Ants on the Screen

Not all of the content might be visible on your feed reader. Consider checking out the original post. It’s been a while since I wrote an interactive post. With the cleanup of my website, I’ve been removing and rehousing things that no longer make sense to be where they were. One of those was a noise experiment I made years ago, whose goal was to replicate those old TVs. So I decided to bring that back as an interactive post, with more customization than ever! In the age of AI, making this sort of experiment is probably too easy, and many will not find it as interesting as it once was. However, I still think we should build software for fun and, with that, learn about random things. That Old TV How many of us remember those old TVs with a very large and deep back that, when they lost signal, made a sound that, when too loud, could be unbearable? While making that sound – noise – you could also see a sort of moving black and white visual that we, in Portugal, called “formigueiro” –…