Hest

Point, dot, position? Edge, wire, path? And, whence Hest?

Issues with floats, Conal Elliott's FRP, 3:2 Pulldown, quantization, keeping things consistent whether running at "full speed" or in super slow motion.

Yes, I know it's pronounced "bez-ee-ay" not "bez-ee-er" but old habits die hard.

In detail, here's how Hest's evaluator advances the simulation state. This episode covers the simple parts. Next week, we'll look at the emergent chaotic bits.

Most games, and game-like software, use a constantly-running main loop to handle input, update their internal state, and produce an ever-changing result for the user. With Hest I'm taking a different approach, designed to reduce the idle power consumption to a minimum.

Zdog: https://zzz.dog

Also — looking back on this episode after the fact (a few weeks after recording it, having spend the past few weeks thinking more about rendering), my thoughts on what would make for the best approach have changed. I'm already trying a new prototype with a different approach. This should serve as a reminder to myself (and such constant reminders are needed) that I ought to be very careful about speaking with undue certainty. I like to say that something *will* happen, when actually I just plan to attempt it, assuming my plans don't change. Of course, my plans always change. But that's the point of this podcast — it documents an ongoing design process. It's all talk of plans punctuated by small spurts of progress.

• Glamorous Toolkit's One Rendering Tree: https://medium.com/feenk/one-rendering-tree-918eae49bcff

• Natto: https://natto.dev

Why not just make all data points take the same amount of time to convey along every path?

My blog post about different approaches to rewind: https://ivy.boo/hest/time-travel

Enso: https://enso.org

Places to contact me with feedback: https://ivy.boo#contact

Caution: This episode may qualify as ASMR content. It might also qualify as irritating, sophmoric philosophizing. But as the previous few episodes have run aground on the muddy bank of the design space, I'm marking the occasion by establishing firmly that WHILST PERFECT IS NOT THE POINT, NOR IS GOOD. And now that that's out of my system, we're going to (in the upcoming episodes) jump back to the center and venture outward along an entirely new axis. Though that Ira Glass quote is fucking fire, hey?