→ Try it here ← This virtual aquarium is meant to simulate various aspects of my real aquarium I kept for a few years. My intention was to encode logic with relatively simple rules that with enough nesting would create realistic behavior and emergent complexity. As examples: Fish show loose shoaling behavior where if not actively foraging, they tend to follow the group, especially when individuals move quickly Overfeeding the aquarium causes snail populations to explode. Stopping overfeeding causes many of the snails to eventually die off, with empty shells gathering in the corners of the tank. See below for a more detailed system design and a description of future possible features. ...

Now that I’ve assembled a big collection of sweaters (all 100% wool or cashmere), it’s time to rank them: NOTE: not all sweaters below are present in the cover image 1. SNS Herning Stark Cardigan I bought the SNS Herning Stark Cardigan used on Grailed in 2020. I had known about this sweater for a while and wanted to buy it, but the price new was high enough to put me off. Given that nice wool sweaters are supposed to be long lasting, I felt a used one should still have many years of use left. ...

This story is more at the boundary of a short story and a novella, at a little over 15000 words. I wanted to play with worldbuilding a bit and create a society with a unique lifestyle based on their situation, but I won’t say more for now. Read Chapter 1 Read Author Commentary

My third origami design was the simple sauropod (pics at more angles on the insta). If you want to fold this, the crease pattern is below. Here, like with the lizard, I started with a tree diagram and did circle packing through box pleating. In this case, I found I wasn’t quite able to pack box pleating squares sufficiently, so I used a technique called the Pythagorean stretch which is what creates the strange polygonal areas in the pattern. These do add some folding difficulty, but not as much as fully eschewing box pleating. ...

This sculpture actually took a few intermediate forms before reaching its final state. My first goal was actually to create an igloo. I brought out a sturdy cardboard box and tried to pack snow into the form of bricks, but the wno was far too powdery. Unlike last April when I was making my snow dinosaur, it was quite cold out, and the same construction techniques would not work this time around. ...