Ethan Willingham

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  • A market display crowded with tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, melon, watermelon, strawberries, salad, and cut fruit. Shelf · 51 posts

    Boring Stuff

    51 posts that are more like vegetables than candy.

  • The first image of a black hole: a glowing orange ring of hot gas around a dark center, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope in 2019. 20 Jun 2026

    The Physics That Sounds Made Up

    time bends, a single particle goes through two doors at once, and two specks of matter can share one fate across a galaxy. a beginner's field guide to the two theories that broke common sense, relativity and quantum mechanics, one strange idea at a time, with honest analogies and a lot of pictures.

  • An 18th-century engraving of a human skeleton seen from behind, one arm outstretched, standing before a rhinoceros in a stone-walled courtyard. 18 Jun 2026

    The Far Side of the Body

    a field guide to the human body at the ends of its range, from agony and ecstasy to strange sleep and real superpowers. the same gene that means a life on fire, turned the other way, means a life with no pain at all.

  • The eight planets and Pluto in a row across a deep field of distant galaxies, from Mercury to Pluto, with ringed Saturn near the center. 9 Jun 2026

    How Old Are You in Space?

    enter your birthday and see your age on every planet, counted in each world's own years, with a countdown to your next birthday on each.

  • A small ochre octopus covered in glowing electric-blue rings on dark ground. 30 May 2026

    The Living Ocean

    a mostly wordless dive through the ocean in three dozen high-resolution photographs, from tide pools and coral reefs to the deep sea, hydrothermal vents, and creatures named only last year.

  • A glowing spiral of gold and green points winding into a bright core, a Lorenz strange attractor rendered live on the GPU. 21 May 2026

    Obi Juan Algorithm

    a million points of light you fly through in 3D, some deep structures from math, some algorithms you set running and watch work, all computed live.

  • A Gray's Anatomy engraving of the teeth set in the jaw. 21 May 2026

    The Optional Body

    an interactive descent through the parts of the body you can live without, from a spare foot bone to a heart on a machine.

  • Daubigny's painting The Hamlet of Optevoz: cottages by a stream at dusk. 1 May 2026

    The Old Masters

    a small private gallery. Storms and saints, harvest fields and harbour scenes.

  • The Ghost in the Swarm: teal and gold particles spiraling into concentric bands around a dark vortex eye. 26 Apr 2026

    The Ghost in the Swarm

    100,000 particles obey three lines of math on the GPU, while an invisible field steers the swarm through sacred geometry.

  • Sluice: a jet-powered drill rig flying over the surface, with a freshly dug shaft below. 25 Apr 2026

    Sluice

    my own 2D mining game, free forever and playable right in the browser. Dig down, collect ore, sell it for fuel and upgrades, then go deeper. No win screen, just a deeper hole and a heavier haul.

  • Earth from space at the day/night terminator, city lights glowing across nighttime South America. 23 Apr 2026

    Daylight Globe

    a small WebGL globe for the day/night line, daylight hours, and sunrise/set.

  • A scatter of colorful dots, particles rendered with nothing but CSS box-shadow. 23 Apr 2026

    Rendering Particles Without a Canvas

    three physics demos with no canvas, no WebGL, no SVG. The whole renderer is one CSS property on a 1px div.

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