Programming, Graphics and The End Of Civilisation As We Know It
There is a presentation by Bob Martin about the history (and future) of programming I quite like. The main take-away is that present day programming lacks quality control, and that is not an acceptable state of affairs. Unless programmers from around the world manage to come together and implement some sort of binding rules and [ ]
I ve used the Praha Hlavní Nádraží luggage storage three times in my life. The first time was way back, when you handed your stuff over to a grumpy lady through a hole in the wall and got a paper receipt, in exchange for which they d give you your stuff back. Obvious downside for the user; [ ]
The Grasshopper 2 documentation platform was designed to draw images on demand whenever possible. Partly to reduce the size of the published content, but mostly because Grasshopper supports skinning and ideally document and component previews are drawn using the local styling settings, so they match what the user sees when they look at their own [ ]
Preamble At the Shape To Fabrication fire side chat hosted by the infectiously chipper and energetic Arthur Mamou-Mani I admitted in public to holding an unpopular mathematical opinion. This was probably a mistake. I am after all not qualified to hold opinions—be they mainstream or unpopular—in this field. In my defence; it is not an [ ]
Another user-interface post. At this rate, we ll have sorted this out by 4082 a.d. Ran into a problem today and I have _no_ idea on how to continue. Well, a few ideas, but they re all terrible. I m just going to ramble on about this hoping it ll nudge my brain, but do not expect graphics or [ ]
Everybody loves sliders, and for good reasons. They are easy to understand, they provide useful hints regarding sensible ranges for values, they can display values both numerically and spatially at the same time, and —provided they are wide enough— allow one to change a value both slightly and drastically with the same amount of effort. Text fields [ ]
The surprising difficulties with drawing visual representations of equations.
First beta of the fabricator font code library and plug-in have been released, see discourse topic for download links to documentation and binaries. In this post I shall explain how to add custom symbols to a fab font and how to invoke them inside text. Step 1. Open the font you wish to extend. It s also [ ]
Some headway to report on the geometric font project. There was an early comment by Willem Derks regarding the need to have control over stencilling. After all the focus of this project is manufacturing, meaning that we do expect people to actually cut holes into sheet material based on our strokes. Without stencilling we can end [ ]
As part of Grasshopper 2.0 development I m trying to read up on good and modern coding practices. Since multi-threading is a design goal for GH2, I need to make sure that the foundations of the new code are thread-safe. There s more than one way to make code thread-safe of course, but I ve become exceedingly fond [ ]