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Inigo Quilez

@iquilezles.bsky.social

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Math & Art Videos. * https://youtube.com/Inigo_Quilez * https://iquilezles.org Created Shadertoy, Pixar's Wondermoss, Quill, and more.

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Inigo Quilez @iquilezles.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah, we only had 1 week of break between AI crawler attacks. This one is even hungrier than the last one.

Inigo Quilez @iquilezles.bsky.social · Aug 7

It's not real, it's digital art (visual effects, like all the digital cities and creatures you'd see in an Avengers film)

Inigo Quilez @iquilezles.bsky.social · Jul 4

Inigo Quilez @iquilezles.bsky.social · Jun 24

Inigo Quilez @iquilezles.bsky.social · Jun 22

This is an improved design, with paddles at 100 degree or so, which improves throughput by almost 4x (can't do 90 degrees because paddles collide), and make a fun wavy pattern:

Inigo Quilez @iquilezles.bsky.social · Jun 21

Improvised a marble elevator with some lego technique and regular legos, for a lego duplos marble run we had around.

Inigo Quilez @iquilezles.bsky.social · Jun 15

www.youtube.com/watch?v=71gn...

A few weeks ago I talked with the SF ACM SIGGRAPH Chapters on SDFs for creative workflows. While shorter, it covers a lot more ground than my interview at the Wookash podcast, and it's more structured too. And I did some live coding too. I hope you enjoy it!

Inigo Quilez - Unlocking Creativity with Signed Distance Fields - SF ACM SIGGRAPH

YouTube video by ACMSIGGRAPH

www.youtube.com

Inigo Quilez @iquilezles.bsky.social · Jun 1

For those who didn't peep the comments, f(x) is:

∣x∣ˣ

or in code

pow( abs(x), x )

Beautiful, but unfortunately the derivative f'(x) = (1+ln ∣x∣)⋅∣x∣ˣ shoots to -∞ at the origin.

Inigo Quilez @iquilezles.bsky.social · Jun 1

Nope! Even if you adjusted the exponential exp( 3(x-1)/2 ) and the gaussian 1.3*exp(-2(x+0.5)^2), you wouldn't create that level of asymmetry in the bump.

Inigo Quilez @iquilezles.bsky.social · May 30

No. But if you try synthetizing it, you'd probably want to replace the sine with a gaussian or something that falls-off rapidly from its center

I'll share the solution later; I was surprised when I found it.

Inigo Quilez @iquilezles.bsky.social · May 30

Oh wow, very nice try! But it's even simpler than that.

Inigo Quilez @iquilezles.bsky.social · May 30

Nope. But the feature you detected on the right side is a good clue indeed.

Inigo Quilez @iquilezles.bsky.social · May 30

No, it's even simpler.

Inigo Quilez @iquilezles.bsky.social · May 30

Let's play a game of "Can You Guess the Function?"

hint - it's way shorter than you're probably thinking

Inigo Quilez @iquilezles.bsky.social · May 28

I'll be talking about SDFs and creative workflows tomorrow, hosted by the SIGGRPAH San Francisco Chapter - please sing up here before they close registration tomorrow noon.

www.eventbrite.com/e/unlocking-...

Unlocking Creativity with Signed Distance Fields

Iñigo Quilez shares his vision for a world post-polygon - easier to create 3D content, less technical, and more creative!

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Inigo Quilez @iquilezles.bsky.social · May 24

We did no ipads/screens for our kid till age 8. Now it's 1.5 hours a week IF creative/craft based. No internet, "digital literacy" is overrated imho. For social media, so far we have enough critical mass of school parents willing to delay it till post-teenage. But we'll see, fingers crossed.

Inigo Quilez @iquilezles.bsky.social · May 4

I recorded an interview at the Wookash Podcast. I talk about graphics programing, low level coding, math, product development, demoscene, SDFs, VR, Shadertoy, and other things.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1ax...

Painting with Math | Inigo Quilez

YouTube video by Wookash Podcast

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Inigo Quilez @iquilezles.bsky.social · Apr 15

Inigo Quilez @iquilezles.bsky.social · Mar 16

#math doodle

Inigo Quilez @iquilezles.bsky.social · Mar 10

You can expand the cos directly (1 - x^2/2! + x^4/4! + ...) and apply the said eigen decompoaition. Taylor convereges slowly though, better use some other polynomial.

Inigo Quilez @iquilezles.bsky.social · Mar 9

Inigo Quilez @iquilezles.bsky.social · Mar 2

We found a Julia Set in the wild #mathematics

Inigo Quilez @iquilezles.bsky.social · Mar 1

I think it's 1 :71 (1 black every 72 tiles)?

Inigo Quilez @iquilezles.bsky.social · Feb 22

Yes. I captured the background video with my phone, computed camera tracking for it in After Effects (camera transform per video frame), and then rendered (raymarched) the implicit surfaces on top. I eyeballed the ligthing and shadows to more or less make both layers match.

Inigo Quilez @iquilezles.bsky.social · Feb 22

#mathematics #math