anton mikhailov

Principal scientist at Adobe, co-creator of PSVR & PS Move, spatial tools programmer on Dreams and Substance 3D Modeler, alife enjoyer 🌱

[anton mikhailov @antovsky]

I've made a live calculator to easily play with computations, formulas and plots.

https://t.co/03U9uORoar

Builds for Windows / Linux / Mac in thread.

[anton mikhailov @antovsky]

@nafonsopt Good point ;)

For all that other software you'll write yourself by hand :)

[anton mikhailov @antovsky]

If you have a file browser and a way to kill processes, what more do you really need 🤔

[Vjekoslav Krajačić @vkrajacic]

Just found out an active File Pilot community member @thomasklemenc made a task manager inspired by it!
Handmade from scratch, C++, win32, D3D custom renderer, 1.55 MB.
More of this in my feed, less AI slopware.

[anton mikhailov @antovsky]

Time to get real technical yalls. Come see what it's like to implement a 6DOF tracking library with less memory than an image from your phone.

[Łukasz | Wookash Podcast @wookash_podcast]

This Thursday there will be a one of a kind event!

@antovsky will walk @its_bvisness and me through the design & implementation process of PS Move - a tracking solution for Playstation.

We're gonna walk through the hardcore hardware reality of the solution, grounded in the historical context (market rivals, PS game development)

@antovsky has even prepared a software simulator, to accurately showcase the difficulty - simulator can change lighting conditions, bluriness of the image, etc.

It's gonna be a long one, +3h of stream, with lots of stories and angles and plot twists! Make sure you're ready on Thursday!

[anton mikhailov @antovsky]

@LubaRaphael Especially important for matrices or colorspaces or any kind of "space" conversions!

[anton mikhailov @antovsky]

This is the only "sane" and durable way that I've found to use LLMs so far.
I actually quite like using it for this purpose, but unfortunately even here I've found it can hallucinate false knowledge after a while, and after you get past the bare basics. I was pretty disappointed when this first happened because I was quite enjoying it.

[anton mikhailov @antovsky]

@wookash_podcast For those unfamiliar, this was predicted by the sages:

[anton mikhailov @antovsky]

@TheGingerBill Come on Bill, go full auteur mode. I wanna see the language just for you :)

[anton mikhailov @antovsky]

I generally avoid multithreading as a first pass. I don't think there is any "generic" way to do it without a herculian effort. Up to about 50k things, I don't think you would need it.
But if you must have it, I would start by multithreading things that are embarrasingly parallel, and don't involve adds or removes of other entities.
If you must process adds or removes, I'd focus on tiling the objects and update them in a checkerboard-ish style pattern (ala the Noita engine).
But yeah in general, I don't know of any "easy" answer. I generally reserve parallelism for other parts of the game, not the core entity loop.

[anton mikhailov @antovsky]

@valigo Ok I will bite :)

[anton mikhailov @antovsky]

Come check out what we've been cookin' :)

[Ben Visness @its_bvisness]

On June 6 we are hosting the first-ever Handmade Network Expo in Vancouver, BC, an in-person event celebrating software made from scratch.

Among the lineup: a new game from @antovsky & @nicbarkeragain, a time travel debugger for macOS by @leddoo_dev, a custom metaprogramming language and IDE from @frogtoss, a custom game engine by @gdechichi, and more.

More info and tickets below :)

[anton mikhailov @antovsky]

@wookash_podcast Just get some stylish shades to watch 😎

[anton mikhailov @antovsky]

https://t.co/Zd5wy8pieL

[anton mikhailov @antovsky]

Streaming some Naut development right now!
Going to implement pan and zoom on the plots today.
(link in thread)

[anton mikhailov @antovsky]

@aras_p @wookash_podcast @wookash_podcast I think you found your person :)

[anton mikhailov @antovsky]

@PLT_cheater @seanparsons @atmoio I don't understand where you're going with this.

[anton mikhailov @antovsky]

@PLT_cheater @seanparsons @atmoio How's that?

[anton mikhailov @antovsky]

@atmoio @jake_researcher It's not the same people. My theory is that if you were handed a lead/management/pm promotion for 10x the "impact", some people would take it, and others wouldn't. That's likely the split (it's a personal decision either way, no right or wrong answer here).

[anton mikhailov @antovsky]

@MrJayLC Yep, that's exactly what we discuss on one of the podcast episodes 👍
It's a good way to make custom datastructures of all sorts.