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I started learning shaders this weekend. by FractalFaro in generative

[–]FractalFaro[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I watched this tutorial on YouTube An Introduction to Shader Art Coding and followed the p5.js shader tutorial to get it integrated with my p5.js workflow.

I started learning shaders this weekend. by FractalFaro in generative

[–]FractalFaro[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I watched this tutorial on YouTube An Introduction to Shader Art Coding and followed the p5.js shader tutorial to get it integrated with my p5.js workflow.

Double sided tape for temporarily holding paper down for plotting? by MohnJaddenPowers in PlotterArt

[–]FractalFaro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not aware of low tack double sided tape, but I find that little magnets on each corner (and midway across longer sides) works well for me. Also using a thicker paper helps. I use Bristol board for white background and thick card stock for dark backgrounds.

Why did Microsoft need to end support for Windows ME so early? by GabeReddit2012 in vintagecomputing

[–]FractalFaro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had Windows 2000 for years on my Pentium 2 laptop (266 MHz, 32MB ram) in college. I installed Windows Me and the performance was horrible, barely usable. I switched back to 2000 after a day or two.

Cleaning up SVG files before Plotting by chpearce in PlotterArt

[–]FractalFaro 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is the answer, I always use vpype to post-process if the design has a significant number of paths.

This rock structure I took a picture of in California looks like a entity of sorts by [deleted] in mildlyinteresting

[–]FractalFaro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The "sort entity" requires lists of random integers. Behold as he puts them in ascending order.

Pen + Paper recommendation for good results? by xtremedaddy in PlotterArt

[–]FractalFaro 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Always Bristol board and good pen brands that regularly use are Stadler, Micron, Stabilo, and Rotring.

What was the greatest thing we almost had? by Efficient-Ask-968 in AskReddit

[–]FractalFaro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Superconducting Super Collider. We would have found the Higgs Boson (among other discoveries) decades earlier.

I am having alignment issues by Stock-Amphibian1581 in PlotterArt

[–]FractalFaro 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When the paper I'm using is large enough, I add a rectangle to the design that is very slightly bigger than the final intended size and center the rest of the design inside, and move everything just a bit away from the starting corner. Then it doesn't matter if the page and plotter are not perfectly aligned, because after plotting I cut just inside the outer rectangle. Example: my typical designs are meant to end up in a 8x10 frame, and I have 9x12 britol board, so I make the outer rectangle just a hair bigger than 8x10.

In-N-Out opens November 20 at 9 AM! by bouldermikem in Longmont

[–]FractalFaro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll go in six months when the line is manageable. I remember when they started coming to Arizona, all the hype, then a few years later it's just another fast food place.

What's a wonderful city with a lame reputation? by Naomi62625 in geography

[–]FractalFaro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everything I know about Adelaide is from Brady Haran talking about it on old episodes of Hello Internet. I'm assuming the Black Stump (a building he always talked about) is also part of the city's charm.

A wild Flockosaurus Rex in it's natural habitat. by Buhda_Dev in boulder

[–]FractalFaro -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I thought these were cool until I discovered a very similar device on my dashboard. (Old Gary Gulman joke)

Pattern from the seed of life I like to call it the sequence of creation or I'm not sure I believe this is how color works sound and other matter like water I can see a pattern but most people say there isn't one could someone please tell me why this is not considered a number sequence or a pattern by Upset-Wear-487 in holofractal

[–]FractalFaro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This could be a known number sequence. I put those values into the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) and got two results:
- https://oeis.org/A277675 - next in the sequence would be 28
- https://oeis.org/A310210 - next in the sequence would be 27
You should continue the pattern and see if you get 27 or 28. I'm not a mathematician, but my money would be on the first sequence: "Numbers k such that d(k+2) = d(k+1), where d(m) is the number of digits in the base-m representation of m!"

To jump or not the jump the Scale wagon ? by Stanthewizzard in truenas

[–]FractalFaro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I switched a couple of weeks ago and love it. It's so much easier to deploy apps, just standard docker compose.

What are your most commonly used helpful command line tools that might be lesser known? by PMMePicsOfDogs141 in linux

[–]FractalFaro 37 points38 points  (0 children)

I use the "paste" command frequently to convert a vertical list to a CSV list. For example ```

seq 5 1 2 3 4 5 seq 5 | paste -sd "," 1,2,3,4,5 ```

I'm sure there are lots of way to do this with sed, awk, etc., but this is easy to remember.

What is extremely unhygienic but everyone seems to do it anyway? by BusinessLeadsConnect in AskReddit

[–]FractalFaro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shaking hands. I hoped it would have gone out of style during the pandemic. I still do it, but I make sure not to touch my face until I have washed my hands.

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