Cool js demo, certainly worth reposting. Since he credits Steven Strogatz here's the link to Steven's 2008 TED on synchronicity and emergent behavior.
Fireflies (2017)
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Re: Fireflies (2017)
#12I revisit Fireflies from time to time, but everything on https://ncase.me/ is wonderful. I particularly like https://ncase.me/door/ . Nicky's site elevates the web beyond “magazines/newspapers/leaflets on a network-connected screen”. It reminds you that the web can be a rich and interactive medium with stories told and ideas taught with love and with care. It feels like there's a gap in the market for tools that help…
https://explorabl.es acts as sort of a repository for it. Unsurprisingly created by the irreplaceable and aforementioned Nicky Case.
Re: Fireflies (2017)
#13I revisit Fireflies from time to time, but everything on https://ncase.me/ is wonderful. I particularly like https://ncase.me/door/ . Nicky's site elevates the web beyond “magazines/newspapers/leaflets on a network-connected screen”. It reminds you that the web can be a rich and interactive medium with stories told and ideas taught with love and with care. It feels like there's a gap in the market for tools that help…
There’s also things like https://editor.p5js.org
Re: Fireflies (2017)
#14As cool as this is, and it is, this is probably the least interesting thing on the https://ncase.me website.
It's well worth spending an afternoon just going through some of the stuff presented there
My two favorites: https://ncase.me/crowds/ https://ncase.me/trust/
Re: Fireflies (2017)
#15This makes me really sad. Right after I went off to college, my parents moved to a new, secluded neighborhood in its infancy -- only a handful of homes there. Our house was the one right next to a tall meadow, protected by a deep forest and a pond. During those summers, you could gaze into the meadow and witness thousands of fireflies putting on a show --- every day, the 4th of July. Occasionally, you could witness huge rafters of turkeys (many dozens) slowly making their way through the fields, their true numbers hidden by low hanging fog.
Then in my last couple years of college, the neighborhood matured further into development. The developers slowly turned the woods into meadows, the meadows into dirt fields, the dirt fields into streets, foundations, and lawns. That was the end of the fireflies; the end of the turkeys; the end of the natural beauty that once lurked there.
Re: Fireflies (2017)
#16I revisit Fireflies from time to time, but everything on https://ncase.me/ is wonderful. I particularly like https://ncase.me/door/ . Nicky's site elevates the web beyond “magazines/newspapers/leaflets on a network-connected screen”. It reminds you that the web can be a rich and interactive medium with stories told and ideas taught with love and with care. It feels like there's a gap in the market for tools that help…
Spoilers for /door:
I wondered how the author encouraged me to find a solution for the second map that made reach the target by walking around the obstacle to the left side and returning around the right side (and symmetric).
Turns out that if you try to walk back around the left side, the clock is artifically made to run much quicker. Nice.
Re: Fireflies (2017)
#17I revisit Fireflies from time to time, but everything on https://ncase.me/ is wonderful. I particularly like https://ncase.me/door/ . Nicky's site elevates the web beyond “magazines/newspapers/leaflets on a network-connected screen”. It reminds you that the web can be a rich and interactive medium with stories told and ideas taught with love and with care. It feels like there's a gap in the market for tools that help…
Spoilers for /door: I wondered how the author encouraged me to find a solution for the second map that made reach the target by walking around the obstacle to the left side and returning around the right side (and symmetric). Turns out that if you try to walk back around the left side, the clock is artifically made to run much quicker. Nice.
This actually annoyed me. Feels like the game is cheating.
Re: Fireflies (2017)
#18I revisit Fireflies from time to time, but everything on https://ncase.me/ is wonderful. I particularly like https://ncase.me/door/ . Nicky's site elevates the web beyond “magazines/newspapers/leaflets on a network-connected screen”. It reminds you that the web can be a rich and interactive medium with stories told and ideas taught with love and with care. It feels like there's a gap in the market for tools that help…
Spoilers for /door: I wondered how the author encouraged me to find a solution for the second map that made reach the target by walking around the obstacle to the left side and returning around the right side (and symmetric). Turns out that if you try to walk back around the left side, the clock is artifically made to run much quicker. Nice.
Nice find! I never tried to solve it that way.
It also accelerates time if you enter on the right and try to return on the right.
The source:
https://github.com/ncase/door/blob/e4b218d2a5b9667cfca9b66fc...
Re: Fireflies (2017)
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Spoilers for /door: I wondered how the author encouraged me to find a solution for the second map that made reach the target by walking around the obstacle to the left side and returning around the right side (and symmetric). Turns out that if you try to walk back around the left side, the clock is artifically made to run much quicker. Nice.
This actually annoyed me. Feels like the game is cheating.
It would be kind of creepy (and confusing) if it allowed an “I C U” result, though.
Re: Fireflies (2017)
#2020 or 30 years ago, Scientific American published (in the paper magazine) a firefly circuit you could build to see this coupled oscillation happen with physical hardware. I always wanted to build a couple of hundred or so and plaster a room with them, but that's always been ETOOMUCHEFFORT.
It's probably worth an update.