# wang (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 8 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover wang. Page: Feed: --- ## [something very funny about blender is that it doesn’t actually have an ‘undo’ action. i mean it has…](https://eccentric-nucleus.tumblr.com/post/825595225172033536) _2026-08-21 · teach me baby teach_ something very funny about blender is that it doesn't actually have an 'undo' action. i mean it has a thing called undo, but it's uhhh let's call it 'imprecise'. sometimes if you undo a pose action it undoes the pose change but doesn't also undo any secondary constraint actions that were triggered by the pose action. annotations don't seem to be undoable at all despite taking up an undo slot? it's… ## [i think the real issue with all the blender stuff i’ve been doing is that, yes, i would like to be…](https://eccentric-nucleus.tumblr.com/post/825537311272026112) _2026-08-21 · teach me baby teach_ i think the real issue with all the blender stuff i've been doing is that, yes, i would like to be really good at modeling. and animating! and everything else too! it'd be neat to make music! i would in fact like to be good at everything. but that's not really a thing that it's possible for a person to do. seven years to get really good at something, and people have only so many seven-year chunks.… ## [anyway i’ve been enjoying the flower that bloomed nowhere in part because the worldbuilding is just…](https://eccentric-nucleus.tumblr.com/post/825497152719601664) _2026-08-20 · teach me baby teach_ anyway i've been enjoying the flower that bloomed nowhere in part because the worldbuilding is just so ridiculously involved and the way it's introduced to the reader is frequently just being like, hey it's chapter 247 lets dump a whole bunch of bizarre character history never mentioned before in a big blob there's a very distinct moment in the story where there's a narrative turn that made me go… ## [i’ve been thinking about clothes modeling and how complicated that would be if i intend to have a…](https://eccentric-nucleus.tumblr.com/post/825495220228587520) _2026-08-20 · teach me baby teach_ i've been thinking about clothes modeling and how complicated that would be if i intend to have a naked model beneath. plus there's so much design space for clothes. naked bodies are simple compared to that. anyway i recently saw this (this is a porn link) and i was like, okay yeah that's a good outfit reference. also dick reference. but it's still wildly complicated. jumpsuit with a separate… ## [now i’m thinking of putting together a reading list that like, “only things at least a millennium or…](https://eccentric-nucleus.tumblr.com/post/825446442486415360) _2026-08-20 · teach me baby teach_ now i'm thinking of putting together a reading list that like, "only things at least a millennium or two old" egyptian book of the dead epic of gilgamesh there's a whole bunch of sumerian stuff really but iirc it's mostly really fragmentary the atharvaveda mahābhārata & rāmāyaṇa classic of poetry book of documents the iliad & the odyssey there's a lot of stuff after that but there is something… ## [there’s this thing that litrpg stories, an already very bland and overwhelmingly formulaic genre, do…](https://eccentric-nucleus.tumblr.com/post/825443155361038336) _2026-08-20 · teach me baby teach_ there's this thing that litrpg stories, an already very bland and overwhelmingly formulaic genre, do when the author needs to pad a few arcs: either they do a dungeon crawl or they go to magic school. nothing ever happens and none of the wider plot arcs ever advance while they're doing that, & this is not a genre with like, "character development" so of course there's not any of that. there's just… ## [all i need to know about dungeon crawler carl is that book 1 opens and explains the premise:…](https://eccentric-nucleus.tumblr.com/post/825442961625104384) _2026-08-20 · teach me baby teach_ all i need to know about dungeon crawler carl is that book 1 opens and explains the premise: 18-floor world dungeon, somebody on earth needs to complete it unless everybody wants all the resources of earth to be mined by aliens. "extra mechanics may be introduced if anybody reaches floor 10". there's still a stub left on royalroad. book 1 chapter 1: carl enters the dungeon. start of book 6: carl… ## [i am gonna need to try to model something that’s not just a bipedal-ish humanoid at some point but…](https://eccentric-nucleus.tumblr.com/post/825051458977333248) _2026-08-15 · teach me baby teach_ i am gonna need to try to model something that’s not just a bipedal-ish humanoid at some point but uhhh that’s also scary ## [working on a dragon but thinking about wing anatomy is scary so currently it’s just doing the pjackk](https://eccentric-nucleus.tumblr.com/post/825051237978406912) _2026-08-15 · teach me baby teach_ working on a dragon but thinking about wing anatomy is scary so currently it’s just doing the pjackk ## [bof5 went further down the road of ‘dragons are engineered machines of war’ but a lot of that is…](https://eccentric-nucleus.tumblr.com/post/824985787646001152) _2026-08-15 · teach me baby teach_ bof5 went further down the road of ‘dragons are engineered machines of war’ but a lot of that is already there in the bof4 concept art. odjn is just bof4 kaiser with a jet engine in his chest ## [Realtime AI Arbitrage Terminal (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/LnqSVHUFeG47) _2026-08-15 · **Sponsored**_ Realtime auto-trading across exchanges with scored setups, backtesting, and risk controls. ## [their concept art is incredible btw. love the weird glyph-scrawled energy beam wing thing they have…](https://eccentric-nucleus.tumblr.com/post/824985541278842880) _2026-08-15 · teach me baby teach_ eccentric-nucleus : bof4 did 3d model their dragons…. their concept art is incredible btw. love the weird glyph-scrawled energy beam wing thing they have going on ## [bof4 did 3d model their dragons….](https://eccentric-nucleus.tumblr.com/post/824985381300748288) _2026-08-15 · teach me baby teach_ bof4 did 3d model their dragons…. ## [it is funny to see which models get dumped from games. the spriter’s resource model page for FF8 has…](https://eccentric-nucleus.tumblr.com/post/824954600948973568) _2026-08-14 · teach me baby teach_ it is funny to see which models get dumped from games. the spriter’s resource model page for FF8 has the models for every playable character except zell. whoever dumped dark cloud 2 dumped all enemies fully rigged and with all their animations (!!) except for the dragon and gemrons categories, which aren’t there are all. and the radiata stories page, well. there’s probably a… ## [the main impact AI stuff has had on my life so far is a huge number of incremental games that suck…](https://eccentric-nucleus.tumblr.com/post/824949303529422848) _2026-08-14 · teach me baby teach_ the main impact AI stuff has had on my life so far is a huge number of incremental games that suck and don’t work ; royalroad being entirely drowned under incredibly generic even by their standards ai-written stories; and obnoxious infotainment websites like this wandering across my awareness every few weeks the through line here is like, it seems like mostly what AI is good at is elevating… ## [pros: kind of cool animated fire head shader](https://eccentric-nucleus.tumblr.com/post/824866787575349248) _2026-08-13 · teach me baby teach_ pros: kind of cool animated fire head shader cons: looks a little bit too much like shadow the hedgehog ## [looking at my old code, i think the way i solved nested wang tile subsets before was just “write a…](https://eccentric-nucleus.tumblr.com/post/824759513698664448) _2026-08-12 · teach me baby teach_ looking at my old code, i think the way i solved nested wang tile subsets before was just “write a backtracking solver with a depth of 100”, which works i guess but isn’t really very satisfying. thinking about it now, i think there’s a way to… prefill the grid with tile permutation types (so e.g., “one of the \[0,1\] set” “one of the \[0,2\] set”… ## [EVENT REGISTRATION: Doing Business in the UK and Europe](https://www.ccgupdate.org/p/event-registration-doing-business) _2026-08-12 · CCG Update · CCG Update - Center for China and Globalization_ An in-person breakfast dialogue with Barnabas (Barney) Reynolds on financial regulation and cross-border risks for a Beijing audience ## [okay i made a second tileset, basically \[0,2\] to the initial set’s \[0,1\]. now comes the part where i…](https://eccentric-nucleus.tumblr.com/post/824709215311560704) _2026-08-12 · teach me baby teach_ okay i made a second tileset, basically \[0,2\] to the initial set’s \[0,1\]. now comes the part where i dig back into my old wang tile code to figure out how i got nested subset tiles working without contradiction. plus there’s all sorts of stuff about adding structures here instead of just randomly picking a tile; this is where WFC might enter into things. plus this is all still 2d, so… ## [i recolored the centers based on how many white/black edges they have. red = 1, orange = 2, etc up…](https://eccentric-nucleus.tumblr.com/post/824683447637491712) _2026-08-11 · teach me baby teach_ i recolored the centers based on how many white/black edges they have. red = 1, orange = 2, etc up to purple = 5. 0 is black and 6 is white. this is completely pointless but it does reveal a bit of the structure, i guess ## [it works! (all the black and white hexes on the big grid are actually black half-hexes and white…](https://eccentric-nucleus.tumblr.com/post/824683152749576192) _2026-08-11 · teach me baby teach_ it works! (all the black and white hexes on the big grid are actually black half-hexes and white half-hexes that are getting lined up properly at the edges so it all tiles properly. since it’s a complete set of wang tiles, to make a tiling all i need to do is 1. check for extant adjacent tiles and match those edges and then 2. pick a color randomly for any unconstrained edges. and then just… ## [Trade Bitcoin and Ethereum Today (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/l1yk6sQzsDrJ) _2026-08-11 · **Sponsored**_ Buy, sell, and margin trade BTC and ETH with EUR, USD, CAD, GBP, or JPY. ## [gdscript also does the javascript thing where -1 % 6 = -1 and imo this should be called…](https://eccentric-nucleus.tumblr.com/post/824679144771272704) _2026-08-11 · teach me baby teach_ gdscript also does the javascript thing where -1 % 6 = -1 and imo this should be called straightforwardly and directly “a bug”. i have never in my life wanted -1 % 6 to be -1. the remainder should take the sign from the divisor, not the dividend. why would it ever be the dividend. that’s absurd!!! ## [Chiang Chun-yuan: Hong Kong can contribute to ‘Healthy China’ in the 15th Five-Year Plan](https://www.ccgupdate.org/p/chiang-chun-yuan-hong-kong-can-contribute) _2026-08-11 · CCG Update · CCG Update - Center for China and Globalization_ CCG Hong Kong Council Vice-Chairman says the city can support healthier longevity through integration of Chinese and Western medicine, stringent quality standards, and advanced healthcare system. ## [i wouldn’t really say that i’m “good” at math but i think i’ve gotten pretty decent at the…](https://eccentric-nucleus.tumblr.com/post/824606743360372736) _2026-08-10 · teach me baby teach_ i wouldn’t really say that i’m “good” at math but i think i’ve gotten pretty decent at the fundamental action of Doing Math, which is: looking at a giant mess of values and figuring out some pattern or structure that the values obey. math is less about like, “if a train going 50 mph leaves at 2:00…” and more like, hey if i have a weird shape and i… ## [i actually did some model messing-around-with and i think i might actually want to make the hex at…](https://eccentric-nucleus.tumblr.com/post/824606252158140416) _2026-08-10 · teach me baby teach_ i actually did some model messing-around-with and i think i might actually want to make the hex at the midpoint of the rhombic dodecahedron edges. which would rectify the hex grid into a trihex grid! so you get nice straight edges instead of the weird 120-degree back-and-forth zigzag edges. the problem with that is it changes the way the edge coloring works b/c now mirroring an edge would also… ## [well i got part of it working! specifically i got dynamic mesh mirroring and rotation working. but…](https://eccentric-nucleus.tumblr.com/post/824605770637262848) _2026-08-10 · teach me baby teach_ well i got part of it working! specifically i got dynamic mesh mirroring and rotation working. but since i didn’t have a… color-tagged reference mesh base, or something, when i was working on the tileset i have no clue if i made them at the right rotation and mirroring in the first place. so i’ll probably have to do that, test with ‘definitive’ color-tagged ones, and… ## [Zichen Wang on U.S. ban on new Chinese humanoid robots](https://www.ccgupdate.org/p/zichen-wang-on-us-ban-on-new-chinese) _2026-08-10 · Alex Yang · CCG Update - Center for China and Globalization_ On Al Jazeera English, CCG Deputy Secretary-General discusses robots, supply chains, employment, and Chinese investment in America ## [(untitled)](https://eccentric-nucleus.tumblr.com/post/824528055952359424) _2026-08-10 · teach me baby teach_ ## [really developing an appreciation for how creepy unexpected teeth look](https://eccentric-nucleus.tumblr.com/post/824507486295998464) _2026-08-09 · teach me baby teach_ really developing an appreciation for how creepy unexpected teeth look this crocodile alien has kinda-human dentition and it does not look good (positive) like everybody gives their scary monsters lots of canines, big fangs, etc. let me tell you i think incisors and molars where you’re not expecting them are a lot creepier ## [i feel like i gotta try a model that has wings b/c that’s the only major limb type i haven’t tried…](https://eccentric-nucleus.tumblr.com/post/824494522223525888) _2026-08-09 · teach me baby teach_ i feel like i gotta try a model that has wings b/c that’s the only major limb type i haven’t tried to model yet. but wings are very complicated. i guess they’re big weird hands mostly, but, you know. ## [it is funny how tempting it always is to just do the equivalent of a sketch. just start working on a…](https://eccentric-nucleus.tumblr.com/post/824492799904858113) _2026-08-09 · teach me baby teach_ it is funny how tempting it always is to just do the equivalent of a sketch. just start working on a new model! & ignore all the complicated stuff that happens with texturing and rigging! i mean i am still learning a lot about anatomy but it’s like. aaah there’s so much to actually learn ## [Stream Torrents and IPTV Instantly (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/EZdmYcD3E770) _2026-08-09 · **Sponsored**_ Search, index, and play music, movies, books, and live TV in your browser. ## [Why Projects in the Prediction-Market Ecosystem Are Hard to Build](https://en.smallyu.net/2026/08/09/Why%20Projects%20in%20the%20Prediction-Market%20Ecosystem%20Are%20Hard%20to%20Build/) _2026-08-09 · smallyu‘s Blog_ Previously: “\