programming
It has been a while since I worked on this game. And after being away for a while, I can't really see the sources of frustration that I felt before. They were probably residual feelings from the frustration of getting it to a functional state and figuring out
orbtk
I've been meaning to get into rust for a long time, but there were some pieces missing from the ecosystem(good rust bindings for GUI applications appear to be hard to come by), but rust isn't like most of those other languages, it requires a different
Common Lisp
I am currently working on writing code to support the usage pattern that I have used in the past for making animations using ffmpeg to encode video. Really though, how complex does it need to be? Well, let's put together a wish-list: 1. It should always shut down
Common Lisp
Rendering shapes is a relatively small addition to the L-System code I've been implementing over the last few weeks, it consists of a few manual dispatches to drawing code based on the first symbol in a sublist. The immediate alternative is using defgeneric and the common lisp object
Common Lisp
The simplest implementation of L-Systems requires term-rewriting, and maybe turtle graphics. We already have arbitrary computation on the execution end, but what if we could add computation on the term rewriting phase? We can get a lot more flexibility without adding an infinite number of rules. Also the last L-System
Common Lisp
Codex is one of a small number of native documentation generators in lisp. It uses an unusual markdown format called Scriba. I have been using it to document img-genner since about 2 years ago. In those two years there hasn't been an update for it(Actually for at
Common Lisp
L-Systems are a type of fractal, well, that's not really true; L-systems are a formalism for constructing rules for iterated systems, such as plant growth and turning those into images. But what's interesting is that they're actually remarkably simple to implement the evaluation of.
Common Lisp
No, I'm not going to write about neutrinos, or anything else that is 'real'. Pixels are the particles of today's post. Their universe is very different than ours, it is solid in all directions, it is quantized(at a different level than ours). At
programming
One of the other projects I've worked on, the one I'm not sure I've talked about here has been the timetracker tool. What it provides different than others that I have found is that it doesn't ask what you're doing,
Common Lisp
I have vague memories of a visualizer that I will likely never encounter without looking for it again. It was a waveform display but it had these rectangles that would ride them like boats, not really like surfing. Now, you might be wondering why I'm doing this when
Common Lisp
cl-png is a long lived package that mostly works, but it contains a single flaw, it relies on the presence of a library and the competence of the implementation in getting to it. It grabs the source and tries to build it. That's one reason that I don&
Common Lisp
There's not much of a reason to do this because ffmpeg has a much faster and nicer scaler, but maybe we want to write common lisp to handle an effect. When I introduced img-genner, I wasn't sure that this was the direction to take, but now