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Hest, Time Travel (2019)

ivanish.ca

Hmm, interesting, but it is from 2019 with barely any news about hex since, there is not a single link to download/try the actual thing, and the index page of https://ivanish.ca/ is terribly slow on Firefox ( please try your fancy animated sites on Firefox and various browsers before publishing them, this one is extremely slow on really powerful hardware)

Yeah, you're right about FF chugging on that homepage. I had added a bit of dynamic LOD that attempts to drop quality if the frame rate goes to shit, but that can only help so much. Canvas 2D in FF has more perf cliffs than in the other browsers, in my experience. I'm hoping to learn WebGPU and build some new playful visuals in that, which with any luck should run better on FF.

FWIW, I do test in FF as I work, and it's important to me to make things work well for everyone everywhere... but it's all tradeoffs.

The post is interesting, and four years old... so what has changed in Hest since then?

I spent the following year exploring the space with a handful of prototypes, and then recorded a series of podcast episodes as a form of design journaling: https://ivanish.ca/hest-podcast/

Work on Hest continues, but I'm being quiet about it until I have something to show.

Cool, you have a very nice mic. Great sound quality on the recordings. That gives me a few days of listening material. I liked the brief glimpse of Hest in the end of the Jack Rusher talk at Strange Loop, looking forward to find out a bit more about what you're doing.

Hest means “horse” in Danish. Coincidental?

It could also have been about time perception changing whilst on ketamine (its slang name in DK is hest, after its reputation as a horse tranquilliser).

Author here. The name is something I arrived at after some etymonline spelunking looking for a word that can mean both "function" and "data" if you squint a bit. It's one of the roots of "behest".

But the ketamine thing also fits and I'm thrilled by the coincidence. Thanks for the inadvertent tip.

Simply the hest!

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