I didn’t put nearly as much effort as this post into shape matching but I did try a few other things like

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

this is why when I my sister wanted a website I just pointed her at substack. She was posting immediately

No. Just like Owl City isn't his real voice. If the song is good I don't personally care.

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

I've never made one of these so I have no idea what all the issues are but I feel like I want it to act like presentation software. I want to be able to connect boxes with lines/arrows, then drag the boxes and have the lines stay connected to the boxes. I probably also want group things like I can in most structured drawing programs. Maybe that doesn't work well with ASCII

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

maybe there is more going on here but it's relatively easy to make a text post processing shader and apply it to anything, 3d scene, a video, etc...

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

Or you could just start with ASCII... I was discussing how shaders work with a friend and wound up hacking together a sort of "shadertoy" that runs in Emacs last night. Scroll to end of file to see examples...

https://hg.sr.ht/~oofoe/shademacs/browse/sdf.el?rev=tip

  (shade 10 2 (lambda (x y) x))  ; Horizontal ramp.
  ;; @ # & % * = + : - · 
  ;; @ # & % * = + : - ·

Rust and Python appear to still long lived ones so it's only a matter of time until they get the same issues it would seem?

For whatever reason, we haven't seen the same degree of self-perpetuating credential disclosure in either Rust or Python as an ecosystem. Maybe that trend won't hold forever, but that's the distinguishing feature here.

There's several of these on shadertoy

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...

Nice to see you on HN and thanks for webglfundamentals!

How are they different/better/worse?

CRT shaders are a rabbit hole. Retro gaming/emulator community has been iterating on them for a while now. Found this blog post with tons of comparisons between different shaders in different configurations: https://thingsiplay.game.blog/2024/10/19/showcase-for-retroa...

I have something tangentially similar here: https://jsgist.org

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.

This seems tangentially related?

https://github.com/google/toucan

that site has the same issue. It will give ridiculous and easily provably false results for iPhones.

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.