{"id":5624,"date":"2022-01-22T14:25:39","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T20:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=5624"},"modified":"2022-01-22T14:40:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T20:40:36","slug":"seven-things-for-january-22-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/seven-things-for-january-22-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Things for January 22, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>That date has a lot of 2&#8217;s in it, so maybe I&#8217;ll double (or triple) up on links for each thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>One of the best uses of WebGL: showing <a href=\"https:\/\/noclip.website\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/noclip.website\/\">old videogame levels<\/a> in your browser, a lovely open source project. My favorite so far is <a href=\"https:\/\/noclip.website\/#katamari_damacy\/clvl1;ShareData=AGB:4Uj~Dn9YopjUmGRJV|OJwRQPcgUijO)UVIsfVF,-T9oS;J9XsO0UtO=L+eG\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/noclip.website\/#katamari_damacy\/clvl1;ShareData=AGB:4Uj~Dn9YopjUmGRJV|OJwRQPcgUijO)UVIsfVF,-T9oS;J9XsO0UtO=L+eG\">the Cancer Constellation in Katamari Damacy<\/a>, which includes animation &#8211; even works on your phone.<\/li><li>I discovered <a href=\"https:\/\/cesium.com\/open-metaverse-podcast\/episode-7-roblox-and-scaling-the-metaverse\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/cesium.com\/open-metaverse-podcast\/episode-7-roblox-and-scaling-the-metaverse\/\">this podcast<\/a>, <em>Building the Open Metaverse<\/em>, through a tweet from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CasualEffects\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CasualEffects\">Morgan McGuire<\/a>. As chief scientist at Roblox, he has some interesting things to day.<\/li><li>Another podcast about videogame creation is <a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/ourmachinery\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/ourmachinery\">Our Machinery<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/ourmachinery\/episodes\/S3-EP9-e1bp16d\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/ourmachinery\/episodes\/S3-EP9-e1bp16d\">Episode 9<\/a> sounded interesting, interviewing the creator of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/teardowngame.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/teardowngame.com\/\">Teardown<\/a><\/em>, which is a pretty amazing voxel-based simulation game engine. I only just started this podcast, and the first seven minutes were mostly just chit-chat; looks like it gets more technical after that.<\/li><li>While we&#8217;re in videogame mode, I liked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/epistolary-acumen\/albums\/72157709373965302\/with\/49520149377\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/epistolary-acumen\/albums\/72157709373965302\/with\/49520149377\/\">this album of models<\/a> from Assassin&#8217;s Creed: Unity, particularly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/epistolary-acumen\/50162384303\/in\/album-72157709373965302\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/epistolary-acumen\/50162384303\/in\/album-72157709373965302\/\">this<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/epistolary-acumen\/49520149377\/in\/album-72157709373965302\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/epistolary-acumen\/49520149377\/in\/album-72157709373965302\/\">this<\/a> (but they&#8217;re all quite nice).<\/li><li>Want a full-featured, battle-tested, physically based camera model? Give <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/meshula\/labcamera\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/github.com\/meshula\/labcamera\">Nick Porcino&#8217;s<\/a> a look. He kindly pointed it out to me due to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pointinpolygon\/status\/1479563199955488776\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pointinpolygon\/status\/1479563199955488776\">my Twitter poll on &#8220;film back&#8221;<\/a>, which has some interesting comments.<\/li><li>The New York Times has <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/nytimes\/\">a number of Github projects<\/a>, including a <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/nytimes\/covid-19-data\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/github.com\/nytimes\/covid-19-data\">US COVID data set<\/a>. A friend made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BDBJNSOlhsQ\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BDBJNSOlhsQ\">a short movie of it<\/a> (spoiler: it doesn&#8217;t end well, so far). There are tricky data visualization questions he&#8217;s grappling with (and hasn&#8217;t landed on answers yet), e.g., if a large area, low population county gets just a case or two, it lights up like it&#8217;s a major outbreak. Which remind me: I recommend the book <a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Data-Detective-Rules-Sense-Statistics\/dp\/0593084594?tag=realtimerenderin\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Data-Detective-Rules-Sense-Statistics\/dp\/0593084594?tag=realtimerenderin\">The Data Detective<\/a> (which sounded dull to me, but was not &#8211; Tim Harford is great at telling tales). And that, in turn, reminds me of <a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Humble-Pi-Comedy-Maths-Errors\/dp\/0141989149?tag=realtimerenderin\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Humble-Pi-Comedy-Maths-Errors\/dp\/0141989149?tag=realtimerenderin\">Humble Pi<\/a>, which I gave to a lot of people for Christmas &#8211; a great bathroom book. The author, Matt Parker, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCSju5G2aFaWMqn-_0YBtq5A\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCSju5G2aFaWMqn-_0YBtq5A\">a ton of YouTube videos<\/a>, if that&#8217;s your preference.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/01\/08\/tesla-owner-mines-bitcoin-ethereum-with-his-car.html\">Tesla owner mines crypto-currency with his car<\/a>. The auto&#8217;s computer controls some separate GPUs, plugged directly into the car&#8217;s motor. This sort of stuff looks to be the epitaph on our civilization; see the endless stream on <a href=\"https:\/\/web3isgoinggreat.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/web3isgoinggreat.com\/\">Web3 is going just great<\/a> for more, more, more.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I love <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/crabseverywhere\">the crabs<\/a>, I admit it (and if you&#8217;re a crab lover, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Damnthatsinteresting\/comments\/s9lgvl\/using_robots_to_explore_nature\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Damnthatsinteresting\/comments\/s9lgvl\/using_robots_to_explore_nature\/\">these robot crabs<\/a>). The plastic teddy bear driving the horseshoe crab is my favorite:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"391\" class=\"wp-image-5625\" style=\"width: 800px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2022-01-22_145538.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2022-01-22_145538.jpg 2282w, https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2022-01-22_145538-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2022-01-22_145538-1024x500.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2022-01-22_145538-768x375.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2022-01-22_145538-1536x750.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2022-01-22_145538-2048x1001.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2022-01-22_145538-500x244.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That date has a lot of 2&#8217;s in it, so maybe I&#8217;ll double (or triple) up on links for each thing. One of the best uses of WebGL: showing old videogame levels in your browser, a lovely open source project. My favorite so far is the Cancer Constellation in Katamari Damacy, which includes animation &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5624"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5635,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions\/5635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}