Peter Falkingham

I originally moved to Blender _because_ of the (post 2.8) UI (I still use industry compatible keymao though). But I know there are lots in my field still using Maya because the UI is familiar. This might make the transition easier for them (I have not tested this) 5hyuns.github.io/maya-workflo...

I deeply, deeply wish people wouldn't hit reply-all when saying congratulations to some news or other.

Ditching Bluefin for CachyOS I was previously using Bluefin fairly extensively. And I was mostly happy — aside from a few niggles, I was able to mostly stay in Linux and only boot into Windows occasionally. Some of the niggles were just Microsoft clashing with Linux — Outlook required for work,…

[Academic Tech] Gigabyte AI Top (Nvidia DGX Spark) review I've had Gigabyte's version of Nvidia's DGX Spark, the AI TOP ATOM, on my desk since July, and the two numbers that actually matter about it are 128 and 50: 128GB of unified memory, and roughly fifty watts at the wall while it processes.…

[Academic Tech] – The M5 MacBook Air review Ugh. It pains me to say it, but this is probably the best laptop in the world. And it's not even close. Shame about macOS, though. I've been lucky enough to be generously provided with a MacBook Air (thanks Beth!) primarily so XMALab gets compiled and…

This week part of my team and I were at Cryassac tracksite, France. It was _phenomenal_ - some of the best tracks I've ever seen! You should definitely go if you get the chance.

Watched the cartoon Spider-man from 1994 with my three year old. He loved it, but the end spider-verse took some explaining, and the finale where 'our' spider-man goes to a universe where spider-man is a fictional character, and has a heart-to-heart with Stan Lee took some explaining...

I've still not found a soild, data-driven use case for gaussian splats, but there's no denying the fidelity of the visualization/reconstruction is vastly superior to photogrammetry. Left: RealityScan, Right: Lichtfeld Studio, both using same video input, with camera alignment done in RealityScan

Introducing authFace — Windows Hello-style face unlock for Linux (that actually works on immutable distros)

It's lovely that my office is directly underneath some media studies nonsense where people like to play the drums and make music occasionally. Really adds to the academic feel of being at a university.

Another great @sebiology.bsky.social conference! I had the opportunity to present my poster on my recent ROM sensitivity analysis paper and give a talk at the @europexn.bsky.social workshop on rotoscoping in Blender. Looking forward to next year!

@arielcamp.bsky.social explaining what #XROMM is at the @europexn.bsky.social workshop #SEBconference

Another awesome day of biomechanics at #sebconference @sebiology.bsky.social

David Labonte elegantly showing how math and physics tools can empower biomechanics to tackle big questions about animal diversity. #SEBConference @sebiology.bsky.social

Today I am mostly hassled and grumpy.

RealityScan 2.2 finally brings AMD GPU support (to Windows) Epic have just released RealityScan 2.2, and the headline feature is one that's been on people's wishlists for a long time: full AMD GPU support on Windows. For years, photogrammetry has been effectively CUDA-only. Most serious…

Running Hermes Across Multiple Computers, keeping memory and soul synced with kDrive I've been running Hermes Agent — an open-source AI agent framework by Nous Research — for a few weeks now, and I'm genuinely impressed with it. If you haven't seen what it's been doing for me, I wrote about that…

There's now an option in Wordpress to make a 3 minute podcast based on your posts. Oh dear. Well, I tried it just to see what it's like. Here's a _very_ American sounding podcast summarising the last 3-4 posts I did on setting up my local AI. I don't see myself doing this regularly...

The serif font I've put on my phone is ugly as sin, but it's still better than the 20 minutes I spent yesterday entering a password that couldn't be copy pasted but contained multiple capital i's and lower case L's. "IlIlIlIl"

Great first paper from PhD student @rebeccalowes.bsky.social , running a sensitivity analysis on Range of Motion and what matters. Lots and lots of work in this one, but the gist is, it matters a lot how you select your articular surface: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The Local AI Treadmill – everything I’ve built will be obsolete in weeks I've been writing posts here about getting set up with local AI, agents, harnesses, and what I've done with them. It's fun, and it stretches my computer legs in a way they haven't been stretched recently. But I can't shake…

My Linux Journey Is Nearly Complete (But There Are Still A Few Rough Edges) I've been running Linux as my primary desktop for a while now — specifically Bluefin (the immutable Fedora-based distro with dinosaurs) on an ASUS ProArt P16 laptop with an RTX 5090 Mobile and AMD HX 370 processor. The…

The absolute stress inducing shit-show that is the cartel of university travel agents.

Building My Personal AI Research Assistant: What I’ve Done So Far I've been spending the last few weeks setting up Hermes Agent as a personal research assistant, and it's gone from "chatbot I talk to on Telegram" to "actually useful thing that does stuff" pretty quickly. Thought it was worth…

Getting Local AI Working for Me: LM Studio, OpenCode, and Hermes I've been getting local AI setup with an orchestrator and it's bloody exciting, and bloody scary!

We're excited to welcome @elliescerri.bsky.social for the next MENDLS lecture - 06.05.26 at the Uni of Liverpool. If you're around, please join us - see poster for details and sign up. @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social @jblinkhorn.bsky.social @phoebebakerrr.bsky.social @paddytkaczynski.bsky.social

Getting Dragonfly setup on Linux (runs better than Windows!) on my new laptop with a 5090, and wanted to push it, so here's a vole scanned at 13 microns resolution (70GB dataset)

Any academic parents coming to the #SEBconference in Florence this July, @sebiology.bsky.social has childcare! www.sebiology.org/resource/epi... @peterfalkingham.com and I have used this fantastic childcare for the last 3 years (child of 6 months-2.5 years), and are happy to share our experience.

[Academic Tech] 2025 Asus ProArt P16 with Nvidia 5090 (vs 2024’s 4070) I really rather loved my Asus ProArt P16 with Nvidia 4070. A beautiful and powerful laptop. But I was bumping up against RAM limitations with some CT data; 32GB was proving limiting, as was the 8GB VRAM on the otherwise fine…

A Marie Curie Post-doc absolutely kick-started my career. Like everyone else, I would be happy to host a potential fellow and help develop their application if it's in my wheel house.

I've long been embedded in the Microsoft ecosystem, and a big part of that has been having my personal (and work) data held by OneDrive. Last month I finally moved 700GB of personal data over to @infomaniak.bsky.social kDrive, and so far it's been mostly great. peterfalkingham.com/2026/04/10/l...

Postdoc advert now live! Come and work with me at the UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social on the Mediterranean Neogene insular giant fauna. You'll also get to work with a great team: @toriherridge.bsky.social @nannonstevens.bsky.social and Jesse Hennekam

I'm sorry I ever doubted you @proton.me -> browser was trusted and it was able to recover data even after changing passwords. Sorry. You're wonderful.