smorgasborg

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Comment · 29 days ago
Comment · 29 days ago
thank you. just played all 20 levels. I want to see a dynamic mapping of the phase space as i drag a mass around. maybe i'll vibe code that.
Comment · 1 month ago
correct link with time stamp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C71Oj68sN5M&t=90

Tom Servo: look here he comes it's Joel

Tom Servo and Crow: Joel! Joel!

Joel: Hi you guys, how you doing?

TS: oh you know it's just like you to think of us instead of yourself

C: that's what separates you from us measly Bots

J: Thanks hi everybody, welcome to the satellite of love, I'm Joel Robinson and these are

TS: oh you see he introduced himself what a perfectly thoughtful thing to do

C: Yes thoughtful

J: these are my robots Tom Servo and Crow and I've installed in them a protocol module that makes them believe everything I think, say, or do is utterly brilliant

Crow: oh and it IS Joel, God yes.

TS: Roger penrose on his best day isn't half as brilliant or as charming as you, I might add

intercom: Commercial sign in 15 seconds, of course every blissful second with you is like an apple of gold Joel

Both:yes yes yes

J: you know I'm starting to have second thoughts about this. I don't know what I think

TS: Oh Joel! I've wiped away every bit of hesitation I had about this project

Crow: not that we take issue with anything you'd think

Both: No, No, no

J: It does make you easier to work with

Both: Oh Yes, yes, easy as pie, brilliant

B: brilliant more you Mr Miller

J: it leaves me feeling kind of hollow

TS: Wow, how insightful of you to find that in yourself

Crow: You always cut right to the heart of things Joel

J: yeah yeah I'm going to remove those modules

TS: oh no no no just just just just shut me down completely

C: jettison me into space please

T: oh yes disconnect with extreme prejudice

C: you see this butt oh kick this ...

<commercial break>

J: all right there's the protocol module right there

Crow: don't touch me, don't ever touch me.

TS: this is painful

J: sorry

TS: jeez Joel some small animal crawl inside your jumpsuit and die?

J: there's the Bots I know & love

Comment · 5 months ago
let me know if you'd like to beta test a new version. see my recent comment here.
Comment · 5 months ago
I'm beta testing a new version, using imagery from the "DESI" survey, which should be a step up. if you're interested in trying it, feedback is appreciated, reply to this comment, or email me directly via the contact link at smorgasb.org/about

About Zenith/DESI beta DESI images: - higher res, but less complete coverage. the new version switches between image sets. this has the side benefit of splitting the load.

- don't have the white tile edge / blank tile edge issues present in PanSTARRS

- have a different form of oversaturation distortion, compared to PanSTARRS; it's more destructive. image filter for that is in the works.

Comment · 5 months ago
lol. not a bad idea, but no, that didn't work. encoding latitude as a URL param... could save me from having to make a ui. it'd be something like ../zenith?lat=35.2N
Comment · 5 months ago
https://smorgasb.org/zenith32/

was quicker to hardcode one, then add the feature

Comment · 5 months ago
> It would be interesting to allow the user to manually add location coords

shouldn't be hard. one difference is moving to a much higher/lower lat. to see the difference in angular speed. Where would you want to see?

Comment · 5 months ago
exactly. that's the only other time you can get that sense. (or moonrise/set)
Comment · 5 months ago
yes. the Field of View is the size of a grain of rice at arm's length. the total "movie" you see is like 2500 of those rice-grains, end to end (earlier in the explainer, it mentions the FoV size)
Comment · 5 months ago
exactly. this takes me back to the low-tech beginnings
Comment · 5 months ago
I'm the dev. happy to answer questions.

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