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brennan @brennan.computer · Jul 31

our 3D compression tool is out now!

the dream of making entire assets smaller than a single image is real; we've made entire multi-level, dozens-of-models games in under 7 MB

entirely free and client side

gltf-compressor.com

glTF Compressor - Optimize your glTF files online

Easily optimize glTF 3D models online. See your changes in realtime.

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brennan @brennan.computer · 3h

the other thing we're loving it for is taking 3D model proxies and turning them into hyper fast concept art

it's been super fun to involve more non-artists to say "here's what I'm thinking..." and they hand over a nice image (AI drawn over my render) that we can point at and talk about

high signal

brennan @brennan.computer · 22d

nano banana is so good, jeez

generated a fake game screenshot, ask it to take that and remove everything + white background + T pose

take T pose photo and generate 3D mesh

mixamo rig and now you've got an animated game asset from any dumb mockup

brennan @brennan.computer · 3h

and portal 2 is ~8 hours; regarded as one of the best of all time

- Abzu (meditative)
- Baba is You (puzzle)
- Gone Home (narrative)
- Jazzpunk (comedy)
- Limbo (beautiful)
- Mark of the Ninja (slick flow)
- Monaco (frantic escape)
- Octodad: Dadliest Catch (goofy physics)
- Opus Magnum (puzzle)

brennan @brennan.computer · 4h

no no, we're a fully size candy bar house

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Justin Oaksford @justinoaksford.bsky.social · 6h

my body is a machine that turns fewer polygons into a greater number of polygons for marginal visual benefit

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brennan @brennan.computer · 7h

I'm not a real day trader about it, but I am directionally sympathetic to this thesis

I think we'll see a lot of chop in smaller and medium saas as their lunch gets eaten by people doing the same thing internally, or new saas that does the same features for cheaper. no moats

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no. 2 type e(m) @em.vg · 1d

i don't care where, just far

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brennan @brennan.computer · 8h

for the handful that I looked at, sure

I'll probably prompt to take out the granola and protein bars and such, start whittling down the list

some are listed in price per kg, so we can add some further math into the spreadsheet, etc

brennan @brennan.computer · 8h

blind copy-pasting the entire costco search results into gpt and getting a csv that I can organize

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brennan @brennan.computer · 9h

both have had hand tracking for years now, yeah

ironically, both are discovering that spatial speed and accuracy is -abysmal- compared to more grounded hardware like mice and keyboards

our proprioception just isn't as good out in the middle of virtual space. we're tactile primates

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brennan @brennan.computer · 9h

I just took that to mean "anyone sufficiently crazy enough to practice this method long enough to become very good at it"

in the way that there are mario 64 speedrunning pros, or people who play snooker

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brennan @brennan.computer · 10h

even really really simple stuff:

life alert necklaces for falls are frequently false positive or negative wrong, and so the next idea was "let's put a security camera in every room" but a) someone has to watch that and b) huge privacy issues

but a local raspi in a closet with some ML could do that

brennan @brennan.computer · 10h

my hometown was the retirement home capital of the wider area and I've spent a lot of hours in and around the various centers

I 1000% believe that AI has a place front and center in senior care. they are understaffed by orders of magnitude already and the population ratio is not skewing better

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brennan @brennan.computer · 11h

*me waving my hands around with a stop watch*

assuming my accuracy was also perfect, the physical limitation of me slapping the air is about 150 letters per minute

so maybe about 30 words/min?

brennan @brennan.computer · 12h

a theramin keyboard would be funny

you have to hold one hand up and down to go from A-Z and the other hand to commit a letter peck

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brennan @brennan.computer · 12h

I attribute my entire career to twitter (and even a few examples to facebook)

basically everyone I met and know now and work with and contribute to and has my back can be traced down the network lines to that era of posting

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 23h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

brennan @brennan.computer · 14h

our racing game is 4.8 MB

three levels, ~2 minute race length. if you took out the song MP3 and maybe some sound effects you could probably get into that range, they're relatively heavy

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 14h

Installed Blender 5.0, scatter on surface is now a built-in node ❤️

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brennan @brennan.computer · 14h

oh wait - is _any_ of the search working right now?

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brennan @brennan.computer · 14h

is from:me not working anymore?

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brennan @brennan.computer · 14h

oh gosh, it's easily doing plural days for me

I don't have a high score board or anything, but there's plenty of tools its made for me over this year that have saved - without blinking - hundreds of brute force hours

brennan @brennan.computer · 14h

the thing I would do with those GPUs?

local AI

brennan @brennan.computer · 15h

yeah, you give every kid the same school uniform and by the end of the first week there's intense tribalism about having a ponytail or not, and by the time the slower group adopts ponytails, the cool kids already cast them out of style and moved on to berets or specific brand scrunchies or whatever

brennan @brennan.computer · 1d

haha! I could manage that for a brief second but not indefinitely

it's a real data input, so I suppose there'd also be peaks and flows to posting rates

brennan @brennan.computer · 1d

it is sorta weird, if you think about it, that somehow a GPU is a device that converts 100% of electricity into 100% heat _and also gets a very useful output from that on top_

I get how math isn't energetic, but it almost feels like it should be, right? a _substance_??

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brennan @brennan.computer · 1d

yep! every watt that goes into a CPU / GPU is identical to a watt going into a space heater

the math output is merely a free byproduct

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brennan @brennan.computer · 1d

oh hey, I designed a coin once!

we commissioned a mint (apparently you can just do that) and got 500 of 'em. worked out to about $10 per coin

the mountain in the background is the mountain I drew into the coin itself, the event was held there (jasper, alberta)

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