Smetz
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Smetz
@gsmetzer
Designer at https://t.co/V9ue4wVaQv
Katılım Şubat 2011
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Whether the question aims to me — yes, I’m currently preparing a book about this topic.
It’s a synthesis of ideas from complex systems, consciousness studies and human psychology — explored through rhythm and tension.
There are only a few works that truly touch this intersection, but if you’re curious, I’d suggest:
• Ilya Prigogine – Order Out of Chaos (on dissipative systems and self-organization)
• Francisco Varela – The Embodied Mind (on autopoiesis and embodied cognition)
• Alva Noë – Action in Perception (on perception as active process)
• Alexander Lowen – The Language of the Body (on tension and energy in human form)
• Brian Massumi – Parables for the Virtual (on affect, movement, rhythm)
My own approach — Rhythmic Phenomenology — views rhythm as the universal stabilizer of tension, from galaxies to neural loops to markets.
It’s not about chaos or order, but about how patterns hold energy long enough to become real.
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Markets are a random walk
On a cycle graph
Because humans
are deeply cyclical creatures
We vacation in summer,
hunker down in winter
drink coffee in the morning
And heavy meals at night
To Assume this has
no impact on markets
is to be a fool
The cycle ends Nov/Dec
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Tension in any field always searches for a structure — a form through which it can become real.
The market is that structure, a crystallization of collective tension.
What holds any form — from galaxies to neural loops to prices — is rhythm.
The market is the moment when collective tension clicks into pattern.
That’s what I explore in my rhythmic phenomenology.
And i am happy to see some resonance here. Thanks.
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Breaking update: Subu to be released from prison after 40+ years! statecollege.com/articles/local…
Smetz@gsmetzer
Our dear family friend Saraswati Vedam needed help. The judicial system had failed her brother Subu who had been incarcerated over 40 years for a murder he did not commit. Investigators with the help of The Innocence Project found unrevealed evidence that needs to be reviewed...
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Breaking: Subu Vedam will be released after more than 40 years in prison for the murder of Thomas Kinser near State College. Centre County DA will file to dismiss charges after a judge overturned Vedam’s conviction and ordered a new trial in August
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@samhenrigold Awesome, how did you generate the video loop? Is this just a luma pass of the original apple video?
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The video texture [1] provides base temperature, so even when your mouse is stationary, there’s still movement. Bright pixels = hot zones, dark pixels = cold zones.
And the alpha mask texture [2] clamps heat within the logo. The mouse texture adds interactive heat on top.
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I reverse engineered Apple's thermal logo effect. It’s a Three.js shader that combines 4 inputs:
- A video texture heat map
- A mouse-driven heat map
- An Apple logo mask
- A thermal-style color palette
Explanation below
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@gsmetzer I used GPT-5 to parse out the minified JS and start to do the heart transplant (the actual script file had the entire Three library baked in, I had to split it out)
And for the main part/refactors I used Sonnet 4
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@samhenrigold Awesome, excellent execution and so fast to turn-around! I had a look through your GitHub. What LLM are you using to write the code?
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Heat accumulation works like this:
- Mouse movement adds heat to pixels under the cursor
- Each frame multiplies all heat values by decay rate (0.95 = lose 5% per frame)
- New heat gets added on top of existing heat
- Values < 0.001 are clamped to 0
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If you still believed any of these things, I want you to wake up tomorrow and be very intentional throughout the day.
I want you to question why you do or believe everything you do.
Have thoughts like: "Why am I boiling the water before putting in the pasta?"
Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil
There must be tons of false beliefs like these. Off the top of my head: "Cracking your knuckles causes arthritis" "Sugar makes kids hyper" "Shaving makes your hair darker/thicker" "Gum sits in your stomach for 7 years" "'Detox' helps to flush toxins" "Lightning never strikes the same place twice" "Bulls hate red" "Searing seals in juices" "Alcohol cooks off completely" "Brown eggs are more nutritious than white ones" "Microwaves add radiation to food" "Daddy longlegs are the most venomous but can't bite people" "Pee on it to help a jellyfish sting" "MSG causes headaches" "Don't touch a baby bird or its mother will abandon it" "Hydrogen peroxide is best for cleaning wounds" "'Heat lightning' is lightning without thunder" "Opening windows in a tornado equalizes pressure" "Toads give you warts" "Goldfish have a 3-second memory" "Do crunches to spot-reduce stomach fat" "Lifting stunts kids' growth" "No pain, no gain" "Macs can't get viruses" "Charging your phone overnight ruins the battery" (once true, not anymore) "Red cars get ticketed more" "Wait 24 hours to report a missing person" "Shelter under a highway overpass in a tornado"
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Here's a fun loader I made in @rive_app
Random every time, set the number of particles and radius. Easy to add new particle shapes and colours.
Runs anywhere.
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@cremieuxrecueil An unfortunate pairing with Pueyo. Who appears to be climate change grifting now after his Covid grift went over so well for him and his study-from-home company he was working with as a ‘growth hacker’
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@IterIntellectus Write a holographic foil shader for Unity3D URP. The shader will be used on a tiltable plane that changes the sheen, shimmer and rainbow effects. The goal is to look exactly like real world printed premium holographic foil effect.
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@jmtrivedi What do your textures look like? I assume you have a layered diffraction texture and a normal map?
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So excited to share one of my white-whale projects: a fully physics-based, holographic foil shader.
Each pixel simulates a ray of light diffracting into a rainbow of waves, which add and subtract to create these incredible patterns.
Not a single gradient was used here!
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@helloharuko @helloluxx I keep that button docked right next to the object manager
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Cinema 4D hotkeys you wish you knew sooner?
For me it's alt + 0 to reset transform (reset PSR)
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@MatrixMysteries Don’t forget Tartrazine, TBHQ and Carageenan all super toxic
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You eat bread, cheese, and pasta every day in Europe and feel alive. In America, the same food makes you sick. And no one talks about why. Here are 11 American foods banned in other countries:🧵 1. Bread (made with Azodicarbonamide)
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You eat bread, cheese, and pasta every day in Europe and feel alive.
In America, the same food makes you sick. And no one talks about why.
Here are 11 American foods banned in other countries:🧵
1. Bread (made with Azodicarbonamide)
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I got something close…amazing ferrofluid video 2k views 13 years ago
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