rainwarrior @rainwarrior@mastodon.social
A video game developer, musician and/or food builder from Ontario, Canada. Powered by burritos. Making an NES game about lizards?
This giant sphere seems like a good place to watch Speed Racer.
They seem pretty good for the laptop in bed situation too. 🛌💻
I got these inexpensive "Lazy Reader" glasses, and they do look silly, but they actually make reading from my lap, or while lying down much more comfortable!
Just don't try to walk around! It's very disorienting.
Spinning that circle map.
So far so good...
#CircleMap
So... I change my vow. I now vow that someday I will generate this circle map bifurcation diagram for myself, 'cause it's gorgeous and I wanna get to know it.
I have some intuition about why this is a chaotic system. Similar to how the "feedback" parameter of FM synthesis results in white noise.
The bifurcation map is a map of which angles/speeds are stable in this model. It's a really cool concept in chaos:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifurcation_diagram
Actually, I guess it's not that hard to understand?
1. The circle map is a simplified model of how one rotating motor can drive another, through a weak spring.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_tongue
2. MathWorld has a pretty clear definition of the function:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CircleMap.html
Okay this graph is really pretty and I must vow that I will one day understand what "the circle map" is.
Git is still terrifying.
That is all.
A slightly related misconception I had at a young age... for some reason I thought honey dippers were just little wooden potato mashers.
...which i think might have been slightly caused by this comic. My brain wasn't quite able to parse the perspective of its potato masher, and thought it looked like a honey dipper... so I assumed honey dippers must be for mashing potatoes?
Because I read this Far Side comic at an early age, I thought for a very long time that "masher" films were a real genre of some sort, and that this was just a visual pun on the name...
Every time I saw a black and white film, I thought to myself: "I wonder if this is one of those 'masher' films?"
I'm not sure why I thought this made up genre was a black and white era genre. Maybe because the comic was printed in monochrome?
I accidentally started listening to Thousand Knives and I had to stop what I was doing for 10 minutes cause it's so gripping.
Though I would say I was reminded a lot of the wonderful environment art in Retrotainment's recent game Haunted Halloween '86. It might be a little more fun to play than Dirty Harry. ;)
#NES
Dirty Harry's building interiors have a lot of well used shapes that effectively hide the inherent 16x16 grid of the #NES. Look at the perspective of that hallway in the background! How about this very round shading on the curved tunnels of the sewers?
AVGN just made a video about how bad Dirty Harry for #NES is, but I was really struck by some of its art. That mountainside looks like hell for gameplay, but it has a really impressive organic shape and texture.
Too tired to cook, I'll just have pickled rats again.
A common communication issue I have is that collaborators can't tell whether any given part of my plan is a joke.
A simple rule of thumb: Yes, it's a joke. Also, yes I'm really going to do it.
