Computer vision, 3D reconstruction, graphics, math, and software.https://xallt.dev/enhttps://xallt.dev/posts/deriving-the-best-interpolation-function/https://xallt.dev/posts/deriving-the-best-interpolation-function/I wanted to play around with a simple VR app with fun affects around the hand detections from the Quest 3 headset.Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:34:00 GMTmathproofderivationrustvrhttps://xallt.dev/posts/patchmatch-origins/https://xallt.dev/posts/patchmatch-origins/I like going down rabbitholes! That's where I learn the mostSat, 11 Apr 2026 06:17:00 GMTmvscomputer-visionimage-processingpapershttps://xallt.dev/posts/c-programming-setup-for-noobs/https://xallt.dev/posts/c-programming-setup-for-noobs/Setting up my dev environment for C++ a few months ago was unsurprisingly non-trivial, so I wanted to share the things that would've helped me get it…Sat, 05 Jul 2025 08:55:02 GMTcmakec++clangddevtoolshttps://xallt.dev/posts/cmake-is-a-pain-in-the-ass/https://xallt.dev/posts/cmake-is-a-pain-in-the-ass/I really dislike CMake. Until recently — when I started using it more, fought through the things that were confusing me, and now I dislike it only moderately.Wed, 11 Jun 2025 17:57:06 GMTcmakec++https://xallt.dev/posts/deriving-homography-matrix/https://xallt.dev/posts/deriving-homography-matrix/Recently at work I was researching ML approaches to image matching, specifically SuperGlue / MAST3R / ALIKED and some similar methods.Sat, 28 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMTmathlinear-algebraderivationproofhttps://xallt.dev/posts/how-i-prepare-for-my-lectures/https://xallt.dev/posts/how-i-prepare-for-my-lectures/Recently I did my 8th lecture, which was named "Diffusion for 3D" and was basically an intro to text-to-3D and 3D-editing approaches, which lately mostly…Fri, 12 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMTpresentationlecturesobsidianhttps://xallt.dev/posts/sharing-my-favorite-recipes-with-the-world/https://xallt.dev/posts/sharing-my-favorite-recipes-with-the-world/I made a dumb thing in like 4 hours. And I love it.Tue, 05 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMTcookingwebsitehttps://xallt.dev/posts/3d-data-compression-seminar/https://xallt.dev/posts/3d-data-compression-seminar/I gave a talk recently about 3D Data Compression that I'm very proud of.Wed, 24 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT3d-reconstructiongraphicsnerfgaussian-splattingmeshcompressionhttps://xallt.dev/posts/finally-a-good-recipe-website/https://xallt.dev/posts/finally-a-good-recipe-website/My favorite cooking YouTuber, Ethan Chlebowski, has launched his vision of the perfect recipe website:Wed, 24 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTcookingopensourcehttps://xallt.dev/posts/obsidian-link-aggregator/https://xallt.dev/posts/obsidian-link-aggregator/I'm a big fan of the idea of preserving as many "useful" links as possible. A while ago I managed to educate myself about a lot of things in Computer…Wed, 29 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMTobsidianjavascripthttps://xallt.dev/posts/meta-quest-2-hand-tracking-talk/https://xallt.dev/posts/meta-quest-2-hand-tracking-talk/2 weeks ago out of pure interest for the topic, I decided to google whether there are papers about methods used in Quest 2 for SLAM / other kinds of…Mon, 27 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMTvrcomputer-visionhand-trackinghttps://xallt.dev/posts/large-reconstruction-model-overview/https://xallt.dev/posts/large-reconstruction-model-overview/Recently I saw a paper that described a method called Large Reconstruction Model (LRM) that generates a 3D object from a single image. It just blew my mind…Thu, 16 Nov 2023 17:29:00 GMTcomputer-visionmachine-learningnerfpapershttps://xallt.dev/posts/connecting-mediapipe-cmake/https://xallt.dev/posts/connecting-mediapipe-cmake/Skip to here if you want the juicy technical insights right awayWed, 08 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMTcomputer-visionmediapipec++cmakebazelhand-trackinghttps://xallt.dev/posts/how-i-made-this-color-palette/https://xallt.dev/posts/how-i-made-this-color-palette/UPD: I already updated my website, so it doesn't use this black-gold palette anymore, but here's the screenshot:Fri, 27 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMTwebsitehttps://xallt.dev/posts/my-github-pages-overhaul/https://xallt.dev/posts/my-github-pages-overhaul/So recently I started being a bit more active with personal projects — I did a paid project on the side, I decided to make a C++ hand tracking app on…Thu, 26 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMTwebsitehttps://xallt.dev/posts/obsidian-useful-scripts/https://xallt.dev/posts/obsidian-useful-scripts/Alright, in this post I'd like to share some Obsidian templates & scripts that have piled up over the busy year that I had.Mon, 23 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMTproductivityjavascriptobsidianhttps://xallt.dev/posts/the-camp-nerf-paper-is-amazing/https://xallt.dev/posts/the-camp-nerf-paper-is-amazing/Sometimes I read papers about NeRF. Yeah, what a shock.Mon, 02 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMTmachine-learningnerfoptimization3d-reconstructionmathpapershttps://xallt.dev/posts/libffi-7/https://xallt.dev/posts/libffi-7/I recently ran a global update of my system by executing bash sudo pacman -SyuWed, 16 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMTlinuxhttps://xallt.dev/posts/slashed-zeros/https://xallt.dev/posts/slashed-zeros/So when I was starting off creating this website of my own, I encountered a minor problem — my zeros were slashedSat, 25 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMTwebsitehttps://xallt.dev/posts/noise-texture-generator/https://xallt.dev/posts/noise-texture-generator/Online fractal noise generator with fast previewsFri, 06 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMTgraphicshttps://xallt.dev/posts/tic-carts/https://xallt.dev/posts/tic-carts/Small games/animations I made in Lua with TIC80, a "fantasy" computer.Fri, 31 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMTgraphicshttps://xallt.dev/posts/predicate-generator/https://xallt.dev/posts/predicate-generator/This algorithm can be used to generate mathematical expressions.\ Pretty cool, right?Thu, 31 May 2018 00:00:00 GMTmath