[HN Gopher] Grok {Shan, Shui}*: Advent of understanding the gene... ___________________________________________________________________ Grok {Shan, Shui}*: Advent of understanding the generative art Author : abetusk Score : 73 points Date : 2021-12-28 20:08 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (zverok.github.io) (TXT) w3m dump (zverok.github.io) | dmitrygr wrote: | I grokked it too over a few weeks a few months ago, then rewrote | it all in a sane language: C. There are also a few mistakes in | the code, where it is clear what the author intended, but it is | not what he wrote. After fixing them, the fences around | buildings, for example, look correct. I then replaced a lot of | the O(n^4) algorithms with faster ones for that one: O(n^2logn). | This made it go from needing ~1e10 floating ops to render an | image to 1e7, allowing me to do it on a small microcontroller, | producing this: | https://twitter.com/dmitrygr/status/1470934354712928257 | adiM wrote: | Is your C code available? I could not find it in the linked | twitter thread. | 58x14 wrote: | This is an inspiring series of writing. After reading the intro, | I expected to read the first and last post as suggested by the | author for 'impatient' people like me. | | However, after reading the first post, I'm wondering, should I | read one post a day, at the tempo the author has written, and see | if I can grok all (or some) of what they have? | | Yes, yes I should. | | There's something particularly impressive about any creator who | comfortably exposes their journey, not only their destination. | This is something I'm trying to work on, being okay with | incompleteness. Maybe it's something we all struggle with. | chrisux wrote: | It generated a pizza shop for me :D | | Seed: 1640730920030, view: 200, and I went right a few clicks. | | Uploaded svg: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chris- | ux/images/ea0801790f... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-12-28 23:00 UTC)