I wonder if DRM is useful for this. The problem: I want people to access my site, but not Google, not bots, not crawlers and certainly not for use by AI.

I don't really know anything about DRM except it is used to take down sites that violate it. Perhaps it is possible for cloudflare (or anyone else) to file a take down notice with Perplexity. That might at least confuse them.

Corporations use this to protect their content. I should be able to protect mine as well. What's good for the goose.

A very good example of SDF thinking, using signed distance fields in shaders. Both shaders and SDF are new to me and very interesting. Another example of what is being done is MSDF here: https://github.com/Chlumsky/msdfgen.

There is a real problem using canvas to replace HTML.

Not all but most HTML. I have not found a good solution for the issue of doing something like MDX in canvas. I have tried SDF, looked at 2D canvas Text, Troika, MSDF. You can get text, it is just that laying it out is very difficult. React three drei has the ability to put HTML into the threejs ecosystem, but there are issues about CSS and text that make that impractical.

For me the use case is very simple. I would like to take an MDX file and show it in a mesh. Laid out. Maybe I am missing something because I am new to the whole threejs thing, but I really tried.

A good article about text https://css-tricks.com/techniques-for-rendering-text-with-we...

And an example from the above article: https://codesandbox.io/p/sandbox/css-tricks-msdf-text-fks8w

This shows it can be done, I gave up trying to reproduce it in React-three-fiber.

Why? Personally, I think the use of 3D graphics produces an interface for users that is an order or magnitude better for users. The real question (and an interesting one to consider) is why are we still building HTML first websites?

Fish Tank Thinking is where your thinking is so constrained by some artificial walls that you cannot actually ... well actually think. It is the wages stupid. Let me repeat that. It is the wages stupid. What happens when a society is so brain washed that it cannot even consider that if you don't pay people they can't afford housing. Or cars. Or medical care. Or food.

If you actually have some desire to consider the problem rather than discuss how many angels can dance on a pin head, start with considering why "Inflation" is not a measure of anything thing, but rather the sound of one hand clapping. What is the other hand? Wages.

In this country rather than fixing wages we are discussing solutions that make things worse. Let us add tariffs so that people can buy less. Let's create tax incentives that create more housing people cannot afford, with the tax incentives coming out of the pockets of the people who cannot afford that housing.

The propaganda name for it is AI. I am not opposed to AI, I think it will have far reaching benefits for all of us. However, people are trying to make as much money from it as possible and so would like to influence how we think of it. If we consider it Intelligence then more people will throw more money at it. But it is not.

When you think about it, what is now gently called AI is more like think by number - TBNI. You take all the current thinking, you search it and compile it. How you get AI should tell you something. Searching. So it tells you what color to paint the square with a 7 on it. That is the good part.

The bad part is that if the drawing is wrong, so is the color. If your paint-by-number kit is titled "A Duck" and the numbers are on a drawing of a dog, then TBNI will not really help you.

As I look around I notice the degree to which we humans use following. You learn to do things by watching others. A map tells you how to go some place. Why go to college? The curious thing to me is that so much of what we follow is wrong already. People follow a well worn path even when they see it leads know where. Why? Because many people are unaware there is an alternative.

I blame our education system for this. The essence is to trust what other people know, not what yourself. Silly educators.

If you are a follower, TBNI will make you redundant, because TBNI will be faster and cheaper.

But you can think if you try. Perhaps the most important thought any person can have is when they experience something and say to themselves "This is stupid". Follow that thought. :-)

An alternative: http://imagequilts.com/

The link comes from Edward Tufte's web site.

These are at least related to Edward Tufte. If you scroll to the bottom there is information about installing a Chrome Extension (disclaimer: I do not use Chrome) that will generate an image quilt.

The author of the Extension is given as Adam Schwartz.

[edit: Chrome store link is https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/imagequilts/ceebcpb... ]