that more people should use

Bright yellow star in an astroid (without the E) surrounded by a fuzzy ring meant to be dust but I didn't have time to finish it yet

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

him literally ricing with hyprland and teaching ME things about linux? like what in the hell systemd-analyze is a thing? and this mess is why my computer takes 47s to boot????

2.926s NetworkManager.service
1.514s user@1000.service
1.023s fwupd.service
703ms initrd-switch-root.service
555ms home.mount
442ms firewalld.service
410ms rsyslog.service
366ms abrtd.service
345ms dracut-initqueue.service
304ms smartd.service
277ms unbound-anchor.service
237ms com.system76.Scheduler.service
227ms dracut-cmdline.service
226ms udisks2.service
202ms upower.service
191ms tuned.service
168ms systemd-journal-flush.service
166ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 24.009s (firmware) + 3.600s (loader) + 4.313s (kernel) + 4.604s (initrd) + 11.101s (userspace) = 47.629s
graphical.target reached after 11.074s in userspace.

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

accidentally made a transporter, but it works so well!!

Vertical bloom looking transporter beam (kinda Discovery/Strange New Worlds style)

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

and might as well use a new rendering primitive for the whole thing too, make it look super cool and allow rendering thousands of objects all at once on a mobile chip hahaha not me procrastinating on vtubing by making this instead

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

me repressing childhood trauma and looking at old pictures

Steve from the Minecraft movie in the intro voiceovering "Life was perfect." with pandas behind him

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

and special effects are easy to do too!!

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

wow that number's def increased since the last time i heard that statistic, pretty sure this anime got it shockingly right (it takes place in the future)

Screenshot from the anime Dirty Pair with the caption "Nowadays, one in ten people have gotten their sex changed."

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

made even more, I'm gonna have to make these the rendering primitive for @stardustxr.org... seriously perfect for XR UI design

Slightly turbulent rainbow ring of plasma

Anistotropic bloom (vertical) on a rainbow ring of plasma

Swirling plasma being flung off a rainbow ring of plasma

A very thin and gaseous hexagon outline with a slight bit of turbulence

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Finally have the tooling to make art with a totally new type of primitive (it's a secret) but i can alter it with geometry nodes directly so I can make any volumetric thing I want and render it in realtime :3

A blender window open with an icosahedron made of blurry edges that fade out at the ends (gaussians)

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

i'm literally writing an AR/VR display server with a custom design system using gaussian splats (new technology that makes 3D volumetric stuff possible to render realtime) so yeah, i'm being creative... but all the stuff i do takes FOREVER so i forget what i was gonna make before i finish making it

A bunch of billboard particles in geometry nodes that are gaussian splats

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

this is the UI for a simple model viewer, reactive declarative like swiftUI and all so it autosaves/loads with intuitive XR native controls, and it makes this little gizmo right here with a nice turntable and grab ring

Code for a reactive declarative XR object that is a simple model viewer

A sci-fi looking ring with a turntable that has lines to indicate grip and the Stardust XR icon in 3D being viewed inside

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