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Gladys West, mathematician whose work paved the way for GPS, dies at 95

She navigated segregation to become an esteemed mathematician — and today, her work helps billions of people navigate the world.

By Bill Chappell

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/23/nx-s1-5685027/gladys-west-gps-mathematician

#science #technology #womeninstem

Getting there… No extra server in between, just the browser and serial API.
Updated at 100hz but could go double, easily.
Note that the ‘resolution’ of the sceeen from 1984 is higher than the retina display on the right :)

X-Y-Z, chapter 3

The ‘font’ previously extracted from the screen’s firmware is streamed back as geometry.
Also: added polygon-clipping.

X-Y-Z, part 3

First steps with the custom driver board for the HP vector display.
Writing a small GFX api to handle some basic drawings and transforms.

Pure vector drawings (no pixels!)
4 levels of brightness
2048×2048 resolution
Embedded font
200 FPS
<3

600k unique instances from the “Labelled Faces in the Wild (LFW)” dataset, running in the browser.
Working on a new little tool for a kinetic identity (NC).

Made this demo like stuff while working on Textor's audio implementation.

I used a live-coding tool I made that is quite a copycat of @andreasgysin Play https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz/ (don't do nft).

Its hidden on my website here https://adelfaure.net/lab/textorLive/playground/ very poorly documented and only in french

Play

play

Little proof of concept: streaming pixels to our PicoDriver (esp32) via UDP at 100+ FPS, over WiFi…

Smooth as silk.

♫ ♪ ♬ Sound on!

ANGQASA sent me this video featuring “X–Y–Z” displayed on a CRT and accompanied by a “D.A.R.Y.L.” inspired synth soundscape! Thank you!

(Note: the video is cropped from 9:16 to 4:5 and shorted to 30 seconds by me)

Visit:
https://angqasa.bandcamp.com
https://xyz.ertdfgcvb.xyz

#CRT
#Modularsynth
#realtime
#webgl

ANGQASA

ANGQASA is an augmented Malay word which translates to mean "space" is an ambient post-rock project by Alvin Seah, a composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist. He is interested in creating hybrid cosmic soundscapes laced with Neo Nusantara (Southeast Asian) analog sounds and digital electronic elements. instagram.com/angqasa facebook.com/angqasa

ANGQASA
Postcard series for “Link” with 50 unique and numbered prints.
White ink on black paper.