Ricardo Lafuente
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So in June I'm trying my first thing-a-day-for-a-month project.

I'll be posting experiments made with , a tool that i've been making with friends for the last 13 years, to draw with vector graphics in a simple drawing syntax.

First off, an output of some recent fun animating stroke dashes -- increasing their offset results in a pleasing smooth motion. This one is made out of 3 100-sided stars with varying dashed strokes.

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Ricardo Lafuente

Note to properly size the next one: video previews on Mastodon have a width of 548px

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𝓻𝓻𝓪

@rlafuente Looking forward! Do you consider sharing the code of the sketches as well?

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Ricardo Lafuente

@rra Definitely! But I've been struggling with an appropriate way to publish the code

- maybe a toot reply, but it's unformatted
- gists or similar are a pretty insular medium, things are scattered and i'd like a way to keep them together
- a dedicated page would be nice but takes some work

Would be happy to hear how you'd do it!

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𝓻𝓻𝓪

@rlafuente pip package & daily changelog

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Ricardo Lafuente

@rra i'm afraid you've successfully confused me :) is daily changelog a python package?

(in any case i'm leaning towards the simplest way -- tooting the source code as a reply)

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𝓻𝓻𝓪

@rlafuente distribute the sketches via pip and the package is updated daily as you add sketches. You toot the daily changelog here :unacceptable:

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Ricardo Lafuente

@rra my insurance company will contact you shortly regarding the damages to my home, because of the many brain bits now scattered all over the place

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Julien Deswaef

@rlafuente @rra 😂

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𝓻𝓻𝓪

@rlafuente oh and if you want a nice collection afterwards, consider using a relatively unique hashtag as mastodon creates pages like these: post.lurk.org/tags/LURKbirthda

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Ricardo Lafuente

@rra What a great tip, thank you!! Now to come up with a decent unique hashtag.

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L'eau Artésienne
@rlafuente this reminds me of a thing i made once
https://picardia.co/static/vanitas
Trochoids, Epitrochoids, Cycloids and Epicycloids are cool :)
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Ricardo Lafuente

@aqua wow this is elegant code and a beautiful result. Thank you for taking the time to share this :)

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L'eau Artésienne
@rlafuente I'm glad you think the code is elegant (unless it was sarcasm, lmao). I have a horrible habit of not commenting and especially in this case I used a lot of 1 letter variable names. I remember the proof / theory behind whats being displayed, but how the code actually does it? I couldn't remember for the life of me.
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Ricardo Lafuente

@aqua oh i'm serious! It looks easy enough to adapt even if i don't get some of the vars. I'll ping you if I arrive at anything relevant :)

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L'eau Artésienne
@rlafuente If you're interested made a variant around the same time I wrote it here:
https://picardia.co/static/vanitas-random/
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L'eau Artésienne

@rlafuente Also, I feel like I should mention: I made this before I learned about requestAnimationFrame. Using that with a time-based calculation would make it run smoother on devices with weaker CPU’s. Luckily it isn’t very CPU intensive anyway.

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Raphaël

@rlafuente Wonderful, can’t wait to see what’s next!

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