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curious creative; working on tools for learning, creative expression and play
Funding Links: https://github.com/sponsors/micahscopes
Hello, my name is Micah and I'm working on a bunch of tools for exploration, creative expression and play. Specifically I'm making software for:
imagining the world flipped inside out (*no drugs necessary) [1] [2]
interacting with music theory in the browser [1][2][3][4][5]
exploring mathematical and fractal realms [1][2]
getting a deeper glimpse of the many ways we are all connected and related, with one another and with the vast multitude of beings in the cosmos
In the process I'm publishing original open source libraries and contributing to existing open source projects.
Your sponsorship will help me direct more of my energy toward focused creation and collaboration (and less of it into scheming for rent and food).
hyper horse (2012)
More about my work
Over the last 10+ years I've been working on these projects in my "extra time". So far I've completed prototypes, proofs of concept and supporting libraries. I've learned a butt ton of math and software dev skills. I've even made substantial contributions to open source libraries that were useful to me. One that I'm especially proud of is SymPy's GLSL code printer, which I've used a bunch in private but still need to document and release.
Still, I have so much work ahead of me to get these projects finished, documented and released. Recently I've seen vividly that life is short. Inevitably some day we all turn back into dirt and get eaten by bugs (:worm: :bug: :lady_beetle: :butterfly:). Before that happens to me I want to get these projects finished and share them with you!
Nearer-term goals and work in progress
documentation and release of alglbraic, a SymPy based tool for generating libraries of algebraic GLSL functions (examples 1, 2)
a non-Euclidean glTF renderer
a toolkit for drawing conformally invariant Bezier surface patches
documenting and releasing the browser-based audio and music sequencing engine I made for the game Wilderplace
a Blender geometry nodes addon for making art with spherical (conformal) geometry
an interactive exploration of special extensions to the circle of fifths, along with printable charts
educational blog posts & videos, documentation and development how-tos
sharing a collection of algebraic fractal explorations that's sitting on my hard drive
Future goals
a game involving multi-dimensional fractals
an offline-first, multiplayer music theory game / collaborative instrument
Extra stretch goals
non-Euclidean volumetric/hypervolumetric rendering
developing standards for artistic hypervolumetric data
Experiments with moebius transformations and non-euclidian perspectives.
Language: JavaScript - Stars: 12a tool for generating libraries of algebraic GLSL functions
Language: Python - Stars: 7Non-euclidean experiments in Blender!
Language: C - Stars: 4Tessellation + WebGL2
Language: GLSL - Stars: 4Exploring the structure of geodesic paths between nodes in a graph.
Language: JavaScript - Stars: 1a web component for piano keyboards
Language: JavaScript - Stars: 13