Marcin Ignac
@marcinignac
Computational design, generative art and data visualization. Founder of @variable_io and co-creator of @nodes_io. Also on @marcinignac.bsky.social
Full case study of Spirit Plant - our biggest project to date - is finally live! 🖼️🌱🌷 Learn more about - the installation concept - tech behind the generative plants and simulation - UI/UX design - and more... link below
Stop building AI tools backwards How I feel about most AI tools: "the tooling could be built to improve our capabilities by making everybody more effective, rather than by deskilling critical reasoning loops for practitioners" hazelweakly.me/blog/stop-buil…
Earlier this month we finally abandoned GA4 in favour of self-hosted Matomo Analytics. Thanks to this, all our Members now have access to ther own reports → profile/people/projects. 📈💯 No Inflatables ⚽️, No Bots, No BS!
Uuuu what I would be working on right now if chasing clients and invoices wasn't a priority.
Here's a clunky breakdown of each step. It's all done procedurally via nodes on the GPU
Testing if I can melt my GPU with WebGL. Failing so far.
3d flowers have 3d meshes. 3d meshes are 3d. Let's do more 3d things with them.
3d flowers have 3d meshes. 3d meshes are 3d. Let's do more 3d things with them.

Spirit Plant is fully 3D. Just like Urban Flora default camera is decent but there is so much more to explore while wandering around in 3d space.

I might like the B&W edition a bit more. Have a nice weekend!
Another floral project documentation is in the works. #variablenature
Can you zoom out please? "Node based UIs are often a mess". Well the complexity is there, undeniable but it would be much harder to zoom-out in your txt based code base. Or what do you guys do? ARCHITECTURE . md? "Copilot please summarise?
My drafting table. Noisy? Nerdy Too much h4x0r? Or Pro?
Poor man compute with transform feedback and TouchDesigner's POP-like operators. First time i got normals calculations and triangle data on gpu FAST!
Another floral project documentation is in the works. #variablenature

Discovered that forgotten Genuary sketches folder. It's been only few months but feels like 2y ago.
Stuck in a sea of possibilities and dead corners.