emmanuel whyte
An artist working between paper and virtual space.
It turns on its own. Drag to turn it yourself, or use the arrows; tap the lit door to go in.
- I set out to combine the chess.com API with three.js and replay my games live. Along the way it turned into a writing project as much as a build. The 3D board, the stats and the game browser all work, but the written side is what keeps me coming back: it makes me slow down and say why I'm enjoying this. Next is finishing those pages and letting the site update itself each night.Chess
- I've returned to paper consistently over the last couple of weeks. Today I'm happy to call one of my pieces complete. Approaching the empty page was different this time. I had a solid plan: cover the composition with layers of lightly applied marks, so the teeth of the paper could carry the weightlessness and let light show through a loose pattern. Toward the end there was a moment that called for bold, decisive mark-making, because each light layer kept folding into the background wash, a mix balanced enough to read as one body but with nothing to hold onto. So, after staring from a distance, dancing a little, and staring some more, I confidently scribbled all over it.Art
- Dark mode added. It follows the visitor's clock, switching to dark at 7 PM and back to light at 7 AM, and fades between the two with easing instead of snapping. Toggle added to header menu.This site
- I built a standalone editor for this site. It runs on my computer, and I can click any line on a page and rewrite it in place, swap pictures, and see which edits haven't gone live yet.This site
- Building and publishing now happen straight from the editor. One press and the site is live.This site
- Close up, the cards were blurry. The 3D table and the expanded view now pull higher resolution catalog pictures, so you can read the text and see the foil.Binder Bangers