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Re: Wobblepaint

#12

could anyone explain what this means "BTW I had no idea CTRL+key and TAB had their own ORD values" I did a search but got nothing useful.

Possibly this:

When a key is pressed, a key-code can be read from your program to detect the event and the associated key.

Pressing 2 keys (as described in this case it seems) has it's own key-code, instead of a combination of the 2 key-codes for each individual key.

For example CTRL could have key-code ==> 0008 And 'TAB' could have a key-code ==> 0002 But pressing CTRL+tab ==> 1010

Re: Wobblepaint

#13
post #12

could anyone explain what this means "BTW I had no idea CTRL+key and TAB had their own ORD values" I did a search but got nothing useful.

Possibly this: When a key is pressed, a key-code can be read from your program to detect the event and the associated key. Pressing 2 keys (as described in this case it seems) has it's own key-code, instead of a combination of the 2 key-codes for each individual key. For example CTRL could have key-code ==> 0008 And 'TAB' could have a key-code ==> 0002 But pressing CTRL+tab ==> 1010

Ok, I guess these might be scan codes by another name. Thanks.

Re: Wobblepaint

#14

Reminds me of Dr Katz animation: https://youtu.be/CWaNSfkWb6s I believe they called their technique wobblevision.

Surely inspired by Roobarb and Custard (1974): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4aVXeDg3U4

Duh dee dee daah, duh dee dee daah, duh dee dee do do daaah...

Re: Wobblepaint

#15
If anyone else was unsure at first like me: Drag the left-most button downwards to access all the brush and paint options.

This is awesome! I should really check out the PICO-8, or maybe something similar but open-source.

Re: Wobblepaint

#16
post #6

Who would have thought some wobble would add so much to the experience. This is wonderful and I don't think it would be half as good if it didn't wobble.

I couldn't agree more. In these difficult times this has given me hope both in terms of the state of humanity and also in the future of the internet.

Re: Wobblepaint

#17
post #5

That's one of these ideas I wish I had come up with. It sounds fun to program, fun to use and even potentially useful to make cutesy gifs. I wasn't familiar with PICO8, it seems to effectively be a faux-retro console emulator that you can use as a sandbox to build programs (that can then be exported to a web player, which is quite nifty): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico-8 Unfortunately it's a proprietary platform.

I haven't tried it out so I can't speak to the quality of it but there's the LIKO-12 as a free alternative: https://liko-12.github.io

I've also seen SCRIPT-8 as another FOSS alternative: https://script-8.github.io/
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