Winter ’22/23, Day 36

Update on the 3D file format reversing: today I discovered that 16-bit floats are a thing. That means that the UV coordinates could be using 4 bytes to store floating point U and V coordinates.

Also, this day last year I published another bubble screensaver. Continuing the theme, today I discovered a partial fix for an issue that’s annoyed me for a while: the black background behind the Windows 10 bubbles screensaver. Running the file manually with “C:\Windows\System32\Bubbles.scr -” will start the screensaver with the desktop as the background. It’s not a perfect fix, but it’s a good starting point to return Bubbles to its prior glory.

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