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That's nuts. Someone has solved the algorithm of fish and this is it.

But I thought I recognized his name and workstyle before. This guy is literally a genius. Some other works I've seen before:

https://github.com/LingDong-/rrpl - a "radical" new way to describe Chinese characters as a composition of parts

http://nonflowers.lingdong.works/ - procedurally generated flowers in style of classic Chinese watercolor paintings

https://lingdong.works/

And don't forget more classics on his GitHub profile:

https://github.com/LingDong-

including "A programming language for ancient Chinese, and procedurally generated Chinese landscape paintings"

I want to see a gallery show in Beijing.... This guy's work is so fucking good. It's really cool how he puts all the code on GitHub too. Fuck yeah! :P ;) xx




So my current "people who consistently do really cool niche stuff" list contains foone, Neil Cicierega, jan misali, and now this guy.

Any other suggestions?


A favourite around these parts is Fabrice Bellard: https://bellard.org/

Take a look at the JSLinux project -- so effin' cool!



Oh cool, I've used his Rush Hour solver before! Small world.


Definitely Tom7 (suckerpinch on youtube)


Yeah, it just can not be understated what an absolute gem that man is. I almost wish he'd post more often, but I'd always take quality over quantity, and he delivers.


That was a mistake on my part, definitely meant to include him! Very familiar with his work and it's all exceptional.


Inigo Quilez, the Shadertoy wizard.


Agreed. Check out his incredible videos! Such as this mind-blowing one...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8--5LwHRhjk

"Painting a Selfie Girl, with Maths"


Why Beijing? He lives in the US.

Agreed his work is excellent. I particularly like that he brings different aesthetics to generative art. Traditional Chinese brushstrokes, these 19th century European themed fish drawings.. It's nice to see something calm and classical.


Right. Pa, CMU. Is that current though?


Yeah I recognized him from his Chinese landscape prod gen. I fried my axidraw’s pen lift servo trying to print one of them out. So much stippling.

Need to learn JavaScript so I can understand what he’s doing.


:) Thanks. Cool story. Just perusing your other posts and saw your son wanted to learn linux? Not sure how advanced he is or his inclination but could you go with the OS course from MIT? There's a good PDF book that covers the basics of a linux-style OS to give a good overview. I crammed on it for a system internals interview with FAANG. It was fun! :)

  The parallel and distrubuted operating systems group
    operating systems engineering course
      model operating xv6

  https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2018/xv6.html




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