iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 29/09/2026

Trying out some light hill shading integration with tiles from @mapterhorn.com. Looks pretty good? It's served as a whole separate tile layer so I might not include it RN as I slowly get ready to release a version of this style to the world, but neat to know that this is possible and pretty easy!

3d map visualisation of High Park in Toronto, elevation is visible with shaded hills

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 17/09/2026

Reminder that Dax has his Bluesky mirroring his X account. You don't have to touch grass, you're in the clear.

Screenshot of Dax's post on X reading: "seeing more and more people on here who desperately need to touch grass"

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 15/09/2026

New Apple Maps Gaussian splat(?) trees look pretty incredible. Real cool mix of techniques, excited to see it rolled out more broadly.

Screenshot of Apple Maps looking at Church St in San Francisco. The trees have pretty good transparency and look very detailed.

Screenshot of Apple Maps looking at Shaw Street in Toronto. The trees are classic photogrammetry leaf polygon blob shapes that warp into the geometry around them and look kinda bad.

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 08/09/2026

I've finally gotten around to natural=wood (tree cover)! Unlike every other OSM renderer that does 3D trees, I've taken the groundbreaking step of not rendering them on top of roads, paths, and rivers! Oh, and also pedestrian paths :)

3D map render of High Park's maple leaf garden in Toronto. Naturally wooded area is darker than the rest of the park colour and has trees scattered inside it, but there is a buffer zone around roads, paths, and rivers so they don't intersect in an ugly way!

The buffer zone around roads and rivers is clearly seen in this shot as well

2D map render of a far zoomed out look at how cities and lakes render now that tree cover is represented. There is lots of large tree cover area visible!

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 01/09/2026

Protomaps is such cool software, even the debug views look nice.

The Toronto waterfront, islands, downtown, and Lake Ontario rendered in Protomaps' debug style. The colours are pleasant to the eye — not too garish and they all work well together.

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 27/08/2026

Some more updates! Military bases, hedges, beaches, and streetcar tracks! Still avoiding dealing with pedestrian paths, but the time is approaching... Also a rare look at a zoomed out view of somewhere that isn't Toronto! There's def more to do to make higher zoom levels look any good.

3D stylized map render of a the HMCS York navy installation by Toronto's waterfront. A red hatch pattern overlays all ground elements within the base to let people know the area is off limits.

The Lakeshore Blvd streetcar tracks can be seen in the background.

3D stylized map render of the William Meany Maze on the Toronto Island alongside Manitou Beach.

2D stylized map render of CFB Petawawa with the same hatched pattern still visible. When zoomed this far out, rivers are still visible but large bodies of water don't render properly. The map looks a bit sparse with no trees or other ground cover visible.

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 17/08/2026

Haven't had much time to spend on the map style this weekend, but managed to get some basic railway rendering and fancy glass roofs in! I don't want to go *too* hard on rendering all the building surfacing tags, but these feel like a reasonable detail!

Stylized map render of the glass roof over the pedestrian area at Toronto's "The Well" development

Stylized map render of the glass roof canopy outside Toronto's CIBC square

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 12/08/2026

Lowering the FOV to 10° makes a surprising amount of difference! Looks much better from higher top-down zoom levels and at closer angled views it makes the map look a lot cozier and more like the little model they have at city hall.

A 3D stylized map view centred on OCAD and the AGO. Toronto's City Hall is visible in the top right.

A top down view of the City of Toronto with the waterfront at the bottom and Queens Park at the top. This is the highest one can zoom out before building and road detail starts to be abstracted away by the renderer

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 09/08/2026

One bit of first time UX that I'll also note: The plugin seems to ship with "1More SonoFlow" enabled by default. When users hit the dropdown, because of the filtering logic they are presented with no other options, and it took me a second to figure out that I needed to delete the name.

Earware's v1 UI in its default state with the 1MORE SonoFlow headphone equalization curve selected.

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 08/08/2026

So far I've only modeled two types of trees, but can add more + maybe a few variants later

A group of broadleaved and evergreen trees in my map renderer

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 08/08/2026

Haven't posted any updates on this in a month! Still plugging away at the map, there are 3D trees and cool new rounded corner building extrusions from the latest MapLibre update!

A map of UofT's main campus lawn with 3D cartoon trees. Other amenities like benches and proper road styling is also visible

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 08/08/2026

Maybe the best part of switching away from Apple Music was that (because I'm this shape of nerd) there's a whole world of open-linked data (Musicbrainz) to contribute details to which makes their way back into my library!

Navidrome's metadata viewer showing the credits and other data for Vulfpeck's Half of the Way

Screenshot of Vulfpeck's Half of the Way on Musicbrainz' metadata viewer showing the same credits information that is in my music library.

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 08/08/2026

Navidrome continues to be such a kick-ass music library. I moved over to it once I got a NAS because Apple has been letting their Music app languish and I haven't regretted it for a minute. Some of my albums aren't on streaming services! There's actually quite a bit out there that isn't.

Full page screenshot of some of my album covers in my Navidrome library. There's 72 of them visible out of a total 181.

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 04/08/2026

Today's side project, rendering the BigBrain dataset in Blender!

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 05/07/2026

Set up the beginnings of a PBF → ID tagging schema → pmtiles → MapLibre GL style data pipeline

OpenStreetMap building data for Toronto's downtown core, rendered in greyscale with some simple 3D building detail visible

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 18/05/2026

Looks pretty good when finished! Some pipes still need to be tuned and all need to be glued, but is otherwise in good shape. It will be a small project to get finished to whomever adopts it (I’ll help you!) but IMO worth it. This thing is cool!

The PVC pipe instrument with all the tubes arranged reasonably nicely

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 16/05/2026

Here’s a video, the slappy sounds can be mitigated if you don’t play it with flip flops, but that’s all I have on hand at the moment.

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 16/05/2026

I originally made this in high school, it’s pretty neat but never got completely finished. My parents have graciously been storing my side project shame for YEARS but sadly this doesn’t fit into my apartment and they are renovating so it’s gotta go!

The front of the PVC pipe instrument sitting half-finished in its plywood cabinet. A spaghetti mess of black pipes crowds the interior.

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 16/05/2026

If anyone in Toronto wants a PVC pipe instrument, uh, hit me up because I’m getting this one set up to give away!

A PVC pipe instrument in a garage with a shop vac and workbench

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 03/05/2026

And now it looks like this?! What a step backwards. 🙄

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 26/04/2026

@iwriteok.bsky.social Couldn't have been more on the nose with this one:

Tweet from Robert Evans: welcome to the age of Weird Terror. just shooting up a school or a grocery store doesn't get you attention anymore, and so would-be mass murderers all try to find some way to peacock to get attention. we're going to see more eccentric manifestos and styles of attack every year.

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 27/02/2026

Wow it even technically supports the extremely cursed combo of ordered AND unordered lists! Editor could be better though, it's a few extra steps to switch between sub-item list styles on a per-line basis.

A list of items and sub-items, the items are numbered 1-2 whereas the sub-items are only bullet points.

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 16/02/2026

This nonsense slop diagram in Microsoft's GitHub training guide is embarrassing. Maybe review things before unquestioningly publishing generated garbage? I guess that's too much to ask of one of the largest and richest companies in the world.

A completely nonsensical AI generated diagram from Microsoft presumably created with the intention of showcasing how Git branches work. The Y axis of the graph is labeled "Tim". A callout mentions that "bugfixes may be continvoucly morged". Many arrows are scattered between points on the graph yet no ideas seem to be easily conveyed.

A complete failure of information design.

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 07/02/2026

Consult my doctor… about drinking juice??

Label of a juice shot ingredients list consisting of orange, ginger, lemon, and oil of oregano. A label below the ingredients says: “Please consult your doctor before use. This is not a medical prescription” as if somehow this vial of juice is a pharmaceutical product.

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 03/12/2025

Everyone else is posting their word clouds, but I'm keeping the streak alive!

A graph displaying the percentage of Henry's Bluesky image posts. 100% of images have alt text which is 116% above average.

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 22/09/2025

Trying something more original for day 2, this is all made from just 16 nodes!

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 21/09/2025

Finally got a chance to give @makham.itch.io's Pixel Composer a spin after a few years of letting them cook... This software is kinda awesome now?! Look what I can make with just 7 nodes!

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 19/09/2025

Super cool stuff and some very nice people at Swash & Serif this year! Check out the show if you’re into letters and in Toronto, it runs until Sep. 23rd! swashandserif.ca

A crowded gallery of folks looking at cool typography art!

A crazy grid pattern optical illusion that conveys the text “I don’t feel so good”. The squares appear to shift around

The words “crash out”, lettered as brush script pixel art and printed on a doily

An abstract piece consisting of red type with green squares on a white background. The text is set in a monospaced typeface and forms a larger abstract shape.

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 15/08/2025

Just now discovering the @ournetworks.ca 2022 USB drive has a secret!

A hidden text file containing ASCII art of a flower with the message "It's dangerous to go alone. Here, take this with you ❤️"

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 06/08/2025

A land economics expert you say?!

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 31/07/2025

Explored Toronto’s newest park today with @andia.bsky.social!

A lush green river surrounded by newly planted trees, wetlands, and meadows. A decommissioned power plant and large power lines are visible in the background amidst a partially cloudy sky.

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 19/07/2025

Personal ICS feed sounds pretty cool... but I'm at a loss as to how to get it from the profile page? Feed aside, I find it useful to be able to add single events to another calendar. Luma's "Add to Calendar" dialogue is pretty decent.

Luma's Add to Calendar dialogue explaining that an email was sent that should have added an event to your calendar while also offering the user the option to add the event to Google Calendar, Yahoo, Outlook, or iCal.

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 30/04/2025

This thing continues to get even cooler! Thanks for adding the hex code inputs for the non-Oxide folks out there — not that your brand colours aren't nice :)

ASCII art rendering of an old computer with a CRT monitor on a desk at the beach

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 14/04/2025

For reference, it should look something like this:

A square with red and green sides, the middle line between the sides is blurred respects the brightness of both sides and accurately transitions between them instead of getting darker

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 14/04/2025

I thought it would be easy to improve the blur so that it linearizes the image before blurring and re-applies the gamma curve after — apparently this is a completely unsolved problem in the web ecosystem and I can't find any JS packages that handle blur properly??? :(

An image with green and red sides, blurred with a gross dark line in the middle that shouldn't be darker than either side but somehow is due to improper colour math.

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 13/03/2025

The situation quickly became dire as the next button disappeared! After a last ditch attempt to try a different browser, turns out THE FORM IS BROKEN IN FIREFOX.

Two browser windows side by side showing the same web form. In Firefox there is no "Validate your slip" section which is the only way the user can proceed with creating their T4 slip!

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 17/02/2025

Made a new app icon for @makeworld.space's app: Dithertime! Check out his blog post about it here: www.makeworld.space/2025/02/dith... ...Or grab it for yourself on Itch.io! makew0rld.itch.io/dithertime

A macOS app icon containing a pink, jelly like representation of an X made of five cubes. This x pattern is similar to one commonly found in a Bayer matrix dithered image, as shown in the background gradient behind the icon.

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