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by oofoe 1mo ago
Yes! Thanks for recommending that so I don't have to... It's also available on archive.org. Told by a guy who was there for a lot of the formative stuff.
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by oofoe 1mo ago
You're either police... or little people.
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by oofoe 2mo ago
Good old Metal Skin Panic Madox 01. What NOT to do when a fully equipped battle exoskeleton falls off the back of a truck and into the junkyard you work at... The opening is worth a watch if you have a minute 12. Airwolf flashing blueprint
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by oofoe 6mo ago
If you don't want to start completely from scratch, may I recommend you take a look at the VideoBrain? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VideoBrain_Family_Computer (only language ever available for it was APL/S -
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by oofoe 8mo ago
Or you could just start with ASCII... I was discussing how shaders work with a friend and wound up hacking together a sort of "shadertoy" that runs in Emacs last night. Scroll to end of file to see examples... https://h
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by oofoe 9mo ago
You may be already aware with this, but if not, Walker actually did write a small Forth (ATLAST -- https://www.fourmilab.ch/atlast/ ) which was used for (I think) DXFTOOL (a file converter). It was later used by a small
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by oofoe 9mo ago
A very long time ago, sometime during the first geologic age, I worked at a facility on Queen Street in Toronto. On the street side of the building, we had two Flame suites (very high-end (for the time) realtime editing and effects, used fo
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by oofoe 11mo ago
FireFox Reader Mode can also be your friend... ; - )
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by oofoe 1y ago
Classic of how to animate a cube in Houdini: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLiL0GLSvIw (tldw: Real time internal combustion engine simulation something unexpected.)
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by oofoe 1y ago
For the past several years, I've been tinkering on and off with something that might be called a "game engine", except there's not enough of it. More of a "conceptual framework", or maybe "organizing princ
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by oofoe 1y ago
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote_vs._Acme#Visual_effects... it's a mix. They apparently actually do have some completely hand-drawn sequences, but I expect the bulk of the animation will be 3D, wi
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by oofoe 1y ago
Thanks! Sometimes that stuff wanders around if you're not keeping a close eye on it...
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by oofoe 1y ago
Oh well. Back to Mine Storm. If anyone else is interested in Vectrex light pens, here are some instructions on building your own: https://playvectrex.com/vectech/mvlp/mvlp_f.htm (Site uses frames, so I had to bust
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by oofoe 1y ago
Puts hand up... Contact in profile. Thanks!
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by oofoe 2y ago
I've been doing this for a long time, ever since I was able to score a used Wacom Cintiq. I would recommend anything with a screen (Cintiq, Huion, iPad, etc.) over a plain graphics tablet if you can -- it makes things more tactile and
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by oofoe 2y ago
Hey! I understood that reference! That was something that stayed with me long after the "big science" (atomic rockets, Venusians, etc.) of Space Cadet. It was something that everybody had, and then it started to come true, which w
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by oofoe 2y ago
Nah. That's what the Monk is for.
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by oofoe 2y ago
For most studios, the film is visualized and composed normally, then the "flat" version is used as the left eye of the stereo version. An additional set of render passes is made for the right eye using an offset camera (sometimes,
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by oofoe 2y ago
The writer pinpoints the major problem that I had with using the ROM earlier, which was that the beeper is not fully implemented for MAME. They describe how to get to the setup screen and change it to "flash" instead of beep. Note
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by oofoe 2y ago
I tried this the other day, I wasn't able to "use front" (mapped to CTRL key, which works for some things, but not others). I downloaded MAME for my computer and the Cat ROMS so I could use it without triggering a new browser
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by oofoe 2y ago
Hi! Considered Janet very seriously, but couldn't see an immediate path to get where I wanted to go with it (web app, using WebGL (ThreeJS)). There were some useful references in this thread: https://janet.zulipchat.com&#x2F
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by oofoe 3y ago
If you considered me for a role, thanks for taking a look!
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by oofoe 3y ago
Also check out the so-called M5 Cardputer, which is part of the M5Stack line of products. Has the colour display and super tiny keyboard, but also SD card, mic and speaker and battery. Plus... you can attach it to legos or fridges!
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by oofoe 3y ago
Was there not a huge archeological effort by people all over the place to resurrect old backups and older servers so that the news archive could be complete? Lovingly retrieved, curated and donated because DejaNews was going to be "for
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by oofoe 3y ago
Did they also ban every member of your family as well? That _really_ wierded me out. I'm not sure a public utility (what eBay, Amazon, et al basically are now thanks to the death of brick and mortar) should be allowed such a totalitari
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by oofoe 3y ago
Actually, I /wanted/ a replacement flex pipe, but the only way to get it is to buy a rear catalytic converter assembly. The one I was looking at was supposed to be new -- not "RFE" (i.e. stolen)... Is eBay salty about ca
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by oofoe 3y ago
Well, acktually... I just tried to set up an eBay account to buy an exhaust part. I created the account, sent the seller a message and twenty minutes later, I got a notification from eBay that I (and anyone from my household) was permanentl
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RIP Don Lancaster(gilaherald.com)
3 points by oofoe 3y ago|2 comments
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by oofoe 3y ago
Goodbye to a giant.
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by oofoe 4y ago
If you're interested in JavaScript on Racket, also please check out Urlang: https://github.com/soegaard/urlang/tree/master It's not a Racket to JavaScript compiler, but rather lets you write JavaScr

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