danwills

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by danwills 17d ago
I like this idea too and would love to see someone have a crack at it! But I think reaction-diffusion would be a nicer type of automaton/solver to use since it can just look a lot nicer and less aliasy (I have a huge soft spot for GOL
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by danwills 24d ago
Ah yes you're so right, a 'distributed' synchronisation method could work great! I love the idea of mechanical sensing too! Would be cool if somehow the 3-neighbour 'grow' rule could somehow involve budding off a ce
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by danwills 25d ago
Cool! This is about an interactive display but initially I thought someone might have managed to make GOL into a physical automaton! Cells could physically sense neighbouring cell states and change their own states.. might still need a glob
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by danwills 2mo ago
I think that that might be an aspect of the reproductive fitness of the 'hive' (or meta-organism) of all humans, rather than the genes in any individual or population. I agree individual humans mostly seem to behave more like sing
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by danwills 2mo ago
I'm reminded of this section of a Douglas Adams quote: "Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again." I like how this is not even specific to life nor genes, and it's not hard to add to it t
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by danwills 2mo ago
I agree with your sentiment but myself I'm not convinced that either politics or corruption are actually (in reality) one-dimensional as you're suggesting, despite fairly widely reported trends towards world-wide political polaris
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by danwills 2mo ago
I am partial to this speed-is-life sentiment, and it made me think of this beautiful and wonderfully poignant demoscene production by Farbrausch and Haujobb: "Time Index". It is made in the memory of a friend of theirs that died.
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by danwills 4mo ago
I think there's utility in structures/patterns that can self-heal when damaged, but my imagination initially goes to usage in games and unusual UI. I've played with reaction-diffusion quite a bit, which is an adjacent idea, a
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by danwills 4mo ago
Ah thanks for letting me know! I had not set it to public. It's public now though! Glad you enjoyed it!
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by danwills 4mo ago
Wow this is too much fun for simple sum-of-cosines but I shouldn't be surprised (have played with FFT a bit, and I know of Reimann Zeta Function.. sines are amazing!) I doubled the angle so that it doesn't drift to the side any mo
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by danwills 4mo ago
Ah silly me, you put the sources in the comment!! Thanks for that I will have a read for sure! It struck me as looking a bit like a demoscene plasma effect but with a radial/angular aspect! (also reminds me of cymatics diagrams a bit!)
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by danwills 4mo ago
Thanks! Perfect match as far as I can see, nice one! How did you learn/know how to do this? The code was really interesting to read and tinker with! I made a version where the symmetry (7 originally) can be other numbers, and that was
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by danwills 5mo ago
Ah thanks for correcting me! Guess I glossed-over it earlier on in the article, apologies!
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by danwills 5mo ago
Only partway through the article but it was a small shock when the word 'rodent' turned up unexpectedly: "...later, if the rodent reenters that place, the cell will fire" Totally fair and normal of course I just had been
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by danwills 5mo ago
Spot on! So much silly engineering would be needed to make this even slightly make sense for normal Linux 'users' and even then, if you can be root then there is no limit!? root can do anything as any user, right? And it's de
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by danwills 6mo ago
Ah wow that is awesome, thankyou for clarifying that! Today I learned there's another native fruit with a similar name, but you're right it's a totally different species! Good to know! I wondered, since quandong sounds like a
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by danwills 6mo ago
Wow! I have not heard about that! A 40m tal! Quandong!? Crikey! Tallest I've seen is about 10m. I guess they usually don't get that big in SA. Must have been ideal conditions for it in your case and maybe it happened to be a parti
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by danwills 6mo ago
I agree eucalypts are unusual, I also find them beautiful, especially ones with smooth light bark like Ghost Gum and Citriodora, which has light pinky-orange bark! Such a presence!). I've never seen a Rainbow Gum but would love to one
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by danwills 6mo ago
On many Linux desktop environments it is the default - or can be configured: To hold the Windows Key ('meta') and left-mouse-drag a window around from _anywhere inside the window_! No need to get the mouse into the 'title bar
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by danwills 6mo ago
When there's physical access to the device it's nearly impossible to make any system unhackable I think, at least with current tech. In this case it's a deliberately injected (twice!) hardware fault, and requires intervention
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by danwills 6mo ago
Having played a bit with Discrete FFT (with FFTW on 2D images in a Shake plugin we made at work ages ago) makes the DCT coefficients make so much more sense! I really wonder whether the frequency-decomposition could happen at multiple scale
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by danwills 6mo ago
I just put on a Venetian Snares album (Rossz Csillag Alatt Született) and thought I'd come back here to say the same as you have! I'd also add: It's like Aaron's whole career is slightly resting atop Amen Break, at least
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by danwills 6mo ago
This worked in Opera on my (Android) phone, but on both Firefox and Chrome on Linux it seemed to not animate the rotation, and the rotation slider didn't seem to do anything either, so it was not showing off the real beauty of the MRS
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by danwills 6mo ago
Very cool! Reminds me a bit of some formulas that are available in UltraFractal (and Visions of Chaos by the looks) called 'ducky' or 'ducks' fractals, here's a blogpost about them from Softology: https:/&#x2F
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by danwills 6mo ago
Thanks heaps! I very much love the 'old-school' jungle/uk-hardcore sound and didn't know about these more recent Suburban Base releases, and your other reccs were also great too! Amen break went soooo far! My particular
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by danwills 7mo ago
The ratio of computer minutes per programmer-minute has indeed gone to an amazing number nowadays! I work in VFX (at RSP) and this fact is vividly illustrated for me all the time by the millions of thread-hours we go through on the renderfa
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by danwills 7mo ago
Agree, but can't we just include both average _and_ mean? And maybe min/max while we're at it? Seems like that could give a much clearer picture (without even needing a graph!?)
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by danwills 7mo ago
I totally loved the plasma effect from whenever I first saw it, and implementing it myself in Pascal/DOS was one of the first times I really started to understand a 'shading'-like context where you are coming up with a value
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by danwills 7mo ago
Thanks for that! This is amazingly faithful to the original! And although aliasing is pretty-much my arch-enemy in life, here the aliasing and all the slightly-odd z-chatter stuff somehow adds to the charm!? Brilliant!
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by danwills 11mo ago
Yeah that was my original interpretation of the title too! Perhaps something like: How did early humans understand their situation and what did they think the 'world' was like, and what did they think they should do with their liv

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