Nathan @natronics@toot.cat

Just realized that Apple's Memoji is just being a VTuber for middle aged moms

IEEE 802.11j (802.11 jeans)

If shitposting is an art then I'm like a 3rd grade science teacher.

I tried starting a post on my personal website this weekend and naturally instead i spent hours css styling the first letter to make the opening paragraph look fancy. I never got past the first :/

Do you think that there were goth dinosaurs?

Petition to rename them Top Carolina and Bottom Carolina.

This technique is so much fun though! Seeing the mountains "pop" as I get the lighting and displacement modifier just right in Blender is very satisfying.

I've been working on a poster sized render of the mid Atlantic (DC, Philly, NYC). I want to overlay more data on this. Still thinking about what. But I'm liking how the terrain is looking. Lots of little improvements yet to come.

you might also notice I have a missing bit of elevation data in the East :/ Still working on that.

Then I got kinda experimental, what if only the cities at night, and no other color data? (well, I left the ocean in place)

I like how this nightime one picks out the mountains with moody looking shadows.

I made a mask layer of just the "urban" areas according the USGS land cover (there are 4 levels) and mapped that to an emission shader so it looks like city lights glowing. Here is North Carolina in a night time scene

Here is North Carolina, similar with a similar treatment.

Here is a view of Oregon, colored with USGS land cover data (based on aggregated Landsat data, I think) and elevation provided by NASA

I've been having a lot of fun figuring out how to get map data into Blender in a way I like. I've been using QGIS to get data into a map so everything is layered nicely and georeferenced, then exporting elevation data, color (like rendered map) and maybe other choice bits of data as separate images so I treat them as textures in Blender. Then apply the elevation as real 3D heights, and use the other textures in the shader and get a 3D map!

6 hour ASMR carpet washing video. Send toot.