Journal · scry.art
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Notes on shaders, math, and mind. Long-form thoughts on GLSL, mathematical art, consciousness, and the practice of scrying.
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The prime pattern nobody could explain
In 2018 two amateurs found a striking image hidden in the prime numbers, published it, and said plainly that one half of it was beyond them. Nobody formalised it in the eight years since. Here is the proof of what it is — including the …
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A new spaceship, found in a universe one rule away from Life
A 19-cell pattern that swims: the second known ship of its kind in the cellular automaton B3/S236, discovered by exhaustive computer search — along with a proof that, below a certain width, it and its one known sibling are the only two …
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Why I Built ShaderKit
I’ve been writing shaders for years now, and the whole time there were problems I kept running into that no tool I used actually solved. The main one was loss of work. Sometimes I would work for hours on a shader, forget to save, …
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Favorite GLSL Resources
My Favorite Resources for Learning GLSL I figured it might be a good idea to put together some of the resources that helped me most to get the shader skills I now have. Shaders have been of interest to me ever since I first found …
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Time Anxiety
A representation of how I’ve felt the last year or in general overthinking things, each quadrant is a sort of state of mind. Q1 present moment feeling of rising/falling, maybe imagined in past/future (but really happening now because …
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Atomic Discovery Collection
Today I’m releasing a 1 hour video and Tezos NFT collection on Objkt.com called “Atomic Discovery” The use of small dots on the screen with a myriad of symmetries and visual feedback create a visually accurate replication …
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General Stuff
Just a sort of overview of some key things going on right now: Self-training on GLSL/Art/NFTs Plan to make a case for functionalism and prove Andres/QRI wrong Self-Training on GLSL/Art/NFTs: Currently I’m in the process of still …
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Self Discovery
In Februrary 2022, I quit my job as a software engineer. I was the lead of a small team, myself and two other coders. It was in a lot of ways a decent job, and since Covid had the ability to work from home. For the last year before I quit, …
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Scry Visuals
Hello, I’m Scry. I’ve been wanting to start this blog for awhile but never got around to it for various reasons, so now here I’m finally doing it. Given that I’m an artist trying to show something to the world, I …
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