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Strange Attractors | Shashank Tomar (blog.shashanktomar.com) A few months back, while playing around with Three.js, I came across something that completely derailed my plans. Strange attractors - fancy math that creates beautiful patterns. At first I thought I’d just render one and move on, but then soon I realized that this is too much fun. When complexity emerges from three simple equations, when you see something chaotic emerge into beautiful, it’s hard not to waste some time. I’ve spent countless hours, maybe more than I’d care to admit, watching these patterns form. I realized there’s something deeply satisfying about seeing order emerge from randomness. Let me show you what kept me hooked.

Vancouver Never Plays Itself (YouTube) Perhaps no other city has been as thoroughly hidden from modern filmmaking as Vancouver, my hometown. Today, it’s the third biggest film production city in North America, behind Los Angeles and New York. And yet for all the movies and TV shows that are shot there, we hardly ever see the city itself. So today, let’s focus less on the movies and more on the city in the background.

Maine (Wikipedia) Maine (/meɪn/ MAYN) is a state in the New England region of the United States, and the northeasternmost state in the contiguous United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and northwest, and shares a maritime border with Nova Scotia. It is the only state to border only one other state (New Hampshire). Maine is the largest state in New England by total area, almost as large as the combined area of the remaining five states. Of the 50 U.S. states, it is the 12th-smallest by area, the 9th-least populous, the 13th-least densely populated, and the most rural. As of 2024, Maine’s population stood at a Census-estimated 1,400,000, the state’s highest-ever population estimate. Maine’s capital is Augusta, while its most populous city is Portland.