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Large Terrains, Studio Music, Freenect2 and Irreversible Collapse

Great tutorial on rendering large terrains – with the meta lesson of making solutions often making new problems that are impossible to anticipate until you get deep into a problem.

Studio Music provides an insight into the creative process of visual
practitioners, through the music that they listen to whilst working.”

Pete and I first became friends through a mutual love of music, particularly bass.

The Kinect v2 is slowly becoming more open, I’m sure there will be a rush of plucking of low hanging fruit as there was previously, but I wonder if Microsoft have learnt their lesson a little too well? Custom ports are hard to deal with.

“A new study partly-sponsored by Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center(sic) has highlighted the prospect that global industrial civilisation could collapse in coming decades due to unsustainable resource exploitation and increasingly unequal wealth distribution.”

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ofxOcculusRift, The Weight of Mountains, Colour Naming, Spritz, SimpleCV and a GLSL music video

ofxOculusRift is coming along. github.com/obviousjim/ofx…

The Weight of Mountains, via Kottke.

Colour naming at Lyst.

How Spritz lets you read at 1000 words a minute.

SimpleCV is simple computer vision for Python.

“Beautifully simple and elegant GLSL music video” via Robbie Tilton.

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Fong Qi Wei, Hacking, Prototyping & Smart Citizens, Working at Nintendo, Eyes Wide Shut Inspiration, P1, all the colours in One Image and Finger Binary

Fong Qi Wei makes Time in Motion.

Hacking, Prototyping & Smart Citizens – a talk I was part of.

A guide to getting a job at Nintendo.

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Inspiration for Eyes Wide Shut?

The P1 sounds amazing.

All RGB colours in one image.

You can count to 1023 with just two hands of digits if you use Finger Binary.

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Language, Sticky Light, Flint and VideoCircuits

Wolfram Language. The power!

Sticky Light. Via Pete Mackenzie.

Under the Hood: Building and open-sourcing flint. From Facebook.

VideoCircuits, a great resource on video art and the joy of glitch.

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Flame Challenge, The Witness, Two Events on the Same Day, Baby Steps in R

Explaining Science to an eleven year old. FlameChallenge.org.

A new game from Jonathan Blow – “The Witness“. Mmmm puzzles.

“The Mongols fought the Crusaders and the Samurais AT THE SAME TIME”

I love AskReddit. Two events that took place simultaneously. Via kottke.

H20 is what the cool kids are on now according to the comments.

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Movies, Catan, What to prepare for Doomsday

Yummy analysis of the top 100,000 movies on IMDB.

The man who made Catan. I remember playing Settlers on the Amiga – I’ve yet to experience the board game.
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Survive the Apocalypse for $137,000.

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Ganymede, Saildrone, North and Only 20 years left?

First geologic map of Ganymede made with Voyager data.

A drone that can sail around the world.

Why is North up?

Only 20 years to go before Climate Change destroys the world.

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SaaS, Resurrection, Disney Accelerator, Hemingway

“To make matters worse, the more successful an open source project, the more large companies want to co-opt the code base. I experienced this first-hand as CEO at XenSource, where every major software and hardware company leveraged our code base with nearly zero revenue coming back to us. We had made the product so easy to use and so important, that we had out-engineered ourselves. Great for the open source community, not so great for us.”

Red Hat was the first and last? I’m not sure.

The 808 is back!

Even Disney has an accelerator these days.

An interesting new way of looking at text editors – built in improvements to your prose – think the Word paperclip, but actually useful. Hemingway.

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Polyfauna, Lua, Go 1.3 and Restart prompts

A new app from Radiohead. Polyfauna.

Lua. I love the one page complete syntax description.

Towards Go 1.3. Interesting to see how the hello world size has increased over development. Bloat is hard to deal with. NaCl looks very interesting.

So many memories spurred by just a Restart prompt or two. OS/2! Workbench!

 

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A Pen that lasts Forever, Fragile Machines, GitHub for Schools, Comped?

I have always loved pens. How about one that lasts forever?

10 things we forgot to monitor. I feel like these engines of computing are being tended in a similar ways to the great days of stream power in the 19th Century. Is it time to abstract a layer up? Perhaps it’s a historical sign that we should pay attention to.

GitHub goes to school. GitHub for everything I ever did at school would have been so useful. How could we merge the worlds curricula?

I’m saying it’s a comp. What say you?