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Paul Miller
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I make the paint.

Academy and Emmy-award winning developer of VFX post-production software Silhouette.
WWII historian🪖, aviation geek. International travel✈️, good food🥘, wine🍷, cocktails🍸and craft beer.🍻
Photos are my own. 📷
🏳️‍🌈✊️🙏✌️🇺🇦
Madison, WI
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Let's try this!

* software dev
* C++ Python Qt OpenCL GPU
* vfx post-production
* flying/aviation
* WWII history
* movies
* screenwriting
* international travel
* craft beer
* Factorio
* immersive horror
* science fiction
* space ships
* jazz
* anything nerdy really

#promosky
Any other caustics fans in the house? #caustics #light #photography
January 10, 2026 at 2:47 AM
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@fxtech.com Look what this guy made with Elastic Reality!
I did flipbooks for all of the Animorphs covers I did, but they appeared in black and white and very small, so I am posting them here so you can see them large and in color. No AI here--just Elastic Reality and painting. You can buy a signed print of this cover here:
www.etsy.com/listing/798775628
January 9, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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Stunt doubles unite!!!!! 🙌🙌🙌
January 8, 2026 at 4:41 PM
I absolutely love designing new code. Crank up some Tosca or Kruder & Dorfmeister and my keyboard is on fire. But at the end of the day I'm wiped - mentally and physically. 'Literally creating the universe' I tell them. They don't understand. A martini helps though!
#programming
January 6, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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Happy Perihelion! ☀️

Today is a big day for our little planet: it makes its closest approach to the sun of the entire year! This point in the orbit is called #perihelion. Then, on July 6, it will be at its most distant point in its orbit, which is called aphelion.
January 3, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Conversation with #Mom
#HappyNewYear
January 1, 2026 at 4:05 AM
Trying to make up for my shameful lack of Christmas beer. #beersky #bskybeer #Belgian
December 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Just transferred $1.13 into my daughter's savings account after noticing it was close to being an interesting number.
December 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Is this the best stocking stuffer or what? #dogsofbsky
December 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Happy Solstice!
December 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Gordon Xmas 2025. Surely wins the 'Best Presented Christmas Beer' award.
December 21, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Oh HEY, my talk from M+DEV 2025 is online if would like to hear me ramble about Engineering Management in the Video Game Industry for 45 minutes! youtu.be/TsGZpjmWrbs?...
Engineering Management by Engineers for Engineers | MDEV 25
YouTube video by Wisconsin Games Alliance
youtu.be
December 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Rousing Stories For Girls.
Oxfam charity shop, Newbury
December 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Just had a pimento cheese chocolate from an Advent calendar that offers up a new - let's say un-traditonal - flavor every day. It actually works!

Yesterday was SPAM. That didn't.

#advent #chocolate
December 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Star Wars vs Indiana Jones 🤯🤯🤯
December 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It's that time of year and 'Ole John McClane is stuck in the duct- er... tree again. #diehard #christmasmovie
December 10, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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10/10 short horror film! No notes.
I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there
December 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Goooo onnnnn?
December 5, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I'm not a fan of winter but it can be quite lovely. Check out this frozen waterfall in #Wisconsin Dells. #frozen #photography #blueskies
December 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Let's talk about #startrek S1E23 'A Taste of Armageddon.' Possibly my favorite so far - a proxy war via computer. But wouldn't it have been cool if Vendikar had long since perished, and the computer just carried on? #scifi #tos
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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My bestest boy Cathy enjoying a splash in the paddling pool
#ducks #farmlife #littlefarm
November 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Went to the movies today. Do you think it's possible to make snack bags and containers that don't crackle louder than the audio track? #crackle #crackle #crackle #crackle #movies
November 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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ahah IT WORKS look it's a C² dual quaternion B-spline!!

this is interpolating *poses* in dual quaternion form, coupling position and rotation, instead of treating them independently (this is a really neat thing!!)
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 AM