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New Video: Can I Beat My Own Challenge?
Welcome to another episode of “why am I like this, why do I spend my time on things like this when I could be spending my time on things that are beautiful and good”.But it’s still Pi season, and with the end of March looming I somehow decided this is what I needed to do. And so I did.And because my brain is melt...
Piano Secrets Masterclass for Pi Day 2022
Another video already? Yes. I thought it'd take longer, because the footage I captured felt like a mess and I thought I'd have to start over, maybe with a proper script. But once I got into the editing groove it only took a couple days to wrangle the footage into something that works.Or at least I hope it works...
Pi Day 2022: Chromatic Challenge
This is my 12th annual Pi Day video.Our Pi Day celebrations are perhaps the most consistent thing in my life, and part of me is always surprised how I manage to follow through year after year. A few years into this, when people started commenting on how they’re looking forward to Pi Day even if I haven’t posted rec...
New Video: Twelve Threads
Hello everybody!How do I explain this video? All I know is that it is very much itself.If you haven't seen the previous video about the BTS Octahedron, you might want to start there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPKUbfIrlL8Thank you for supporting this video! It ended up taking quite a bit more time and budget t...
How We Reopen
A month ago I became involved in a bipartisan effort to really understand what it would take to get through the COVID-19 crisis in the US.My first contribution was helping write a white paper on digital contact tracing. It was inspiring and humbling to work with so many incredible folks jumping in to help and being wil...
Outpacing the Virus (new whitepaper)
Hey all you good humans,Difficult to believe that Pi Day was just three weeks ago, when I wrote about how my goal with the Pi Day video this year was to sneakily get PSA info to people who weren't taking COVID-19 seriously and weren't seeking out information about it.In the days after Pi Day, the situation in t...
Well I made a video about a tv show I guess
Hello good humans!It's been a while since I published a video, and I know this won't be everyone's cup of tea... but I've always enjoyed watching other people's in-depth analyses of movies and TV so I thought I'd have fun and try something new.I'm meh about most TV and movies, but I just wat...
Changing my Mind about AI, Universal Basic Income, and the Value of Data
Hello good humans!I've been in heads-down work mode for the past two months writing this piece: https://theartofresearch.org/ai-ubi-and-data/It's about AI and the value of data, and why the pairing of AI and Universal Basic Income is attractive on the surface but has some deep problems (particularly regarding g...
Pi Day 2019: 6 Digits of Pi!!! 🍰
Hello Good Humans!We did it, made it 'round the sun another two pi times, just in time for the 9th Annual Vi Hart Pi Day Video!I've had this one in mind for many years, a lighthearted bit of fun for the special digits 3-14-19. I hope you're as amused as I am.I was worried about getting this one done in time...
The Meaning of Cake
New video! New video!Hello good humans,I could not help but try this bundt cake scutoid experiment based on figure 1 c in the original scutoid paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05376-1Of course, this had to be in a video, and I tried to make things easy on myself by mostly copying the format of the prev...
The Mathematics of Monkeybread
Hello Good Humans!The Monkeybread video is live, and I'm pretty happy with it! It looks so tasty in a headset, so if you have a cardboard or other VR headset do check it out in VR!If you saw the earlier draft, you'll notice that while much of the content of the script is the same, the tone is now lighter and mo...
Scutoids Are Live!
Hello good humans!I'm very excited about this video. I've really fallen in love with scutoids in the past few months, and I hope the care and attention comes through.I appreciate your being patient and supportive as I obsessed over how to make the perfect papercraft scutoid, how to film in VR180 while still mai...
The Calculating Stars book recommendation
Hello! I just flew across the country and would like to recommend a book that made my trip fly by. After being given many glowing recommendations, I finally read The Calculating Stars: A Lady Astronaut Novel by Mary Robinette Kowal, and it was every bit as amazing as my recommenders promised it would be.The Calculating...
Scutoids
Hello good humans! Today I would like to talk about Scutoids.Earlier this month I did a lens clip series looking to see if we could find a scutoid in a pomegranate. The compiled video is embedded above, though it might not make sense without some background, so I thought I'd write an article going through my thinki...
How much is "About 2" really?
So last week I was supposed to be working on spidermath 2, and at lunch I noticed something weird about the numbers on a can of soup.I thought, oh, grocery store applied math is always useful to share, I'll just quickly make a little video for my second channel or something. Let me just write down this idea...and 1...
Four Utilities Puzzle (and how to ruin a bagel)
We did it! New video! Mugs! Bagels! Peachy Rings! Toroidal Graphs!#3 on my "what videos can I make quickly" experiment is response/puzzle commentary, in this case in response to this collab by 3blue1brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvCytJvd4H0What I learned is that this kind of video is not a 1 or 2-day v...
Mini-Etude in D
So for the past three days I've been working on trying to make a fun little music theory video... but it turns out the syncing process is not as automatic as I thought. So that might have to wait, possibly forever.But I did decide to post on my second channel just the short piece I wrote for y'all to fit within...
Spidermath!
Thank you for your support!Editing to add a little more background story, now that I'm not a morning tiredperson:On this week's VIM LIVE we talked about rituals, and I talked about one of my current manufactured rituals which is to try to go on a walk at lunch time and identify a new thing in the world (tree, p...
Deleted Scenes and Making Of Metachirality!
Hello good humans!I gotta make this quick since the video already finished uploading and it's after 6pm:1. Deleted scenes and making of video is up! I thought it'd be an easy 2 day project but it took 3 and was a little more difficult than I thought. Creating the deleted scenes and collecting the lens clips too...
Metachirality!
Hello good humans! Metachirality part 2 is here, pastakitties and all.There's so much more to say about metachirality and screw symmetry, so many tidbits that didn't make it into the final video... I was thinking of doing a little bonus video that mentions these things, without getting fancy about the narrative...
Metachirality?
Well good humans, Metachirality part 1 is live! Thank you for sticking around and helping fund its creation!This video is based on a true story. More specifically, I was told many years ago that Metachirality was a strange property of some higher dimensional symmetry groups and that only John Conway understands it and ...
Lens: Awesome and Has Bugs
As you may have seen by the overabundance of email notifications (apparently lens still has some bugs, which I have reported), Patreon has added a new feature kind of like snapchat where I can upload video and image clips that disappear after 24 hours. And it's even easier to use than snapchat, at least from my sid...
Pi Day Rant 2018!
It's 3/14/1...8, and we're just going to roll with it. Why not have Pi be 3.1418...?As I explain, it ends up being the worst Pi Day ever. And that was before we got the news of Stephen Hawking's passing, so if Pi Day 2018 wasn't the worst before, it certainly is now!My favourite part of making this vide...
Full Speed Ahead
Two of last week's Pi Poll options were pretty close, and comments hinted that many people thought a Classic Pi Rant would be more fun but maybe a 4th Wall breaking video would be better for them, like eating your vegetables.In addition, I didn't realize you could vote on more than one option but apparently you...
Snow Day: Unusual Tracks
Well, the snowy world is full of interesting things to think about, and I thought I'd shoot a behind-the-scenes or dogwalk video just for you. And then as I was doing that I thought why not put a little more effort in and make it public on my main channel?So, that happened.Ok now let's talk about wobblers. Ther...
Peace for Triple Piano
It's done! It's live! Woooo!And here's the making of video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1zJoU6LussSPACE TIME DIAGRAAAAMSI'll write a little more about it all later, but I wanted you to be the first to know it's up :DThank you thank you thank you for sticking with me through it all!Vi
Feb. update and Ambisonic test
Happy February! Thank you all for sticking around while I work on this project. It's wonderful to be able to pay my bills whether I want to work on something easy or something a bit more outside my usual.The video is looking pretty good at this point, after finally breaking down and getting a Premiere CC subscripti...
Child (documenting a 2014 art game)
As Christmas is almost here, yesterday I decided to try to document an art game called "Child" that I made over Christmas in 2014, and that has long-since deprecated in both hardware and software.The flat version still works though, which you can play here: vihart.github.io/childDuring my years as a VR Principa...
Hexaflexaflakes
We did it! Finally, after many years, mathematical snowflake crafting and mathematical hexaflexagon crafting have been combined to form hexaflexaflakes, and we got it done just in time for the holidays.I really wasn't sure whether this video would come together in time. Just before the Great Patreon Kerfluffle of 2...
Back to business as usual!
I don't know if you got a notification because I didn't, but Patreon has announced that they are no longer going to implement the fee and payment structure change that they announced last week: https://blog.patreon.com/not-rolling-out-fees-change/As such, I am no longer suspending payments. Expect them to go th...
