Last chance! April 30th is the deadline (yes, only two weeks from today!) for submitting a paper to the @visualisingclimate.com summit. 📊 🇮🇹
Note: Uploading the FULL paper is required by that date!
Same submission deadline, April 30th, for a ‘talk only’ (without a paper)
👉 visualisingclimate.com 👈
I've been working on a new shader language called "easl". The goal is to bring the conveniences you'd expect from a high-level language to the GPU. It's still got some rough edges, but if you're into shaders or creative coding you should check it out! More info in the thread 👇
[Worth reading] Ooof, I was not expecting to be mindblown on a Tuesday morning but here we are: "what if the exhaustion everybody feels isn't a moral failure but the completely rational response to being made responsible for an ecosystem of objects that never stop asking?"
So many of us are now textual Case Pollards, physically averse to pre-digested, mass extruded machine verbiage just as William Gibson's Pattern Recognition protagonist was made physically sick by fashion and brands.
Good point :D
To make this a bit less hot-takey: these systems actually do get better. So at this point in time it‘s things like video and music generators heavily feeding on Dunning-Kruger, while coding agents are really good by now.
Generative AI systems are Dunning-Kruger machines, competency simulators that give the illusion of being able to do something _precisely_ because their users are NOT able to do it (and thus their internal evaluation of the results fails).
Just released heerich.js, a tiny voxel engine that renders 3D scenes to SVG
╬ Boolean ops
◮ Oblique & perspective
𝑥 Zero dependencies
◌ Pure vector output, infinite scaling
Named after Erwin Heerich's geometric cardboard sculptures.
meodai.github.io/heerich/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jndl...
Johannes Itten meets Erwin Heerich on a SVG.
The discourse around AI and coding tends to resolve into either anxiety about job displacement or hype about productivity gains. This week a secret third thing: a new generation of makers and explorers.
newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/unde...
I made a tiny tool for quickly sharing small datasets (< ~1000 rows) without uploading any data to a server.
🔗 ziptbl.com
It compresses the data into the link itself, so there’s no account, hosting, or storage layer involved.
Here's Florence Nightingale's famous 📊 data:
ziptbl.com#d=eNpdlE-LGz...
Finally, the Mario 64 we deserve 😬
higher ed will collapse as soon as the first "improve your grades by threatening your profs with a barrage of AI-generated emails" startup gains traction.
you're the man now dog!
Post old memes to confuse young people
Not sure what it is, but it is....
My new Portfolio! (best on desktop/laptop)
neuroproductions.be
people often don't appreciate how dramatically the intensity of knowledge work, especially in STEM, has changed in the last 60 years even prior to the advent of AI. tough to imagine that a scientist would spend most of their time literally plotting data
Introducing FragCoord: My ultimate shader editing tool!
Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.
i often think about this review
📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on!
“Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤
A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.
hauntological paint
hauntological interface d
hauntological interface c
"This project takes DJ sets for a walk" with artistic data visualization in background.
Sharing a bit of work in progress:
This projects takes DJ sets for a walk 🚶➡️
hauntological interface b
hauntological interface a
New blog post on what happens when a paper revision requires modifying code written by a graduated student. Prototyping new visualization techniques for teaching, ideation, or even publication is now trivial. "When Code Is Not The Issue": niklaselmqvist.medium.com/when-code-is...
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The ones who serve that market have a solid brand working, why would they pivot?
