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dave @beesandbombs.bsky.social · 15d

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dave @beesandbombs.bsky.social · Apr 14

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dave @beesandbombs.bsky.social · Mar 26

here’s the functions for RGB as 0<=q<=1: pastebin.com/b85FCDEE

i hacked these functions together a while ago using a nice photo of a spectrum as reference

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dave @beesandbombs.bsky.social · Mar 26

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dave @beesandbombs.bsky.social · Mar 10

MOUSE + MOLE = MOOSE + MULE #lowEffort

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dave @beesandbombs.bsky.social · Mar 9

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dave @beesandbombs.bsky.social · Jan 6

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dave @beesandbombs.bsky.social · Dec 1

uploaded as gif at 30fps, at someone’s suggestion (can’t remember who)

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dave @beesandbombs.bsky.social · Dec 1

just a little painful. more painful is the compression!

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dave @beesandbombs.bsky.social · Dec 1

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dave @beesandbombs.bsky.social · Nov 26

made a little animation for this piece

Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.bsky.social · Nov 26

Three high schoolers have proved that a fractal called the Menger sponge can contain any knot. @gregbarber.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/teen-mathema...

Teen Mathematicians Tie Knots Through a Mind-Blowing Fractal | Quanta Magazine

Three high schoolers and their mentor revisited a century-old theorem to prove that all knots can be found in a fractal called the Menger sponge.

www.quantamagazine.org

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Thomas Hooper @tdhooper.bsky.social · Nov 21

Let's post some old work with a little behind-the-scenes

This loop, Fractal Polycephaly, won the 2019 Revision Demoparty animated GIF competition

It's rendered entirely within a raymarching shader, there's no polygonal geometry