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Smoothness isn't the absence of edges. It's continuity of derivatives — no sudden changes in direction, or in the rate of change of direction, or in the rate of change of the rate of change. Your conscious mind can't see it. Your nervous system can. That's why
How a broken CSS animation led me through the history of cathode ray tubes, Bézier curves, and the meaning of smoothness.
Every Wikipedia article is at most six clicks from Philosophy. What does that tell us about the structure of human knowledge?
A love letter to skeuomorphism, pixel art address books, and all the digital interfaces we'll never see again.