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Comment #33622034
at some point several people asked me whether it was inspired by enso (i didnt know about enso at the time) or whether i was involved in the Arrival visual effects (i was not) beca…
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Comment #33621633
i don't disagree, but i also don't think i want to dig into a 6 year old js build right now
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Comment #33621567
2016 is accurate. and thank you! with danger of nitpicking: it's more meta programming that has drawn me to lisp (rather than functional programming). the most recent post on my si…
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Comment #29542760
thank you!
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Comment #29540491
it hasn't seemed realistic for me so far
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Comment #29540250
i find that hard to estimate. a day or less for some. i ported the webby thing to vanilla js in a couple of days. might have been slightly faster if i used p5js. but others might t…
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Comment #29539953
the most interesting part (as far as i'm concerned. i have some bias here ...) is the stuff about manipulating the graph structure. the concept is described in the readme, and does…
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Comment #29538779
in the event that you haven't seen it: https://inconvergent.net/2019/colour-shift/
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Comment #29537278
have a look at https://github.com/p5py/p5
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Comment #20049766
there are some references on my website. see the faq and the generative section. there are many ways to start. depends on your previous knowledge and how you prefer to work. the na…
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Comment #20037248
thank you. btw, the green one is rather similar to floraform by Nervous System. https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/projects/sets/floraform/
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Comment #20037204
yeah, i'm going for easy. and also, easily explainable. i like to leave some of the details up to whoever tries it. which is also why i generally don't include code anymore. i gues…
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Comment #20034070
i would say that what is correct depends on the intention
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Comment #20033133
https://img.inconvergent.net/generative/78b7266.html https://img.inconvergent.net/generative/50519fc.html
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Comment #20031672
you get unwanted artefacts in the results if you don't use some randomness. having said that, there might ways of reducing the need for it (which would be more efficient).
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Comment #16617018
Another way to look at it is that you need Pinterest results in google image search in order to help finding content on Pinterest that infringes your copyright.
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Comment #14536686
this link looks interesting, thanks.
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Comment #14535002
I'm not sure about how you would efficiently do this. (I'm not experienced with pure functional programming.) cloning the entire structure for every applied function sounds like it…
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Comment #14533703
i don't know what a free monad is. not sure if there are any advantages. this is an experiment i'm working on because i find it interesting. separating the data structure from the …
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Comment #14533265
yes, it is.
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Comment #14532966
i'm glad to hear it!
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Comment #14532875
you manipulate a data structure that contains vertices and edges. there is more about it here http://inconvergent.net/snek-is-not-an-acronym/ . snk is an instance of snek, so it co…
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Comment #14532772
Hi, I'm the author of the repo. If you want to read about the "framework", rather than look at the code: http://inconvergent.net/snek-is-not-an-acronym/ .