Still: From Akira to Ink Wash, Building a Generative Garden in WebGPU

Still, a generative garden in WebGPU, integrates Japanese art influences and procedural systems to create a living, interactive astronaut story chapter with toon shading and ink wash effects.

Codrops

15 min read

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Stories from Wednesday, 9 September 2026

Design Tools

Sidebar.io

Tools

Atlas: a world model for spatial intelligence

World Labs introduces Atlas, a next-generation omni world model pretrained from scratch to natively operate on text, images, video, and 3D, enabling diverse tasks like world generation and spatial reconstruction.

Opensource UI

Opensource UI offers a free, MIT-licensed library of over 200 production-ready React and Next.js components, built with TypeScript and Tailwind CSS v4, for designers and developers.

The designer who drew Cursor’s icons

Marek Minor, designer of Cursor's 600+ icons, explains his process for creating new icons, emphasizing the search for a concept's "attractor" and the iterative exploration required for novel ideas.

Four questions about AGI

The author argues that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a distracting "red herring" term, proposing four questions to better understand the concept and its implications.

9 Sept21 min read

AI & Tools

Hugging Face

Safety for Whom? Refusing the Right Subset of a Topic, Not the Whole Topic

Large language models' safety alignment should refuse specific harmful subsets of a topic, not the entire topic, to allow for nuanced deployment policies, according to new research.

The model is behaving impeccably. Your information architecture isn’t.

A 1960 study on city maps reveals that information architecture, not AI model behavior, is often the root cause of user confusion with AI context.

7 Sept

Design Tools

Limit the number of details

Designers should limit the number of details in their work, as excessive features and controls can dilute attention and transform design into mere management.

Sidebar.io

10 min read