#dissatisfaction

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by N.C. Germanacos, from Kassandra and the Wolf

It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy - of dissatisfaction with his life. He had no idea of its cause, still less of its cure; but discontent had come into his soul, and he had taken one small step toward humanity.

-- Arthur C. Clarke

During the past week I finally got visualization working for hair simulations. Here's a screenshot I captured today, from a real-time simulation of 9,999 strands, each containing 25 points, at 360 iterations per second. Most of the computation was offloaded to my laptop's GPU.

Now as I study it closely, I'm dissatisfied with the flat-shaded meshes use to visualize the colliders. Always something to improve!

Software used: Linux Mint v22.3, jdk-17.0.15+6, Vulkan SDK v1.4.341.1, LWJGL v3.4.1, Jolt JNI v4.1.0, Sport-Jolt v1.3.0, and Jolt Physics v5.5.0+ (custom-built using clang)

Cem Yuksel created the hair model: https://www.cemyuksel.com/research/hairmodels/

Murat Afshar provided the collider meshes. GIMP v2.10.36 was used to crop the captured image.

A shout out to Jorrit Rouwe @jrouwe.bsky.social for publishing Jolt Physics (on which Jolt JNI is based) and the "HairTest.cpp" sample code from which my (Java) app is derived.

I’m trying to compile these feelings into a playlist, any help would be awesome. Here’s what I have so far:

American Idiot - Green Day

Feed the machine - poor man’s poison

Birthday Party - AJR

3 o’clock things - AJR

My Shot - Lin-Manuel Miranda

Story of tonight - Lin-Manuel Miranda

Do you hear the people sing? - Les Misérables

Burn the whole house down - AJR

We didn’t start the fire - Billy Joel

The Smallest Man Who Ever lived - Taylor swift

Please give me suggestions of music you think I should add. Idc how obscure it it, if it fits I’m adding it.