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ImagePlot, “vintage” 2010s tool for image visualization, is back, free
“Gramps, tell us the story again!” Well, young’n, before LLMs and generative AI, we were really excited about making big clouds of dots using statistical techniques for visualization. And actually, it’s still cool — and runs free, locally, in your browser. Lev Manovich and team have brought back ImagePlot, and in a moment, it transforms any folder of images into a visualization.
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Pi Day: Hear and see approximations for Pi — and learn about shaders, too
Rebel against the anti-intellectual world around us! Forget the traumas of math classes past! Instead, enter a hypnotic trance as your screen vibrates and headphones ring with the sight and sound of Pi’s approximations. Our friends over at VDMX would like to introduce you to the wonders of … bad Pi.
Peter Kirn - March 14, 2026
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Super Massive 5 adds Sirius echo/reverb to the best free plugin in the galaxy
Valhalla isn’t done with reverb/echo blockbusters to reverberate through the end of 2025. The free plug-in — so good we really would pay for it — is back, and now it’s gotten Sirius. Welcome Super Massive 5.0.0.
Peter Kirn - November 28, 2025
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cables, free visual creation patcher on Web and app, gets big updates
Peter Kirn - June 23, 2025
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Here’s a free polysynth built entirely inside Unreal Engine 5
Peter Kirn - August 19, 2024
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