Notices by andrew (vavassor@mastodon.social), page 2

Awareness Day

Nothing romantic happened today. But I got a blissey in pokemon go and had a good sandwich.

And that's a success imo

@Sparrow Yeah, it stands alone. I guess the only setup you need is: there's a big monster that attacks new york.

antagonistic writing style

It's an okay stylistic technique. I just see folks legit methodically outline every edge on an object in videos and things and it makes me laugh.

Weird art pet peeve:

Every edge has gotta have that wear and tear, you know? Gotta scuff that paint off, chip that wood, roughen that metal corner. Off every single edge. Including ones that wouldn't even have any reason to be scuffed because they wouldn't contact hands or other objects.

Look, I dunno why that wood's chipped when that cavity wasn't cut with a chisel. Nice and lived-in.

@shel I got called out by this toot real bad. Dang.

I also want to share the way I did the white outline highlight on the yellow icosahedron. But it's longer and uses OpenGL line rendering which I'd like not to rely on eventually?

I assumed it was going to require using the stencil buffer. But all that's done here is drawing the arrows grey without checking the depth buffer, and then drawing the arrows again, coloured on top as normal with depth checking.

This does overdraw all the non-hidden pixels once but it's so nice and simple.

I'm going to change it to use a polkadot or checker pattern for the hidden part instead of grey. I just haven't written a shader for that yet. And it doesn't affect this technique at all, anyhow.

So, it turns out this silhouette effect is very easy to get. Where the arrows get greyed out or hidden where they're out of view.

The code pasted verbatim from my program is just:

glDisable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);
draw_move_tool(true);

glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);
draw_move_tool(false);

https://mastodon.social/media/VUXrDajW5Mh72EsyMj8 https://mastodon.social/media/qwpBj6jtm7mdLVCm6cM

Right now she's got 4 working winches holding up a test weight. And working through troubleshooting states where the winches hit their safety limits in odd places. And just generally going through getting them to coordinate.

Micah Scott's streaming work on this hanging camera bot she's been making for many months. It's really cool. https://www.youtube.com/c/MElizabethScott/live

stop taking advantage of my highly-parallel behaviour

"mute" is an okay verb but there's something special about being in a chat and able to say "then silence him you fool!"

Oh no I made a bad assumption.

Oh no I made that assumption in a *lot of places*.

Quince looks like a lemon but then you cut it open and it's an apple inside. Weird apple-pear-lemons.

Put that one up there next to "slerp the quats" as good phrases that come up while coding.

"I want to parse the mangle."

Bonus Brain: functions where none of them call each other. They're islands.