cdosborn
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Reach me at: connor at spl.ing!
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Comment · 1 year ago
It is a good resource. Drawabox doesn't actually teach you how to rotate cubes. That was pretty frustrating to me.
I created a little game which doesn't explain it, but allows you to practice and get feedback: https://cdsb.itch.io/draw-cube
Comment · 1 year ago
> It's mostly about having low-JS, good SEO, easy access to information, which can be managed by very inexperienced users
Nice!
I shared in the parent thread about my tool which spell checks sites, it found a few small issues: https://www.spl.ing/report-card?website=pinkpigeon.co.uk&uui...
Comment · 1 year ago
Yeah, I'm not referring to drawing which is copying.
> There's very little that can be taught about drawing.
While drawing from the imagination is largely about using the intuition. The intuition can be trained just like the more analytical side of the brain. I can teach you a few properties of rotation/space, etc, and then give you the right exercises, and then you won't need to use construction to draw.
KJG does have some innate ability, and he was clearly obsessed, but it's not actually the bulk of his method. He has a video about drawing scissors. He can articulate nearly everything he is drawing, specifically the function which guides the design. There are others who can draw like him. Look up Tom Fox.
Comment · 1 year ago
Taking a look. For the past two years I've been thinking about drawing. Why it's difficult, how its possible for people like Kim Jung Gi to draw from their imagination. My theory is that it's a learned thing (as opposed to innate ability), but that it's not taught from primitives well. For example, rotating a cube is something that you cannot really find an explanation for. I think the actual difficulty in drawing (representational-ly) boils down to preserving the identity of objects through rotation. This difficulty is preserved in the presence of perspective or not (orthographic projection).
Comment · 1 year ago
Cool project. I have a dream to make something like this for drawing spatially.
Came to the parent to share my current project which spell checks websites. It found a few small typos on your site. https://www.spl.ing/report-card?website=www.lightnote.co&uui...
Comment · 1 year ago
I created a website spellchecker/proofreader (https://spl.ing). We use aws step functions for the actual processing, it's very cool tech!
Reply with your websites, and I'll run a few checks!
Comment · 11 years ago
Perhaps, just judge the content.
Comment · 12 years ago
That is so fucking great.
Comment · 12 years ago
validator passes, thanks.
Comment · 12 years ago
Literate programming requires that there is freedom in ordering content in the literate file. Otherwise, you are restricted to the execution order of the computer. The intent of literate programming is to circumvent that requisite. Otherwise the tool is just a pretty printer of sorts.
Comment · 12 years ago
Here is an updated example, because a few people were asking for a more complex example. This is the literate version of the root of the program. *Note that the markdown doesn't include links (in the macro names) like the html, it's just the most convenient to share.
https://github.com/cdosborn/lit/blob/master/examples/lit.hs....
Comment · 12 years ago
If you follow the project, I'm currently writing up the src in literate style :).
Comment · 12 years ago
This is a feature I'm looking to add. It was designed to be included. When I parse the lit file, I record the line no. which will be represented in comments in the generated source file. Hopefully, this will mitigate some of the extra workflow.
The granularity will be for every macro defn, so there will be some ambiguity.