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With 10,000 triangles on the screen, it’s time to take our particle system to a whole new level! We add code to efficiently track thousands of particles from multiple emitters, while simulating gravity and other effects on our particles! The end result: a sweet particle fountain fit for the Vegas strip! ⛲️
Also, we gotta talk about daylight savings time, our favorite pop culture sell-outs, and the magic of mentalists.
Notes/highlights:
- Experimenting with year round daylight savings time has already happened in the recent past, but it was abandoned without commitment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time#Permanent_daylight_saving_time
- Sea Ranch, CA is/was a utopian urban design experiment https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/arts/design/sea-ranch-california.html
- When you stare at a word so long it doesn’t look like a word anymore, there’s a word for that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation
- AstraZeneca messed up it’s dosing during initial trials, and that’s gonna put a bunch of vaccine supply in jeopardy https://www.healthline.com/health-news/what-to-know-about-the-astrazeneca-vaccine-controversy
- While Wayne and Garth are shilling for Uber Eats, the original remains a sharp satire about the dangers of selling out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjB6r-HDDI0
- Why is carrot the first vegetable that pops into everyone’s head? https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160504-the-two-word-games-that-trick-almost-everyone