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  Great first paper from PhD student @rebeccalowes.bsky.social , running a sensitivity analysis on Range of Motion and what matters. Lots and lots of work in this one, but the gist is, it matters a lot how you select your articular surface: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/joa.70179 (link says it's open, but I don't think the article is fully up yet)

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  The serif font I've put on my phone is ugly as sin, but it's still better than the 20 minutes I spent yesterday entering a password that couldn't be copy pasted but contained multiple capital i's and lower case L's. "IlIlIlIl"

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  There's now an option in Wordpress to make a 3 minute podcast based on your posts. Oh dear. Well, I tried it just to see what it's like. Here's a _very_ American sounding podcast summarising the last 3-4 posts I did on setting up my local AI. I don't see myself doing this regularly... http://peterfalkingham.com/2026/06/05/podcast-episode-local-ai-tools-and-workflows-summarising-recent-posts/

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  Running Hermes Across Multiple Computers, keeping memory and soul synced with kDrive I've been running Hermes Agent — an open-source AI agent framework by Nous Research — for a few weeks now, and I'm genuinely impressed with it. If you haven't seen what it's been doing for me, I wrote about that recently. What I haven't mentioned is that I've got it running on four machines simultaneously, all talking to the same model, all sharing the same memory...

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  Tried to be clever/fix a minor issue in linux. So far spent 1 hr trying to fix secure boot keys, installed 4 OS versions, and hate Linux again. I see myself crawling back to windows :(

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  Secure Boot, BIOS, UEFI, Linux, and Windows can all sit in a giant bonfire and burn. What a massive waste of a day.

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  Three papers from the lab so far this year Three papers in the last few months, which feels like a decent enough excuse to do a quick roundup. Micro-CT scanning tracks (Tash Prescott et al.) First up is Tash Prescott with a paper just out in Fossil Studies: How do you visualise what's happening beneath the surface when a foot presses into sediment, without destroying your sample? Sounds straightforward. http://peterfalkingham.com/2026/06/16/three-papers-from-the-lab-so-far-this-year/

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  RealityScan 2.2 finally brings AMD GPU support (to Windows) Epic have just released RealityScan 2.2, and the headline feature is one that's been on people's wishlists for a long time: full AMD GPU support on Windows. For years, photogrammetry has been effectively CUDA-only. Most serious reconstruction software -- Metashape, Colmap with GPU acceleration, the lot -- all lean heavily on NVIDIA's CUDA ecosystem. That means if you want to do photogrammetry at any scale,… htt...

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  Introducing authFace — Windows Hello-style face unlock for Linux (that actually works on immutable distros) http://peterfalkingham.com/2026/07/17/authface-windows-hello-style-face-unlock-for-linux-that-actually-works-on-immutable-distros/

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  I've still not found a soild, data-driven use case for gaussian splats, but there's no denying the fidelity of the visualization/reconstruction is vastly superior to photogrammetry. Left: RealityScan, Right: Lichtfeld Studio, both using same video input, with camera alignment done in RealityScan.

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  A useful pre-step for height-mapping colours: https://peterfalkingham.com/2020/04/29/creating-a-flexible-height-ramp-shader-for-blender/

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  Major update to Open Source photogrammetry software Meshroom Meshroom has for some time been one of my top choices for open-source or free photogrammetry software, offering a really deep amount of customization and tinkering. However, while this blog made a big splash early on reviewing all the different open-source photogrammetry software, I've found they haven't really kept up with Metashape or RealityScan, and I'm just not using them much any more. http://peterfalkin...

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  Right, that's it, I'm uninstalling all of Autodesk's tendrils from my computer. Crappy, slow, terrible Maya hasn't been needed in over a year now - all scientific workflows moved to #blender

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  My #linux journey is over. Sleep is apparently impossible on my Asus Proart P16 laptop on any kernel above 6.8 (we're on 6.19, heading for 7). Same problem on every distro I've installed - CachyOS, Fedora (and Bazzite), ZorinOS, Ubuntu, OpenSuse. Shame.

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  It's genuinely shocking how bad the multitude of delivery services have gotten in the UK, and even more galling that they all have so little accountability. This post brought to you by someone waiting at home for a dhl parcel that is now marked as 'not delivered'