About

Last updated 2024-10-17, 7: 1:21 A.M. UTC+00:00

Makeup? Complicated and just enough!

About lachrymal

I'm currently studying mathematics and computer science full-time.

Here are my main interests, some topics which you may expect to see on this website:

• New media for underground derivative creative works
  • 音MAD/YTPMV
  • 静止画MAD
  • Other interactive media
  • Related copyright concepts in the real world
  • Related thought and creative processes
• Motion graphics (Aggregate medium encompassing graphic and sound design, illustration, various types of animation, and visual effects!)
• Computer graphics and computer vision
  • Development and design of consumer tools
  • Realtime methods
  • Current developments using machine learning methods

Frankly I'm often very distracted... In no particular order, I am also broadly interested in, and often think about the following things with no claim of knowledge or expertise:

• Visual novels and nonlinear storytelling
  • Dynamic presentation and visual novel engines
• General development, deployment, and delivery on and off the web
• Interaction and influences of different languages between each other in the digital age
• Programming language theory
• Pedagogical approaches to technology and programming
• UI and UX
• Data visualization
• Fashion trends in subcultures
• Mathematics and theoretical computer science
  • Interesting applications of probability
  • Basic algebraic geometry
  • Computational complexity
• Manga and anime
• Rhythm games
• Design and fictional representation of themes relating to science and the occult
• Open source and online privacy
• Demoscene

Computer Stuff

For data-heavy tasks like ML, I like to reach for Python. For many other things, I find JavaScript/TypeScript convenient, so that they are easily transferrable onto a webpage (to be shared with others, etc). If performance is a concern, I'd go for C/C++. I use Typst a lot more than LaTeX these days! I like Emacs, but previews with tinymist (Typst language service) seems to work better in Visual Studio Code. For large C/C++ projects, I like CLion.

I have been using Nix and NixOS on desktop with GNOME. I find decalarative system management very fun.

Content Stuff

I like REAPER. I am usually forced to use After Effects and Photoshop. (I believe this will change one day.) You might find me talking about Cinema 4D from way back, I exclusively use Blender for 3D tasks now.

About lachrymal.net

When I was still in high school, I ran my WordPress.com blog. Back then the thought of maintaining a personal website never crossed my mind. When I was writing this article, I found that it would be nice to have a little more control on the scripting side for my shader animation widget. And thus I wrote a static page and had it hosted on the user directories on MMaker's domain (~lach). When KP saw this, he offered to help turn the page into a template for a full static site with his custom generator, as well as generous hosting. So that's how it came to be.

Over the years I kept adding little features and animations here and there, and it has evolved to be a little bloated, with a JavaScript payload of ~6kB. (I'm not using any libraries, so I'm not really sure what to do about this...) The favicon is made by alivemaster.