Tags: Programming

RustConf 2023

Here are my notes from šŸ¦€ RustConf 2023 šŸ¦€. With no ado: # Talks All RustConf talks were 30 minutes, with no live Q&A. Instead, a channel on the Discord server was opened for each talk where the speaker and curious attendees would go to ask and answer questions. It had theā€¦
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Rippulous Pond

Gaze ye into the rippulous pond unto eternity. canvas { object-fit: contain; width: 100%; position: relative; image-rendering: -moz-crisp-edges; image-rendering: -webkit-crisp-edges; image-rendering: pixelated; image-rendering: crisp-edges; margiā€¦
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Shaking Off the Rust 2: Ray Tracing in WebAssembly

Rust. A ray tracer. The dream of WebAssembly. One dangerous idea that could ruin everything. This was the scene at the end of my last post, which covered creating a ray tracer in Rust using Peter Shirleyā€™s outstanding Ray Tracing in One Weekend. In the wrap-up to that post, Iā€¦
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Shaking Off the Rust 1: Ray Tracing in One Weekend

Two classes stand out as my favorites from computer science at NCSU: x86 assembly, taught by Dana Lasher, and computer graphics, taught by Stuart Heinrich. In the graphics course, we wrote a rasterizer and a ray tracer (which I never finished šŸ˜…). In the 16 years since, Iā€™ve beeā€¦
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Open Jam Workshop

The East Coast Game Conference was a lot of fun! Jared and I gave a 6-hour hands-on workshop where led the audience through building a game with entirely open-source gamedev tools. # Abstract Join us for a workshop on game jams and open-source game development tools. Open-sourcā€¦
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Popup Showdown

POPUP SHOWDOWN Close popups as fast as you can!█ Looks like popups are disabled! Please enable them for this URL, look ^^^ in the URL bar. CLOā€¦
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Open Jam

Open Jam is an open-source themed game jam run by Jared and myself, with a lot of help from opensource.com. Check it out at openjam.io. Open Jam 2018 Open Jam 2017
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In Orange Light

Play now! Three years ago, surrounded by monitors in a dark, blue-hued room, a particular screen caught my eye. My girlfriendā€™s (now wifeā€™s) eye was caught by the same screen, and we crossed the room to investigate. We were visiting the Indie Game Revolution exhibit at EMP iā€¦
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Pity About Earthā€¦

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Humanity, listen up. This is the Universe. I am sick of you sticking your nose where it doesnā€™t belong. Thatā€™s why thereā€™s a huge asteroid heading straight for your pitiful Earth, courtesy of yours truly. I see youā€™ve built a flimsy Barrier and a stockpile of Missiles, but it wonā€™t help. Enjoy the end times! Bye-bye. Talk soon.

ā€“ The Universe

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Meet SimPixel

I have someone Iā€™d like you to meet. SimPixel, meet everyone. Everyone, SimPixel. # SimPixel, introduce yourself SimPixel is a WebGL visualizer for LED displays, very much like the ones Adam and Dan build over at Maniacal Labs. #mlabs { height: 50vh !important; } @media scā€¦
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Fireflies

Fireflies is a WebGL demo in which a friendly flock of fireflies forms shapes for your entertainment. Here are some live demo links, and a video. Watch the original Watch the geekSPARK edition Thanks to Loren Schmidt for agreeing to let me use the awesome pixel-perā€¦
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Tracer

Play now! Tracer is a 3D connect-the-dots game that Jared and I created for Ludum Dare 37. Play now! We were very happy with the ratings Tracer received. In the Innovation category, we placed 5th out of 1,489 games. A more detailed blog post is available at the Scripta Games ā€¦
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Kimotion at geekSPARK 2016

Just a few short days months ago, Kimotion was on display at SPARKcon. SPARKcon is a large art festival in Raleigh, and we occupy a small slice of it called geekSPARK. # Kimotion Levels Up Last yearā€™s tech had a rudimentary and finicky hand tracking system. It was workable, but ā€¦
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Zorbio

Zorbio is a free multiplayer eat-em-up game that you can play in your browser! Zorbio is brought to you by my good friend Jared Sprague and I, via our small game development company, Scripta, Inc. Follow Zorbio development on the Scripta blog, or on Facebook. Play now!
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Lazyloading Web Components

They say good developers are lazy. A tedious process is no match for a lazy developer. Below is an experiment in laziness. Itā€™s a proof of concept for using Web Components without having to manually import each one. Iā€™m not sure exactly what to call it. It grazes the definitions ā€¦
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Kimotion Modding 101

Kimotion is a simple framework for creating interactive art exhibits in 2D or 3D and supports both Kinect and Leap Motion for viewer input. This tutorial will focus on the Leap, so to proceed with the tutorial youā€™ll need to set up your Leap. Once the leap service is running, youā€¦
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Glow Rope

uniform float TIMER_MAX; attribute float alive; attribute float size; attribute vec3 endPosition; attribute float timer; varying float vAlive; varying vec3 vEndPosition; varying float vTimer; varying float vProgress; void main() { ā€¦
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Visualizing Network Traffic with WebGL

ā€œFinally,ā€ I thought, ā€œan excuse to play with WebGL at work!ā€ This year, I had the good fortune of contributing to a keynote presentation at Red Hat Summit. During the keynote, an audience of 5,000 played a mobile web game created by our team. The game was backed by several microā€¦
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Square Off

Square Off is a 1v1 airhockey-style game that Jared and I built in 72 hours for the Ludum Dare 35 game jam. And beacuse itā€™s web-based, you canā€¦ Play now! .sqoff-grid { display: grid; grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fill, minmax(300px, 1fr)); grid-gap: 10px; } ā€¦
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Kimotion

Kimotion is a framework for building reactive art displays. Creating an interactive art exhibit with Kimotion is easy. Draw your ideas in either 2D or 3D. Kimotion will provide information about the scene, which you can use to influence your display. Learn more at kimotion.xyz, oā€¦
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Make a Kimotion!

A year ago, I had the joy of working on Digital Motion, an interactive art exhibit for Raleighā€™s annual art festival, SPARKcon. The month leading up to SPARKcon 2014 was a mad dash of perfecting the graphics and physics equations of my DiMo: Particles display. After a wonderful wā€¦
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Ping

Check out Ping! I created it for my teamā€™s booth at Red Hat Summit 2015 (Red Hatā€™s huge annual conference), to promote Access Labs. Itā€™s a 1-4 player pong clone with special powers. Itā€™s Web-based, so you can play it right this minute. Our booth had a quartet of USB gamepads, buā€¦
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Naming Names - Anonymity is Dead

There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. Phil Karlton, but I can't find a name for the original source... Contriving names for things is so commonplaā€¦
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DiMo: The Deconstruction of Falling Stars

Imagine a solitary blue dot. Unless you let your imagination run away with itself, this is going to be a pretty boring dot. Now, imagine a second, larger dot (you can pick the color). Red, nice choice! The scene is now slightly more interesting, since now youā€™ve got two dots toā€¦
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Particles and Ļ€ - DiMo Comes to Life

A player walks up Fayetteville St in Raleigh, North Carolina. SPARKcon has begun, and dozens of artists are strewn along the street, hard at work creating elaborate chalk art on the asphalt. A light rain is falling, and some artists are holding umbrellas over their work, some havā€¦
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