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Keith Peters.
Either the youngest Boomer or the oldest GenXer.

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jake4480, to 80s
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Since this week's theme is and I was born April 1980, I have to talk about TELEKON.

Gary Numan released Telekon, my favorite of his records, in 1980. It was the first vinyl I bought as a teen in the 90s. Hearing this intro track and the album that followed was mindblowing. Definitely listen to this whole record if you get a chance.

Here's "This Wreckage", the first song on Telekon, one of the best album opening tracks EVER:

https://youtu.be/XSvH78ZYqmc

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bit101,
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@jake4480 @Kitty I was on a Numan kick a few months ago. But I don't think I did much with this album. Will check it out.

mathling, to random
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Spotted in the wild: a cybertruck painted rust-colored. Well, that's a time-saver, I guess.

bit101,
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@mathling Are you sure it was paint?

bit101, to random
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https://bit-101.com/blog/posts/2024-04-30/i-broke-my-rotation-matrix/

bit101, to random
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Building on my wireframe 3d library... 3d text. The nice thing is I can just pass it the string "hello" and get this object that I can render.

Yes, re-doing stuff I did 20 years ago. But I like to thing a little better this time. A little.

the word "hello" rendered in white 3d wireframe lines, rotating in space.

bit101,
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@matthewconroy Battlezone, Asteroids, Tempest, Star Castle, Gravitar. The glorious vector games of my youth.

hans, to random
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That age where random very good friends start to fall away, slowly, one by one.

Now it is Gerry. A mysterious, oversensitive, fragile and most kind human.

RIP

bit101,
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@hans Sorry to hear that. :(

bit101, to random
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Continuing where I left off a few days ago...

A white 3d wireframe randomized sphere, rotated and moves towards and away from the camera. the camera winds up inside the sphere.

bit101, to random
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The perspective on these two cubes is fine, but the fact that they are rotating in opposite directions makes it hard to keep them straight.

If I get the small one rotating correctly in my mind, the big one gets all warped out of shape.

Then the big one snaps into place and the small one is messed up.

Neat illusion.

two wireframe cubes, one inside the other, rotating in opposite directions.

bit101,
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Maybe this will help... :)

two spinning wireframe cubes alternately growing and shrinking.

bit101, to random
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There's a certain graphical formula I've been using for 20+ years. I ran across a totally different way of doing it today and my mind was blown. Then I started doing it the old way and the new way and tweaking things so they looked the same.

In the end, the new way was exactly the way I've been doing it, just with a little different structure and var names.

whew!

bit101, to random
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Saturday diversion.

a rotating torus know made of multicolor pseudo-3d spheres

bit101,
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These are just 2d circles painted to look like spheres. Decent illusion except when their z-values swap and they pop in front of each other.

bit101, to random
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Just realized that I've been on Fastmail for over two years now. Switched over during the great Google exodus of 2022. Can't think of any obvious downsides. It's been working great for me. And it's nice being that much less dependent on Google.

bit101,
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This all started because I was on the legacy Google Apps plan that you could use your own domain on. They said they were discontinuing that and I'd either have to pay or lose a bunch of my services. So I migrated my email to Fastmail, and other things elsewhere.

bit101, to random
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I could spend a day looking through these https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/flash-websites

bit101, to random
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The cost to fix my broken USB port would be just about the same as to buy a brand new, upgraded version of the Thinkpad I bought a year and a half ago.

bit101,
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@matthewconroy I foolishly thought they'd try to solder the usb connector back on. I watched some Youtube videos of people doing that exact thing. Tempted to do it myself, but afraid I'd make it worse.

popey, to random
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"AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License"

I almost got a lighter out and started swaying mid way through! Also, the softly spoken "(software)" near the start is fun.

https://suno.com/song/da6d4a83-1001-4694-8c28-648a6e8bad0a/

bit101,
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@popey Am I the only one who can only notice the horrible dynamic alignment of the progress bar, making it jump around constantly?

bit101, to random
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I've wanted to look into orbit traps in fractals for a while. Way simpler than I imagined. this took 13 minutes.

mandelbrot set with rainbow coloring and red blobs rotating around it.

bit101,
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freaky. lots to explore with this technique.

video/mp4

bit101, to random
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A bit of a blog post about how I've created some of my recent posts here. https://bit-101.com/blog/posts/2024-04-07/graphing-equations/

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sines, cosines, a bit of gaussian blur

black blobs expand and contract forming a pattern that morphs between dots, circles and a grid.

bit101,
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a pattern of blobby black ovals moves right to left, combining and morphing to form different shapes.

bit101,
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I liked that one. What happens if we zoom out? Wait for it...

same as last one, but we zoom out and back in.

popey, to ADHD
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[BLOG]
"Today is my Birthday! I got ADHD"

https://popey.com/blog/2024/04/today-is-my-birthday-i-got-adhd/

bit101,
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@popey Well, I took two different online tests and both said little or no chance of ADHD, etc. I guess I really am just lazy! :)

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