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Taylor
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I am Taylor. I am a programmer who mostly uses Rust, C++, Ruby, Python, Lua, and JavaScript at work, and work intermittently in roughly a dozen other languages […]

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[3D rendered image of drug capsules]

Wanted to see if I could make convincing capsules. I'm pretty happy with the way this looks. For some reason, Cycles gives some weird colors on the faces when I crank up my noise textures. I think it has something to do […]

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A 3D rendering of many multi-colored drug-containing capsules. The capsules have an opaque half and a transparent half, revealing clusters of tiny white pellets within. They are scattered on a partially reflective white surface. A 3D rendering of many multi-colored drug-containing capsules. The capsules have an opaque half and a transparent half, revealing clusters of tiny white pellets within. They are piled upon a partially reflective white surface, and look to be mid-fall, partially bouncing on each other.
September 26, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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[3D rendered image of drug capsules]

Wanted to see if I could make convincing capsules. I'm pretty happy with the way this looks. For some reason, Cycles gives some weird colors on the faces when I crank up my noise textures. I think it has something to do […]

[Original post on shark.axfive.net]
A 3D rendering of many multi-colored drug-containing capsules. The capsules have an opaque half and a transparent half, revealing clusters of tiny white pellets within. They are scattered on a partially reflective white surface. A 3D rendering of many multi-colored drug-containing capsules. The capsules have an opaque half and a transparent half, revealing clusters of tiny white pellets within. They are piled upon a partially reflective white surface, and look to be mid-fall, partially bouncing on each other.
September 26, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Took my oldest to a D&D get together at her friend's house, so I had to do parent socializing. I don't remember the dad's name, what he does for a living, or what his hobbies are.

I do, however, remember the dog's name, breed, age, favorite foods, and medical history.

I should probably work on […]
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September 11, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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And a commission for @ink-witch.bsky.social !! ✨🔪

Thank you so much, it was very fun!! 💖
#sketch
A rainbow sketch of Ink Witches Sona. The character wears a large oversized hoodie and beanie with horns sticking out of the latter. The character has spiky hair and a mischievous grin and holds a rugged knife. Shoes are Fila Disruptor HiTops.
August 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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This technique here is so simple, but really gives some pretty renders: https://mas.to/@curtisjamesholt/114975997850833990

I've also duplicated the studio setup for this, which I intend to reuse in the future. I've never put enough effort into creating […]

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A 3D rendering of panes of prismatic glass floating over a black void. The glass reflects and refracts blue, pink, purple, black, and white. There is a bloom effect, making the glass seem to glow.
August 7, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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This technique here is so simple, but really gives some pretty renders: https://mas.to/@curtisjamesholt/114975997850833990

I've also duplicated the studio setup for this, which I intend to reuse in the future. I've never put enough effort into creating […]

[Original post on shark.axfive.net]
A 3D rendering of panes of prismatic glass floating over a black void. The glass reflects and refracts blue, pink, purple, black, and white. There is a bloom effect, making the glass seem to glow.
August 7, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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A rendition of this cute piece by @spilledpixel@[email protected] . I've had my eye on this one for a long time.

Took probably about 5 hours altogether. I tried arranging it with some pieces of furniture, but they were either too realistic and […]

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A 3D rendering of a small stylized dinosaur closed in a glass bottle with a cork stopper, standing on a bed of sand. The dinosaur is surrounded by small leafy flowering plants. The background is a rocky desert. The dinosaur is shaped like a cute, stubby-legged brontosaurus, but with pink plates along its back like a stegosaurus. It has two heart-shaped plates on the top of its head over its large black eyes. It has blue skin with pale blue spots along the flank.
August 1, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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A rendition of this cute piece by @spilledpixel@[email protected] . I've had my eye on this one for a long time.

Took probably about 5 hours altogether. I tried arranging it with some pieces of furniture, but they were either too realistic and […]

[Original post on shark.axfive.net]
A 3D rendering of a small stylized dinosaur closed in a glass bottle with a cork stopper, standing on a bed of sand. The dinosaur is surrounded by small leafy flowering plants. The background is a rocky desert. The dinosaur is shaped like a cute, stubby-legged brontosaurus, but with pink plates along its back like a stegosaurus. It has two heart-shaped plates on the top of its head over its large black eyes. It has blue skin with pale blue spots along the flank.
August 1, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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I've been doing a bit of #diamondpainting lately. It's relaxing and fun. A few weeks ago, I played with using #blender #geometrynodes to generate diamond art from an image texture, but it really struggled to handle a large handful of these things (1000x1000 is a million diamonds, for tens of […]
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July 24, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Made a #blender rendition of this piece by @evansky_arts@mastodon.social: https://mastodon.social/@evansky_arts/114886154370491434

Took me about 5 hours so far. Very much about this is unfinished. The lighting effect in the sky is too smooth and not […]

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A 3D render of a white python on a tree branch staring up at the moon. The moon illuminates a night sky behind it. Below and around the python are clouds and Chinese paper lanterns.
July 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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I hate #fireworks so much.

My neighbors start shooting them off a week before 4th of July, and continue until a week after. So for 2 weeks of my life, I have bangs going off next door until midnight every single night. These aren't just the little firecrackers or anything either. They're […]
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July 2, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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I don't like or use #windows anymore, but I did always like these cool #wallpapers, and always wanted to make one of my own.

This is made in #blender with #luxcorerender, though the caustics are subtle enough that #cycles probably would have done a good […]

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A 3D Rendering of a Microsoft Windows logo floating over a grey floor. The logo is made of red, green, blue, and yellow glass, throwing colored light onto the floor beneath it. The glass has a wavy bend to it.
July 1, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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I've spent a long time now working on improving my #3dart skills. I'm putting about an hour a day into #blender #digitalsculpting, and I've got hundreds of hours of practice under my belt now. But now, the modern showings in generative #aiart can do better than my best effort in minutes what […]
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June 14, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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WIP Floppy disk in #blender. This is about 2 hours of work so far.

#blender3d #3dart #hardsurfacemodeling #floppydisk
A 3D rendering of a floppy disk. It has a jewel housing, with a turquoise clear case around the magnetic disk. the background is a plain grey.
June 2, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Another rendering with #luxcore in #blender. This applies #caustics to the bottom of a pool and records the animation of the Ocean physics.

I wanted to record it from above, but I couldn't figure out how to get the light paths to show through the […]

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A very simple model of a pool, with rough, wavy water on top. The entire scene is grey, with no texturing applied.
May 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Playing with #luxcore caustics and volumetric scattering. I have no idea what I'm doing, but the effect is really interesting. I'm planning on doing a water-heavy scene in the future, so I might have to mess with LuxCore soon. It having its own full set of […]

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A 3D render of a glass of red wine with a spotlight shining on it. The light refracts through the glass, shining a crescent of light beyond its shadow. The glass radiates beams of red light in all directions.
May 26, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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Always kind of wanted to make a #cycles camera obscura in #blender. Was kind of tough getting everything arranged right, and to get the pinhole the right size, but the result is interesting. It was a fun little experiment. I could get much better results by […]

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A rendering of a camera obscura projection made in Blender. A colored screen-capture of the camera obscura set-up scene. An x-ray view of the camera obscura set-up scene.
May 24, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Made myself a new wallpaper. Pretty happy with how it came out.

The blend file doesn't include the background exr, because it's kind of big. This is the source if you want to have the whole thing.

#blender #blender3d #3dart #art #abstractart #wallpaper
A 3D rendering of a grid of crystal button-like truncated pyramids. They reflect light from an unseen window off-frame, showing trees and window frames in the reflection. They rest upon a ridged surface that is lightly reflective.
May 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
taylor.shark.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy
Made myself a new wallpaper. Pretty happy with how it came out.

The blend file doesn't include the background exr, because it's kind of big. This is the source if you want to have the whole thing.

#blender #blender3d #3dart #art #abstractart #wallpaper
A 3D rendering of a grid of crystal button-like truncated pyramids. They reflect light from an unseen window off-frame, showing trees and window frames in the reflection. They rest upon a ridged surface that is lightly reflective.
May 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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What a horrible night to have a ~~curse~~ postgres `VACUUM FULL` mistake that forces me to spend hours running `pg_dump` and `pg_restore` in a panic.

At least it looks like it worked. Oof.
May 9, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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I've had to throw anubis in front of my small, single-user Forgejo instance. I hate that I have to do this, but AI scrapers don't respect Robots, they work around rate-limits, and they basically behave completely maliciously, hitting all the archive and diff endpoints of my forge at once, and […]
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May 6, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Just a simple still life. Wood textures, plant+vase, and chair were taken from Poly Haven, which is a fantastic resource.

#blender #blender3d #3dart #stilllife #table #chair #window #3dmodelling
A 3D rendering of a still life scene. A wooden table sits in the corner of a room, with two chairs pulled up underneath it. The leftmost chair, closest to the viewer, is pulled out slightly. A grassy field is outside a window on the wall above the table. The window lets in a glow of daylight, illuminating two drinking glasses on the table, and letting a potted, green-leafed plant cast a shadow against the wall at the corner of the table. The wall is lightly textured, as if painted with a carpeted roller brush, and the floor beneath is composed of wooden planks.
May 5, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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🆕 blog! “Extracting content from an LCP "protected" ePub”

As Cory Doctorow once said "Any time that someone puts a lock on something that belongs to you but won't give you the key, that lock's not there for you."

But here's the thing with the LCP DRM scheme; they do give you the key! As I've […]
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March 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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I renamed the wrong object, and then spent several hours fighting geometry nodes wondering why nothing was working the way I expected it to. Turns out I accidentally renamed some hair curves "hat", instead of the hat, which was still called "cube". 🤦‍♂️
March 12, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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「花を持つ少女」 #qoo3_brocante #イラスト #一次創作
February 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM