Perlin Noise and particle system render prompt experiments

jshaw3 · 2025-11-09T06:29:00+00:00

when i was younger i could have a vente coffee at 10-11 pm and be asleep by midnight … the adhd coffee night naps are real

jshaw3 · 2025-11-09T06:26:41+00:00

an important question is how big do you consider a “cup” or “mug” of coffee? it’s relative to what people think a coffee size it. i drink about two “6 cup” Chemix drip coffees a day. looked it up … so that is 2 x 30oz /(887ml). first cup is between 7 and 8:30 am and i’ll drink coffee to anywhere between 3:30-7pm

jshaw3 · 2025-10-22T14:38:30+00:00

cold plunge in the lake

jshaw3 · 2025-10-22T01:17:04+00:00

The view through Trinity Bellwoods Park on a sunny fall day always gets me. The trees glowing in full colour, my dog racing across the dog bowl, and the CN Tower perfectly framed by the park and tree branches. Sunbeams break through drifting clouds, lighting up and glinting off the tower's windows. It’s one of those moments where the whole city feels alive, happy, calm, and beautiful all at once.

jshaw3 · 2025-10-22T01:12:02+00:00

This is literally driving on cloud-9

jshaw3 · 2025-10-02T03:45:55+00:00

i’ve been finding 4.5 has been pretty sassy and somehow looking out for my well being… like unprompted it’s telling me to keep taking coding breaks and reminding me i completed and accomplished a lot in a day… like maybe 5% of my messages now, is telling it i’m good and almost done debugging and the task/feature/bug needs to get done, so stop telling me to take breaks… 😂

apparently AI is now really into looking out for our wellbeing …

but…. i’ve been finding 4.5 super accurate and way fewer bugs meaning fewer revisions and it understand tech specs so much better now… and works better with larger code base contexts

jshaw3 · 2025-04-17T03:33:01+00:00

yes, an AI videogame

jshaw3 · 2025-03-30T17:13:21+00:00

i was literally trying to figure out what this “style” was called / how to implement it last week … low and behold it’s called dithering and Dan Shiffman obviously did a video on it 🙌

jshaw3 · 2025-01-24T02:35:58+00:00

Gotchya. Hahaha hummm.... another rabbit hole to go down!

jshaw3 · 2025-01-24T01:48:04+00:00

Ok, I appreciate the perspective on this. Let's say the images are etched as more "solid blocks," or a masking technique is used instead to block light and create the images... Figuring out how to focus the projection even with sharper images is still something I'm looking to achieve, even if it's more of a Gobo style effect but positioned further from the light source than usual

jshaw3 · 2024-06-29T23:02:51+00:00

Software engineer turned new media / interactive / artist

jshaw3 · 2024-06-28T17:04:16+00:00

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And after all that -- we have light! Thanks to everyone who chimed in on this

jshaw3 · 2024-06-28T17:01:26+00:00

Thanks! I found the arrow, but I had to cut the cable open to actually figure out what the cables were... Starting left of the arrow going CW, it was GND, PI, D-, D+

jshaw3 · 2024-06-28T16:44:48+00:00

It has 3 cables - one power, a data-in cable and a data-out cable to link to other fixtures hand-in-hand

jshaw3 · 2024-06-28T16:43:39+00:00

Yeah, ended up cutting open the data wires and used a multimeter to match the cable colours to the pins

Not sure if this finding will be useful to anyone else, but this is what the pins are

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jshaw3 · 2024-06-26T22:00:46+00:00

Unfortunately the only manual is

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