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Welcome
This is an open and broad curation of ideas, thoughts, and projects exploring the frontiers of science, technology, and innovation. I'm a futurist and optimist who believes in envisioning and building the future we want to live in. Much of the content is organized into series—collections of related articles that build on each other to provide comprehensive coverage of complex topics. You can browse all series using the "Series" button in the navigation above, or discover them naturally as you explore. The content here represents deep dives into topics that fascinate me—from the physics of spin glasses to the search for life on ocean worlds, from quantum computing to fusion energy, from building interactive 3D visualizations to understanding how markets evolve. This is a work in progress.
Getting around
You can read this like any site: click a title, follow a link, use the contents on the left. You can also just ask. The line at the top is Ikonic's omni: type a few words, or say "computer" and speak, and it answers with a passage from my pages and where it came from. Try "find science", "show by time", or "what is this". On a phone the omni and the contents chips sit at the top. The whole tour is in Getting Around, and the story of why the site works this way is in This Site Runs on Ikonic.
What You'll Find Here
Deep Scientific Explorations
Comprehensive, long-form articles on topics that matter:
- Planetary Science & Space - Detailed articles on every major planetary body in our solar system, from the Sun to Neptune's moons, exploring their geology, potential for life, and the missions that reveal their secrets
- Quantum Computing - Overview - A complete series covering qubits, entanglement, quantum algorithms, hardware approaches, and the roadmap to practical quantum computing
- Spin Glasses - Deep dives into frustration, optimization, and the connections between statistical physics and machine learning
- Nuclear Energy - Exploration of fusion technologies, from tokamaks to FRCs, and the path to clean energy
Interactive Visualizations & Creative Coding
Explore procedural generation, shaders, and interactive graphics:
The Mandelbulb - a 3D Mandelbrot set, ray-marched live:
A three-dimensional cousin of the Mandelbrot set, drawn by distance estimation and ray marching in your browser. Try it out: drag to rotate, scroll to zoom into the surface. The topology shader that used to sit here lives on in GLSL 3D Fractals Series Index with the rest of the fractal series.
For more shader experiments, check out the GLSL introduction or try the GLSL Toybox to write and share your own shaders.
Full Interactive L-System Editor with Shader Support:
The full-featured L-System renderer above includes shader editing, custom rules, animation controls, and more. Try it out: Update the axiom and rules in the controls above, and watch the fractal pattern update in real-time below. Experiment with different parameters, shader presets, and rules to create your own fractal patterns.
Check out the L-System Renderer on GitHub for the source code and to contribute. For 3D L-System tree generation used in the animated background, see L-System 3D Tree Generation.
Technical Deep Dives
How things actually work:
- From Obsidian to Ikonic - Complete technical exploration of building a blog that bridges Obsidian and Next.js
- An adventure with 3js 3d Backgrounds - Interactive 3D visualizations, procedural generation, and real-time graphics. This page explores the animated 3D background system with terrain generation, L-system trees, atmospheric effects, and more.
- Coding Projects - Web development, shaders, and creative coding
Business & Innovation
Analysis of markets, companies, and economic trends:
- Business - Entrepreneurship, consulting insights, and business strategy
- Innovation & Economics - Market trends, innovation patterns, and economic analysis
- Company deep dives on Tesla, Intuitive Machines, Joby, and other innovative companies
How to Navigate
This blog is designed for exploration. You can:
- Browse by topic using the links below
- Follow internal links - Articles are connected through
[ [ wiki links ] ]that let you explore related content - Use semantic search - Find articles by meaning, not just keywords
- Explore series - Related articles are grouped into series for deep learning
- View the content tree - See how everything connects
Explore by Topic
- STEM - Physics, planetary science, quantum computing, nuclear fusion, and more
- Business - Entrepreneurship, consulting, and business insights
- Coding Projects - Web development, procedural generation, and technical projects
- Engineering - Engineering projects and remote sensing
- Innovation & Economics - Market trends, innovation, and economic analysis
Connect & Collaborate
If the ideas here spark something for you—whether it's a collaborative project, a need for engineering or creative input, or even a full-time role shaping tomorrow's innovations—I'm always open to exploring opportunities.
You can reach me through the contact page or follow me on GitHub or visit my X profile to see what I'm working on.
For more about me and my background, see [a private note].