The other day I did what may be one of the nerdiest things I have ever done. I ordered a custom black t-shirt.
But not just any custom black t-shirt. Printed on this black t-shirt, in a monospace white font, is the code for the new and improved version of my noise function.
The print consists of about a dozen lines of fairly dense GLSL shader code. The code itself won’t mean anything to someone who isn’t a graphics programmer. Yet as a work of aesthetic expression, I think it will work for anyone.
I don’t think I did this primarily as a fashion statement. Rather, I think it was a way for me to memorialize, for myself, a particular personal achievement.
Of course other people will see the t-shirt when I wear it, so in a way it is, by definition, a communication with the world. Yet what it is communicating on the outside is mainly a reflection of a particular feeling that I have on the inside.
Come to think of it, isn’t that what fashion is all about?
New and improved noise function?
I’m left wondering what the proper scholarly citation format is for your T-shirt.
Hmmm. I’m not sure that counts as a peer reviewed publication. 😉
There is quite possibly a fortune to be made by selling that t-shirt to others..
Great minds think alike : )