Around this time last year I worked on shadow cubemaps. I realized I had survivorship bias—only sharing the successes. The real lessons came from the weird glitches caused by bad matrices and wrong assumptions. So here are the parallel-universe ‘oh-please-no’ shadow realities… and the final result.

Today I published my first Unity tutorial on how to implement Pseudo-Isometric Camera rig: transform functions, planar movement, smooth rotation and zoom using linear interpolation. I would be glad to hear your feedbacks! Tutorial: kutaycoskuner.github.io/blog/tutoria...

#unity #isometric #camera

Normal maps store 3D surface direction data in a texture, letting engines fake detailed lighting without heavy geometry. A key idea in graphics for adding rich detail efficiently. And, this is what happens if you use single normal texture for all of your textures in the scene.

“Permanent Standard Time (not springing ahead in March) could prevent 300,000 cases of stroke per year and lower nationwide prevalence of obesity by 2.6 million.” #DitchDST

"Sick Architecture confronts our worsening apocalyptic condition head-on."

4Columns reviews a new collection that examines the intertwined histories of built environments and the scourges they harbor, house, and cause:

Robots weren’t always just tools in the service of human productivity.

🚨 Radical reform is needed to safeguard the future of academic publishing.

We are calling on the global research community to come together to develop new, sustainable and open models.

Find out how we can work together 🔗 https://cup.org/43uLE1a

This is not a Gimbal lock. My buggy rig is attempting to skip world coordinates entirely by folding spacetime to form a wormhole.

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.

Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:

* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled

* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

Development paradigms are shifting. Today I'm testing the Gemini CLI's utility as an integrated code assistant. As a Project I'm aiming to create something useful, a browser extension for dynamic content filtering, then compare AI-assisted vs. manual development metrics.

Today I learned: while studying database design, I realized arrays aren’t ideal for complex data. Instead, use foreign keys for one-to-many and junction tables for many-to-many. Clear naming conventions make these relationships easier to scale and maintain.

Parallax mapping in computer graphics fakes depth using height maps — cheap and real-time friendly. Works well, but at steep angles the illusion breaks because geometry doesn’t actually move. Here is a weird inception bug that I had while attempting to implement it :)

devlog:

Implemented the UV Grid Preset to Blender playground addon, Lightbox.

Target is to preview UV test grid or Clay material with consistent naterials (mutually exclusive) to all meshes, non-destructively, Eevee-compatible.

github.com/kutaycoskuner/lightbox

Built a text-to-image tool for syntax-highlighted code blocks to share clean, consistent snippets online.

Explore it here: github.com/kutaycoskuner/project_toolkit_py

You’ll also find my other small open-source projects there. Open to feedback & suggestions!

Learned about symlinks: they’re shortcuts pointing to files/folders instead of copying them. In my use case, I symlinked my binary—content (images, gifs, videos) from my cloud folder directly into my git repo for easy organization without duplication.