This article is a deep dive into my experimentations with Volumetric rendering and how to leverage it to render beautiful raymarched cloudscapes in React Three Fiber and WebGL. In it, I walk you through everything from the basics of Volumetric Raymarching to the techniques used in video games to render physically…
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In typography/design, ‘sidenotes’ place footnotes/endnotes in the margins for easier reading. I discuss design choices, HTML implementations and their pros/cons.
Whilst searching for something else entirely I stumbled across these images and was struck by just how beautiful they are. The September 1984 (Vol 9, No 10) ...
How some RPGs get coins wrong: they matter a lot until they matter not at all. It’s fun to play until your PCs are rich, but it’s even more fun to be able to buy things with those riches. Absorbing…
A modern look at how to combine CSS :has, :nth-last-child, and style queries to create dynamic components.
A golden age of CSS was evident in Amsterdam, but to whose benefit?
A look back through web-browser history, as I test my site against the browsers of the past.
Marc Newson has been described as one of the most influential designers of his generation. He has worked across an extremely wide range of disciplines, and his clients include some of the best-known and most prestigious brands in the world spanning diverse sectors from manufacturing and technology to transportation…
Computers, Machine Learning and non-machine learning
The rise of agile methods (particularly XP) makes some people wonder if there's any role left for software design. I argue that this change shifts from planned to evolutionary design.
Audioscope: What you see is what you hear.
CSS mix blend modes provide an easy, yet powerful way to create visually interesting designs.
Exact line rendering of smooth surfaces is harder than anyone would think
In the early to mid-90s, I ran a BBS out of my bedroom. It wasn’t very popular, but I did have a lot of time on my hands and I spent a lot of that time modding it. Initially, I wrote mods for myself, but eventually I started releasing them to other people. As a teenager, this was the first software that I wrote that…
Create animations from first principles and morph between different figures with Python. In 5 minutes. Kind of.
If your app has just ruined my day, I need help, not humour.
Creating a subtle, peripheral, and synchronous sense of shared space and context on the web
Have you ever heard of Design Thinking?
I shipped identical boxes, less than a mile, with multiple delivery companies — one was seized by the police. This is the UX of delivering parcels.
The only aspect of game development I’ve not attempted myself is the music. I mostly use royalty free music of Japanese origin (just because I dig their vibe...
Technician: Welcome to Custom Lube, how can I help you? Me: I need an oil change. Technician: OK, you can hop on out. Where is the oil you want to use? Me: I didn’t bring any oil. I expected you would supply that. Technician: That’s a common misunderstanding. At Custom Lube, we don’t supply oil or anything else. We…
