The 150914 black hole merger event was reported in a PRL article (one of the famed ‘Abbott et al’ series), which came out on 11 Feb 2016.
The phrase in the abstract “with 3.0 M⊙ c2 radiated in gravitational waves” remains one of the most amazing things humans have ever been able to write down.
Right now, the closest things I have to interactive programming in my portfolio are a few classroom demos of elastic collisions, and a fork of PyUltraLight that runs in a PyGame window—where clicking your mouse spawns a tiny black hole that swirls the dark matter. It runs at maybe 15 FPS on my Mac Studio.
So… not exactly a game studio. Yet.
Still, it feels like the right time to begin making my own indie games —not just as an experiment, but as a space where my technical training, my love of puzzles, and my scattered efforts in music and design can all come together.
That’s why I’m starting a new creative wing: the Frank Wang Scientific and Interactive Fun Initiative, or SIFI. It’s where I’ll explore the overlap between science, storytelling, and interactive systems.
Incidentally, I’ve had SIFI as part of my identity since very long ago, even earlier than the fruit brand’s disappointing voice assistant with a similar name. “Sifi” eventually morphed into my GitHub handle – Sifyrena… So we are beginning a new thing, yes, but it is also a long time in the making.
More news soon.
(Logo is in draft stage)
I like cylinders just as much as I love spheres, and the fictional beverage saga continues.
(more…)The following attachment is a review presentation that I prepared as part of my application to lead the Auckland Advanced Physics Lab next year, for which I am unsuccessful.
The inability to tell beginnings and pinnacles apart is an ever-relevant phenomenon of the human condition.
References to internal and other previliged material have been removed.
Yourong Frank Wang 