rezmason @rezmason@merveilles.town

Moving this to Merveilles.town:

#introduction

I'm a NY-born Oakland resident who programs for game companies to survive. I teach Scratch to kids at our town's video game museum.

In my free time I used #Flash a lot, then #Haxe, and now a lot of modern #JavaScript. I port things as a way to preserve ideas. I have a loving wife and 2 cats.

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#webgl #threejs #pasta #halloween #science #wordplay #gpl #matrix #macintosh #darkwave , uuuuh, #antifa #kielbasa #netneutrality #humanity #flan #pasta

Stream starting soon! https://twitch.tv/rezmason

#WireworldWednesday​

You're god damn right today's #WireworldWednesday!

After two weeks of hiatus and one week of I've-only-got-an-hour, I'm keen on finishing the engine-swapping functionality, researching Bill Gosper's Hashlife algorithm, and having a blast doing it all!

Wednesdays!
6:30PM Pacific!
Booyah!

https://www.twitch.tv/rezmason

#theWorkshop

Live stream starts at :30! https://twitch.tv/rezmason #WireworldWednesday

It's been a long wait for a #WireworldWednesday, and this one can only go for about an hour, but there's got to be some return to the schedule! Tonight's plan is to make the app load different engines based on different strategies.

See you at 6:30!

https://twitch.tv/rezmason

#theWorkshop

Matrix rain go brrr.

Added a density parameter to make it rain harder! That worked out quite nicely.

Now I need to figure out a decent way to get this system to support 2D and 3D simultaneously, so to speak. 3D, and the parameters that only apply to 3D, should be an option to switch on or off.

Then I'll update the readme, and then it'll go live. 😁 And that'll be enough of an update until the Looking Glass display finally arrives.

#theWorkshop

Ah, there we go. Matrix rain with depth.

It's a significant tradeoff. Until this experiment, I'd kept everything 2D so I could shape everything in the fragment shader, like so:

https://rezmason.github.io/matrix/?version=paradise

That flexibility has to be sacrificed to do perspective projection in the vertex shader. But I see no other way. I wouldn't want to learn raymarching for this application.

#theWorkshop

What? No! Stop it! What are you doing! You're supposed to the The Matrix! I don't even know where to begin!

These past couple weeks, I've felt like the various parts of my life got squished together like continents forming Pangea, and I'm the ocean slowly getting squeezed out of the space in between 😵

But Merveilles makes a great spectator sport 😌 There's a kind of protected peace here

Sadly, no #WireworldWednesday today, folks. Work has me scheduled for some late evening stuff that's too important to reschedule.

See you next week!

#theWorkshop

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What's the haps, ladies, enbies and chaps! Guess what's back? Hat dot app!

#theWorkshop

Imagine a video channel or live stream where someone goes on archive.org, downloads the raw text of some scanned book / magazine / novella, drops it into InDesign, or I guess Scribus, and designs a new page layout. And then shares the files and a PDF.

Would you watch this?

Hey folks, no #WireworldWednesday today as I've got some lifestuffs to do instead. 🌱

Meanwhile, here's a YouTube video from Gathering for Gardner that packs into 7 minutes an explanation of the algorithm I'll be implementing at some point before long:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l228ARRYkNE

Live stream starts at :30! https://twitch.tv/rezmason #WireworldWednesday