Readit Newsspiralganglion commented on Cloth cloudofoz.com/verlet-test... · Posted by u/memalign
Cool. When can we get this kind of cloth interaction in games?
Splinter Cell, from 2002: https://web.archive.org/web/20220207182149/https://gfycat.co...
spiralganglion commented on Ink and Switch Constraint System (2023) inkandswitch.com/ink/note... · Posted by u/mpweiher
They do! https://github.com/inkandswitch
And Ivan's is here. https://github.com/ivanreese
But "public release of hest" was a joking reference to the fact that he's stated quite clearly that the project is just a testbed for him and will never be released. (No matter that every once in a while it makes the rounds of sites like this and everyone goes a-twitter...)
spiralganglion commented on Ink and Switch Constraint System (2023) inkandswitch.com/ink/note... · Posted by u/mpweiher
Do they release any software? It’s frustrating when Brett Victor tells us how modeling our protagonist’s path during development is a boon for the developer … and refuses to release even a demo. I can read (and hear) about things Ink & Switch have explored, but can we experience that, too?
I love the ideas these folks explore. I also want to explore - but I don’t have the time budget to learn and implement their concepts. I can’t speak for other software engineers, but I am much more likely to improve on such work if I can experience it first.
Automerge started as a research prototype and is now a widely-used substrate for building local-first apps: https://automerge.org/
Our GitHub has a boatload of experiments: https://github.com/orgs/inkandswitch/repositories
This is a fun afternoon just waiting for you: http://feelingisreality.com
Muse started as a research project and turned into an app: https://museapp.com/
Some of our essays have embedded versions of our prototypes you can play with:
* Crosscut: https://www.inkandswitch.com/crosscut/
* Potluck: https://www.inkandswitch.com/potluck/
Alex Warth is currently working on a remake of Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad: https://github.com/alexwarth/sutherland
There's probably a bunch more I'm forgetting.
spiralganglion commented on Ambsheets: Spreadsheets for Exploring Scenarios inkandswitch.com/ambsheet... · Posted by u/azhenley
This would be a lot more interesting if these folks would release their product/code.
https://www.inkandswitch.com/crosscut/
https://www.inkandswitch.com/inkbase/
are very interesting and promising, but not available for use/experimentation.
We recently open sourced Inkling [1] (which is a spiritual successor to Crosscut) and the iPad Wrapper [2] app we used to prototype Crosscut, Inkling, and other projects. We're also going to share some more similarly-interesting non-essay output from our research in the near future.
Fuck Apple, I'm only getting “TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'renderer.recompileShader')” in Safari. It works in Firefox.
Worked on my iPhone.
spiralganglion commented on Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths bbc.com/news/articles/c0j... · Posted by u/vinni2
I find it overall very unnerving how quiet this is and how the Canadian press never really finds issues with this.
I often saw Japanese media moving lock-step with the police (in terms of vocabulary to use for certain crimes, how to report certain issues), and thought it was creepy as hell. However, the complete lack of questioning of the purpose behind a sudden legalization of euthanasia (in a country with public healthcare and an inherent potential conflict of interest), and the entire concept of having "experts" sign off on it without any legal overview is creepy.
Even using "medicalized" terms like MAID instead of euthanasia is unnerving to me.
Put in another way, given how hard it is for people to see doctors, I wonder how much worse it would be without MAID? As it would clearly be worse, is this a mere sanitized form of cost cutting to deal with growing medical costs associated with treating the aging population?
I've felt since I was young that I'd like to choose when and how I will die. I'm perfectly comfortable with the thought. I'm in my 30s and have a lovely life and family. I'm in no rush to end things. But when I'm old and the scales tip, I'd like to be the one to decide that it's time. I might not ever get there, but I want the option.