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Freya Holmér

@FreyaHolmer

4 years

hi, I'm Freya! I stream game dev, make videos, unity tools, math stuff, art & witchcraft~ 💖 🌟 📹 🎨 🌺 💬

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this sucks i didn't want this fact

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Woah, Neptune is actually light blue! We'd been misinformed for 35 years! The well-known images from Voyager 2 were not accurately colour balanced & apparently they also increased the contrast way more than for the Uranus images. Here the corrected ones:

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ok so - the human eye can absolutely tell the difference in framerates beyond 60 Hz can we please stop the "the eye can only see in 60 fps" nonsense now

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do they shrink the window resize region by 1 px every 5 years or something bc i swear to god

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I used to have the same frustration with online repos like this, it was so annoying to not have a way to *just install* the application but now that I've learned how to code, how to use git, how to build software - my opinion is completely unchanged lol

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very correct take, developers take note

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I figured out how to get tone across in emails

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How to fix Z-fighting #unitytips

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btw these large scary math symbols are just for-loops

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twitter is a very funny app sometimes

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I've double checked with unity the new changes apply to all unity games, including those released before 2024, for all sales and revenue in 2024 and beyond is this even legal

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I'm so tired I feel like escaping into the forest to start a witch coven/cat shelter and abandon the industry forever

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I saw someone theorize that whoever made this decision at Unity is so mobile pilled that to them "an install" is unambiguously just a number from google play or the apple app store I hate how it's so painfully believable

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see the true minimum is actually 17, not 21, bc it's specifically asking for the number of cubes on the trailer - a trailer established to be wider than the cubes, and yet, notably, missing in the alleged top view thus, the cubes in the top view are not on the trailer

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3 years

they forgot to turn up shadow quality at the capitol a little unprofessional imo

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1 year

artists are starting to take action to protect their own art from AI by "poisoning" it w. glaze then these AI prompters have the gall to say "you're ruining our training data" like, 1. yes 2. it's not yours you entitled prick 3. calling art "training data" says a lot about you

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every year I'm reminded of the massive cultural loss we suffered with the death of flash it was so ahead of its time, there's *still* no replacement for the creative space it once occupied for artists, animators, and game devs

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> writes code > 1/2 == 0.5 > look inside > false

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Autodesk Maya is $1,545/year

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4 years

my favorite way to see if a point is inside or outside a path, is using its winding number🍥 traverse the path from the perspective of a point and add up the amount of turning along the way if it made a full turn, it's inside if it wound back to 0, it's outside it's so neat~💖

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4 years

📢 hold space to move selections already started retweet to save millions of lives

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a thread on this before I mute the new AI thing, I'm going to miss the time when things were created by people who care AI could've done so much good, but OpenAI is choosing to exploit the collective human creativity, and erode trust in communication, for the sake of technology

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brb just gonna paint a normal map real quick

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5 years

working on a vector rendering library for Unity, for making stuff like this~✨ #madewithunity

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4 years

here, have a coordinate system chart~

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ok where do I click and why is z up

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Heartbreaking: Local quadratic polynomial as a function of x struggling to fit constantly rotating data

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8 months

you ever just spend your entire 20s building up a skillset, a creative community, work on developing and supporting a tool valued by game devs across the entire world only for it to be undone because some guy with too much authority in a suit decided to delete it all over night

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Yeah death is a terrifying prospect but have you ever

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every time I see something from the source engine again, I get a feeling I can only describe as that smell after it's been raining like a deep, rejuvenating breath. full of, nostalgia, comfortably cold and crisp

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still a sucker for the half life 2 water reflections

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ctrl+O for Open ctrl+N for New ctrl+C for Copy ctrl+V for Vaste ctrl+Z for Zndo ctrl+Y for Yedo

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Math for Game Devs is now live on youtube!! 🎉 this is an actual four part course I taught to game dev students at @FuturegamesEDU , complete with assignments, visually driven teaching, and motivations as for, why, in fact, math is useful~ 📹 watch now ❱

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guys I'm stuck making curve torsion visualizations help

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ok guys how about this

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This code structure is called an arrow anti-pattern. How to fix this code?

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violently bad timing unity I swear to god I'm losing it what is happening to our industry

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"you can't rotate in 1D" oh yeah? then explain this 1D rotation matrix

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press F to focus your selection #unitytips

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the area of a circle is τr²/2 🔴 but why? here's an animation~ by unrolling a circle, it forms a triangle with base τr and height r. we can then apply the triangle area formula of base×height/2 to get the area of the circle, τr²/2✨

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@unity hi so you should revert this change as soon as possible if you want unity to continue thriving among indie devs I've never seen so many developers simultaneously preparing to jump ship at the same time. out of all the blunders, this one is looking like the worst by far

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the GPT SEO era is so mind numbingly dumb me: "css flexbox item not shrinking" huge article "written" by James Stockphoto: • Getting Started With Shrinking Items with Flexbox • What is Flexbox? • The Advantages of Shrinking with Flexbox • Examples of Shr- 💀💀

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if I hear one more person say "it's just a tool" or "adapt or die" then I will lose my shit I can't overstate how much I detest the way AI is used to remove humanity from art, in the name of profit and productivity. it's actually so disgusting

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The studio’s A.I. proposal to SAG-AFTRA included scanning a background actor’s likeness for one day’s worth of pay and using their likeness forever in any form without any pay or consent.

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A thread, on the ever so lovely Bézier curve ✨

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1 year

The Continuity of Splines is now on YouTube!! it has been a year in the making, goodness ;-;🎉 I hope you'll like it ❤ ❱

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john riccitiello is stepping down as CEO of Unity!!

Unity Announces Leadership Transition

Unity (NYSE: U) (the “Company”), the world’s leading platform for creating and growing real-time 3D (RT3D) content, today announced that John Riccitie

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me and a few other creators have been in a unity insiders Slack channel unity asked us for feedback ~24h before the announcement went live we tried to warn them about how horribly this will be received, we asked them not to do this, as did many unity employees before us

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I made a new easing function i hope you like it

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this video is 60 fps, since most of you will view this on 60 Hz monitors, but it has additional subframes to match the refresh rate shown this effectively emulates the exposure your eyes would perceive of the additional frames, seeing this motion on a higher refresh rate monitor

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a few of us unity insiders just had a meeting with some of the leadership at Unity we're under NDA, so I can't share details of what was discussed but, I got a tiny glimmer of cautious hope restored I'm happy they were willing to talk frankly, and take the time to listen

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1 year

who UVd this spoon?? lmao look at the texture stretching 😭

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unreal threatens to awaken the ancient environment artist within me

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ok guys im changing the pricing model of Shapes it will now be $0.05 per draw call, for those of you who have rendered more than 1,000,000 Shapes over the span of a year. this goes into effect in 4 months. good luck

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google translate implies the existence of google rotate

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"Z is up because if you put a piece of paper on the floor then it will-" yeah well if I shove you up against a wall we'll see what's up

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Shapes is NOW AVAILABLE on Patreon!! 🎉 a real-time vector graphics library for Unity 💗 📜More info! ❱ 💖Get Shapes! ❱

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the most depressing thing about all these tech futurists is the complete disregard for humanity, emotional connection, and creativity, in favor of technological advancement for the sake of productivity, with a violent reduction of the arts as mere product to be consumed

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alright, a thread with my first impressions of @godotengine , let's see how this goes

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1 year

unity's documentation pages should show blood stains and cryptic player messages just like in elden ring

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"you can't multiply vectors" hold my tea in my research into geometric algebra, I've come up with a neat minimal starting assumption: v² = ||v||² - a vector multiplied by itself is its length squared it then follows that multiplying two vectors, gives you a quaternion c:

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📏Lerp vs Slerp⭕ • Lerp interpolates in a straight line • useful for interpolating positions • Slerp rotates around (0,0) • useful for interpolating directions #unitytips

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okay WHO STOLE MY GIZMO SOMEONE took it to the kitchen, and then had the GALL to place it Z up

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finding the bounding box of a bézier curve

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my geometry tool can extrude now c:

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constructing a cubic bezier curve

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a 21 box solution (the minimum if the top view actually had a trailer)

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when you tell me there's thousands of entire planets to visit for your game, you are, in effect, just telling me that I can't expect good/interesting/human made level design

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it's like when I talk about how mastodon isn't vibing with me as a social media platform, and then people explain how it's actually on individual users to simply [linux power user noises]

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me: okay, looks like my ram is broken. I guess I need to buy new ones *opens website* ram: HYPERX FURY me: ram: VENGEANCE me: okay I just- ram: BALLISTIX SPORT me: what does that even- ram: PREDATOR. DOMINATOR. SNIPER X me: me: what is wrong with gamer- ram [screaming]: RIPJAWS

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@Darkere99 when they say it's "not retroactive", they mean it won't count sales before 2024, but it will still count everything in 2024 and beyond, regardless of the games release date and unity version

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actually this exploded my twitter

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YOU THERE!! YES YOU!! HOW DID YOU BUILD YOUR TWITTER FOLLOWERS???

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so, I'm considering putting all of my math visualizations in one place, with detailed explanations, in a crowdfunded free online book with .gifs✨ it would cover geometry, trig, calc, and some game dev specific math would you be interested in this, and would you support it?

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Shaders for Game Devs is now live on youtube!! 🎉 this is an actual three part course I taught to game dev students at @FuturegamesEDU , complete with assignments, assets, visually driven teaching, and why shaders are hecka neat~ 📹 watch now ❱

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the four most common 3D rotation representations

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I don't know why I made this I just felt compelled after learning about x-axis washing machines today

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Q: how did you learn [___], do you have any books to recommend? A: yeah no I read zero books, it was a blur of obsessive indulgence across hundreds of scattered sources online and experimental coding and then years later I somehow came out the other end knowing a lot about it

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cool how a huge fraction of the entire global games industry is under threat and panicking, including the people working at unity while the people responsible for this decision are dead silent and remain completely unaccountable cool cool cool

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> Hello Freya. I have an issue with your plugin, it doesn't seem to render in–

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a neat way to calculate the area of a closed 2D polygon c:

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okay @elonmusk why can't we see the reason a tweet is on your timeline anymore? there used to be notes like "because X liked this tweet" or "because X follows them", but now we're getting completely unsourced tweets from accounts we don't follow - what happened to transparency?

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Twitter will publish tweet recommendation code & make account/tweet status visible no later than next month. Transparency builds trust.

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I drew a cube pls appreciate my cube thanks

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"why don't you just use [framework]?" see I don't want coax an entire Boeing 737 into my garage just bc I want the cup holder from seat 28D

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this tweet started a war between coders and math people

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btw these large scary math symbols are just for-loops

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extremely hype to see the megacorporations excited about Totally Decentralized™ 😉 technologies that totally are things designed to help artists 🙏 and totally not a fad designed to scam as much money out of people as possible🙅‍♀️ and it's totally environmentally friendly Soon™🌳

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voronoi tessellation as generated by fortune's algorithm 💖

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• only applies to 2023.x LTS or later • TOS will be per-unity version, no more retroactive changes • 2.5% rev share OR based on "number of unique users" as self-reported. sales is an acceptable metric for this • no more splash screen on unity personal

An open letter to our community | Unity Blog

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Shapes is NOW AVAILABLE on the Asset Store!! 🎉 a real-time vector graphics library for Unity 💗 📜More info! ❱ 💖Get Shapes! ❱ #madewithunity #unity3d

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I don't understand how unity's decision could've gotten this far there must've been a massive amount of backlash internally at unity, but those employees were clearly not listened to by the people making this decision, why?

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the modern web experience is pretty weird isn't it reddit has somehow become one of the most reliable places for finding actual humans with thoughts, as opposed to SEO optimized articles written purely to appear first on google but contains, not much, beyond chatGPT corpospeak

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web dev stack overflow is always like: Q: is there a way to florb arrays in js? ✅[⬆️635]: Florbing will never happen. Browsers are very specifically designed to prevent and discourage relying exactly this kind of florb due to security concerns as well as for performance

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game designers who talk about "rules of game design" don't have the scientific data to make even half of the claims they do we're all pretending it's some sort of established science when it's mostly just vibes and experience

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What is an *actually* controversial game design opinion you hold?

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some websites to add to your blocklist as chemo treatment for your image search: *://aieasypic.com/* *://openart.ai/* *://civitai.com/* *://freepik.com/* (browser plugin in the quoted thread!)

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btw, in our age of enshittification - I found a really useful plugin for chrome that lets you hide search results from certain domains, as well as highlight others! it's great for hiding annoying health websites, removing AI trash from image search, and highlighting wikipedia

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tangential speed is how fast a point is moving, when rotated around another point 🌪 s = ωr s - tangential speed (m/s) ω - angular speed (rad/s) r - radius (m) you might see how speed is linearly proportional to the radius in how the points form a perfect line after detaching~

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I know it depends on art style etc but, high frequency contrast like this, from pure white to pitch black, of both background elements and foreground elements, gives me art direction failure/school project/asset flip vibes a short thread on visual contrast 🧵