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rezmason
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About rezmason
I make code things that draw things. I try hard not to build on top of quicksand. Not a big fan of jerks.
https://www.rezmason.net
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Comment #49030736
In light of WebGPU, I respectfully disagree. Because it has us building shader modules, buffers, and pipelines up-front with descriptors, the task of figuring out why something isn…
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Comment #48947581
I don't have an answer, I'm just wondering out loud. Cone cell activation is complicated. Displays with three well chosen primaries are economical and effective, but they aren't in…
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Comment #48613571
Very creative! Does anyone else besides me suspect X11 will outlive visionOS?
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Comment #48530810
These are fun to say out loud in the voice of the Kai Lentit's Perl programmer https://youtu.be/0jK0ytvjv-E?t=43 https://youtu.be/xE9W9Ghe4Jk?t=238
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Comment #48461796
A great writeup of excellent work! The flight simulator / magic carpet easter egg in Microsoft Excel 97 used that same shaded-colormap palette trick, plus some dithering: https://r…
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Comment #48273118
> If Meta is liable for when someone underage uses their service, then Meta is going to require proof of age— Let's be clear what this means, "Meta is going to require" something. …
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Comment #47958159
Y'all have got to check out the color palette widget wizardry of David Aerne. Seriously, the guy's prolific. The first link is similar to OP's, an image color palette extractor: ht…
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Comment #47907140
Ah! Sorry, I misunderstood, I thought the above comment was saying Meta was behind the open source exemption
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Comment #47906495
[citation requested]
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Comment #47588895
Were fonts always able to do "texture healing"? Has no one tried this before?
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Comment #47513623
In case anyone's wondering, this website's syntax highlighting color scheme is called "gruvbox", which I quite like but took an embarrassingly long time to track down https://githu…
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Comment #47227279
Since Apple turns 50 this year, I went looking for a graphic that symbolizes what I always liked about Apple and the Mac, without implying I condone anything I dislike about them. …
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Comment #46946348
It begins!
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Comment #46707853
We also typically value things that are not tied to productivity/output, like product quality/reliability, security, and our own agency. I want to be free to read, write, run, and …
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Comment #46571132
This article's from 2021. Does anyone know if there are elements (no pun intended) of this classification of element origins that's impacted by those JWST observations of complex e…
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Comment #46517698
Nicely done! Related projects: https://wakaba.c3.cx/s/games/swear https://milksnake.c3.cx
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Comment #46322900
I contributed one earlier this year! The community's a great bunch and I learned a lot. Always remember, folks: the best feature request is a pull request ;)
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Comment #46213300
Sorry, I was cracking a joke about the browser in a shader. The GLSL I originally posted is from the "cursed mode" of my side project, and I use it to produce a data URI of every f…
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Comment #46200241
Don't make me upload my web-browser-in-a-GLSL-shader snippet
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Comment #46170323
base64 is embarrassingly parallel. So just pipe it to the GPU: precision highp float; uniform vec2 size; uniform sampler2D src,tab; void main(){ vec4 a=(gl_FragCoord-.5)*3.,i=vec4(…
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Comment #46094314
There goes my evening.
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Comment #46040899
Just as long as we don't observe it reeeeally closely , I imagine.
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Comment #45802805
Bravo! I love color and color spaces. I've been researching the way classic Macs quantize colors to limited palettes: https://rezmason.net/retrospectrum/color-cube This cube is the…
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Comment #45756504
I can appreciate the passion and consideration that went into this presentation of the subject!
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Comment #45545708
hundredrabbits' game Verreciel uses a reimplementation of webgl-lines, to pretty good effect, if I may say so: https://github.com/mattdesl/webgl-lines https://hundredrabbits.itch.i…