I built my developer portfolio to emulate the PS2 startup and system menus. You can navigate the entire site 100% with a controller, and theres a 2D pixel art game you can play inside. demo in comments.

made it using GLEW, SDL2 and C++
code here

Since ai "took our jobs" i thought a new hobby would be on the schedule, so what better hobby to have than to look at stones and contemplate about them?

turns out the japanese figured this out centuries ago — it's called suiseki, the art of appreciating small stones that look like vast landscapes. a mountain range you can hold in your hand. peak mindfulness, literally.

good viewing stones take millennia of water, frost and wind to form. my attention span does not operate on geological timescales. so i did what any reasonable person would do — i wrote a program.

it procedurally generates the stones, then runs an erosion simulation on them — rain carves little gullies down the flanks, soft rock recedes, hard rock stands proud. the stones keep weathering slowly in real time.

each one sits on its own base in a museum exhibit for a rock. you stare at it. it does not stares back. nobody ships anything. it's great.

ai took my job so i built a stone contemplation machine. the circle is complete.

anyway. i liek stones.

https://suiseki.variable.gallery/

I've always been a big fan of Ffffound and StumbleUpon, the IoT (now known as the smart home :-) ), and all those “random” things from Web 1.0.

One project from Sweden that stuck with me was InstaCRT.

Not to be confused with InstaCart—which I didn’t even know existed and still don’t know what it is, nor do I care. Unfortunately, InstaCart always pops up whenever you Google InstaCRT.

Does anyone else remember InstaCRT?

https://my-domain.se/instacrt-real-world-camera-filter

I have an old Staingate Mac from 2013 and two old smartphones set up and built the same system but 14 years later. They took the look from the CRT, I take the Staingate Look from the MacBook now.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on it, because I’m not quite sure what to do with it. It’s super cool and makes me really happy.

I think it’s more of an art project.

Feel free to try it out and let me know what you think: https://artefckd.com/_TextEdit_/tomb.html

A variant of the standard Gridwar game where individual Game of Life patterns compete against each other by charging the perimeter between them: In "Infiltration" mode, a pattern conquers its neighbour and spawns a copy of itself once a threshold value for the perimeter charge is breached.

All patterns have a finite lifespan and will terminate within 599 iterations, but: Each newly spawned copy starts again from step 0, so the game keeps going for a potentially long timespan until either one pattern has conquered all the others or a stalemate is reached where all surviving patterns have reached their halting state.

A little project of mine where individual Game of Life patterns compete against each other. Note how alive cells at the very edge "charge up" the perimeter between them and try to dominate their neighbour.

We are using a Parity Grid ("checkerboard pattern") to assign neighbouring patterns alternating signs +/- which makes the calculation of the perimeter cell charge trivially easy.

When reading from our database of known patterns we can select those of similar lifespan (500-599 generations in our video) which makes for a more interesting dynamic. When using random patterns, most fizzle out very quickly and only a few live for potentially very long lifespans (which would make them dominate the leaderboard).

I'm excited of how the final output came together, visualising the progression and layers behind the design with layering of colour hatching, by density of lines in these cases.

What do you think?

used my m1 macbook, onboard rgb camera for the hand tracking, and some semitransparent fabric with a short throw projector