Space is the Place is a remixable Glitch app that generates a full-screen starfield with a "morph" control to make it more or less psychedelic: hold your clicker down and move it back and forth for fabulous results. There's something weird about the optical effects used, a video-era flare that's unusually appealing, like the early-1980s Doctor Who intro
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10:18 am Tue
Sep 25, 2018
Space is the Place, the best starfield on the web
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The best of SIGGRAPH 2018
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Tank: an excellent animated short paying homage to 80s vector videogames
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Pay what you want for this massive Adobe designer's arsenal
Adobe’s design software catalog is essential to any graphics program, as much for their simplicity as their versatility. Anyone can be an effective graphic designer with tools like Illustrator and InDesign – and the right training in their potential. That’s where the Adobe CC A-Z Lifetime Bundle comes in. Whether you’re getting your feet wet […]
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Edit and merge PDFs easily with this game-changing Mac app
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