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Another great thing is that in the other shots we can see The Spot reflected in Miles's eyes.

Sooo good.

October 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM

tainmere.bsky.social

@tainmere.bsky.social

I just can't get over how good the animation of The Spot in Spider-Men: Across the Spider-Verse is. It's just so well drawn. Particularly love the glitches.

October 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM

tainmere.bsky.social

@tainmere.bsky.social

Literally unwatchable /s

Screenshot of the video title and description of Folding Ideas' Call of Duty: Ghosts video.

The description is expanded. It starts with "Clickbait Title: ". The empty space afterwards is underlined with a red line to draw attention to the lack of a clickbait title.

For completeness, the remaining text of the description is:

Written and performed by Dan Olson

Crowdfunding: Link to https://www.patreon.com/foldablehuman
Twitter: Link to https://twitter.com/FoldableHuman

August 30, 2025 at 10:53 AM

tainmere.bsky.social

@tainmere.bsky.social

Instead of redrawing the points each frame you can draw them with reduced opacity, which provides insight into the distribution of the randomness.

Different point drawing functions are shown in a 2D-grid. The structure is the same as in the previous post.
The difference is that the points are drawn with reduced opacity, which shows the overall distribution of the points.

Context from previous post about the structure, can be skipped if you have already read that:
Along the horizontal axis the width of each point increases.
The different point drawing functions are laid out along the vertical axis, with a gap separating the different drawing functions.
The drawing functions are a point with increasing stroke weight, a point randomly moved in a direction based on the width, a cloud of random points around the center, and variants of the randomized point and cloud points for which the stroke weight of the drawn points inversely depends on the distance to the center (i.e. points in the center are bigger than points near the edge).

May 13, 2025 at 11:03 AM

tainmere.bsky.social

@tainmere.bsky.social

A study of point drawing functions in p5.js.

fullscreen: editor.p5js.org/Tainmere/ful...
code: editor.p5js.org/Tainmere/ske...

gif of different ways a point can be drawn.
Points are laid out in a 2D-grid.
Along the horizontal axis the width of each point increases.
The different point drawing functions are laid out along the vertical axis, with a gap separating the different drawing functions.

The drawing functions are just a point with increasing stroke weight, a point randomly moved in a direction based on the width, a cloud of random points around the center, and variants of the randomized point and cloud points for which the stroke weight of the drawn points inversely depends on the distance to the center (i.e. points in the center are bigger than points near the edge)

May 13, 2025 at 10:53 AM

tainmere.bsky.social

@tainmere.bsky.social

I particularly enjoy the effect surrounding the lantern light, worth zooming in to see the noisy details

Zoomed in section of just the lantern light in the heavily processed edit. The light has an interesting combination of colors and noisy patterns

May 2, 2025 at 12:31 PM

tainmere.bsky.social

@tainmere.bsky.social

a lantern

picture taken 2024, edited 2025

Picture of Lantern at night, edited to be more noisy.

Very stylized picture edit of a lantern at night. Noisier, colors are more pronounced and artificial, dark areas of the original image are pure black. Lantern light has a colorful halo effect.

Image of lantern at night is now mainly white, light gray and some blueish purple. shapes of lantern and foliage are more suggested now.

May 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM

tainmere.bsky.social

@tainmere.bsky.social

Minecraft screenshot of a birch forest with minecraft-esque terrain generation, i.e. somewhat broken mountains

Jungle cliffside with big ruined portal on top of the cliff

April 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM

tainmere.bsky.social

@tainmere.bsky.social

Biggest benefit of this change: Now the text input and your general user control section are misaligned, which makes the application look really off.

screenshot of the text input and the user controls (mute, deafen, settings) to its lefts being misaligned

March 25, 2025 at 8:10 PM

tainmere.bsky.social

@tainmere.bsky.social

They are looking to "maintain consistency across desktop and mobile devices", so of course the mobile UI still uses the old - and better - placement of that indicator.

discord.com/blog/player-...

Screenshot of a paragraph of the linked article, the article being:

"All of these updates are meant to enhance legibility, reduce the feeling of being overwhelmed by visual noise, and maintain consistency across desktop and mobile devices. Browse our support article if you’d like some guidance on the desktop app’s new appearance options."

"and maintain consistency across desktop and mobile devices" has a red underline to highlight it.

https://discord.com/blog/player-release-q12025

Screenshot of Discord's text input on mobile, with the "XXX is typing" message being displayed above the text input

March 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM

tainmere.bsky.social

@tainmere.bsky.social

notice the padding below the text box that does nothing?
it is now there because they - for some inexplicable reason - moved the *xxx is typing* below the text input.

Why? No idea.

Screenshot of the new Discord UI's text input with weird padding below it

Same text input with the 'xxx is typing' message being shown in that padding

March 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM

tainmere.bsky.social

@tainmere.bsky.social

Why is the padding and line height this high?
Why does the text area input of your text messaging app take up only half the space of your text box while the rest is cluttered with buttons?