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I guess the fact we see any at all given the distance and small angles just emphasizes how many there are out there...

Oh nice, I had not zoomed out enough. I don't think I've seen the relativistic jets rendered before. The AR mode looks great on my phone. Yep, I had fun learning a lot about punchc…

I think the contrast between the two sides is typically greater with an optically thick disk, and it looks like you are rendering an optically thin disk. I think that's the main di…

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it feels like the leading edge of the accretion disk (coming towards the viewer) should be significantly brighter than it is shown here, and the…

Interesting choice to build in Greensboro. That's also where Boom chose to build a factory and it looks massive as you leave the airport. The plan for this company's factory looks …

this reminds me of Polyworld by Larry Yaeger, an artifical life sim where each creature has a vision system. i played around with this back in the early 2000s though the hardware i…

whenever i hear about a Cray, i'm always reminded of the scene in the movie Sneakers where they sit on one to have a conversation

i made some art on this site years ago. some people used this to make plottable art. plotting it is definitely a slower way to watch it work through a drawing :)

turtletoy was made back around 2018 before web assembly was generally available.

you can download each as an SVG and then render it out at any resolution using something like inkscape

The main benefit I see is being able to more accurately represent different light sources. This applies to transmission but also reflectance. sRGB and P3, what most displays show, …

The only applications I'm aware of that currently do spectral rendering on the fly are painting apps. I have one called Brushwork ( https://brushworkvr.com ) that upsamples RGB fro…

i would expect the more dense part to be the smaller gamut that can be made with paint since we've been naming those colors for a lot longer than the larger gamut that can be made …

MTurk was built by two two-pizza teams at AWS over the course of a year and launched on Nov 2, 2005. It took a few days for people to find it and catch on, but then things got busy…

there is a cool project that explores this topic: https://coolcolors.lbl.gov/

dreams on playstation and unbound on pc both use sdfs to allow users to make truly round objects for games

diffraction grating wouldnt give you a controlled lighting environment (illuminant). they seem to handle that issue here by using a known spectral reference chart which might let t…

i lived about a half mile from this house in the same neighborhood -- it could be a lot more expensive if it had the view some properties around there have. note that mulholland dr…

https://www.roundabout.tech/ tackles this problem

diaspora by greg egan is a good example

sliding scale of other liquors of varying subjective quality

the bar Little Brother in Austin has a fun deal. for $5, you roll a d20 and if you get a 20 you get a shot of whistle pig. anything 1-5 and you get a shot of malort.

The speed limit went up to 85 in Texas. It seemed to max out at 75 or 80 in other places. I'm not sure if an extra 5-10mph made the difference, but it could have.

How do you look at spamming private messages to many recipients, resulting in a similar effect to posting publicly? I know of bullying on FB where the harasser sends the same messa…

I just drove across the US (down the east coast, across the south, up the Rockies) and found I had to do this only after driving across Texas.