Simple SwiftUI shader to represent ideas in Dream Machine 🫧✨

Future is wild

It’s time!! Rapid iteration makes a huge difference ✨ and finally HDR 🥹…

View of Starship landing burn and splashdown on Flight 10, made possible by SpaceX’s recovery team. Starship made it through reentry with intentionally missing tiles, completed maneuvers to intentionally stress its flaps, had visible damage to its aft skirt and flaps, and still executed a flip and landing burn that placed it approximately 3 meters from its targeted splashdown point

Kody is one of a kind!

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Final - and my personal favorite - make the 5x5 image Animatable and now SwiftUI can smoothly animate your backgrounds, with 0 blurs or ugly crossfades. Bonus: add some swirls in there and get yourself some Apple Music backgrounds 🎛️ That's all, beauty in simplicity! (6/6)

If you only want dominant colors - just do a quick k-means on the 25 pixels, add some contrast, and get a pretty good color palette 🎨 You can run the same algorithm on groups of images and use the output to influence your shaders 🧑‍🎨 (5/6)

You can basically upsample the 5x5 and get a good approximation of the full resolution blur before your asset has even downloaded. This is great for image placeholders, detail backgrounds, glows, etc. + you avoid a lot of heavy blur passes which can really tank performance in dense media galleries. (4/6)

The first unlock you get get is that you'll never need placeholders again while your assets are loading! This feels great, especially on slower networks, since you can basically navigate your library even if things haven't loaded using colors as landmarks :) (3/6)

Only thing you need is to store a 5x5 downsampled version of every image alongside its metadata (url, size, etc.). For 8bit/channel it's just 25 * 3 = 75 bytes (2/6)

Apps should be more colorful! 🌈 This is one of my favorite tricks from Dream Machine - for just +75 bytes you get beautiful colors, animatable gradients and super fasts blurs 😊 (1/6)

Why is this company the first to jump on every grift 😭

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Wild to think of what future game engines will look like...

Shot on iPhone 🤝 VFX on iPhone

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That's not to say that you won't have smart themes / configurations and a ton of personal apps that surface information in the exact way you want, but general structure of apps & websites I think has a good chance of surviving.

Websites aren't just wrappers around services, they're how creators tell a story and communicate value. In a world of near infinite products & services, efficient communication of capabilities is actually really important - and the most efficient way to communicate is often visual. I think there's a good chance in the future agents also obsess about their landing pages, conversion, IA, just like humans :)

Just tested the new Modify feature from @LumaLabsAI We’re entering an era where anyone with a good story in mind & a phone in hand can direct their own film. The future of storytelling keeps being written.

@jacobtechtavern idea for next deep dive!