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Oyez! It’s me, Jim (https://jimkang.com/).

I last emailed you about two years ago when TinyLetter, the newsletter service I used, shut down.

But I’ve finally gotten around to writing my own bare bones mailing list service*, which you can fork and run) for yourself. So, once again, I can email you. (Unless you unsubscribe, which you can do easily with the link at the bottom of this email.)

Art

I call these guys Mote Ghosts:

https://jimkang.com/gallery/#focusPiece=mote-ghosts&showWIP=no

This piece is basically a screen saver. Have a few quiet minutes watching it!

I’ve been learning how to make fragment shaders via the classic Book of Shaders. Shaders are ultra-focused programs that are responsible for answering the question “What color goes at this pixel?” Hundreds of GPU cores run these shaders simultaneously to create a picture about 60 times a second.

One of the exercises in the book is creating “animals” that move in unique ways. Doing that exercise eventually yielded Mote Ghosts. if you’re interested, here’s the source.

Music

Near the end of last year, I finished a song about planet formation. Katt made the album cover. It’s long, but by ambient music standards, it’s short. Some background background information here.

General living

In non-projects, I went to a judo club cookout, where some kid ate exactly half of a burger and half of a hot dog, protested with some nice folks, and judged at a math circle event in which the kids tried to solve a thousand problems. (I think they collectively got to 400-something?) I also discovered how my camera got knocked down.

Let me know A) if you actually receive this email and B) what you’ve been up to!

It’s good to be able to write to you again! Next week (hopefully), I’ll talk about some more projects I’ve been doing or have done.

Jim