Solo acts, from clay to code

  1. How Wallace and Gromit started almost entirely alone: A profile traces Nick Park's solo slog on 'A Grand Day Out,' where he handled roughly 90% of the film himself before it launched Aardman's signature duo. (animationobsessive.substack.com)
  2. An 80s hit song, rebuilt entirely in GLSL: A Shadertoy piece turns a classic song's audio into procedurally generated visuals, with no samples or textures, just shader math driving the whole scene. (shadertoy.com)
  3. The Godot Shaders Bible: An ebook collects shader techniques for Godot developers, demoed here with a subway scene run through several competing stylized looks for comparison. (jettelly.com)
  4. A depth-buffer wireframe shader for VRChat avatars: A shared Unity shader uses the depth buffer to overlay a clean wireframe effect on 3D models, built with VRChat avatar prefabs in mind. (gist.github.com)
  5. Drift of the Uncharted: spectral agents of humanity: A robotic installation pairs a quadruped robot with 3D Gaussian Splatting and climate prediction to project a speculative, flooded version of a city. (creativeapplications.net)
  6. A video essay on the polylogarithm: A YouTube video and companion blog post walk through the polylogarithm, a generalization of the logarithm, as part of an ongoing math-explainer series (unverified). (youtu.be)
  7. The epigenetic landscape, seventy years on: New experimental data is both confirming and complicating Waddington's 1950s metaphor of a rolling landscape for how cells develop. (quantamagazine.org)
  8. The first nuclear clocks begin to tick: Teams in Vienna and Beijing have built working clocks from thorium-229 nuclei, which could eventually outdo atomic clocks for precision and stability (unverified). (nytimes.com)
  9. Programming isn't special: An essay argues programming is a creative discipline on par with writing or illustration, so the same objections to AI-generated art ought to apply to AI-generated code. (blog.glyph.im)
  10. An empirical agenda for AI: Stripe's economists sketch a plan to measure AI's real economic effects through payment-processing data, pushing back against both hype and doom narratives. (stripeeconomics.com)
  11. There are many themes, but this one is yours: A writeup explains how the terminal app Pi auto-generates its UI theme from your existing terminal colors, wrestling with the messiness of the decades-old ANSI standard. (earendil.com)

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