Tom Forsyth

@tomforsyth

Gfx coder and chip designer. He/him/3Dlabs/Muckyfoot/RAD/Valve/Oculus/Intel/Rec Room/Riot. mastodon.gamedev.place/web/@TomF

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Tom Forsyth@tomforsyth· 27d

Mr Robert is in today.

Tom Forsyth@tomforsyth· 27d

Reminds me of the adorably-named Nissan S-Cargo. Top pun, well done.

A small two-seat car with a surprisingly large cargo space behind the seats, covered with a curved humped body. Its shape is strongly reminiscent of the Citroen 2CV - it is deliberately cute. It is called the Nissan Small Cargo, or "S-Cargo" which sounds like the French "escargot" meaning "snail", which it resembles.

Tom Forsyth@tomforsyth· 27d

There is precedent! Really terrible bad precedent, but...

In May 1899, in a break with the common international practice of setting one-hour intervals between adjacent time zones, South Australia advanced Central Standard Time by thirty minutes after lobbying by businesses who wanted to be closer to Melbourne time and cricketers and footballers who wanted more daylight to practice in the evenings. It also meant that South Australia became one of only a few places in the world which uses a time-zone meridian located outside of its geographical boundaries. Attempts to undo this change in 1986 and 1994 failed.

Tom Forsyth@tomforsyth· 27d

Terrahawks was so far ahead of its time.

An evil cube from the show Terrahwaks. They are the bad guys. It has red eyes and looks grumpy.

Tom Forsyth@tomforsyth· Jul 12

Dr. Venkman up to his old tricks I see.

Tom Forsyth@tomforsyth· Jul 12

"Saxophone" :-)

Tom Forsyth@tomforsyth· Jul 10

Shot from the movie Die Another Day. A Lambo Diablo has fallen out of a plane and is embedded nose-first in a rice paddy up to its windscreen. This will not buff out.

Tom Forsyth@tomforsyth· Jul 10

The Prisoner. A large white sphere called "Rover" lurks above our protagonist, who is passed out on the beach, just waiting for him to twitch, so it can pounce.

Tom Forsyth@tomforsyth· Jul 9

I was looking at articles about the amazing Kelsey Pfendler who rowed from California to Hawaii faster than anyone else, and this one rather jumped out. This is in Good Morning America, part of ABC.

Headline in "GMA Living", part of the ABC network

Woman speaks out after history-making row from California to Hawaii.

Tom Forsyth@tomforsyth· Jul 8

Tom Forsyth@tomforsyth· Jul 6

My favourite whisky name is still this kosher whisky. And yes, "kosher whisky" is a thing apparently, though there's a lot of paperwork involved. So if you're going to do it, give it a proper dad-joke name.

Tom Forsyth@tomforsyth· Jul 5

A screenshot of the 1980 game Missile Command.

Tom Forsyth@tomforsyth· Jul 4

This is one of my favourite racing pictures because you can see both our eyes, and tell that we're each looking intently at the other chap's front wheel (I'm the one in the white car).

Two tiny race cars - Caterham Sevens - racing side-by-side around a tight corner. Their wheels are almost touching. They are very open cars, and you can see both drivers clearly, including their eyes through the helmet visors.

Tom Forsyth@tomforsyth· Jul 4

It's based on a book, and a life, by a a guy called... Adam Kay. He did appear in the series by the way - he played a cyclist that called the character Adam Kay a dozy twat.

Tom Forsyth@tomforsyth· Jul 4

Can't believe he's already forgotten about Aunt Tifa.

Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy 7 looking very auntie-like.

Tom Forsyth@tomforsyth· Jun 29

Tom Forsyth@tomforsyth· Jun 26

A "sheep nudibranch". It is a sea slug, seen from head-on. It has two tiny black dots for eyes (actually not its eyes) and two long green ears (antennae) and a body covered in soft green spikes filled with algae. Despite being thoroughly alien, it is extremely cute.

Tom Forsyth@tomforsyth· Jun 23

I don't understand the fuss - the Egyptian police would fit right in.

A parade of Egyptian police. 20-30 men with impressive steveages are topless, standing in bodybuilder poses on top of their vehicles, flexing their muscles. They are, rightfully, full of pride.

Tom Forsyth@tomforsyth· Jun 23

Oh like that will stop him.

Swamp Thing - a giant creature of green leaves and algae.

Tom Forsyth@tomforsyth· Jun 22

Tom Forsyth@tomforsyth· Jun 21

Perfection.

A Motorola 68000 RC10, Pin Grid Array package. It is a small square chip with a grey surround and a central golden square showing its name and serial number. One corner has a golden marking to show which is pin 1. You can just see the array of pins sticking out underneath the chip.

Tom Forsyth@tomforsyth· Jun 21

It turns out that's also an appropriate color.

Tom Forsyth@tomforsyth· Jun 20

Smaug the gigantic dragon guarding his hoard of gold against a small hobbit with a sword.

Tom Forsyth@tomforsyth· Jun 19

Perfect timing of my feed...

Tom Forsyth@tomforsyth· Jun 19

You didn't mention my favourite coloured bird - the Gouldian Finch, aka the printer CMYK test bird.

Tom Forsyth@tomforsyth· Jun 16

Looking for this one?

Tom Forsyth@tomforsyth· Jun 16

Was looking for some gruesome statistics and Wikipedia served me this fantastic graph. Fuck you, Russian losers, all the advantages of crippling alcoholism, despotic insanity, and a fucking war, and you can't even keep up. USA! USA! USA!

A graph showing road deaths per 100k population. Russia's graph has been supreme since the 1990s, but since 2020 the USA has taken the lead. Everywhere else in world have been steadily plummeting since the 90s and are now at pathetically low levels of mortality.

Tom Forsyth@tomforsyth· Jun 14

Slap my arse and call me Bernard.

Tom Forsyth@tomforsyth· Jun 10

Holy shit my thing actually works! Didn't even need much tweaking. This is a traditional mesh (very simple one right now - a 2x2 quad), skinned with the usual 4-weighted-bones, but it has "thickness", and has a heightfield embedded in it that the pixel shader traces through.

Tom Forsyth@tomforsyth· Jun 5

Seaman! I had nightmares about that game.