Wow. That makes me anxious. It really makes me feel like the seconds come and go.
Same, I felt it in the pit of my stomach right away. The Life one ( https://oimo.io/works/life/ ) is worse!
It has stuck in a loop, chrome mobile
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#102I find it invigorating in a way - there's a constant stream of fresh new seconds coming your way, moments you've never before seen in your life and so could hold anything in them. But I can understand the anxiety a lot of people seem to be feeling at this: I had (and have) a similar response to WaitButWhy's [Your Life in Weeks]( https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html ) post.
One of the cooler articles I read on HN was about how Mandarin speakers consider the past spatially in front of them and the future spatially behind them. This is the opposite of English, which tends to consider the past as "behind us". The English way is based on movement: we are moving forward into the future and our past is what we are leaving behind. The Mandarin way is about knowledge: we can see the past (hence…
Even if, linguistically, Mandarin doesn't speak of looking forward towards the future, China is known for strategically investing and planning for payoffs multiple decades/generations into the future.
Language does affect thought, but apparently, in this case, speaking of not being able to see the future apparently doesn't preclude actively shaping it.
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#103It jumps every 10 seconds!
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#104Sweet, a Yugo Nakemura for the 21st Century. Anyone who doesn’t remember yugop.com, it was a site of beautifully cool experiments with Flash and Actionscript 1/2, the guy really was an inspiration to so many of us trying to figure out what to do with the web.
I was SUCH a huge fan of Yugop! The front page reminded me of him immediately. Good times.
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#106Wow. That makes me anxious. It really makes me feel like the seconds come and go.
I'm curious about why exactly this is so anxiety-inducing. I have multiple hypotheses: a) the way the numbers only come together for a moment means you need to concentrate. b) the feeling of objects being flung towards you. c) the color scheme. d) the frenetic, jittery movement of the blocks, kind of like insects. e) The large number of objects moving unpredictably makes it hard to track. f) The passage of time. g) E…
For me it's simply the fact that the blocks get destroyed every second. It really enhances the 'time is fleeting' feeling. Every second is unique and you're never ever getting it back.
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#107His other stuff is amazing too. For example, this water scene. You can click inside the water to splash it around! https://oimo.io/works/water3d/ Cloth is very cool too. https://oimo.io/works/cloth/ Jelly: click on the sphere to tear it apart. https://oimo.io/works/jelly/
That infinite game of life... just wow!
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#108Wow. That makes me anxious. It really makes me feel like the seconds come and go.
I was way too focused on how slow this is running on my phone, sometimes skipping two seconds even. So I had no chance to actually think about what I'm seeing in a deeper way.
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#109https://oimo.io/works/ on mobile, for me, only works properly in portrait.
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#110https://oimo.io/works/ on mobile, for me, only works properly in portrait.
Wow. It even contains a small copy of itself!
Works fine for me in Firefox for Android.