Back at it

[takeitev@mastodon.social]

@stroughtonsmith funny thing is. They say , our jobs will be over with vibe-coding. But I don't see everyone creating apps now. Just because there are good tools, doesn't make everyone a carpenter..

[theejj@mastodon.social]

@stroughtonsmith Quick reminder, you’ve been working on this app for months, right? Months? For some reason I was under the impression that you’ve been working on this for hours, but that can’t be right.

[stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social]

@TheEjj if by months you mean 'an evening'. I spent most of today rendering with it and not doing any actual development

[stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social]

We're doing water now.

[jheron@mastodon.social]

@stroughtonsmith love the Amiga reference

[stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social]

I think I'm just making Bryce now? That's a thing

[edmn@mastodon.social]

@stroughtonsmith Watching the progress of this app over the past day has been incredible.

[stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social]

@edmn I'm just as much along for the ride as everybody else

[stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social]

Procedural water to the horizon, sky, island generation

[ryan@goodlett.social]

@stroughtonsmith

[stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social]

Not me offloading raytracing workloads to my iPad because it's so much faster than my Mac…

[edmn@mastodon.social]

@stroughtonsmith That sounds like a handy handoff feature for those with older Macs but newer iPad/iPhone.

[takeitev@mastodon.social]

@stroughtonsmith is that all mostly vibecoded ?

[stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social]

@takeitev 100%

[stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social]

I spent untold hours in Bryce3D as a kid making silly scenes just like this. It did this stuff with machines a thousand times less powerful than my Mac mini. Certainly puts things into perspective…

[cianwalsh@mastodon.social]

@stroughtonsmith One area that 3D software is only touching the edges of is using primitives to block out the scene and creating adhered AI renders using reference images. Currently a multi step process or a kludgy Blender add-on but so useful.

[dk@mastodon.design]

@stroughtonsmith loved loved loved Bryce and Strata. was so fortunate to have access to Power Macs in summer school. @ljharb

[stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social]

It's real nice having a complex app like this on iPad, that's for sure. This is by far the most complex and impressive thing I've vibecoded with Codex 5.3. I haven't seen or touched a single line of code, I didn't have a detailed plan to work from — this isn't at all like the structured ports I detailed previously

[masukomi@connectified.com]

@stroughtonsmith pretty sure Bryce looked better too, even ifnit did take hours to make an image

[stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social]

I thought my water should have some translucency and falloff, so I can put things underneath it