New paper from Yuste lab, together with Luis Yanez on Hydra's dense peptidergic networks

De La Cruz Rothenfusse et al.

https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1014037

#neuroscience #hydra

#hydra sketch of the day
```js
function update(flag) {

speed = flag ? 4 : 1;

const scene = noise(3)

if (!flag) scene
.luma()
.color(1,0,0)

if (flag) scene
.modulate(src(o0), 20)

scene
.blend(src(o0),0.8)
.out()
}

let flag = true;
update(flag)
window.interval && window.clearInterval(window.interval)
window.interval = setInterval(() => update(flag = !flag), 1000)
```

Peckham Digital shared a really nice video from their live coding Summer Camp in 2025. https://www.instagram.com/p/DWBtTL6DXAZ/ Features me and the other workshop leaders (inc @yaxu @synte) , and some of the students who have since gone on to perform regularly in and around London (inc @hellojoey ) .

Really hope they get the funding to bring the programme back again this Summer.

Also do my hands always move that much when I talk?!

#livecoding #strudel #peckham #hydra

@ennolenze wär nur Herkules mal auf die Idee gekommen… 🤷🏻‍♂️ #hydra

This tickles one of the nerdiest corners of my brain.

I have a timed AST now. (nothing Hydra specific yet!)
Next up is hoisting (will need hydra specific code).

When this works out, basil will make a huge step away from #hydra.

Which still requires a lot of footwork. Need to implement all the glsl code and rendering framework etc.

working on some more visual stuff in #hydra, based on a photoshop tutorial i found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lv4_atfkqo&pp=ygULdGV4dHVyZWxhYnM%3D

feel free to play around with it yourself here: https://hydra.ojack.xyz/?sketch_id=5r0s1iH8zRBDxOW3

if anyone has any idea for how i could add glow / highlights to a hydra pattern like this, please let me know!!

#creative #livecoding #audiovisual