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  • Oct 10, 2026, 8:53 PM

    I've been rereading Neuromancer lately and got suCCed as always. this time is data/programs visualization, the depiction of cyberspace from the novel is just soo attractive. I can't really go full-on direct retinal stimulation (even tho I now have a directory full of papers on facial electrodes stimulation of the optic nerve and drawing with phosphenes)...

    So I cobbled up a quick SDL visualizer, experimenting with various ways to visualize raw bytes. I've been thinking on how to expand it into 3d in a way that makes sense, and then I saw @Koodes work on 3d orca. stunning.
    That made think maybe the way is to actually integrate some livecoding or at least live-formatting tool in the visualizer. then well... basically the step becomes smaller and smaller to an actual programming language LoL.

    Next step I think will be firing this to an analog VTX into FPV goggles and see how I feel about that :))

    matrix of squares with an X across; each square represents a byte, the four edges are the 4 MSBs, and the 4 dashes forming the X are the 4 LSBs
    simpest viz; each byte is an 8-pixel line, each pixel represents a bit. plus a minimal grid with purple dots every 8 bytes
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