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Kontentment and Human Arcs | #33
Aight. I been away from programming for a couple of months, but there was a reason I started talking the other day about the kontentment project: I’m wanting mucho change in it. For a talk I’m giving, I want the ability to draw human arcs, with the same ease with which I can draw human lines. So I set out today to get that in. Human straight lines start with a line segment AB. Pick two random locations on that line, so we got 4 points. Now jiggle all four points a little — that’s official terminology — and make them the four points of a cubic bezier: start. handle1, handle2, end. I “invented” this algorithm by going to a live JS site that lets me play with cubics visually and, uhhh, goofing around with them. At that time, I didn’t know how to interpolate cubics, but learning that was part of it, too.
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Aight. I been away from programming for a couple of months, but there was a reason I started talking the other day about the kontentment project: I’m wanting mucho change in it. For a talk I’m giving, I want the ability to draw human arcs, with the same ease with which I can draw human lines. So I set out today to get that in. Human straight lines start with a line segment AB. Pick two random locations on that line, so we got 4 points. Now jiggle all four points a little — that’s official terminology — and make them the four points of a cubic bezier: start. handle1, handle2, end. I “invented” this algorithm by going to a live JS site that lets me play with cubics visually and, uhhh, goofing around with them. At that time, I didn’t know how to interpolate cubics, but learning that was part of it, too.
Episode 33 is live! If you are interested in becoming a part of the conversation, Click here to join the Change-Harvesting Camerata Today!
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If you have any feedback you can always tweet @GeePawHill on Twitter, or drop a voice message via the voice messages link here on Anchor. You can also read the full transcription of this podcast over on GeePawHill.org.