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john tringham
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video game developer / cartoon drawer / dumb idiot / friend

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December 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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November 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
this game genuinely altered the way my brain worked. i wrote a rambly blog post about it a couple years ago:

blog.seedganggames.com/vectorpark-e...

go play it if you haven't already!!
October 31, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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i keep thinking about this essay. it's about watching every single video within a machine learning dataset. what that does to you. unthinking.photography/articles/on-...
On Lacework: watching an entire machine-learning dataset | unthinking.photography
I proposed what would become Lacework in the Summer of 2019. In my proposal, I describe a cycle of videos curated from MIT's 'Moments In Time' dataset, each then slowed down, interpolated, and upscale...
unthinking.photography
June 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
keir starmer is a nasty spineless man, pandering to the worst people for no reason. completely purposeless cruelty. trans rights are human rights.
April 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
here's some footage of the slime-based-dithering working in real time, walking around a bit. the parameters for the slime (like particle speed, attraction/repulsion to other particles, "weight" of the underlying image, etc) is controlled by some physical midi knobs

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWBE...
slime based dithering
using slime moulds sims and render textures to make a form of "dithering"slime mould parameters (speed of particles, turning rates, affectation by source pix...
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November 25, 2023 at 11:18 AM
i had a weird urge to tweet recent but the idea of actively posting on a elon-musk owned website made me want to throw up.

i hope bluesky is better because it seems more active and less tech-nerd focused than mastodon, and less niche than cohost. hope they get rid of the invite-only system though
November 25, 2023 at 10:54 AM
here's a picture i made years ago but i still think it's nice. it's proteus fan art at heart
November 25, 2023 at 10:51 AM
i never really know what to post when i set up a new social media. here's some guys from my sketchbook
November 25, 2023 at 10:35 AM
trees

made in unity via a compute shader. it's a "slime mould" simulation where the particles are attracted to the results of a camera placed in the world. reacting in real time to create this
November 25, 2023 at 10:27 AM
hi hi hi hello another social media website that i definitely won't forget about
November 25, 2023 at 10:22 AM