I asked myself ‘what if bitmap textures could be circles instead of squares’. Then I did some math in desmos.
With square textures you can easily bi-linearly sample between the pixels you know. In circle land, you additionally have to interpolate between the two ways to pick your local grid basis!
With square textures you can easily bi-linearly sample between the pixels you know. In circle land, you additionally have to interpolate between the two ways to pick your local grid basis!
November 12, 2025 at 4:54 AM
I asked myself ‘what if bitmap textures could be circles instead of squares’. Then I did some math in desmos.
With square textures you can easily bi-linearly sample between the pixels you know. In circle land, you additionally have to interpolate between the two ways to pick your local grid basis!
With square textures you can easily bi-linearly sample between the pixels you know. In circle land, you additionally have to interpolate between the two ways to pick your local grid basis!
I spent twice the time making AI make an animation as it would have taken me to make it myself. Pretty much entirely because at the time I only had access to a phone, not a laptop.
I have absolutely no idea how I’m supposed to feel about this ethically.
I have absolutely no idea how I’m supposed to feel about this ethically.
August 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
I spent twice the time making AI make an animation as it would have taken me to make it myself. Pretty much entirely because at the time I only had access to a phone, not a laptop.
I have absolutely no idea how I’m supposed to feel about this ethically.
I have absolutely no idea how I’m supposed to feel about this ethically.
This is a ‘vibe animation’!
Produced 100% from fighting with chatGPT for 3 hours instead of spending the 90 minutes it might have taken to make it myself.
Produced 100% from fighting with chatGPT for 3 hours instead of spending the 90 minutes it might have taken to make it myself.
July 26, 2025 at 9:06 AM
This is a ‘vibe animation’!
Produced 100% from fighting with chatGPT for 3 hours instead of spending the 90 minutes it might have taken to make it myself.
Produced 100% from fighting with chatGPT for 3 hours instead of spending the 90 minutes it might have taken to make it myself.
What a weird crossover between a children’s toy, a trick you can do with silverware, and the ‘Mr. Incredible Becoming Uncanny’ meme.
July 12, 2025 at 10:04 AM
What a weird crossover between a children’s toy, a trick you can do with silverware, and the ‘Mr. Incredible Becoming Uncanny’ meme.
Saw ‘blue noise’ beats ‘white noise’ for dithering. But it’s full of worms!
Today I discovered: “blurred blue noise looks flat, blurred white noise has bumps”.
This connects to fluid dynamics. If you make a fluid incompressible you force it to manifest a fractal fibration of turbulent streamlines!
Today I discovered: “blurred blue noise looks flat, blurred white noise has bumps”.
This connects to fluid dynamics. If you make a fluid incompressible you force it to manifest a fractal fibration of turbulent streamlines!
June 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Saw ‘blue noise’ beats ‘white noise’ for dithering. But it’s full of worms!
Today I discovered: “blurred blue noise looks flat, blurred white noise has bumps”.
This connects to fluid dynamics. If you make a fluid incompressible you force it to manifest a fractal fibration of turbulent streamlines!
Today I discovered: “blurred blue noise looks flat, blurred white noise has bumps”.
This connects to fluid dynamics. If you make a fluid incompressible you force it to manifest a fractal fibration of turbulent streamlines!
The highlighted gears in my visual mockup *were* spherical balls in sockets.
Your specific suggestion (ABENICS) did come up explicitly when I was bouncing the idea off of the AI…
(chatgpt.com/share/684936...)
Your specific suggestion (ABENICS) did come up explicitly when I was bouncing the idea off of the AI…
(chatgpt.com/share/684936...)
June 18, 2025 at 5:57 AM
The highlighted gears in my visual mockup *were* spherical balls in sockets.
Your specific suggestion (ABENICS) did come up explicitly when I was bouncing the idea off of the AI…
(chatgpt.com/share/684936...)
Your specific suggestion (ABENICS) did come up explicitly when I was bouncing the idea off of the AI…
(chatgpt.com/share/684936...)
A half baked render of the concept I slapped together back in 2018…
June 11, 2025 at 7:22 AM
A half baked render of the concept I slapped together back in 2018…
waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/arti...
With exponential progress, the present world becomes increasingly more bizarre and incomprehensible to the more and more recent past.
With exponential progress, the present world becomes increasingly more bizarre and incomprehensible to the more and more recent past.
February 14, 2025 at 7:24 AM
waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/arti...
With exponential progress, the present world becomes increasingly more bizarre and incomprehensible to the more and more recent past.
With exponential progress, the present world becomes increasingly more bizarre and incomprehensible to the more and more recent past.
Looks familiar. Are the modules original or is there a missing citation?
January 29, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Looks familiar. Are the modules original or is there a missing citation?
I’ve been wondering if there is a nice way to traverse the 3-sphere via adjacent tetrahedral cells. It would be fun to use the 600-cell to quantize orientations instead of using a tesseract cube map. But quantizing without orthogonality seems to require doing an expensive search.
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January 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I’ve been wondering if there is a nice way to traverse the 3-sphere via adjacent tetrahedral cells. It would be fun to use the 600-cell to quantize orientations instead of using a tesseract cube map. But quantizing without orthogonality seems to require doing an expensive search.
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This points at performing Bresenham's line rasterizing algorithm for walking across equilateral triangles in the hyperbolic plane as if they were Euclidean squares.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bresenh...
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bresenh...
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January 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
This points at performing Bresenham's line rasterizing algorithm for walking across equilateral triangles in the hyperbolic plane as if they were Euclidean squares.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bresenh...
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bresenh...
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I just realized that the whole point of the modular group is to see the 2D structure of the rational numbers in terms of the integers.
The first action increments the numerator, the second action exchanges the numerator and denominator.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular...
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The first action increments the numerator, the second action exchanges the numerator and denominator.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular...
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January 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I just realized that the whole point of the modular group is to see the 2D structure of the rational numbers in terms of the integers.
The first action increments the numerator, the second action exchanges the numerator and denominator.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular...
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The first action increments the numerator, the second action exchanges the numerator and denominator.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular...
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One thing to try is to play with how your 5 tubes meet at each vertex. If you have 5 capsule tips all intersecting with shared tangent regions, that is likely to mess with booleans in a bad way. Having each poke cleanly and separately into a sphere at the vertex might work better!
January 4, 2025 at 3:37 AM
One thing to try is to play with how your 5 tubes meet at each vertex. If you have 5 capsule tips all intersecting with shared tangent regions, that is likely to mess with booleans in a bad way. Having each poke cleanly and separately into a sphere at the vertex might work better!
