agatha
@geometrian.bsky.social
Computer graphics researcher / mathematician / liberal elitist / musician / artist
STEM / C++ / pathtracing / hard-scifi / caffè / thai+indian food / snark
Truth and kindness are the most important things
STEM / C++ / pathtracing / hard-scifi / caffè / thai+indian food / snark
Truth and kindness are the most important things
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You cannot technically explain yourself out of UX issues, please stop trying.
So often I see users bring up UX issues, and programmers then tell them how much work it was to create their product.
It doesn't matter how much work it was!! What matters is if your target audience uses it or not.
So often I see users bring up UX issues, and programmers then tell them how much work it was to create their product.
It doesn't matter how much work it was!! What matters is if your target audience uses it or not.
January 6, 2026 at 8:24 AM
You cannot technically explain yourself out of UX issues, please stop trying.
So often I see users bring up UX issues, and programmers then tell them how much work it was to create their product.
It doesn't matter how much work it was!! What matters is if your target audience uses it or not.
So often I see users bring up UX issues, and programmers then tell them how much work it was to create their product.
It doesn't matter how much work it was!! What matters is if your target audience uses it or not.
Reposted by agatha
A modernized Utah Teapot model with interior! You can see/customize/download it, along with historical versions on the official teapot page:
graphics.cs.utah.edu/teapot/
graphics.cs.utah.edu/teapot/
December 11, 2025 at 5:34 AM
A modernized Utah Teapot model with interior! You can see/customize/download it, along with historical versions on the official teapot page:
graphics.cs.utah.edu/teapot/
graphics.cs.utah.edu/teapot/
Tech names should not alias common terminology!
Nowadays you'll search like "bread recipe" and it will turn out "bread" is a JS compiler and a "bread recipe" is its config file. The top results will be 2 billion posts on StackOverflow about that.
Instead of, you know, an *actual recipe for bread*.
Nowadays you'll search like "bread recipe" and it will turn out "bread" is a JS compiler and a "bread recipe" is its config file. The top results will be 2 billion posts on StackOverflow about that.
Instead of, you know, an *actual recipe for bread*.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Tech names should not alias common terminology!
Nowadays you'll search like "bread recipe" and it will turn out "bread" is a JS compiler and a "bread recipe" is its config file. The top results will be 2 billion posts on StackOverflow about that.
Instead of, you know, an *actual recipe for bread*.
Nowadays you'll search like "bread recipe" and it will turn out "bread" is a JS compiler and a "bread recipe" is its config file. The top results will be 2 billion posts on StackOverflow about that.
Instead of, you know, an *actual recipe for bread*.
The western literary canon everyone teaches and studies is terrible: mediocre works dominated by crufty white male authors.
This, at the expense of attention to *every other* demographic's work, even amounting to entire literary subgenres.
Insane to urge kids to read widely when the canon doesn't.
This, at the expense of attention to *every other* demographic's work, even amounting to entire literary subgenres.
Insane to urge kids to read widely when the canon doesn't.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 14, 2025 at 3:47 AM
The western literary canon everyone teaches and studies is terrible: mediocre works dominated by crufty white male authors.
This, at the expense of attention to *every other* demographic's work, even amounting to entire literary subgenres.
Insane to urge kids to read widely when the canon doesn't.
This, at the expense of attention to *every other* demographic's work, even amounting to entire literary subgenres.
Insane to urge kids to read widely when the canon doesn't.
When your level designer is a little too excited to get to the interesting bits that they don't spend enough care on the backrooms:
If I achieve nothing else in life, someday I will teach an architect how the fuck ladders work.
October 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
When your level designer is a little too excited to get to the interesting bits that they don't spend enough care on the backrooms:
Water is restorative. Water is life. The country rains nourish plants and animals, while the city rains refresh the parched and cleanse pollutants from the air.
Meanwhile, the sun is a nuclear fireball that you cannot even look at. It scorches the earth and burns your very skin.
Meanwhile, the sun is a nuclear fireball that you cannot even look at. It scorches the earth and burns your very skin.
October 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Water is restorative. Water is life. The country rains nourish plants and animals, while the city rains refresh the parched and cleanse pollutants from the air.
Meanwhile, the sun is a nuclear fireball that you cannot even look at. It scorches the earth and burns your very skin.
Meanwhile, the sun is a nuclear fireball that you cannot even look at. It scorches the earth and burns your very skin.
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I goddamn love autumn so much I’m so excited for all the colourful leaves and nice temperatures and cosy vibes and rain and
September 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I goddamn love autumn so much I’m so excited for all the colourful leaves and nice temperatures and cosy vibes and rain and
So I made a steampunk multimeter
geometrian.com/projects/ele...
geometrian.com/projects/ele...
The Mohmmeter
A steampunk ohmmeter (and voltmeter) made as a birthday present for my mom.
geometrian.com
May 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
So I made a steampunk multimeter
geometrian.com/projects/ele...
geometrian.com/projects/ele...
From the archives: ever wonder what 1 billion Utah teapots looks like?
Boom. 1 gigateapot.
(Rendered with my old pathtracer, using a recursive BVH.)
Boom. 1 gigateapot.
(Rendered with my old pathtracer, using a recursive BVH.)
February 11, 2025 at 2:54 AM
From the archives: ever wonder what 1 billion Utah teapots looks like?
Boom. 1 gigateapot.
(Rendered with my old pathtracer, using a recursive BVH.)
Boom. 1 gigateapot.
(Rendered with my old pathtracer, using a recursive BVH.)
Just to get us started, here's a thing I wrote about how the 3D rasterization pipeline works.
Also included is a small (single-file, < 300 lines, including comments) implementation in C++, because code is worth 1000 words.
geometrian.com/resources/tu...
Also included is a small (single-file, < 300 lines, including comments) implementation in C++, because code is worth 1000 words.
geometrian.com/resources/tu...
The Raster Graphics Pipeline
This is a high-level but still technical survey of the graphics pipeline.
geometrian.com
January 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Just to get us started, here's a thing I wrote about how the 3D rasterization pipeline works.
Also included is a small (single-file, < 300 lines, including comments) implementation in C++, because code is worth 1000 words.
geometrian.com/resources/tu...
Also included is a small (single-file, < 300 lines, including comments) implementation in C++, because code is worth 1000 words.
geometrian.com/resources/tu...
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I am Agatha Mallett (geometrian.com). I mainly do computer graphics, but you may catch me doing everything from designing PCBs to playing fiddle.
Hello!
I am Agatha Mallett (geometrian.com). I mainly do computer graphics, but you may catch me doing everything from designing PCBs to playing fiddle.
Hello!
Homepage of Agatha Mallett
geometrian.com: Home page / index of Agatha Mallett, PhD.
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January 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
This is post 0.
I am Agatha Mallett (geometrian.com). I mainly do computer graphics, but you may catch me doing everything from designing PCBs to playing fiddle.
Hello!
I am Agatha Mallett (geometrian.com). I mainly do computer graphics, but you may catch me doing everything from designing PCBs to playing fiddle.
Hello!