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inconvergent

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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/ .