sequestering carbon, several books at a time CLXIII
Susan Stepney
The latest batch, comprising his'n'hers reciprocal birthday presents.
graphics
Graphics Debugging with an LLM
abm-77
IntroI use Claude Code while developing umbral to automate some of the more boilerplate-y work that comes with writing a compiler/game engine (CMake configs, big enums, Vulkan incantations, write docstrings, etc.). I also use it for troubleshooting issues I might encounter. The problem with...
Rendering à la Umbral's Shader DSL
abm-77
BackgroundIf you've done any game or graphics programming, you're most likely familiar with the concept of shaders. Shaders are small programs that run on the GPU, responsible for determining how geometry and pixels get drawn to the screen. A vertex shader runs once per vertex and determines where...
Big Wet Pixels Live at THU 2024
Cassidy Curtis
THU was an unforgettable experience. If you ever get the chance to go, I highly recommend it! I don’t have time right now to do a writeup of the full event, but I can tell you about one slice of it: my demo of Big Wet Pixels was a lot of fun! One big concern I had in the weeks leading up to...
Big Wet Pixels 15: presidential debate edition
Cassidy Curtis
I pointed the camera at the TV while we watched the debate. Here’s what my watercolor simulation did with what it saw.
Big Wet Pixels 13
Cassidy Curtis
Finding new shapes and textures. Who ever said pixels had to be square?
Polar coordinates and circular layouts
Martín Villalba
Here's a "trick" that has saved me a lot of time and that plenty people have never learned. As those with graphics experience probably know, when you draw something in a computer screen you need to give the x and y Cartesian coordinates where your object will be drawn. This makes drawing squares...
Warai Otoko (笑い男) Animated Logo
0xADADA
The Laughing Man 笑(わらい) い 男(おとこ) (warai otoko) is a fictional character in the anime series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. This lil’ project is an animated SVG using CSS transforms to rotate the text. The Laughing Man logo is an animated image of a smiling figure wearing a cap, with...
Spaghetti Coder: Generative Art and Mathematics
Davide
This post presents the interview with Mitjanit, the author of Spaghetti Coder a multimedia project started in January 2015 by creative coder Toni Mitjanit (@spaghetticoder77) in the area of Generative Art in order to explore new boundaries in audiovisual expression. It is focused on producing...
Animating SVG with CSS
0xADADA
I finally got around to converting my avatar from a raster graphic to a vector format. I wanted to be able to animate the polygons using JavaScript and CSS. Another great advantage of a vector format is how the format lends itself to generate a PNG or JPG in any size. Massaging the SVG File Format...