Alex Warnes

@awarnes.bsky.social

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web developer & dad-joke teller (fmr intelligence analyst). digital & film photography, 3D modeling & VFX https://alexwarnes.com

Wooden chairs with strong sunlight casting shadows across a porch.
A painted craft wood mosque with the words "0 DAYS UNTIL EID". A black background around the image has the English and Arabic text Eid Mubarak عيد مبارك
Blender render of a silhouetted character looking out from under an arch toward a ship descending on a desert outpost.
Screenshot of three basic floor plans, each for one level of a three level control room concept. Ground floor has desks for 25-30 people, next level has an office, and the top level has yet another office. Some notes on each level indicate what could be beyond the space like building entrance, more offices, cafeteria, etc.
A Japanese tea house in the woods.
Screenshot of a simulated orbital path tracked around a central star where gravity is based on an elastic easing function. Consequently the orbit line wobbles in a strange splat or flower like shape.
Screenshot of three enrichment calculators showing the SWU required to enrich uranium in three steps: first, 1000kg of natural 0.7% feed material used to enrich 120kg up to 5%, linked to the second calculator enriching 26kg up to 20%, linked to the third calculator enriching 5.6kg up to 90% (all with 0.2% tails)
A chart showing the SWU required to enrich one tonne of natural uranium feed up to 120-130 kg of uranium for power reactor fuel, as 26 kg of typical research reactor fuel, or conceivably as 5.6 kg of weapon-grade material.
Screen recording of a project running in Unreal Engine. There is an untextured hilly landscape with cartoonish trees and other small items. The user (me) is navigating around with fly controls and launching projectiles from view position that interact with some of the items around the scene. The sun is at a low angle to the landscape.
A cloud that resembles the Wu-Tang logo
Screen recording of an Unreal Engine scene where a sphere falls into a leaning cube and launches another cube into the air while the whole thing falls apart defying gravity.
A waterfall down a rocky mountainside surrounded by green trees.
Warm sunlight shining onto mountainsides over Lake Louise, with snow capped mountains in the distance.
A red sunset behind silhouetted trees in the foreground. In the corner, a glass bulb refracts a smaller view of the blurry sunset and black horizon.
Blender render of a shallow cylindrical robot with two thrusters and a transparent tank on top. The render shows some paneling around the cylinder.
Image of a bridge across a small pond with pink flowers blooming on a distant tree.
A photo of red flowers in focus with the background trees out of focus.
Screenshot of an enrichment calculator for determining product mass and SWU. It shows that with 409kg of 60% enriched feed material, assuming waste material has 0.3% enrichment, it would require 1235 SWU to produce 272kg of 90% enriched material.
Blender render is a close up of an untextured hard surface claw.
Blender render of a flying robot with a fish tank-like dome made of a slightly foggy plastic material. A human mesh stands in the distance for scale.
A Blender render of three flying robot blockouts with a water-tank style dome, claw from the bottom, and a set of thrusters on each. Plus a swarm of seven tiny versions of the same kind of bot.
Video of two enrichment calculators side by side. The product mass and enrichment from one is linked to the feed mass and enrichment of the next. As a user updates values on one, other values are automatically updated across both calculators. Yellow and red bars reflect those changes at the bottom of each calculator pane.
Blender render of a glowing ring, modeled after a glow globe from Dune, floating through the dark past mossy rocks toward a barely visible archway.
Sunset over a field with a forest on the horizon and leafless trees dotting the foreground.
Decorative paper lanterns strung across a dimly lit room with string lights in the background. The lantern in front says Eid Mubarak written in Arabic, and the text Eid Mubarak is overlayed on the image.
Gold leaf etchings on columns of a Thai pavilion/sala are lit by the sun with leafless trees in the background.
Several clips of a person walking around a park at sunset, and a flying robot is composited into the footage at varying distances.
Photo of a pedestrian bridge from under a concrete overpass.
Screen recording of a 3D scene with 10 meshes arranged in a ring. As the UI scrolls and each section comes into view the ring rotates on each axis.
Screenshot of a UI showing 1kg with 90% enrichment requires 5kg of feed with 20% enrichment, given waste enrichment of 1%. Three circles at the bottom show the relationship between these values.
Screenshot of a UI showing 1kg with 90% enrichment requires 22kg of feed with 5% enrichment, given waste enrichment of 1%. Three circles at the bottom show the relationship between these values.
A screen recording that shows a UI for calculating gas centrifuge feed mass and SWU to meet the required input values for feed enrichment level, product mass, and product enrichment. As input values are changing, three circles underneath update to reflect new calculated values for feed, product, and waste mass and enrichment levels.
A 3D scene showing two AutoEmitters, one black and one red, emitting projectiles toward a torus geometry. The Torus is a rigid body,reacting to gravity and projectile impacts, bouncing around on the floor and walls. The rigid body has z axis translation disabled, so it does not move depth-wise from the camera perspective, just left/right/up/down.
A photo of green vining leaves with purple flowers brightly lit with dark foreground posts on each side.
Gif of the blender UI showing an animated model with two cylinders repeating a piston-type movement, and a lens that rotates slightly as keyframes drive an small translation in and out. The bones on the pistons and inside the lens appear yellow, while the lens translation bone appears green.
Blender render of a flying robot showing a side with black texture paint applied under a warning label that reads "CAUTION: HOT"
Blender render of a robot under hard light with a black background. Three buttons glow green from the foreground shadows.
A close up of a Minolta XD camera with a standard Rokkor 50mm lens.
Blender render of a lens modeled after a Minolta Rokkor 50mm but mounted on a hard surface robot.
Screenshot of the blender UI showing the rendered view of a robot on a black background, lit from the side with high contrast light. Three lenses on the front of the robot are glowing red.
Screenshot of the blender UI showing two render views of an untextured robot.
Screenshot from blender of the side and edge of untextured model with paneling and socket caps along the edges.
The cover of a calendar called "Cat Wars" showing a cat with a blue lightsaber attacking a mouse with a red lightsaber standing on a wedge of cheese with a purplish blue starscape in the background.
Video of browser dev tools open next to a rotating 3D scene. Switching between "No emulation" and "prefers-reduced-motion: reduce" the rotating scene starts and stops accordingly.
Screenshot of a 3D scene with green, blue, purple normal material spheres positioned randomly on a spherical plane within a constrained depth over a black background.
Screenshot of a 3D scene with green, blue, purple normal material spheres positioned randomly on a spherical plane over a black background.
Screenshot of a 3D scene with green, blue, purple normal material spheres positioned randomly donut shape over a black background.
Screenshot of a 3D scene with green cubes positioned evenly in a vertical ring, and smaller green, blue, purple normal material spheres positioned evenly in a horizontal circle over a black background.
Screenshot of a 3D scene with green, blue, purple normal material cubes positioned randomly in a circle over a black background.
Screenshot of a 3D scene with red and green cubes positioned randomly over a black background.
Partial screenshot of a browser window displaying an ASCII rendered 3D scene and dev tools showing DOM elements that make up the scene. The HTML table element is highlighted to show that the ASCII effect has created the table and put it on top of the canvas.
A dancing robot under the word ASCII rendered as white ascii characters over a black background.
Screenshot of a video overlay on the blender UI. The video is showing a human mesh next to a floating robot with solid grey materials, with another panel showing a floating robot concept sketch. The blender UI in the background shows a green humanoid mesh next to a multicolor floating robot that resembles what's shown in the video.
Sunset photograph across a grassy field with silhouetted trees, basketball hoop, and a person sitting beneath the hoop.
Screenshot of two viewports in blender showing the rendered view and solid view of a mechanical butterfly model.
Blender render of a butterfly at sunset with a glowing mechanical underbelly and fuzzy blue wings.
Black and white photo of a long stem with a flower in the foreground. A shallow depth of field blurs the trees and sky in the background.
Video shows a 3D scene with three meshes floating above a platform. Spherical meshes are emitted from the camera's perspective as it moves and collide with the other objects in the scene.