msfroh

@msfroh@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sierpinski triangle programs by 5 AI models⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, maybe! I didn’t understand how it chose the points, but it does look like the random convergence approach.

  Nice, thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sierpinski triangle programs by 5 AI models⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m disappointed that none of them seem to have gone with the random convergence approach.

  Set the three corners of an equilateral triangle. Pick a random starting point on the canvas. Every iteration, pick a random corner from the triangle and your next point is the midpoint between the current point and that corner. While the original point is almost guaranteed not to be a point in Sierpinski’s triangle, each iteration cuts the distance between the new point and the nearest Sierpinski point in half.

  If you start plotting points starting with (say) the 50th one, every pixel is “close enough” to a Sierpinski point that you see the triangle materialize out of nothing. The whole thing could be programmed in about 20 lines of QBasic on DOS 30 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The massive Satisfactory 1.1 update is out now with controller support⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My biggest beef with playing it on SteamDeck was related to network connectivity.

  I was playing at home and went a long way from base. Then I had to take my daughter to a class and threw the Deck in my backpack to play while I waited for her to finish.

  The game opened, said it had lost the connection to the server and killed me. I respawned back at base, thought about how far I’d need to walk to recover my body and noped right out of there to play Vampire Survivors instead. I never returned.

  That was a couple of years ago while the game was still in early access. If it’s now possible to play offline, I might give it another go. (It’s a nice game.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe Deletes Bluesky Posts After Furious Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I find this funny, since I did a Gimp tutorial back in 2000 (early Gimp 2.x maybe, but maybe still 1.x – I don’t remember that part). I got okay with it.

  A friend asked me to do some early photo editing a couple of years later since they’d heard that I was “good at Photoshop”. I pointed out that I was actually “mediocre at Gimp”. I was plunked down at a computer with a (probably pirated) install of Photoshop and asked to touch up some photos.

  I hated it. Nothing was where I expected it to be coming from Gimp.

  It sounds like I might hate Gimp 3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Bomb Cyclone' Becomes One Of The Northeast Pacific's Strongest On Record As It Hammers West Coast⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Around 500k without power in the Seattle area.

  (Posted in the dark as I’m told that we should expect power by around noon on Saturday.)