I went to gemini, picked "cavnas". used this prompt

> There's a famous CG scene in the movie Hackers where they "Hack the Gibson". It shows a bunch of translucnt cubes with glowing edges. The textures on the cubes are live computer text. The camera slowly flyies between the cubes tilting gracfully and it searches for the main one.

> Reproduce this scene in Javascript. Be sure to include each of those features

> 1. live computer text which you can simulate by drawing to a canvas offscreen and uploading to a texture, adding more output as it goes. You can even use "function.toString()" of the code you write as input

> 2. a post processing step so we get a glow

> You can probably use three.js for this

Here's the result.

https://codepen.io/greggman/pen/XJKPBZW

No, it's not as good as the site linked above and it's unlikely it would be. On other hand, it got this far on the first try. Maybe a few more iterations and it could get the stuff you want.

Non-ascii, I tried various subsets of Unicode. There’s the geometric shape area, CJK, dingbats, lots of others

Different fonts - there are lots of different monospace fonts. I even tried non-monospaced fonts tho still drawn in grid

ANSI color style https://16colo.rs/

My results weren’t nearly as good as the ones in this article but just suggesting more ways of exploration

https://greggman.github.io/doodles/textme10.html

Note: options are buried in the menu. Best to pick a scene other than the default

Most of the music I like is loops pasted together in some DAW. Sure, it requires taste to make a good song but if AI figure out how to replicate that taste can crank out catchy tunes I wouldn't have a problem with it. I can only guess though that too much of a good thing will lead to be getting bored with it ... maybe.

It's not like most pop music isn't formulaic. I enjoy the currently popular songs from K-Pop Demon Hunters but they're so cliche, if they turned out to be AI generated I wouldn't be surprised :P

Like a simple example, I expect if have a object selected and press Cmd/Ctrl-C, Cmd/Ctrl-V I get a duplicate.

These interactions seem like basic table stakes

https://post-processing.tresjs.org/guide/pmndrs/ascii

https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ascii-shader-using-glsl-postpr...

https://threejs.org/examples/?q=ascii#webgl_effects_ascii

https://fwdapps.net/l/asci/

https://codesandbox.io/p/sandbox/ascii-postprocessing-n628p8...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxeRcnLr0ko

https://www.shadertoy.com/results?query=crt

I made a Pico-8 post processing script using a few

https://greggman.github.io/pico-8-post-processing/nano-villa...

also an article on starting one on WebGPU here

https://webgpufundamentals.org/webgpu/lessons/webgpu-post-pr...

If you click save you get the option to use a URL.

The problem with a URL every edit is a new URL. So you send the URL to a friend, then fix a typo, they need a new URL.

The other problem is of course the space limit.

https://github.com/google/toucan

There are ~40 million in the PST time-zone. Some percent have smartphones (80%+), ~50% of those are iPhones (16 million). Of those, the majority are set it English (80%+), and are divided into screen sizes. But basically, if you have an iPhone, you have the same fingerprint has at least a million other other people in the PST time size. You are at best, 1 of 100, not 1 of x,xxx,xxx,xxx.

You might be x,xxx,xxx,xxx of people who visited that unpopular site but no one needs tracking on an unpopular site. On a popular site you will not have a unique finger print.

https://webgpureport.org/

But, they are bucketed

https://www.w3.org/TR/webgpu/#privacy-considerations

It's not zero pieces of info but it's also not close to as bad as it looks. Effectively, everyone who has, say an NVidia GPU, will likely have the same list of features and limits.

As a more general example: The number is just a flat out wrong

> Unique to 1 in 2,147,483,648+ devices.

No, I have an iPhone Pro and am in the PST time zone, set to English. It has the exact same finger print as millions of other devices among the 40 million people in the PST time zone. In general, The only things different between 2 iPhones of the same model are time-zone, laguange setting, and font size.

Please STOP EXAGGERATING!

I tried this in 2014 with happyfuntimes

https://docs.happyfuntimes.net/

My conclusion was, past a certain number of people no one wants to game

Around the same time was AirConsole and still available

https://www.airconsole.com/

Nintendo also claimed a patent on showing a ghost image of your previous race (the ghost car in Mario Kart)

Things you can't do traveling long term.

● for many it means no hangout friends. Because you're not there. You move on in 1 to 8 weeks

● no shopping. Yea, I know, some people are doing it precisely because they want to avoid consumerism. But, most people are used to traveling for a few days to 1-2 weeks max, then coming home. For most of those people, shopping for trickets, clothing, in this far away place is a joy. But, that joy is much harder to come by when you can't go back and stash your loot. All you can do is replace something you have. Buy new shoes and throw away the old ones, etc..

● no crafting / diy / maker stuff - If you're into making things you need tools and storage for materials. Not going to have those living out of a backpack/suitcase. Even little things. In my apartment I have a shelf full of stationary stuff, paper clips, push pins, rubber bands, cellophane tape, masking tap, markers, glues of various kidns. All that is not something you can travel with so if that's your hobby or if inspiration strikes while living that way you're kind of out of luck. If all you make is digital and so all you need is a notebook/tablet/phone then this is less of a problem.

● no stability - it was strange knowing I'd be homeless if I didn't start planning something before the current rentle period was up. I'd arrive somewhere and immediately have to start looking for new hotels/airbnbs for the next stop or two.

It also got somewhat tiring to arrive, look up the sights, and find that to some degree they start to get too similar. Going to an art museum 2-3 times a year is fun. Going to one every week and, at least for me, it started to get repetative. Same with visiting yet another old building. They are all great. But, they're great twice a year, not twice a week.

It's definitely gotten easier though. 12 years ago I had to buy a sim in each location. They sucked and didn't have much data. That's much better today. Free-ish wifi is more ubiquitous than it was then too.

Personally I'd just recommend traveling more often but keeping a home base. I also found that throwing away all my stuff I think was a mistake. Those things I got rid of because they were on my shelves but I never picked them up, I only realized after I got rid of them was that their point was not to be used, their point was to remind me of times, places, and people at the point in my life when I acquired each one. With them gone there is nothing to trigger those memories.

https://github.com/greggman/virtual-webgl

If you want to make your own solution there's one listed here about 1/2 way down the page

https://webglfundamentals.org/webgl/lessons/webgl-multiple-v...

As an aside, WebGPU doesn't have this issue or at least has it less. For one, WebGPU can use a single device to render to multiple canvases, something WebGL can't. Another is that WebGPU is mostly stateless making it easier for both the user and the browser.

I mostly wrote it just as proof of concept in that I’m not sure which if any drawing programs, Photoshop, gIMP, Keita, Affinity Photo, or even structured drawing programs like Illustrator or Affinity Design support HDR. Trying photoshop my understanding is it will let you export to HDR and maybe preview in HDR but it won’t let you edit in HDR. Even Lightroom Classic seems to have the same issue even though Macs and iPhones have had HDR displays for 10 years? (Not sure that’s correct).

There are various demos of HDR photography in webpages (chrome only? Tho maybe Safari in iOS/macOS26) and the native photo viewers support HDR but HDR drawing seems missing

also, OSes support HDR but mostly fail to screen capture HDR

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