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Simple 2D Terrain With Midpoint Displacement
A tutorial on generating 2D terrain with the midpoint displacement algorithm, with live demos and code showing how a jag…
Simulating Fluids, Fire, and Smoke in Real-Time
A richly illustrated walkthrough of how real-time fluid, fire and smoke simulation works, with live demos that show each…
Simulating Jupiter: Flowfields
A technical artist's visual breakdown of building a swirling Jupiter simulation with flow fields, showing the look of th…
Simulating Water Over Terrain
A visual walkthrough of building a shallow-water simulation over terrain, with interactive demos showing rivers, floods…
Sky Lapse in Two Tone
A look at Sentinel-1 radar satellite imagery that reveals ships, wind farms and rigs in the English Channel and other bu…
Slow Life
Daniel Stoupin's Microworlds post on Slow Life, a mesmerizing macro timelapse revealing corals and sponges moving and br…
Small Vehicles of Tokyo
Designer Dan Hill catalogues the tiny trucks, carts, scooters and service vehicles that weave through Tokyo's streets, w…
Smashing Magazine - For Web Designers And Developers
An online magazine publishing in-depth articles, books, and workshops on web design, front-end development, and user exp…
Soap Queen
Bramble Berry's popular soap and cosmetics blog offering free recipes and detailed tutorials for making soap, lotion, an…
Social History of the Cardboard Box
A richly illustrated essay from Places Journal tracing the cardboard box through consumer culture, design, shipping and…
SOCKS
An eclectic blog collecting visual research on architecture, cartography, and utopian urban planning, mixing historical…
Solitaire
Balatro creator LocalThunk reflects on solitaire as a design inspiration, explaining what makes the humble card game so…
Something Nobody Told You About the Image Element
A CSS article revealing that the HTML image element can overflow itself even though nothing can be placed inside it, wit…
Sortraits
Portraits of sorting algorithms rendered as abstract art, where bubble sort and its relatives paint colorful images of h…
Space That Sees by James Turrell
Artchive's guide to James Turrell's Space That Sees in Jerusalem, a skyspace room open to the sky that frames light as t…
Spotlight on Helen O'Gorman
A New York Botanical Garden profile of Helen O'Gorman, the American sculptor and botanical illustrator known for her pai…
Square-Mile Street Network Visualization
A visualization of one square mile of street network in cities around the world, drawn at the same scale with OSMnx in t…
Stainless Steel Rubik's Cube
A maker documents machining a fully working Rubik's cube out of stainless steel, with photos of every part and the lesso…
Standard Patterns in Choice-Based Games
A game designer's catalogue of the recurring structures in choose-your-own-adventure works, such as branch-and-bottlenec…
Stockholm Metro Art
A guide to the Stockholm subway, where over 90 stations are decorated with murals, sculptures and painted bedrock caves,…
Stupid Projects From The Stupid Hackathon
A write-up of the projects built at the Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon, a showcase of deliberatel…
Sun Tunnels
Holt/Smithson Foundation page on Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels, four concrete tubes in the Utah desert aligned with the solst…
Surfel-based Global Illumination on the Web
A visual deep dive into real-time global illumination with WebGPU, using surfels and live demos that show how light boun…
Surrealist Astronomy in the South Pacific
An essay on Joseph Cornell's collaged eclipse imagery and his fascination with astronomy and the South Pacific, from a L…
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