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by danwills 5y ago
Fascinating! Awesome project. Interference of waves seems to be such a fertile ground for all sorts of unexpected powerful possibilities.
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by danwills 5y ago
So why not just post a link elsewhere for things that don't fit? It just seems strange to me, that people put up with the limit making the reader's experience worse, just to have the words on a particular platform.
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by danwills 5y ago
Words escaped me before by "fully detail", as explained on another threads up there :), I meant that the input image must contain (or have extracted from it) phase information in addition to the amplitudes that a spectrograph-like
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by danwills 5y ago
Most often yields a cacophonous mess, it's true - but it really depends how carefully the image is made. If the image was made using a fullly-detail fft of a sound then you could in theory get the exact same sound back out that you put
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by danwills 5y ago
Wow, had never heard of them! I found this that ships carefully packed boxes of unripe ones (within US only, so no good for me.. but maybe someone in the US might like to try this?): https://mimiavocado.com/2014/11&#x2F
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by danwills 5y ago
Totally agree, why do people keep using the 'tweet' format for long stories that obviously do not fit? The reading experience is not good at all. Not trying to be negative am genuinely interested in the reasons.
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by danwills 5y ago
I think it's still stunning how much was lost in the mass extinction, and also how long it had been going at that point, timespans that totally boggle the mind!
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by danwills 5y ago
Here's my answer to that, an 'nd' (newdir?) alias that calls this python script: https://github.com/danwills/shell-scripts/blob/bb989985d270c... This makes all directories with names provided b
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by danwills 5y ago
This looks really useful, thanks!
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by danwills 5y ago
I independently also have a stack of '...', '....' etc aliases almost exactly the same as this! Extremely useful I reckon! Another thing that I've found surprisingly invaluable is an alias (i went for 'ccd&#x27
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by danwills 6y ago
Commented at the wrong level sorry!, I didn't respond to what parent post was saying, meant to extend elsewhere...
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by danwills 6y ago
As I understand the instability of mRNA in the general cell background cytoplasm is because of the presence of enzymatic molecules (produced by the cell) that attract and then break down (lyse) any mRNA that floats into their 'jaws&#x2
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by danwills 6y ago
Yeah super wierd, can't make any sense of it at all
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by danwills 6y ago
Reminds me of how orthogonally polarized waves can inhabit the same bit of space without interfering with each other (and can be cleanly separated later using 2 polarized filters at 90 degrees).
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by danwills 6y ago
Yeah! (only an aspiring 'scener here) but I think "you really just code all of it" is a very nice summary of one of the core ideas of the demoscene. In "full size" demos there are often many exceptions to that: Non-
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by danwills 6y ago
'Glitch' by Kewlers was out around a similar time as Gantz Graf, and has some similar vibrations: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=10058
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by danwills 6y ago
I think this is mainly about the fact that the code was still in there. Disabled, sure, but it kinda indicates that it got quite close to going into the version that shipped.
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by danwills 6y ago
Does this perhaps have some relation to Monte Carlo methods where the qualities of the noise (white, pink blue etc) and/or stratification that you use - can strongly affect the qualities of the integral that results? Could be analogous
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by danwills 6y ago
This (150>120) seems to suggest that many people would be able to see (maybe it'd be better to call it "feel" the difference at this point) the difference between 120 and 240fps. but they most likely couldn't tell 150
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by danwills 6y ago
Still an excellent question! There's this (no proper references) that seems to suggest ppl lose the ability to make meaningful judgements about frame rate (or ~differentiate differences) after around 150fps: https://www.quor
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by danwills 6y ago
If only it were that simple! There's no-such-thing as 'perfect motion blur', it's all a matter of taste. You can do things like open the virtual shutter to full-open (so that not a single virtual-photon reflected off the
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by danwills 6y ago
I do agree the colours in the article were garish, but I'd say that is less because of the HSV/L usage and more the author's choices (including choosing to make complementary colours in this way). The ability HSV gives to eas
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by danwills 6y ago
There's certainly a fair difference in difficulty between hue=(hue+0.5)%1.0, and doing things 'properly' (perceptually uniform spectral sampling? Sounds quite a lot harder tbh!). HSL and HSV certainly include compromises, bu
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by danwills 6y ago
This (awesome and inspiring) article doesn't really go into the philosophy much, but one thing I love in this direction is the way that programming lets us work directly with (abstract) computation - literally any rule-following system
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by danwills 6y ago
I got mildly pleasant nostalgic feelings looking at screenshot of DOS Edit theme myself, but I still wouldn't want it as my daily driver. Can totally understand about screenshots of that not really being cool to chuck in a presentation
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by danwills 6y ago
Gives me a chuckle to see "Conway's Game of Life" in the "games available" list. You can certainly call the meta-activities like collecting patterns or building a big thing like a Turing machine in GoL hugely fun an
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by danwills 6y ago
I helped with this release a tiny bit but Tim Hutton (who's around here I reckon) deserves the bulk of the credit for some really great advances that I think will create huge possibilities for exploration! (support for loading patterns
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Ready 0.11.0 (reaction diffusion software)(github.com)
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by danwills 6y ago
It takes a fair amount of pressure or reduced temperature (or both) to get enough CO2 dissolved for the resulting beverage to be noticeably 'sparkling' (Source: Friends force-carbonating home-brewed beer in a keg (in a fridge) w&#
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by danwills 6y ago
Yeah! sounds great, if I could easily run a SETI-at-home style thing to contribute to training a (future) model similar to GPT-x, but with the result freely available to play with, I reckon i'd do it. Could even be made into a game I&#

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