Jason Webb

@jasonwebb

Creative coder focused on digital morphogenesis using code and digital fabrication. Developer Advocate at .

Minneapolis, MN
Joined March 2008

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    7 Jan 2019

    The thing about being a professional UI developer and having a personal website is that its literally impossible for the dang thing to be "done". In this latest iteration I've gone with an even more "artist-y" and content-forward approach.

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  2. 13 hours ago

    Continuous tube mesh + realistic materials. Growing this is real-time is turning out to be a pretty significant challenge, but I have a couple ideas for workarounds.

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  3. Jan 27

    There is something awesome hidden inside this chaos - do you see it? The tube mesh rendering process isn't quite working, but I'll get something figured out soon.

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  4. Jan 26

    While I'm over here spending months wrangling math and algos and performance optimizations, nature is just casually doing stuff like this like NBD. Nice flex, nature.

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  5. Jan 26

    We have tubes, people! Figured out the data wrangling issue, now I need to focus on performance optimizations. This gets sloooow fast and begins to break too soon. Then again, I'm doing nearly everything the "dumb" way at the moment, so lots of room to improve.

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  6. Jan 25

    Ugh, recursion. I need to turn this vein network (represented as doubly linked list of nodes) into a flatter array of branches (array of arrays of XYZ coords) in order to generate tube meshes. Anyone have any tips?

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  7. Jan 19

    Ported the vein generation algo to 3D in Unity, and boy is it fast! Looking forward to doing some rad stuff with this, including a experience soon :) ,

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  8. Retweeted
    Jan 9

    I did it... 3D DLA with 1 billion particles. My ray tracer is unable to render the whole thing on my current machine. So this 100-frame video shows 10M particles per frame, in the order that they appeared. (Each frame is only rendering the outermost "surface") More viz to come!

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  9. Jan 5
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  10. Jan 5

    New specimen in the collection - a glass sea sponge! Also known as a Venus flower basket, this creature produces an intricate network of woven glass fibers that has 100x the yield strength of aluminum! Nature is still the best generative artist I know🤣

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  11. Jan 5

    Points arranged using the awesome "weighted Voronoi stippling" technique described by Adrian Secord, via 's app.

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  12. Jan 5
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  13. Jan 2
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  14. 28 Dec 2019

    Whipped up a simple docpage for the leaf venation / space colonization series, available here: Stay tuned for an in-depth Medium article, and read through the project's README on Github for more details until then!

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  15. 27 Dec 2019

    Marginal growth, now with proper adaptive subdivision. Pretty sure this makes the code base feature-complete now, so its time for code cleanup + documentation + creative applications!

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  16. 20 Dec 2019

    It wasn't until seeing the algo in action that I realized I took the wrong approach. New nodes shouldn't be squeezed in from one end (which makes them all "march"). Instead, I need to insert them into the spaces that open up ("adaptive subdivision").

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  17. 20 Dec 2019

    Marginal growth with leaf-shaped envelope.

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  18. 19 Dec 2019

    Almost done implementing "marginal growth", where veins grow based on the shape and size of enclosing envelopes. Tricky, but almost got it!

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  19. 17 Dec 2019

    Last weekend the conditions were just right for gigantic snowflakes here in Minneapolis. I had to catch a flight so I couldn't study them for long, but trust me, they were awesome!

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  20. 12 Dec 2019

    Challenge accepted.

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  21. 11 Dec 2019

    And disordered growth.

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