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[New Blog Post] The Lo-Fi Art and Human Tools Era
At the dawn of the industry, we needed big companies to deliver quality software. You’d buy version 1.0 because the way it worked was revolutionary, and it let you do amazing new things. You’d buy version 2.0 because it added helpful new features. Apple, Adobe, Microsoft, etc. became household names because software was hard to make, and even harder to box up and get on store shelves.
I wrote a little post about overlapping WebGL elements.
https://grahampullan.github.io/viz/2025/02/02/Overlapping-webgl-elements.html
The problem with multiple WebGL contexts In web-based data visualisation applications, a common UX design is to have multiple cards (each card is a html <div> element) each containing a graphical representation of a different aspect of the data. If the plot is a view of a 3D surface, or involves thousands of data points, it is natural to use WebGL. This is most easily achieved by adding a <canvas> element as a child of the card <div> and making this a WebGL context. Unfortunately, browsers limit the number of available WebGL contexts (a limit of 16 is common), so, if you want more cards than that, another strategy is required.
I'm working on an interactive tool for prototyping energy systems.
You can have a go here:
https://grahampullan.github.io/viz/2024/09/22/Visual-energy-modeller.html
Even small systems, comprised of simple components, can be hard to reason about. I’m interested in interactive visualisation tools that can help us to understand the behaviour of such systems. This post shows the current status of a prototyping tool that I am working on.
In addition to my day job I continue to produce academic papers because I have a passion for research.
I'm proud to announce that I am now a Senior Associate at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership at the University of Cambridge.
Sorry Oxford (where I also have an affiliation) if this is unacceptable.
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