I’ve been working on a new renderer for the strange symmetry piece. It’s going well but it’s taking a lot of my time. The new drawing system handles supersampling, anti-aliasing and low-density blurring. It really is a major quality boost. I posted some  preliminary results on Flickr.

The code itself is finished. But I want to get a documented version online with a decent GUI and that’s taking some effort. Also, it won’t be the fastest code, I feel that speed optimization at this point would make the code too dense to be of use to anyone. Anyway, it would probably be too costly memory-wise for an online applet.

You know, it can be really hard to focus when people are consistently making amazing things, people like Dave Bollinger (again), Allesandro Fiore and Hilde&Gwen (Simon’s a bit young ).

I want to drop everything and start playing around with tracing particles again. Arggh, must finish this first, must finish this … pretty, pretty particles…

“I also believe - and hope - that politics and economics will cease to be as important in the future as they have been in the past; the time will come when most of our present controversies on these matters will seem as trivial, or as meaningless, as the theological debates in which the keenest minds of the Middle Ages dissipated their energies. Politics and economics are concerned with power and wealth, neither of which should be the primary, still less the exclusive, concern of adult human beings.”

Profiles Of The Future, Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (1917-2008)