Simon F

@sifee.bsky.social

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3D graphics including texture comp & RT. Messing with pixels since early 80s. 34yrs @ PowerVR/Imagination. Deluded opinions probably my own. Banner circa '87: Amantides-style cone ray tracing+Perlin textures on Transputer. No tris or bitmap textures

News report (with picture of two horses) stating that horses kill more people than any other animal in Australia - responsible for 200 deaths in 2 decades.
AI slop rendering of some spanners (US :wrenches) in a tool belt where one is missing a jaw and another is a mix of ring spanner and open jaw.
A butternut pumpkin that looks like a posterior (childish snigger)
Rupert the Bear and Bill Badger comic book characters
A section of texture from a 1995 game showing versions with/without precomputed motion blur on a car wheel/tyre.
A naval flag with a black rectangle on a white background. Apparently means “my engines a going full speed astern”
Merlin, handheld electronic game device
Sign in building saying “switching off lights in empty rooms… reduce energy bill by 15%”
The head and hair from a Yak on a wall of a museum.
Interactive Art Museum display where visitors contribute by adding small circular coloured stickers to the rooms to create a changing exhibit. Photo shows a young visitor applying a new sticker near a white Monstera.
Four ring necked parakeets on the side of a London building investigating an external light and some electrical cable.
Presumed search engine AI slop summary saying company (TNT) was American then quotes the Wikipedia article that (correctly) says it was Australian
A Mario Bros. LCD game system circa 1983.
Handle of Newell’s Utah teapot but with an additional support?
Halfway through cutting some long grass (and hoping there are no Eastern Brown or Red-bellied Black snakes hiding amongst it)
Screen grab of old Dreamcast VQTexture compression tool, with source image (lorikeet) on left and chosen indices on right
A sign in a (Danish) train carriage that appears to show a dog understanding a “Shhhh” command
High Performance Graphics and Graphics Hardware items from 2007, 2022, ‘23, & 25. Cornell Box, Girl with ‘Pearl’ earring, Lego Figurine.
Lego Pixar “Luxo Jr” kit
Parts of two pages from “Hop on Pop”
Image of robot’s head from Dr Who with red eyes.
View of Sydney Harbour from Blues Point Reserve, looking towards city and bridge
The manuals (ie keyboards) and stops for the Brisbane City Hall pipe organ
A camera attached to an apple 2 monitor with photographer taking picture
A space filling curve made of chillis
Technical Drawing text book cover with intersecting triangular and rectangular prisms
The lid from a tiny vegemite jar from perhaps the 1970s (or possibly 60s)
Cassettes labelled “computer games” and “CHOMP The Ghost Muncher” from early 1980s
The Goodies: Bill, Tim, & Graeme.
An old LCD Mario Bros game
A print out of graphics code from mid 1980s
Word ‘Gas’ invented by Flemish chemist, Jan Baptist van Helmont. He also invented the word ‘blas’
Word ‘Gas’ invented by Flemish chemist, Jan Baptist van Helmont. He also invented the word ‘blas’
Lara Croft in the St Francis’ Folly level from PowerVR port of Tomb Raider
A ring tailed possum sitting on top of a washing line.
A view looking up at a pipe organ pipe
Sign saying: Caution Snakes have been sighted in this area