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Building Sentinel, a real-time node graph built for agents. Founder, Out Of Distribution Labs

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Astra built me an entire stage simulation and control system in Sentinel. I paid nearly $10k last year for software (Depence2) that could barely achieve stage simulation of this quality in real-time. Can't wait to bring this into reality.

Astra built me an entire stage simulation and control system in Sentinel. I paid nearly $10k last year for software (Depence2) that could barely achieve stage simulation of this quality in real-time. Can't wait to bring this into reality.

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Motion design might be cooked but no studio will accept a monolithic Three.js file that no one can actually understand or edit! Sentinel breaks everything up into scenes with their own custom interfaces and exports high resolution png sequences ready for production

Motion design might be cooked but no studio will accept a monolithic Three.js file that no one can actually understand or edit! Sentinel breaks everything up into scenes with their own custom interfaces and exports high resolution png sequences ready for production

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using StreamDiffusion + BiRefNet live in Sentinel to stamp generations into an infinite feedback canvas shader. all driven in real time using my mouse and keyboard

using StreamDiffusion + BiRefNet live in Sentinel to stamp generations into an infinite feedback canvas shader. all driven in real time using my mouse and keyboard

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gm. making the final tweaks

gm. making the final tweaks

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Testing out audio reactivity and vibecodable shader modules in Sentinel. Describe an effect, Claude builds the node and tests it via mcp. Stack it with real-time SDXL and you get this! More on how this works below.

Testing out audio reactivity and vibecodable shader modules in Sentinel. Describe an effect, Claude builds the node and tests it via mcp. Stack it with real-time SDXL and you get this! More on how this works below.

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I built an agentic system that taught itself the Blender donut tutorial by watching it on YouTube. It watched the tutorials, extracted the steps, filled in the gaps in own tooling and completed the entire thing autonomously.
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I built an agentic system that taught itself the Blender donut tutorial by watching it on YouTube. It watched the tutorials, extracted the steps, filled in the gaps in own tooling and completed the entire thing autonomously.

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255,084 views • 7 months ago

Lighting programming is completely unblocked now. Opus 5.5 made all the looks, triggers and Push2 integration. This isn't a web demo, it's built with real fixture specs and outputs Artnet and sACN. If I had this rig infront of me I would be able to control it completely.
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Lighting programming is completely unblocked now. Opus 5.5 made all the looks, triggers and Push2 integration. This isn't a web demo, it's built with real fixture specs and outputs Artnet and sACN. If I had this rig infront of me I would be able to control it completely.

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27,096 views • 25 days ago

I don't think i can go back to regular software anymore exploring a crazy combo of real-time depth estimation, raymarched SDFs, StreamDiffusion and BiRefNet. The entire setup was authored by GPT 5.6 Sol and Luna in Sentinel over MCP while I steered it in real-time.
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I don't think i can go back to regular software anymore exploring a crazy combo of real-time depth estimation, raymarched SDFs, StreamDiffusion and BiRefNet. The entire setup was authored by GPT 5.6 Sol and Luna in Sentinel over MCP while I steered it in real-time.

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42,902 views • 2 months ago

Never been able to explore latent space like this before.. 👀
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Never been able to explore latent space like this before.. 👀

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79,830 views • 6 months ago

This is what directing an AI creative studio looks like. I gave my orchestration system a reference image and had it deploy three different interpretations across three machines running Blender simultaneously, all visible from a single dashboard. When one direction looks promising, I branch from it. The system copies the files to the other machines and keeps exploring from that new starting point. Branch, direct, branch again. Each split opens up a new creative path while I give notes in real-time. The number of creative directions I can explore simultaneously is only limited by how many computers I have.
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This is what directing an AI creative studio looks like. I gave my orchestration system a reference image and had it deploy three different interpretations across three machines running Blender simultaneously, all visible from a single dashboard. When one direction looks promising, I branch from it. The system copies the files to the other machines and keeps exploring from that new starting point. Branch, direct, branch again. Each split opens up a new creative path while I give notes in real-time. The number of creative directions I can explore simultaneously is only limited by how many computers I have.

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85,504 views • 7 months ago

Dialing in real time V2V in Sentinel. No Python or venvs, just an installer. Runs locally on any 16GB+ NVIDIA GPU. Sign up for early access:
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Dialing in real time V2V in Sentinel. No Python or venvs, just an installer. Runs locally on any 16GB+ NVIDIA GPU. Sign up for early access:

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58,438 views • 6 months ago

I had GPT 6 Astra create all the light fixtures I want to simulate based on the actual spec sheets. Finally I can rapidly iterate through stage designs in Sentinel and then bring it into the real world!
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I had GPT 6 Astra create all the light fixtures I want to simulate based on the actual spec sheets. Finally I can rapidly iterate through stage designs in Sentinel and then bring it into the real world!

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14,937 views • 1 month ago

asked opus 5 for realistic centipedes. it wrote the bodies, the gait, the swarm behavior. no assets, just shaders it authored itself. then I asked for the kick drum to scatter them. 64 of them, 60fps, on an 8GB laptop 5060. genuinely one of the worst things I've ever looked at.
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asked opus 5 for realistic centipedes. it wrote the bodies, the gait, the swarm behavior. no assets, just shaders it authored itself. then I asked for the kick drum to scatter them. 64 of them, 60fps, on an 8GB laptop 5060. genuinely one of the worst things I've ever looked at.

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19,160 views • 2 months ago

been building an agent-native, node-based, real-time environment. as a test, I gave gpt-5.6 sol a prompt to plan out its own setup and go into a loop of creative exploration until it felt that it was done. it invented every node, every data type, every connection and all of it comes out modular and human-readable. i could open any piece and steer while it built
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been building an agent-native, node-based, real-time environment. as a test, I gave gpt-5.6 sol a prompt to plan out its own setup and go into a loop of creative exploration until it felt that it was done. it invented every node, every data type, every connection and all of it comes out modular and human-readable. i could open any piece and steer while it built

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22,838 views • 2 months ago

Vibe coded some custom interfaces with the Push 2 using Claude. I gave it some references, creative direction and a good environment to develop and test midi integrations and it ran with it.
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Vibe coded some custom interfaces with the Push 2 using Claude. I gave it some references, creative direction and a good environment to develop and test midi integrations and it ran with it.

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37,043 views • 5 months ago

playing around with audio reactivity in sentinel running audio straight into the gpu buffer let opus 5 create this entire beat detection technique + interface as an interactive shader. sdxl streamdiff images are generated, depth mapped, cut out and spawned in real time
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playing around with audio reactivity in sentinel running audio straight into the gpu buffer let opus 5 create this entire beat detection technique + interface as an interactive shader. sdxl streamdiff images are generated, depth mapped, cut out and spawned in real time

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18,999 views • 2 months ago

I asked opus 5 to make me an interactive water demo and it absolutely delivered. its pretty wild what's possible when you are designing software specifically for the harness
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I asked opus 5 to make me an interactive water demo and it absolutely delivered. its pretty wild what's possible when you are designing software specifically for the harness

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13,601 views • 2 months ago

A few weeks ago I gave Opus 4.6 a pack of stage assets in Unreal Engine, had it analyze all the example levels, then told it to build a stage. It assembled the whole thing, checked its own work from multiple camera angles, and when I gave it notes (trusses too short, stairs clipping through a crowd barrier) it fixed everything autonomously. It's gotten a lot better since then
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A few weeks ago I gave Opus 4.6 a pack of stage assets in Unreal Engine, had it analyze all the example levels, then told it to build a stage. It assembled the whole thing, checked its own work from multiple camera angles, and when I gave it notes (trusses too short, stairs clipping through a crowd barrier) it fixed everything autonomously. It's gotten a lot better since then

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25,332 views • 7 months ago

im blown away with this highly controllable shader system that opus 5 built inside of sentinel i gave it an image reference and it made a procedural system + custom ui to create infinite variations with no assets
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im blown away with this highly controllable shader system that opus 5 built inside of sentinel i gave it an image reference and it made a procedural system + custom ui to create infinite variations with no assets

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10,817 views • 2 months ago

Can finally explore latent space through feedback loops in real time with the new #streamdiffusion setup from Lyell. Being able to guide it with my mouse in real time is way too much fun
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Can finally explore latent space through feedback loops in real time with the new #streamdiffusion setup from Lyell. Being able to guide it with my mouse in real time is way too much fun

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19,146 views • 1 year ago

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