Yourong Frank Wang

Category: Technology

  • Back in the Funfactory

    On the occasion that I am turning 28, I look back at the chapter of my life when I was a player and modder of games by Synetic: The Funfactory, a small German studio that, without meaning to, taught me to be a designer of cars, a scientist, and, somehow, a resident of Germany.

    (Cover screenshot: a modded “Excellence” / [unlicensed Aston Martin Vanquish with a Jaguar face] in front of the alpine observatory in Crash Time 5: Undercover. Taken in 2016)

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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)

  • Tian-Yi Type 2, or the FWPhys Logo, as a 3D Resin Print

    It happened. Lots of attention needed for future prints.

    the WAC part of DSWAC was strong last weekend …

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  • Introducing FWPhys® Just Right(™ Pending)

    Are you tired of the internet jumping between light and dark modes all the time? With FWPhys Just Right (™ Pending), all content will be rendered in pleasant 0x808080 (HTML Grey) on a 0x808080 (HTML Grey) canvas, the perfect blend between black and white.

    Rolling out across all FWPhys.com content and Frank Wang’s doctoral thesis.

  • The Bob Doran Museum of Computing – Impressions

    The most incomprehensible thing about the Universe is that it is comprehensible.

    Albert Einstein
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  • Trying Stable Diffusion by Visualising “Teardrop” by Massive Attack

    Please scroll down to proceed.

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  • Conquest of Spaces – A (Rather Late) Review of James Webb Space Telescope’s First Five Images.

    As featured in Univ. of Auckland Scientific Review, 2022 Issue 4.

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