Freya Holmér

or like, building a ton of custom tools on top of Unity to create something it was absolutely not designed for youtu.be/jvPPXbo87ds?...

I've been noodling around with my spline plugin again previously I had a very math type separation between all the different spline types (bezier/cat-rom/bspline etc.) but I've realized it's a lot more intuitive to just provide one canonical Spline™️ with controls for shape, constraints, and handles

1D splines are also a bit of a special case, and I BLAME CSS AND EASING FUNCTIONS FOR THIS a lot of easing functions are defined using a *2D bezier curve* embedded in the 1D graph, which is *deeply* cursed because it means reading the value requires a cubic root solve

I've been noodling around with my spline plugin again previously I had a very math type separation between all the different spline types (bezier/cat-rom/bspline etc.) but I've realized it's a lot more intuitive to just provide one canonical Spline™️ with controls for shape, constraints, and handles

it also makes sense from a serialization perspective, if your path is static, you shouldn't need to store the control vertices or vice versa - you don't need to serialize the path if you've already got the control points to generate it with

I've been noodling around with my spline plugin again previously I had a very math type separation between all the different spline types (bezier/cat-rom/bspline etc.) but I've realized it's a lot more intuitive to just provide one canonical Spline™️ with controls for shape, constraints, and handles

from this perspective, a spline has two parts: 1. a hull of control vertices (the thing you manipulate) 2. a path formed by piecewise curves a spline is then more of a path *generator* based on a set of control vertices maybe obvious in hindsight but, this separation made my code so much cleaner

I've been noodling around with my spline plugin again previously I had a very math type separation between all the different spline types (bezier/cat-rom/bspline etc.) but I've realized it's a lot more intuitive to just provide one canonical Spline™️ with controls for shape, constraints, and handles

what's neat is that they're really on a spectrum, from least to most control: - ultrasmooth (B-spline) - autosmooth (catmull-rom) - continuous (hermite/mirror-tangent bézier) - aligned (aligned tangent bézier) - free (bézier)

I've been noodling around with my spline plugin again previously I had a very math type separation between all the different spline types (bezier/cat-rom/bspline etc.) but I've realized it's a lot more intuitive to just provide one canonical Spline™️ with controls for shape, constraints, and handles

I think this is going to be the top level spline type selection!

I've been noodling around with my spline plugin again previously I had a very math type separation between all the different spline types (bezier/cat-rom/bspline etc.) but I've realized it's a lot more intuitive to just provide one canonical Spline™️ with controls for shape, constraints, and handles

it effectively makes the different spline types preset configurations rather than canonical Types in and of themselves they are still split by the data type they interpolate (float vs float3 vs quaternion etc.), but getting rid of the spline types significantly reduces the number of cases

⚠️ NEW CAT ALERT her name is SISTER and she's currently 8 months into learning how planet earth works!!

also why would you automate one of the most fun and invigorating phases of development?

normally I wouldn't clarify that no children were kicked in the face in the making of my projects but in a society normalizing kicking children in the face ig I'll label too

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I think my depression has caught up to me, that overwhelming feeling of hopelessness is back

see I've tried using AI for coding I'd like to think I'm special and immune to AI addiction, but the reality is probably just that I'm incapable of feeling any kind of attachment or pride in AI generated code I feel like it pollutes the project and displaces my own motivation, I just don't want it

it's been useful to have AI review my code snippets and suggest stuff I might've missed, like "there's an API call called X so you don't need to manually do Y here" because in that case, I still write all my code, and the only purpose of the AI is to improve my craft, rather than substitute it

see I've tried using AI for coding I'd like to think I'm special and immune to AI addiction, but the reality is probably just that I'm incapable of feeling any kind of attachment or pride in AI generated code I feel like it pollutes the project and displaces my own motivation, I just don't want it

I've had someone unironically argue that it's actually good if all these jobs are lost to AI because it's actually better when people make things as a hobby instead of "selling out"

everyone around me told me I was crazy for wanting a carpeted floor, especially living with three (now four) cats. (basically nobody in sweden has carpeted floors anymore) I have 0 regrets!! extremely worth it, they all play and run around so much more than they ever did on hardwood floor ❤️

I've been wanting to put my whole position on AI in one place so that I can link it but I'm kinda struggling to find a good structure flowcharts are too sprawling, but it's nice to have a hierarchy! text is too linear, but it's a lot more readable!

I think framing it in the Q&A format, ie: writing out my responses to common AI questions, is probably the most useful format for others to read, because it will likely help people develop their own thoughts and bring some of those arguments with them

I've been wanting to put my whole position on AI in one place so that I can link it but I'm kinda struggling to find a good structure flowcharts are too sprawling, but it's nice to have a hierarchy! text is too linear, but it's a lot more readable!

I'm also not sure if it should have like, a narrative thread like an essay, or if it should be a very distilled prop logic hierarchy of my exact position and why, or if it should be a list of common pro-AI arguments along with my response to each of them it's hard to do all three at the same time