The General Controls voxel model was created in ephtracy's miraculous MagicaVoxel, version 0.99.6 on a 2017 iMac with a Quad-Core Intel Core i7 central processing unit with sixteen gigabytes of system memory, and an AMD Radeon Pro 580 graphics processing unit with eight gigabytes of graphics memory. The author has written about MagicaVoxel before.

The scenes resulting in these images were built, lit, rendered, and composited in Blender on a 2024 Mac Mini M4 with sixteen gigabytes of unified memory. The author wishes to thank the benefactor who largely funded this long-overdue upgrade.

Pixelmator Pro 3.6.10 was used for final detail retouching and color correction.

Dmitry Meduho's wonderful Equinox 4.0 was used to build the dynamic wallpaper.

The vector outlines for the General Controls window intro animation were drawn in Inkscape and prepared for animation using a custom Python script the author originally developed for (if you can believe it) optimizing laser cutter paths to reduce charring when cutting plywood. It's a great story. Ask him about it.

All animation on generalcontrols.art is accomplished in pure CSS, with vanilla JavaScript only used for interactivity. All graphics save the obvious exceptions are inline SVGs. The site (not counting the Gumroad embed) is entirely static.

This site uses the ChiKareGo2 and FindersKeepers pixel fonts by Giles Booth, based on Chicago and Geneva by the legendary Susan Kare.

Note for type nerds: The Mac OS 8 system font (and thus, the font used for the General Controls window title) is Charcoal, not Chicago. However, there appears to be no pixel-font adaptation of Charcoal's hinted low-resolution rendering at 12 points, so using Charcoal directly for the header text of this web page would look (in the author's subjective opinion) wrong. Creating a new pixel font would be a sub-rabbit-hole in a project that has become too deep of a rabbit hole already, and as someone once said, "Real artists ship."