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@trevorld@fosstodon.org I appreciate your efforts in doing things that I don't have the patience to do :)
i.e. dealing with windows and waiting on R-core :)
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@trevorld@fosstodon.org
@trevorld@fosstodon.org sorry to hear about your unreviewed patches! Sucks to put the work in and then be ignored!
I had a similar issue with 'windows()' back when playing with {eventloop} - no 'onIdle' handling meant that you really couldn't do anything interactive with it.
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@trevorld@fosstodon.org 👀
Sounds intriguing! What are you building?
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#RStats code for the spaceship & starfield
This is using {nara} for creation of starfield and compositing of space ship.
Using a custom gfx window to display in realtime and read keyboard.
#RStats A warrior appears!
Little realtime animated vignette in R
Samurai from: https://xzany.itch.io/samurai-2d-pixel-art
#Rstats wanderers, come with me on a short (realtime) stroll through a secret forest!
Animated rendering in R + native rasters
Gfx by edermunizz: https://edermunizz.itch.io/free-pixel-art-forest
#RStats 100k tiny triangles at 60 frames-per-second. A little bit #JacksonPollock a little bit like fireflies.
"I went out to the forest and caught
100,000 fireflies" - Magnetic Fields
#RStats Playable Doom!
Figured out some key handling stuff in my custom graphics device, so I can now actually control the game!
Content Warning: I'm not good at doom :)
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@jonocarroll@fosstodon.org
@jonocarroll glad you enjoyed it - it's one of favourite books.
You might also enjoy "The Mote in God's Eye" - first contact with a race of alien engineers.
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@jonocarroll@fosstodon.org
@jonocarroll It's great! If you like sci-fi it's an absolute blast!
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@Dan@aus.social
@Dan so cool! I never had any musical inclination, and was never cool enough to be in a band!
If the band name was named after the civilisation in A Deepness in the Sky, you will max out my nerd respect :)
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b(if)tek's cover of "Wired for Sound" is also a banger!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fejmuF4D108
My semi annual posting of the prescient song by Melbourne electro outfit "b(if)tek" - Machines Work
"People can do the work so machines have time to think."
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#RStats array subsetting syntax: A Modest Proposal
x[, 1] always retains dimensions
x[[ ,1]] reduces dimensionality by 1
x[[[ ,1]]] returns a vector
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
#AModestProposal
In 24 hours, typst output from {emphatic} has gone from nothing to "pretty ok" !!
Very satisfying!
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{emphatic} typst support: deep dive
The current method of output (using a mono space font and non breaking spaces) looks terrible as soon as the page width overflows.
Typst raw blocks have much better overflow behaviour. And as a bonus, the typst code for raw blocks looks much cleaner!
Top: current method
Bottom: raw block
Thanks to @baptnz for this suggestion!
#RStats #typst
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@baptnz@vis.social
@baptnz this looks like an improvement on what I'm currently doing. I think code blocks will wrap text in a much simpler manner, and won't try and change spacing to make the text flow "better". Thanks!
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... And this is what raw generated typst code looks like!
It's so funky because:
- multiple whitespace are always collapsed to single whitespace by typst engine, so need to use a special non-breaking space in unicode i.e. u{00a0}
- The opening "<" bracket needs to be escaped
- Multiple lines by having a bare "" at the end of each line
- colours using "#highlight" and "#text" for each coloured block
{emphatic} typst support: added!
Good news: It works!
Bad news: I can't work out how to disable text wrapping and/or set overflow in a block to be hidden.
Large tables make 'typst' want to reflow the text which I expressly do *NOT* want to do.
I've added a 'font_size' option to help deal with this, but being able to control reflow/overflow would be better!