Algorithmic Fish, a Minecraft Movie of “The Three-Body Problem”, and Why We’ve Reached “Peak Car”

I bring you procrastination — with my weekly “Linkfest”

Monday hath arrived.

Before you begin to pretend to work, why not spend an hour with this fine assortment of links I’ve assembled for you?

Away we go!

1) 🐟 Randomly-generated fish, using Javascript

Lingdong Huang is an artist who works in code — his stuff is fantastic (web site here), including software that artistically ages you, an online multiplayer world made entirely from emojis, and a programming language where you write in ancient Chinese.

But I was really tickled by his latest Javascript project, “fishdraw” — which generates random fish, line by line. He hosted it on Glitch, so you can go here and click away to generate new fish. This’ll be great for later today when your boss checks in to see how much work you’ve got done and you can hand them four hundred algorithmically generated fish.

2) 📽️ “Three Body Problem” machinima, done in Minecraft

If you haven’t read Liu Cixin’s wonderful sci-fi novel, “Three Body Problem”, skip this one…