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Nordern @[email protected] · 2026-01-03 · 23:59 UTC

I've now finally finished my blog post for "July 2026 - Month of #TiXL"

Nothing new, just this thread here as a big write-up.

Also, maybe thumbnail preview now works. I think mastodon can't do SVG thumbnails?

Also fixed some html so it doesn't try to automatically download all the videos.

https://xcvbnm.org/blog/2026-01-02_month_of_tixl/

#tooll3 #3d

#tixl #tooll3 #3d

Nordern @[email protected] · 2026-01-03 · 23:59 UTC

I've now finally finished my blog post for "July 2026 - Month of #TiXL"

Nothing new, just this thread here as a big write-up.

Also, maybe thumbnail preview now works. I think mastodon can't do SVG thumbnails?

Also fixed some html so it doesn't try to automatically download all the videos.

https://xcvbnm.org/blog/2026-01-02_month_of_tixl/

#tooll3 #3d

#tixl #tooll3 #3d

Nordern @[email protected] · 2026-01-03 · 23:59 UTC

I've now finally finished my blog post for "July 2026 - Month of #TiXL"

Nothing new, just this thread here as a big write-up.

Also, maybe thumbnail preview now works. I think mastodon can't do SVG thumbnails?

Also fixed some html so it doesn't try to automatically download all the videos.

https://xcvbnm.org/blog/2026-01-02_month_of_tixl/

#tooll3 #3d

#tixl #tooll3 #3d

Nordern @[email protected] · 2026-01-03 · 23:59 UTC

I've now finally finished my blog post for "July 2026 - Month of #TiXL"

Nothing new, just this thread here as a big write-up.

Also, maybe thumbnail preview now works. I think mastodon can't do SVG thumbnails?

Also fixed some html so it doesn't try to automatically download all the videos.

https://xcvbnm.org/blog/2026-01-02_month_of_tixl/

#tooll3 #3d

#3d #tooll3 #tixl

Nordern @[email protected] · 2026-01-03 · 23:59 UTC

I've now finally finished my blog post for "July 2026 - Month of #TiXL"

Nothing new, just this thread here as a big write-up.

Also, maybe thumbnail preview now works. I think mastodon can't do SVG thumbnails?

Also fixed some html so it doesn't try to automatically download all the videos.

https://xcvbnm.org/blog/2026-01-02_month_of_tixl/

#tooll3 #3d

#tixl #tooll3 #3d

Nordern @[email protected] · 2025-08-02 · 23:28 UTC

Day 33???

My PR was merged :D

https://github.com/tixl3d/tixl/pull/720

The other one got some feedback I'm working on addressing.

#tixl #tooll3

Nordern @[email protected] · 2025-07-31 · 21:21 UTC

Day 31 - Foggy

I don't think #tixl has volumetic fog, I tried to emulate it with billboards.

Inspired by some posts by Andy S. on the Discord, just a lot less good :P

Also tried to disguise the loop point better, by layering multiple phase-shifted sinus animations.

CC0: https://github.com/edave64/2025-07-month-of-tixl/tree/main/day31

#tooll3 #3d

#tixl #tooll3 #3d

Nordern @[email protected] · 2025-07-30 · 19:40 UTC

Day 30

Another day without animation, instead another pull request to #tixl: https://github.com/tixl3d/tixl/pull/720

#tooll3

#tixl #tooll3

Nordern @[email protected] · 2025-07-29 · 20:50 UTC

Day 29 - Containment

Tried to make something out of glass. Also experimented some more with different postfx effects.

CC0: https://github.com/edave64/2025-07-month-of-tixl/tree/main/day29

#tixl #tooll3 #3d

Nordern @[email protected] · 2025-07-28 · 19:51 UTC

Day 28

No animation today, instead I have opened a PR to fix a minor annoyance in the project. I think that still counts :P

https://github.com/tixl3d/tixl/pull/718

#tixl #tooll3

Nordern @[email protected] · 2025-07-27 · 13:17 UTC

Day 27 - Scatter

I've finally started publishing the files for the #tixl projects: https://github.com/edave64/2025-07-month-of-tixl

They are available as CC0 (though day 21 obviously doesn't include the music)

Day 2-6 are not in there yet, since I made those on different computers and need to collect the files for those.

#tooll3 #3d

#tixl #tooll3 #3d

Nordern @[email protected] · 2025-07-26 · 15:25 UTC

Day 26 - Public service announcement

First time working with splines. Tried to make some interesting effects with different kinds of billboarding

#tixl #tooll3 #3d

Nordern @[email protected] · 2025-07-25 · 20:41 UTC

Day 25 - Quantization

Prompt by @sofia, that I vaguely used to adjust my existing animation :P

#tixl #tooll3 #3d

Nordern @[email protected] · 2025-07-24 · 20:09 UTC

Day 24 - Multiple Cameras

Still can't do lighting for shit. The first shot looks ok, no idea how to fix the others :/

#tixl #tooll3 #3d

Nordern @[email protected] · 2025-07-23 · 19:31 UTC

Day 23 - Understanding displacement

#tixl #tooll3 #3d

Nordern @[email protected] · 2025-07-22 · 16:39 UTC

Day 22 - Feedback

I didn't think this was possible, since the graph system in #tixl doesn't allow cycles. But you can work around that with texture references.

#tooll3 #3d

#tixl #tooll3 #3d

Nordern @[email protected] · 2025-07-21 · 19:14 UTC

Day 21 - Visualization

Music: Acid Tunnel of Love from DELTARUNE Chapter 2 by Toby Fox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLc0RvWdKjY

I didn't expect #tixl to just have tools for that, but it seems like it does!

I reduced the video quality a lot to hopefully not annoy the instance host.

The song was chosen for the very good reason that it was the first file in the deltarune music folder :P

#tooll3 #3d

#tixl #tooll3 #3d

Nordern @[email protected] · 2025-07-20 · 21:26 UTC

Day 20 - Distance Fields

If you know #tixl, don't tell anyone how completely free this effect is :P

#tooll3 #3d

#tixl #tooll3 #3d

Nordern @[email protected] · 2025-07-19 · 13:49 UTC

Day 19 - Blub

Vaguely inspired by that one window 9x screen saver.

#tixl #tooll3 #3d

Nordern @[email protected] · 2025-07-18 · 22:08 UTC

Day 18

I tried to make something that might actually be in a demo. Not sure if I succeeded. For some reason a box doing something strange off-center seemed to fit that.

Not sure if that makes sense, but I'm out of time for today.

#tixl #tooll3 #3d

Nordern @[email protected] · 2025-07-17 · 20:34 UTC

Day 17

Playing a little more with god-rays and SDFs. Although I didn't plan on the SDFs. I wanted torus with 4 corners, but the Torus mesh generator doesn't generate caps so you can look into the mesh :/

#tixl #tooll3 #3d

Nordern @[email protected] · 2025-07-16 · 21:14 UTC

Day 16

Playing a little more with points. This actually includes some video editing in #blender, since #tixl doesn't support rendering a video from a specific time offset :P

Guess that could be a feature request

#3d #tooll3

#blender #tixl #3d #tooll3

Nordern @[email protected] · 2025-07-15 · 19:00 UTC

Day 15 - Bouncy Outline V2

The issue with TriggerAnimations I reported has been fixed!

https://github.com/tixl3d/tixl/issues/703

Props to the #tixl creators for making the project trivial to build. Just click the run arrow in VS. Done :)

To celebrate, I looked at it again and noticed it had exactly the "shake" animation curve I was looking for :)

I also switched the colors of the cube, to make the outline more noticeable and the image maybe less harsh.

#tooll3 #2d

#tixl #tooll3 #2d

Nordern @[email protected] · 2025-07-14 · 20:18 UTC

Day 14 - Bouncy Outline

If I'm making the outline a separate mesh anyway, might as well have some fun with it, right? :P

The curves still feel like a weak point of #tixl. The wobble is done with hand placed key-frames and cubic curves.

#tooll3 #2d

#tixl #tooll3 #2d

Nordern @[email protected] · 2025-07-13 · 08:29 UTC

Day 13

Experimenting a little with SDFs

#tixl #tooll3 #3d

Nordern @[email protected] · 2025-07-12 · 15:17 UTC

Day 12

"Flash" was the original prompt, but I found this effect and thought it looked neat. It originally had a fairly harsh transition between black and white, but I didn't like looking at that, so I cranked down the contrast and slowed down the middle section.

#tixl #tooll3 #2d

Nordern @[email protected] · 2025-07-11 · 23:03 UTC

Day 11 - Glide

Had something completely different planned, but I failed at making the camera track a moving object. Also getting it to render how I wanted. 🤷

#Tixl #tooll3 #3d

#tixl #tooll3 #3d

Nordern @[email protected] · 2025-07-10 · 20:24 UTC

Day 10 - Sparks

This one is quite nice. I originally tried to make this with keyframes, but the either I don't understand how to manipulate the curves, or the tools for that are just weak in #tixl. So all movement is calculated with janky math. :P

I learned a bit how to use particles here, but I still feel like I'm doing it wrong.

I also actually used a light in this one. I don't get why the point-light gets stronger the further things are, had to work around that.

#3d #tooll3

#tixl #3d #tooll3

Nordern @[email protected] · 2025-07-09 · 21:55 UTC

Day 9 - Bloom

Used an obj I created in blender and keyframe animation.

I rendered it as a wireframe, because the model looked strange and the petals are clipping into each other :P

I noticed that you can zoom into the DrawMeshUnlit and DrawMashAtPoints operators. Maybe I can combine those manually into DrawMashAtPointsUnlit, so I can keep evading having to deal with lighting :P

#3d #tooll3 #tixl

Nordern @[email protected] · 2025-07-07 · 22:04 UTC

Day 7 - Echo

Sadly ran out of time today, I'd like to continue working on this tomorrow.

I wanted to learn how to use the timeline to trigger events.

Instead I got stuck on the fact that the delay of TriggerAnim doesn't seem to work at all and that they don't reset after finishing, getting stuck on the final value. (Which can be useful I guess, but not if I want an animation that can be triggered multiple times)

#2d #Tooll3 #tixl

#2d #tooll3 #tixl

Nordern @[email protected] · 2025-07-05 · 14:54 UTC

Day 5 - Tides

Playing some more with tiling

Unpolished, but I don't have too much time today.

#3d #realtime #tixl #tooll3

Nordern @[email protected] · 2025-07-05 · 12:19 UTC

Day 3 - Fixed

I figured out the math to make the hand-off perfect. :)

Also, the graph setup is vastly simplified, with only a single render target, camera and grid that get shared for both parts of the animation.

Then I learned how to do color ramping to fix the issue with the aggressive contrast. Still haven't figured out how to just disable shading.

#2D #tixl #tooll3

#2d #tixl #tooll3

Nordern @[email protected] · 2025-07-04 · 18:19 UTC

Day 4 - The big question

I really love playing with these blend effects.
Math remains my mortal enemy.

I tried to fix yesterdays animation, but I just can't figure out the right settings for the perfect tiling, even though the math should check out.

But this loop at least should be seamless.

Also, today I learned that #Tooll3 actually somewhat half-heartedly renamed itself to #TiXL. But the old website is still up with no mention of that...

#3d #realtime

#tooll3 #tixl #3d #realtime

Nordern @[email protected] · 2025-07-03 · 20:23 UTC

CW: High contrast animation

Day 3

A pretty classic effect. I don't yet have enough understanding of #tooll3 to make it seamless.

Also had to use black and white, because any other color caused visible shading, and I don't know how to get rid of that ^^'

Also I think I know where the files are stored now, so I think I'll publish them on the weekend

#2d #tixl

#tooll3 #2d #tixl

Thomas Maria Helzle @[email protected] · 2025-04-25 · 16:43 UTC

"The Pulse of Life"

See the full length version in 4k 60fps and high quality on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/H4_xDeKsdbM

#Tooll3 #realtime #newmediaart #abstractart #generativeart #particles #livingpainting #creativecoding #hlsl #gpu #shader #generative #procedural #visualart #audioreactive #soundreactive #sounddesign #Zen #wuwei #dao #taichi #chigong #flow #beherenow #visualizer #visualiser

#tooll3 #realtime #newmediaart #abstractart #generativeart #particles

Thomas Maria Helzle @[email protected] · 2025-04-25 · 16:43 UTC

"The Pulse of Life"

See the full length version in 4k 60fps and high quality on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/H4_xDeKsdbM

#Tooll3 #realtime #newmediaart #abstractart #generativeart #particles #livingpainting #creativecoding #hlsl #gpu #shader #generative #procedural #visualart #audioreactive #soundreactive #sounddesign #Zen #wuwei #dao #taichi #chigong #flow #beherenow #visualizer #visualiser

#tooll3 #realtime #newmediaart #abstractart #generativeart #particles

Thomas Maria Helzle @[email protected] · 2025-04-25 · 16:43 UTC

"The Pulse of Life"

See the full length version in 4k 60fps and high quality on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/H4_xDeKsdbM

#Tooll3 #realtime #newmediaart #abstractart #generativeart #particles #livingpainting #creativecoding #hlsl #gpu #shader #generative #procedural #visualart #audioreactive #soundreactive #sounddesign #Zen #wuwei #dao #taichi #chigong #flow #beherenow #visualizer #visualiser

#tooll3 #realtime #newmediaart #abstractart #generativeart #particles

Thomas Maria Helzle @[email protected] · 2025-04-25 · 16:43 UTC

"The Pulse of Life"

See the full length version in 4k 60fps and high quality on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/H4_xDeKsdbM

#Tooll3 #realtime #newmediaart #abstractart #generativeart #particles #livingpainting #creativecoding #hlsl #gpu #shader #generative #procedural #visualart #audioreactive #soundreactive #sounddesign #Zen #wuwei #dao #taichi #chigong #flow #beherenow #visualizer #visualiser

#visualiser #visualizer #beherenow #flow #chigong #taichi

Thomas Maria Helzle @[email protected] · 2025-04-25 · 16:40 UTC

Feel the pulse of life inside of you.
Your heart, your breath, your energy.
Listen close and listen well.
This is the real you.
The one that you have to take good care of.

Exploring Tooll3 "Main" with SDF-fields and custom Turbulence.

#Tooll3 #realtime #newmediaart #abstractart #generativeart #particles #livingpainting #creativecoding #hlsl #gpu #shader #generative #procedural #audioreactive #soundreactive #audiovisual #Zen #wuwei #dao #taichi #chigong #flow #beherenow #visualiser #mastoart

#tooll3 #realtime #newmediaart #abstractart #generativeart #particles

Thomas Maria Helzle @[email protected] · 2025-04-25 · 16:40 UTC

Feel the pulse of life inside of you.
Your heart, your breath, your energy.
Listen close and listen well.
This is the real you.
The one that you have to take good care of.

Exploring Tooll3 "Main" with SDF-fields and custom Turbulence.

#Tooll3 #realtime #newmediaart #abstractart #generativeart #particles #livingpainting #creativecoding #hlsl #gpu #shader #generative #procedural #audioreactive #soundreactive #audiovisual #Zen #wuwei #dao #taichi #chigong #flow #beherenow #visualiser #mastoart

#tooll3 #realtime #newmediaart #abstractart #generativeart #particles

Thomas Maria Helzle @[email protected] · 2025-04-25 · 16:40 UTC

Feel the pulse of life inside of you.
Your heart, your breath, your energy.
Listen close and listen well.
This is the real you.
The one that you have to take good care of.

Exploring Tooll3 "Main" with SDF-fields and custom Turbulence.

#Tooll3 #realtime #newmediaart #abstractart #generativeart #particles #livingpainting #creativecoding #hlsl #gpu #shader #generative #procedural #audioreactive #soundreactive #audiovisual #Zen #wuwei #dao #taichi #chigong #flow #beherenow #visualiser #mastoart

#tooll3 #realtime #newmediaart #abstractart #generativeart #particles

Thomas Maria Helzle @[email protected] · 2025-04-25 · 16:40 UTC

Feel the pulse of life inside of you.
Your heart, your breath, your energy.
Listen close and listen well.
This is the real you.
The one that you have to take good care of.

Exploring Tooll3 "Main" with SDF-fields and custom Turbulence.

#Tooll3 #realtime #newmediaart #abstractart #generativeart #particles #livingpainting #creativecoding #hlsl #gpu #shader #generative #procedural #audioreactive #soundreactive #audiovisual #Zen #wuwei #dao #taichi #chigong #flow #beherenow #visualiser #mastoart