Ashe Hawkes

@surfacedfox.net

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Maker of games and interactive media 🔹 Also solving IRL problems using game tech. https://surfacedfox.net/

a sign hanging from the exterior walls of a house that reads "WELCOME HOME CHEATER"
The results from a color perception test: the average human's color perception ability on that index comes to about 0.02, while mine was 0.0027. The caption reads: You're seeing differences that most colour scientists would call noise. If you're not already calibrating displays for a living, you're leaving money on the table.
a low poly model of a rat, with uv view on the left and model view on the right
in reply to the posted image, a picture of a red-lit keyboard and a blue lit mouse
A clip from the game "Prince of Persia: Sands of Time" where the player's character tries to do a vault-attack and ends up falling off a cliff instead because of the animation finishing a certain way.
A character from The Sims, passed out from exhaustion.
gif of a game where a squishmallow cat is being chased by an anthropomorphic dog.
A screenshot of modded Skyrim featuring a bunch of skeletons singing in a carriage
The character below being sprayed with a showerhead, wiped and cared for
Screenshot of the graph as it switches from MLAT to ADS-B. Note the drop in speed as soon as it gets detected again vs. the relatively stable altitude.
Graph described in text in the post above
A diagram showing an airplane transmitting Mode-S signals over to 4 theoretical towers with delays of 2.0001s, 2.0003s, 2.0005s and 2.0007s, which are aggregated by a server to calculate the location 29.7324, -95.4355.
A picture of the Thief standing stone from Skyrim. Those born under the sign of the Thief are thought to take risks and evade harm; and is an archer, symbolized through the player learning stealth related skills including archery 20% faster on activating it.
A picture of the iconic teardrop shaped bottle of Kewpie Mayonnaise, with a loaf of sliced bread in the background. Unlike regular mayonnaise, Kewpie tastes creamier since it's made with yolks only instead of the whole egg; has some secret spices and salt proportion. It also has an Umami aftertaste because of the MSG.
Skyrim's fire texture. It's a vertically long fire texture.
Picture of a scenery rendered in the Godot game engine. This one is a sample screenshot of the Sky3D addon.
A picture of a card of EEPROM manufactured by Mitsubishi. Attached to it is a tumblr reblog with the following text: EEP ROM is some masterful typography. It's cute and technically accurate! See at first we had mask ROMs: this is where you have a chip that's designed from the start to only have some specific data on it. That's why it's Read Only Memory: it's memory, but you can only read it. This is what, like, NES games were built on: the game is on the ROM chip, and can't be changed. Then someone figured out you could make the chip so that it starts out blank, then you can program it once (like burning a CD-R), so we called these Programmable ROMs: PROMs. And then another clever engineer worked out how to make them re-erasable, by using ultraviolet light that causes the bits to weaken. You have to take out the chip, expose it in a special box (you can't just have a flashlight, because UV light will give you skin cancer and sunburns on your eyes), then program it and put it back in. But hey, it's erasable and reusable now! This is how a lot of games were developed for cartridge consoles: you'd have a special cartridge that has exposed chips, which you program and put back in the console to test. This new erasable and programmable ROM was obviously called the Erasable Programmable ROM, or an EPROM. But then a very clever trick was figured out: if you use quantum mechanical effects you can trap charge in a tiny cell and get it out using quantum tunneling, which means you can erase it in-situ! Now you have a reusable (for a while) rewritable chip, so it was called Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory: EEPROM! But by putting a space in it, they made it an EEP ROM, which is a much cuter name. BTW EEPROMs are what flash memory grew out of: this is a 1985 SD card.
Graffiti on the back panel of a bus stand, with the spellings of two words reversed- the text "fassion is my pashion" is sprayed onto a panel with the two words given a red squiggly underline, similar to how incorrect spellings are highlighted in word processing software.
Artwork of Scott Pilgrim holding a non-descript pokemon while jumping up with a celebratory punch in the air, with the caption "Brekky Acquired" in the centre. I.... don't know if that's a Pal from Palworld either, or if the implication is that the creature here is the brekky in question, but that's the vibe
Screenshot of a YouTube video with the title: Guy Born blind Plays The Last of Us Part I 1: The Beginning. The thumbnail shows the "high contrast mode" in action, with the environment being greyed out, and primary characters being tinted blue. Gameplay relevant objects and obstacles are marked with prominent edges that stand out from the otherwise grey background.
a colony of the recently discovered fungus, P. album, colonizing a fragment of plastic
a picture of renowned mathematician Rene Descartes formatted alongside the quote "who give a shit"
A screenshot of an environment running in Causality Editor. It is the picture of an attic with sunlight shining through a window. An interior environment like this one provides an interesting challenge in rendering.
a tiny screenshot of three different emojis being headpatted: one's a yellow blob, one's a blue fox, and one is a cat.
A promotional picture from the game Pop, Love, Panic, an interactive fiction that follows the four members of OFK, the fictional band that is the focus of the game.
picture of a two monitor set-up. the wallpaper on one of the monitors is a picture of a young fox cub, with fairy lights wrapped around it.