settling down with a cup of coffee to catch up on the latest Web Dev Challenge from @codetv.dev (before switching to the #BelgianGP) youtu.be/Is7PCAWLbKc

The greatest animated landing page with GSAP | Web Dev Challenge S3.E5

YouTube video by CodeTV

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A love letter to Pachinko! Converting from font to SVG to collision object, using matter.js to play pachinko with letters!

More and more people I deeply respect and have learned a lot from over the years feel like they are speaking into a void, to the point where they are losing motivation to continue making content, which got me to write my first post on my site in over a year... www.kevinpowell.co/article/tell...

Something new in the works. #gsap

still WIP but: better design-book examples incoming: meodai.github.io/design-book/

We recently created a new recipe for our internal WebGL library that provides a way to attach WebGL programs to DOM elements (inspired by curtains.js). This opens up a lot of options for us on internal projects.

I've wanted to make this for quite some time; a WebGPU sand simulator using compute shaders and persistent states (none of the messy WebGL texture workarounds). it turned out to be surprisingly solid (even if there *are* some funny limitations like sand sitting on water).

Heerich.js made it into “the Index” newsletter. piccalil.li/the-index/180/

The Index: Issue #180

It’s Friday, so let’s close out the week with some Good Links™ in The Index #180! Sponsored by the fantastic CodePen 2.0.

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Shipping something that's been lingering in my git for years feels weird and good. RYBitten: a little love letter to the RYB color space. color cubes, ramps, spectral mixing, all the stuff i couldn't stop tinkering with. rybitten.space heads up: non-retina looks rough and mobile is untested.

This is a nice page to send people that _hopefully_ helps them understand. stopsloppypasta.ai/en/

I've been reading Shadow & Claw by Gene Wolf, and I'm struggling with it. It feels almost like Canterbury Tales if it were written by Tarantino, which should be amazing, but I'm just having difficulty finding the motivation to pick it up every day.

Position queries & voxel finding in Heerich.js 0.13: huge thanks to @liamegan.bsky.social for making this happen. Honestly a bit surreal. This started as something personal and it’s now growing through other people’s contributions. Grateful it resonates the way it does 💛 meodai.github.io/heerich/

So much of the online AI discourse just sounds like performative rationalization. "AI means I can forget syntax and focus on engineering". How frequently are you just blindly accepting Claude's changes?

I wanted to recreate the super-cool variable-font field from the Hottype Exat site (links in next post).

Heerich GPU renderer + a simple context-free tree system.

Adding @gkjohnson.bsky.social pathtracer.

I have a bit of an update on life and work: youtube.com/watch?v=cF21KbWfucw&feature=youtu.be

An Update on Life and Work

YouTube video by Brad Frost

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GPU renderer for Heerich, here using Three.JS as a target. Pretty rough at the moment, but it works.

First pass writing a technology agnostic GPU renderer for Heerich, I think I may have an issue with winding :D

Heerich 0.11.0 → leaned hatching, thanks to @liamegan.bsky.social meodai.github.io/heerich/#hat...

Got the polygon clipping and hatching working #plottertwitter

Hatching @meodai.bsky.social

Plotted a Heerich drawing. No occlusion culling on this one (haven't been able to get it to work yet). @meodai.bsky.social #plottertwitter

Fail plot. I forgot to properly calibrate the pen down position...

@meodai.bsky.social Heerich + CFDG meodai.github.io/heerich/

Heerich.js 0.10.0: finally a proper isometric view! Not faked with oblique math, but a real orthographic projection rotated ~35.264° like it should be. meodai.github.io/heerich/