Yourong Frank Wang

Category: memos

  • [Photo Journal XL] ACW25:

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  • Announcing the Frank Wang Scientific and Interactive Fun Initiative (SIFI)

    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)

  • Above Rules

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  • Happy Valentine’s Day ’25

    Not many years ago I walked around (I do mean around) auckland central and waited for the night to end sitting on the wharf at Waterfront.

    I would have wanted to listen to this.

    Thanks to Apple for this great ringtone. I played the melody with variations on my little keyboard in my office.

    The cover art is derived from the same Pixelmator project file as my upcoming … album … Gold. Hence the reuse of Voyager Golden disk imagery.

  • [Site] Welcome to FWPhys.com 2.0

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  • Dairy, 29 March 2018

    Cleaning digital archives feels like beachcombing at twilight – countless shards of memories wash ashore with each wave, their edges softened by time’s tides. We kneel to collect these cognitive mollusks, knowing most will crumble at a touch, yet still hoping to find one whorled chamber intact enough to whisper forgotten thoughts.

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  • [Photo Journal] Notes on my way to the Grave of Karl Schwarzschild

    My previous visit to the Göttingen City Cemetery was on the second of October, four months ago. I guess this is poised to become a tradition. Though, as this essay hopefully makes clear, future trips are unlikely to generate new essays or photo journals.

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