Frank Rousseau

Software maker since 1997 - CGWire and Kitsu Founder - I tweet about programming, tech and animation

[Frank Rousseau @gelnior]

I decided to be active on social medias again.

For that, I move my postings to:

- Mastodon, for French toots: https://t.co/uv6epCuEyg
- Bluesky for English tweets: https://t.co/MrRCZgLY4Q

[Tsaag Valren @Tsaag]

Ce n'était pas prévu, mais ce soir, je débunke cet article malhonnête et erroné d'Erwan Seznec, paru dans Le Point (pas de lien pour éviter d'amener du trafic)

Précision : Wikipédia est en partie mon sujet de thèse en sciences de l'information et de la communication
🔽

[New York Film Critics Circle @nyfcc]

BEST ANIMATED FILM: Flow

[Frank Rousseau @gelnior]

@PierreDeWulf Not sure that self driving cars would work in our small streets

[Le Box-Office des films en France et dans le Monde @boxofficefr]

🐈‍⬛ Meilleur maintien du week-end (-12%) pour #Flow qui cumule déjà 368.000 entrées au terme de son 4e week-end ! Son bouche à oreille est énorme ! 👏 cc @UFODISTRIBUTION @Festival_Cannes @annecyfestival

[Frank Rousseau @gelnior]

This is what I thought when people went crazy in cgi with gen-ai. There are already many solutions to generate 3D scenes. It adds another tool but doesn’t disrupt everything

[Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu]

Generative AI is cool and all, but procedural 3D modeling just hits different. Check out this Houdini setup by Pepe Buendia.

Why this is cool: Instead of manually placing every building and car, this system generates an NYC-style city that builds itself -- automatically spawning buildings with unique variations, plus a traffic system where cars actually obey traffic lights and avoid crashing into each other (all orchestrated through houdini VEX code).

Each car knows exactly which road it's on and makes real-time decisions about navigation. The whole thing runs on custom algorithms that handle everything from road directions to building placement.

If you did this with generative AI, even approaches to conditioning and taming the chaos -- you'd still get a ton of variance which might be an issue for visual and spatial consistency.

To me this is procedural modeling at its finest - precise control meets infinite scalability. Immensely useful for media & entertainment, but also synthetic training data for robotics and augmented reality.

I of course can't wait until multimodal LLMs to have the spatial understanding to write these kind of controllable 3D worlds for us. Claude counting 2D pixels on a screen is a step in this direction. Soon they'll be able to manipulate 2D ortho viewports, and eventually spawn procedural 3D worlds.

[Octave Klaba @olesovhcom]

oui, on vise fin nov / debut dec pour le moteur de recherche (en propre) en alpha public sur le web français soit 350M à 500M de pages indexées.

[DHH @dhh]

"Which brings me to the real wonder of vi: It's not just an editor, it's a language for editing. Once you learn the basic grammar of vi manipulation, and a few actions, scopes, and objects, you can string them all together in any combination possible." https://t.co/PV5eYL8Lu5

[Frank Rousseau @gelnior]

Fediverse is to centralized apps what was Internet to TV.

When you want qualitative information and experience you use Mastodon or Peertube.

When you want to do binge watching, a fast-food like experience, you open Twitter or Youtube.

[Frank Rousseau @gelnior]

Yesterday, I watched a bunch of videos on a https://t.co/Y1TYbAJum6 instance. The experience was much smoother than on Youtube.

Pages are not cluttered by meaningless recommandations. The editorial is good and can be recommended by my friends.

[Frank Rousseau @gelnior]

I like TG a lot, especially because of the innovative aspect of the UI (more fun and with many features compared to Whatsapp).

Unfortunately, it's time to look for an alternative.

[Frank Rousseau @gelnior]

During the Telegram scandal, I discovered that Telegram doesn't do much to respect the privacy of its users.

I'm pretty disappointed, the privacy aspect relies on the fact the founder says he won't do anything with our data. It doesn't look solid.

[Frank Rousseau @gelnior]

Same for documentation. Generating code that uses a library or queries an API will be much faster if the documentation is clean and well written.

[Frank Rousseau @gelnior]

With Gen-AI for code, design systems will be even more valuable. It will allow developers to generate UIs while complying with the project brand.

[Frank Rousseau @gelnior]

With Gen-AI for code, design systems will be even more valuable. It will allow developers to generate UIs while complying with the project brand.

[Frank Rousseau @gelnior]

Beautiful hack. It's sad he's threatened with jail, noone was harmed in the process.

But it's going to be easier to fake metrics of any sort. If it goes wild, trusting any digital corp will be difficult.

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

"AI is future of art, music, and writing!"

The future:

https://t.co/bz8ncEjufI

[Frank Rousseau @gelnior]

https://t.co/9aZbSVadlN or how to write music tracks with Javascript

[Frank Rousseau @gelnior]

The barrier to building indie video games is getting signifcantly lower.

@godotengine (Game Engine) and @Blender (3D assets) are Free software with vibrant communities. They are both always getting better.

This is disruption.

[Adam Campbell @adamsleepy_]

Reminder that I'm making a sci-fi adventure/farming game in the Godot Engine

#gamedev #indiedev #GodotEngine #godot #indiegame #IndieGameDev

[Frank Rousseau @gelnior]

It seems that AI is not well perceived by consumers. Do not include AI in your product for the sake of the hype. Integrate it only for useful outcomes:

https://t.co/re76PmFvXX

[Frank Rousseau @gelnior]

The Jetbrains Python Developers survey is interesting:

- Main usages: web and data analysis
- Favorite framework: Flask (Django and FastAPI comes next)
- Favorite framework without data scientists: Django
- Favorite deployment techs: AWS and containers

https://t.co/1DEqCMp5M4

[Frank Rousseau @gelnior]

I tried @cursor_ai and my first tests are satisfying. It allows to create quickly new UIs. It's a great assistant.

I now have to test it with an existing complex code base and with backend stuff.