Nineteen thousand atoms and a fax machine

  1. A WebGPU simulation of liquid quenching into crystals: Scales up to nineteen thousand particles in the browser, using GPU cell lists and workgroup tiling to watch a quenched liquid freeze into distinct crystal grains with visible boundaries. (ogden.eu)
  2. Room as Instrument: mathematical patterns in motion: Twelve motor-driven wooden spheres, choreographed through TouchDesigner, turn mathematical functions into slow-moving light, sound, and motion in this kinetic sculpture. (creativeapplications.net)
  3. Chirp Pong: Two phones play pong by exchanging game state entirely through audio chirps picked up by their microphones, no network involved, built in Claude Code with Claude Opus. (simonwillison.net)
  4. Furifont: furigana built into the font: A typeface that bakes the small phonetic guide text of furigana directly into the font itself, skipping the separate markup Japanese text usually needs. (furifont.antfu.me)
  5. Q5 Webeditor v2 released: A faster Monaco-based editor for Q5.js and Q5.play adds better autocomplete and Python support via Brython, though the library's restrictive education license still raises eyebrows. (kantel.github.io)
  6. SVG linked parameters will change how we do icon systems: A new CSS feature called linked parameters lets you style individual elements inside an SVG referenced via img or background-image, something previously only possible with inline SVG. (blog.master.dev)
  7. RandomGaussian, viridis: a sketch-a-day entry: The latest piece in villares' long-running daily practice renders Gaussian-distributed randomness through a viridis color palette. (github.com)
  8. Cream coloured background, pen plotting fax machine: Dan Catt's newsletter traces how someone used AI to vibe-code a tool that ripped off an artist's generative output, with palette and commit-history evidence as proof, alongside notes on a pen-plotting fax machine. (newsletter.revdancatt.com)
  9. Why are we even doing all this?: A satirical guest post on Terence Tao's blog skewers the hype around AI 'solving' mathematics, likening OpenAI's automated proof-dumps to Borges's Library of Babel. (terrytao.wordpress.com)
  10. The reality of generative AI and art: A video essay takes stock of where generative AI actually sits within art practice today, past the hype cycles. (unverified) (youtube.com)
  11. Code you didn't write: As AI removes the friction of typing code by hand, the argument goes, the taste that matters most shifts from judging output to knowing what to ask for in the first place. (jaredpalmer.com)
  12. Cracks in the AI thesis, part 3: The latest Ramp AI Index update tracks corporate AI spending across OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Mistral, and argues adoption growth may be plateauing. (econlab.substack.com)

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