Nick Fisher's Blog

Yesterday I published a video on YouTube that covers the basics of bone weights and normalization in Blender.

Blender published an official MCP Add-on a few weeks ago, and I decided to migrate away from the unofficial add-on I'd been using over the past few months.

Filament vertex shaders expose the getWorldFromModelMatrix() function, which is used to compute the position of the vertex in 'world space': void materialVertex(inout MaterialVertexInputs material) { vec3 position = getPosition().xyz; material.worldPositi…

Quick update regarding some of my recent open source activity.

The lack of proper web compatibility for Thermion has been bugging me for some time.

Developing apps for 3D visualization, rigging and animation through my company Holotype Pte Ltd.

I've been working on flutter_filament for some time now, a package that enables cross-platform 3D rendering in Flutter apps with the Filament Physically Based Rendering library.

I was happy to recently discover the jaspr project, a Dart framework for generating dynamic and static HTML/JS pages with a pseudo-Flutter syntax.

Here are the slides from my talk the Singapore Flutter Meetup on my flutter_filament rendering package.

A number of recent papers have explored learning in deep neural networks without backpropagation, often motivated by the apparent biological implausibility of backpropagation.

I'm obliged to issue a severe warning to anyone who found their way here.

Gradient descent is a spectacularly effective optimization technique, but it's not the only method for optimizing non-convex functions.

Let's say our WPF application has an ItemsControl whose ItemsSource is bound to an ObservableCollection. {{< highlight python >}} <UserControl.Resources> </UserControl.Resources> Looks like this document doesn't contain any questionnaire items. {{< / high…

Let's assume we have a sequence of words, and we want to predict, as accurately as possible, whether each word is a name, verb, or some other part of speech.