Gregory's ServerDecided to revisit trying to make one of these 3d tunnels effects after failing last year, with some help from the #lovebytetcc folks, I was able to make a neat 210 bytes demo and learnt a neat trick to approximate distance between two points without a square root function.
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I've done a lot of creative coding these past few days, but today I figured I might do well going over everything with the peephole optimizer, linter, formatter, tidying things up a bit. I've also found a little optimization to the theme loading code that resides at the core of nearly every graphical application I've written.  @neauoire off topic but that is an absolutely gorgeous wallpaper, what is it & who's the artist? @cblgh it's in the alt text of the img tag, but the author is Simon Goinard I guess hand writing and brush strokes haven't quite left my mind since the other day, and so I find myself revisiting Oekaki, I knew that I could use that little trick from monday to approximate distance between points, and connected it to the brush tool to add a quick and dirty natural line thickness. I was helping a friend with their toy scheme compiler last night and we got talking again about SECD, and to help explain the thing, I started putting together a base implementation of the abstract machine's runtime so we could target it with their compiler. It has been a long time since I played with SECD so I've updated the lisp documentation on the XXIIVV wiki with a couple of notes of things I had forgotten. Finished preparing the SECD runtime, I've been wondering if there ever were other functional languages designed to target it besides Pure Lisp(Lispkit), I looked around a bit but I couldn't find any. I noticed there was very little documentation out there on it, so I've started a page of my own. I think I might expand the self-hosted compiler to support line comments and the 'quote expression, because in its current state it's a bit of a pain to use.  @neauoire if you dont mind esolangs, http://www.blue.sky.or.jp/grass/ Wrote very little code today, I closed Henderson's "Application and Implementation", and reopened SICP.. I felt like I needed a refresher of the last chapters(esp. the one about a LISP implementation). So yeah, today was drinking lots of tea, scrolling up and down the wizard pdf, maybe I should get the actual book at some point.. @neauoire ah, i've been reading sicp on and off for the last while. it's a really cute little book. i feel like every time i look at it i gain a deeper appreciation for scheme @neauoire do you have the physical version of it? I wanted to find a second hand copy but it's hard to find or almost as expensive as new @neauoire Just saw it now. It's really interesting, I don't think I've ever seen it before; at a cursory glance it doesn't seem to be equivalent to either manhattan or chebyshev? (Manhattan is dx+dy, Chebyshev is max(dx,dy), and yours seems to be max(dx,dy)+min(dx,dy)/2, if I'm reading it correctly.) I should play around with it a bit and do some comparisons. |
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max(|x|,|y|) + min(|x|,|y|) ÷ 2 eh?
I can see why you like it. It's got kind of a stellar bias, which makes it mysterious.
I wish to trade it kelp. 😁