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Re:Ray Marching: Menger Sponge Breakdown on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @12:24PM (#39919430)
I am interested in your feedback but to fight back a little... The title image is a Menger Sponge, the ShaderToy link is an animated journey of the article*, and the article itself contains ~35 images.

Maybe I should have frontloaded more images?

*It's fully embedded on my personal blog here: https://lucodivo.github.io/menger_sponge.html

Edit: I think I see what you're talking about. Maybe I should be explaining/showing briefly what a Menger Sponge is?

Edit 2: Added a tiny section at the top with a couple pictures describing what a Menger Sponge is. Much appreciated.

Re:Ray Marching: Menger Sponge Breakdown on Friday March 29, 2024 @09:16PM (#39870897)
Hey, I'm the author. Thanks for posting this here!
Re:Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark on Friday June 09, 2023 @04:42AM (#36255042)
What's wrong with Wikipedia?
Re:Having friends in HR is fine, but HR is not your friend on Thursday January 05, 2023 @01:44PM (#34264468)
Consider all the people harassed and locked up for decades over posession of marijuana. Sure laws have change but ethics never did.

The obvious problem I see seems to be that cops exist to lock people up. When locking people up is often an inhumane and ineffective solution to the problem at hand.

Re:Twitter was down on Thursday July 11, 2019 @04:26PM (#20415454)
His definition of "us" seems to just be "Americans". Which is fine because he's talking about American companies...
I don't think he was implying that the situation in France isn't bad. He was just correcting the idea of The Great Lakes having cool summers.
Re:Ask HN: Do you miss 90s simplicity? on Saturday May 25, 2019 @06:55PM (#20012007)
> IMHO objectively

I don't think that's legal, my guy.

Re:Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements (1908) on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @10:28PM (#19977205)
I imagine the red gear is the one backed with a motor rotating at a constant speed. Which would explain why it never slows down or speeds up.

The blue one is being entirely driven by the red. It slows down because moving 2 notches at a greater diameter requires less rotation than moving 2 notches at a lesser diameter. It then speeds up because moving 3 notches at a lesser diameter requires more rotation than moving 3 at a greater diameter.

I believe people process violence in media differently. I'm not necessarily drawn to it, so MK11 isn't on my list of games to play. But it also doesn't affect me beyond the knee jerk.

Even though these deaths are "photo realistic", the context is not. The clean limp bodies of the pets I've owned have haunted me a million times more than anything I've seen in MK. That's how I know death. Just a lifeless body. The spectacle of gory violence doesn't really connect with my experiences of death.

Sorry if your own experiences have been different.