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Xiphic @xiphic.bsky.social · 10d

bruh is that 5 2.0 tickets in one run

I got 1 ticket at a time and i'm 15 kills in with only 1 nodule total 😭

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Xiphic @xiphic.bsky.social · 15d

Oh forgot to put that somewhere,
Glacier National Park!

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Xiphic @xiphic.bsky.social · 15d

Hopefully this doesnt upload too crunchy

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Xiphic @xiphic.bsky.social · 15d

One day, 20 miles, 4000ft elevation gain.

Ow...it hurts so good

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Xiphic @xiphic.bsky.social · 20d

Touchin grass

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PK @pkpkpk.bsky.social · Sep 12

new show! i was happy to be invited to make a deep house-ish set as part of september's DEEPDiVE, and it'll use some new shader stuff i'm experimenting with, aiming for hypnotic chill dance vibes. it'll probably be replayable later but no info on that just yet...

DEEPDiVE @deepdiveclub.bsky.social · Sep 12

DEEPDiVE September 19th

Next Friday, witness Ashanti's debut DJ set, and a special shader FX A/V performance by PK, award-winning creator of Break!

EST
9:45PM DOORS
10PM Kuro VJ Dubsu
11PM Ashanti VJ Nikky
12AM Keno Tatsu VJ OmegaSol
1AM PK (shader FX)

Don't miss this one!

❗EPILEPSY WARNING❗

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Xiphic @xiphic.bsky.social · Jul 26

normal (derogatory)

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Xiphic @xiphic.bsky.social · Jul 26

Most normal adults think anything animated is for kids

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Xiphic @xiphic.bsky.social · Jul 13

Everything the light touches is yours to shed on

Dog on a rock looking out at glacial valley.

Same dog on a different rock looking out at different glacial valley.

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Xiphic @xiphic.bsky.social · Jul 13

Glacier National Park, and pictures dont capture the scale!

Easily my favorite place in the lower 48

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Xiphic @xiphic.bsky.social · Jul 13

Everything the light touches is yours to shed on

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Xiphic @xiphic.bsky.social · Jul 13

Doggie just took the most scenic shit of his life 💩🌈

Looking out across Lake Mcdonald into Glacier National Park. Dog for scale in bottom right

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Xiphic @xiphic.bsky.social · Jul 11

How it's goin

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Xiphic @xiphic.bsky.social · Jun 24

And Rubin is poised to revolutionize our understanding on that front.

For all the crap going on in the world today, it's still a wondrous time to be alive. Hopefully this brings a bit of that wonder to your day.

A sunset view over clouded mountains, with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory building on the right

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Xiphic @xiphic.bsky.social · Jun 24

For millennia we believed the Heavens to be static, unchanging, eternal.

Every year now we discover more and more how that couldn't be farther from the truth. Our universe is scintillating with activity, not just on the timescale of eons but mere days.

The Flammarion engraving, depicting a pilgrim with his head behind the night sky, gazing at the machinery of the heavens

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Xiphic @xiphic.bsky.social · Jun 24

Like REALLY massive.
6.4GB per image. 20TBs a night. 60 PETABYTES when all is done.

It's not just asteroids either. Variable stars, supernova, active galaxies and black holes, and quite likely things we don't even know exist yet!

Check out the level of detail here:
skyviewer.app

Skyviewer

skyviewer.app

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Xiphic @xiphic.bsky.social · Jun 24

Some cool science for your feed:

Yesterday was the first images release for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory!

It's 3.2 gigapixel camera is going to image the entire night sky every 3 days, for the next 10 years, creating a massive catalog of all that moves, pulses, and flashes!

youtu.be/DTuq-vBsDJE

A Swarm of New Asteroids - VIDEO - EN

YouTube video by Rubin Observatory

www.youtube.com

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PK @pkpkpk.bsky.social · Jun 19

i was invited to play Hotbox on the 29th, and ended up spending a few days putting together some visuals for this cozy little forest setting, and so Break #20 will be a smaller one with doors opening at 8:15 EST, ending an hour later. the full event is going for 6 hours before that!

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Xiphic @xiphic.bsky.social · Jun 16

might just be you're used to working with unity constraints rather than VRC's constraints
creators.vrchat.com/avatars/avat...

Constraints | VRChat Creation

VRChat provides its own custom constraints system, which allows bones on your avatar to move, rotate, and scale relative to other bones.

creators.vrchat.com

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Xiphic @xiphic.bsky.social · Jun 16

Feel free to dm me here/discord/tg if you need more!

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Xiphic @xiphic.bsky.social · Jun 16

Idk the most elegant solution because i speedran this, but basically just added a target on the soarer as a source to the tigerbee position constraint, as well as rotation and scale constraints to it. Animated the source weights on position and global weights for the other 3 for on/off states

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Xiphic @xiphic.bsky.social · Jun 9

also thanks @searing.bsky.social for documenting my crimes

no idea why the sound is exploding at the start

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Xiphic @xiphic.bsky.social · Jun 9

sorry about your child @tokyozilla.bsky.social

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can I get another 👉👈

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Xiphic @xiphic.bsky.social · Jun 9

Yesterday's outage gave me a lot of time to think

...which is never a good thing

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Xiphic @xiphic.bsky.social · Jun 9

also thanks @searing.bsky.social for documenting my crimes

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