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blinry OP , 1 month ago

#genuary Day 2: "Twelve principles of animation"

I played around with the principles of anticipation and exaggeration here.

#genuary2026 #genuary2 #tic80

A small grey blob with eyes first shrinks a bit, then grows a lot and spits out a rainbow.

blinry OP , 1 month ago

#genuary Day 3: "Fibonacci forever"

Found this pattern while playing with the Fibonacchi square tiling.

Presenting the flag of Swefindenscaswedeniamarklanden!

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A pixely flag that resembles the flag of Sweden. The blue rectangles are further subdivided, each one now looking like the flag of Finland. This repeats with Denmark, Scania, and finally, Sweden again. A label has a name for the resulting country – it's constructed a bit like the word "turducken" (for a turkey, duck, and chicken nested into each other).

blinry OP , 1 month ago

#genuary Day 4: "Lowres"

#tic80 is already pretty low resolution, so… let's go lower, I guess!

Had a lot of fun with this one – so many parameters to tweak! :D

#genuary2026 #genuary4

Colorful circles fly around in a black space, and get more pixelated as they approach the top.

blinry OP , 1 month ago

#genuary Day 5: Write “Genuary”. Avoid using a font.

#genuary2026 #genuary5 #tic80

Pacman-like shapes float in black, and open/close their mouths. They seem to spell "Genuary". Behind them float some white dots.

blinry OP , 1 month ago

#genuary Day 6: "Lights on/off"

Implemented a little ray casting in #p5js. It's fun how things like brightness falloff "just work" automatically! ^_^

#genuary2026 #genuary6

I move the cursor around in a black square with a couple of lines. When I click, it casts a bright ray of light, which is reflected by the lines.

blinry OP , 1 month ago

#genuary Day 7: "Boolean algebra"

Fun fact: Good kerning can save a lot of space! 💡

#genuary2026 #genuary7

I use a slider to reduce the kerning between letters in a sentence, until the letters overlap. If black areas overlap, they become white again. I squish everything down to an unreadable blob, and back again.

blinry OP , 1 month ago

#genuary Day 8: "A City. Create a generative metropolis."

Had a lot of fun designing the "planetize" coordinate transform! :) It's so cool to think in shader logic!

#genuary2026 #genuary8 #glsl

A skyline of skyscrapers, reflecting in water, rendered as a simple geometric image. Sometimes, it folds together to a "tiny planet" shape.

blinry OP , 1 month ago

#genuary Day 9: "Crazy automaton"

Made an explorer for "elementary cellular automata"!

By moving the mouse, you can change the Wolfram code (which defines, in bits, a table for how to compute a pixel from the previous line).

This also was the first time I've tried the #fennel language – a Lisp that compiles to Lua! #tic80 has several of these niche little languages built-in! <3

#genuary2026 #genuary9

As I move my mouse, a little number changes in the top left of a pixely screen. With each pattern, a different number develops.

blinry OP , 1 month ago

#genuary Day 10: "Polar coordinates"

❄️🐻‍❄️🌨️

#genuary2026 #genuary10 #tic80

I'm drawing a snow flake in a pixel art environment. The system makes sure the flake has rotational symmetry.

blinry OP , 1 month ago

#genuary Day 11: "Quine – a program that outputs exactly its own source code"

I show the source code of the program in TIC-80. It assigns two strings containing source code, and then prints them into themselves using string.format.

blinry OP , 1 month ago

#genuary Day 12: "Boxes only."

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A scene made from pixely check boxes that shows cardboard boxes scrolling by on a conveyor belt.

blinry OP , 1 month ago

#genuary Day 13: "Self portrait"

This also has a "fuzziness" slider; you can try it here: https://files.blinry.org/fuzz/ (Warning: Pretty slow on my machine.)

#genuary2026 #genuary13 #p5js

A simple 2D animation of myself as an orange-haired fuzzball. The hairs get longer and longer, then shorter again.

blinry OP , 1 month ago

#genuary Day 14: "Everything fits perfectly"

This was super fun to code. Give me 36 seconds of your time, and afterwards, let me know whether it was worth it! :D

https://files.blinry.org/billiard/

#genuary2026 #genuary14 #p5js

An animation of pool billiard balls rolling around. They collide with each other and with the walls of the image. In the end, they stop in a perfect triangular pattern very satisfyingly.

blinry OP , 30 days ago

#genuary Day 15: "Create an invisible object where only the shadows can be seen"

#genuary2026 #genuary15 #p5js

An animation shows moving shadows falling from the word "SHADOW". The light source seems to move around.

blinry OP , 30 days ago

#genuary Day 16: "Order and disorder"

#genuary2026 #genuary16 #p5js

White circles move around a larger circle in a band. On the right side of the movement, they change size, shape, color, and jitter.

blinry OP , 28 days ago

#genuary Day 17: "Wallpaper group"

These are a family of symmetry groups, and I'd love to learn all about them!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallpaper_group

I tried to implement the p3 group, but something glitched out. However, these imperfections are adding a really nice quality to the result, so I decided to just leave it like that. :)

#genuary2026 #genuary17 #tic80

A pattern of intersecting lines, forming multi-colored triangles.

blinry OP , 27 days ago

#genuary Day 18: "Unexpected path. Draw a route that changes direction based on one very simple rule."

Here's a particle that's attracted by other particles, following Coulomb's law.

Based on the trouble I had implementing this I'd say that this is maybe not a very simple rule. :P

#genuary2026 #genuary18 #p5js

A particle moves chaotically, sometimes circling other, static particles, drawing a trail behind itself.

blinry OP , 26 days ago

#genuary Day 19: "16x16"

Made a little display using 16x16 characters, inspired by Alex' wonderful blog post about ASCII rendering: https://alexharri.com/blog/ascii-rendering

#genuary2026 #genuary19

The text "Genuary 2026" scrolls through in this ASCII display.

blinry OP , 26 days ago

#genuary Day 20: "One line. An artwork that is made of a single line only."

Hilbert's cat! 🐈

#genuary2026 #genuary20 #p5js

blinry OP , 6 months ago

Basel Bad (DB)

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blinry OP , 6 months ago

These new Zelda games have really good graphics!

blinry OP , 6 months ago

Climbed a mountain today! And watched other mountains while doing so!

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blinry OP , 6 months ago

Our Interrail ticket allows us to take the ferries over Interlaken's lakes, so of course we had to take one! ⛴️

Didn't expect so many pretty buildings along the coast!

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blinry OP , 6 months ago

According to a person we met on the boat, Interlaken is the ugliest place in Switzerland! :D

It is definitely one of the most touristy places I've seen, with a very international crowd of visitors, and many international restaurants like "Home China" or a Korean BBQ place!

blinry OP , 6 months ago

(S)chweizerische (B)undes(B)ahnen · (C)hemins de (F)er (F)édéraux suisses · (F)or (F)ucks (S)ake

blinry OP , 6 months ago

We're going on a hike again today! First, a very short hike to the train station. :)

blinry OP , 6 months ago

Then, 30 minutes by train, along the Brienzer Lake, admiring the @Pecc0r -colored water one last time! <3

A train labelled "Die Zentralbahn" at a train station.

blinry OP , 6 months ago

Next, we're changing to this very yellow bus! Feeling like a package! 📦

Logo: "PostAuto, die gelbe Klasse"

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blinry , 7 months ago

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blinry OP , 7 months ago

There are couple of surprises around window interaction:

• Once a cursor starts to resize/move a window, those actions are not possible for the other one.
• One cursor can open a menu, and the other one can use it, that one works pretty well!
• Closing a window with one cursor, while the other drags it, makes the second one disappear! :D

I mean, these are really hard UI questions to solve! Often, it's not clear to me what the correct behavior should be!

The mouse cursors demonstrate the describe behavior.

blinry OP , 7 months ago

Okay, let's try some applications, and see how they deal with multiple mice! 😈

First up: Gedit, a GTK application.

Both cursors can place the cursor and select text, but movement from one cursor "interrupts" the selection of the other one. Not very satisfying.

Imagine how cool it would be if both had their own selections + cursors!! That would allow a really neat form of collaboration within the same document!

We demonstrate the described behavior.

blinry OP , 7 months ago

Next up: Chromium! It has a very pragmatic solution: It just ignores all cursors but the first one!

In the video, the arrow-shaped cursor can click on stuff. The turtle has no power here.

Two cursors click around in Wikipedia. Only the pointer can do stuff.

blinry OP , 7 months ago

In Firefox, it seems like all mouse events are mashed together, and are seen as coming from the same device.

That means that both cursors can click – if the other one "holds still". Otherwise, I guess Firefox is very confused by a click on a link while the mouse is not in it! 😆

Selections feel strange – the last-moving cursor will determine the selection.

Also notice how, if one cursor hovers a link, both turn into hand icons!

The cursors play around in Firefox, and brows through Wikipedia together.

blinry OP , 7 months ago

Of course, we had to try a drawing application next!

Here's @tldraw (in Firefox)! :rainbow_heart_eyes:

Collaborative drawing at it's best! 💚

Each cursor can draw lines independently, but if both click, very fancy-looking zigzag-lines appear! We make a little artwork.

blinry OP , 7 months ago

Finally, I tried attaching an additional keyboard and assigned them to a different "seat"!

That worked really well! In Weston, each "seat" has its own keyboard focus, so you can actually work side-by-side with two mice + two keyboards independently!

Also!!! The two seats have their own (independent) clipboards!!!! Whatttt! 🤯

I totally didn't expect this. But multi-seat as a concept seems deeply integrated into libinput + #Wayland! Now it's up to GUI toolkits and compositors to support it!

One person works in Gedit, the other in a nano editor.

blinry OP , 7 months ago

Tried it again, and the independent clipboards still seem a bit glitchy after all… :(

An issue asking for proper support in GTK was closed five years ago, for example… https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/1574

blinry OP , 7 months ago

Side note: I think more window managers should support this feature!

I'm freely rotating windows around in Weston. You can still resize and use them!

blinry OP , 8 months ago

@fantazo If we keep trying, if we keep talking about it, there's a chance! :) Don't give up!