Elm Town

Elm Town 41 – Confetti and Waterfalls

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Brian Hicks stops by to talk about elm-particle, a handy particle physics simulation you can use to throw confetti across your users' screens!

Thank you to our sponsors, Ellie, Culture Amp and Joel Clermont.

Special thanks to Xavier Ho (@Xavier_Ho) for editing and production of this episode!

Recording date: 2019-01-19

Guests
  • Brian Hicks (@brianhicks)
    • Show Notes

    00:00:00 Introduction

    00:01:32 Guest intro

    00:02:12 Project origin

    • Elm-particle 1.0.1: create visual flourishes in SVG

      • 00:06:13 Particle Physics

      00:08:20 Library Overview

      00:11:21 Getting started with the API

      00:12:36 Normal distribution of random numbers

      • Random.Float.normal in Random.Extra

        • 00:14:37 Opaque types and 'with' functions

        00:17:21 SVG vs WebGL

        00:21:39 Weighted randomness and Markov chains

        00:24:25 Dynamic generators via subscription function

        00:28:42 Generating GitHub site with make

        00:30:56 Future work

        00:33:17 Oslo Elm Day

        00:33:51 Thank You

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