#3d — Blog — Ben Crowder

Links #28

Saturday, November 28, 2020 / #3d #blender #books #coding #links #productivity #reading #video-conferencing

Tiantian Xu’s 100 days of 3D design — great work, and her other 100-day projects are great, too
Chris Granger demoing a natural language programming environment — intriguing; color me a bit skeptical (mainly because of the ambiguities of human language), but I hope it works out
Frode Hegland’s free book The Future of Text — essays from loads of thinkers about text and reading, including Alan Kay
NVIDIA’s Maxine — using deepfakes for good (saving bandwidth during video conferencing)
James Somers on why speed matters — food for thought

Tuesday, September 15, 2020 / #3d #blogging #browsers #coding #learning #light #links #web

Austin Klein’s reasons for blogging — I blog for the same reasons
Farnam Street on being a learning machine — a worthy goal
Ben Kuhn’s list of programming essays — good collection (and if you have favorites that aren’t in his list, let me know)
Bartosz Ciechanowski on lights and shadows — this along with his Gears and Tesseract posts are fascinating, with great interactive visualizations
Min — minimalist web browser (and I’ll mention here that I’m veering closer and closer to spinning up my own WebKit-based keyboard-controlled extremely minimalist browser, so that I can have full control over the UI, but that also seems a little crazy)

Friday, September 4, 2020 / #3d #art #generative-art #svg

Playing around with generative orthogonal cubes, just for fun (which probably means I’m avoiding my actual schoolwork, now that I think about it):

I wrote a Python script to generate the cubes as SVG polygons and then went through my usual filter/texture routine.

Monday, August 31, 2020 / #3d #astronomy #css #links #research #space #typesetting

Pantelis Kalogiros’s CSS 3D Adventure — impressive hack, which makes me think about other ways CSS’s 3D functionality could be used (for actual projects)
Ethan Wang on leading-trim in CSS — a much-needed fix, looking forward to this getting implemented
NASA’s patent for a new way to get to the moon — I…didn’t know these could be patented
An animation showing how Jupiter’s gravity saves us from asteroids — thank you, Jupiter
Ben Southwood on the rise and fall of the industrial R&D lab — oh how I wish I could have worked at Bell Labs or Xerox PARC