While writing a chapter on Venera-15, I decided to process the raw data to get a better understanding of the system. The Soviet radar orbiter emitted a continuous beam with a repeating pattern of modulation. A recording of the reflection was called a "radio hologram".

Have you watched 2swap's YouTube video on the chaotic behavior of double pendulums? youtu.be/dtjb2OhEQcU?si…

Lunar eclipse happiness noises

The "3d-tiles" renderer is slowly becoming "any tiled data" renderer - newly added support for WMTS tiled images brings a whole new world of mapping data to #threejs. Including the massive catalogue of data from NASA GIBS! Demo below 👇 #webgl #gis #3dtiles #nasajpl #nasa

🔊How to intercept a spaceship using orbital-mechanics in 60s store.steampowered.com/app/3320850/Pe…

Houdini COPS tip: Use "flow_projectnondivergentmultigrid" to turn normalmap to height like so:

the solid state tesla valve acting to slow flow in one direction.

According to the IMF, world GDP per capita (PPP) is now $25,591. That's pretty incredible. That's about where the United States was in 1972. What a victory for humanity.

I wrote a little calculator to help me with common programming/gamedev tasks like tweaking formulas or plotting functions. Link below if you think it might be useful for you 🫵

I got tired of mashing together tools to write long threads with 𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 and ℳα†ℏ—so I wrote La𝑇𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡! It converts Markdown and LaTeX to Unicode that can be used in “tweets”, and automatically splits long threads. Try it out! keenancrane.github.io/LaTweet/

I wanted to see if I can paint with smaller canvas 64x64 pixel

When Don puts his mind to it he is second to none.

ideal home layout

Trying to learn Houdinis extremely opaque "Linear Solver" SOP. Here I finally got it to work as the central solver in a little topology optimization thingamajig. It is cool to see the truss structures emerge as the system converges. (The circles are design constraints that i

Venera-14 with perspective reprojections of the two camera panoramas, including color data where it exists.

Exploring topology optimization in houdini. Even a really simple starting shape can create fairly interesting truss structures.

topology optimization

Here is inside fold version. Thank you ᴍᴀᴛᴛɪᴀꜱ ᴍᴀʟᴍᴇʀ ! x.com/3Dmattias/stat…