Mike Wong

pixel surgeon
ART | ML | VFX

[Mike Wong @artixels]

Imagine a frontier model can program a custom sim engine which takes good advantage of the 72 GPUs of a NVL72 with 20TB memory …. and this 24/7 knows better physics, numerical analysis and low level optimization 🫠

[m_ric @AymericRoucher]

Again, Fable 5.2 is insanely good at 3D modelling: here, it made its own take of that Lord of the Rings scene.

I let the model build its own engine for the water physics, simulating the river as a shallow-water sheet, then running its own 3D particle simulation (FLIP) at 6cm resolution to make the breaking wave

On the horses: anyone who tried to draw a galloping horse knows how hard it is: I gave the model an open static 3D model, then gave it a classic chronophotography of a gallop to build the rigging and animation from.

I had to correct a few things over a few days of iterating + waiting renderings, but it did well!

[Mike Wong @artixels]

@edankwan 🫡

[Mike Wong @artixels]

A friend was proudly sharing his vibe-coded pipeline tools, he is creating a Environment Variables hell but I think people have to learn this way these days.

So I let him 🔥 his tokens

* Domain Knowledge *

[Mike Wong @artixels]

If a model knows about Apple ][ 0.25-track disk protection and can confidently write 6502 assembly to move the stepper motor, that's pretty good. I tried Qwen3.8-27b finally, impressed.

Just loaded 'Flint' ....
How can this be released ?? Ejected.

[Mike Wong @artixels]

@edankwan @IKEA Some agents recognize they are 4-inch and in cork ?

[Mike Wong @artixels]

Right, the models know natural motion better than most of us.

[Andy Orsow @andyorsow]

Now that AI can use Blender, I’m seeing more people use high-fidelity 3D to drive AI video.

IMO, that’s a bad idea if you want realism. Lower-fidelity input lets the model translate your intent better.

[Mike Wong @artixels]

@Yokohara_h This is truly amazing time, and thank you so much for showing us all these truly unreal possibilities with these advanced models. A challenging time too, Yokohara san. 🙏

[Mike Wong @artixels]

@edankwan full-screened, amazing work

[Mike Wong @artixels]

@benhouston3d or tiny dormant models inside all these open-weight models waiting for the right activation ?

[Mike Wong @artixels]

@Yuki_1t0 Ito san, thank you for sharing all these beautiful imageries on X and they definitely captured many CGI artists attentions worldwide. Your passion and talent are slowly opening many doors ahead.

[Mike Wong @artixels]

@Yokohara_h incredible demo shows us how LLMs played direct operators in a mainstream CGI workflow setting. Soon, they use differentiable, procedural or SDF means to generate assets directly and DCC with GUI might become obsolete.

The 'real' energy cost is unsustainable ... 🙃

[Hirokazu Yokohara @Yokohara_h]

Blenderを自分では一度も触らずにAIのみでBlenderシーンを作るテストの昼間バージョン
昼間のライティングへの変更もコンポジットもAI任せ
ライティングやフォグの扱いは以前に比べて遥かに良い

[Mike Wong @artixels]

Pixel-space 🚀

[Cong Wei @CongWei1230]

Thanks for sharing! We open-sourced code and models.

🤗Huggingface Paper: https://t.co/BrdK3sXeiy
💻 Code: https://t.co/S9ouFlnHWg
🤗 Model: https://t.co/DKW5T7E6xI

[Mike Wong @artixels]

This Anime is full of beautiful images …. made me want to draw again

[映画『我々は宇宙人』公式 @wearealiens0925]

👽映画『我々は宇宙人』公式👽

＼本編映像公開🏊／

プールの底へ潜り、
ダイブボールを掴む暁太郎。
水の中で揺れる、夏の記憶です…

映画『我々は宇宙人』全国公開中
@KadowakiKouhei

[Mike Wong @artixels]

a neat path tracer in a browser #WebGPU

[Garrett Johnson @garrettkjohnson]

The next version of three-gpu-pathtracer with WebGPU support is published! Drop path tracing into any project for product viz, architectural renders, or generative art.

Check it out here & share what you're making ✨

https://t.co/OV0uLxj1Ob

#threejs #webgpu

[Mike Wong @artixels]

@spx808 👏

[Mike Wong @artixels]

@edankwan I am Anti-token 🤪

[Mike Wong @artixels]

Glad the future is not token-per-second

#TokenPerSecondFatigue

[brain function collapse @brainFnCl]

This is NOT Jev.

Open source. Runs on your laptop. Decides in ~27 ms, about 200× faster than waiting on a hosted LLM.

Here it is playing Tetris by itself 👇
https://t.co/eq4gP53o2A

[Mike Wong @artixels]

Victoria