Monthly Archives: August 2018

Zeta Pictograms

By Zevan | August 28, 2018

I have a set of ~100 pictograms that I use for personal notation. When I was actively working on Zeta. I created a few of these with equations:

You can read more about Zeta in this post.

I spam my facebook with images from my sketchbooks if you’re at all interested in seeing more pictograms:

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Dictionary with ES6 Symbol

By Zevan | August 26, 2018

Creating a dictionary type object with ES6 Symbols is easy. Yes we have Maps and WeakMaps but this is still interesting for a variety of reasons… Being able to use objects as keys in another object (dictionary) has many great uses…. So how do you use Symbols like this?

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let a = { id: Symbol('key') },
    b = { id: Symbol('key') };
 
let dictionary = {
  [a.id]: 'value by obj a',
  [b.id]: 'value by obj b'
};
 
console.log(dictionary[a.id]);
console.log(dictionary[b.id]);
 
// outputs:
// 'value by obj a'
// 'value by obj b'

By using either object a or object b’s `id` symbol, our dictionary points to another value. This old AS3 snippet is similar:

http://actionsnippet.com/?p=426

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Easy i-ching Symbols

By Zevan | August 21, 2018

I have so many little snippets like this laying around, at first I didn’t remember writing this when I found it the other day… then it slowly came back to me.

Looks like this is another one from the jQuery days:

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <title></title>
    <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js"></script>
    <script>
      $(function(){
 
        // meaning: http://www.ichingfortune.com/hexagrams.php
        // starting hex: &#x4DC0;
 
        var flash = $('.flash'),
            syms = $('.syms'),
            num = $('.num'),
            start = 0x4DC0,
            total = 64,
            tick = 0;
 
        for (var i = 0; i < total; i++) {
          $('<div>', {
            html: '&#x' + (start + i).toString(16)
          }).appendTo(syms);
        }
 
        flash.html(syms.html());
        flash.find('div').hide().first().show();
 
        setInterval(function() {
          var index = tick % total,
              curr = flash.children().eq(index)
              .show()
              .siblings().hide();
 
          curr = syms.children().eq(index)
            .css('color', 'red')
            .siblings().css('color', 'black');
 
          num.text(index + 1);
          tick++;
        }, 600);
 
      });
    </script>
    <style>
      * {
        font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;  
      }
 
      .syms div {
        position: relative;
        float: left;  
        font-size: 3em;
        -webkit-transition: color 300ms ease-out;
        -ms-transition: color 300ms ease-out;
        -o-transition: color 300ms ease-out;
        transition: color 300ms ease-out;
      }
 
      .flash {
        position: relative;
        height: 6em;  
      }
 
      .flash div {
        position: absolute;
        left: 0; top: 0;
        font-size: 6em;
        color: red;
        -webkit-transform: rotate(90deg);
        -ms-transform: rotate(90deg);
        -o-transform: rotate(90deg);
        transform: rotate(90deg);
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h2>i ching : <span class="num">1</span></h2>
    <div class="flash"></div>
    <div class="syms"></div>
  </body>
</html>

The i-ching is a Chinese divinatory system - the “hexagrams” just look very cool, when I noticed they were available starting at `0×4DC0` I made this snippet… think ancient magic 8 ball.

wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching

It’s pretty fun to play with this online version:
https://www.eclecticenergies.com/iching/virtualcoins

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OVM Pseudo-Algebra and Surreal Numbers

By Zevan | August 19, 2018

Was just watching this funny video on Numberphile:

Here is the Surreal Numbers book on archive.org:

https://archive.org/stream/SurrealNumbers/Knuth-SurrealNumbers#page/n7

Got a kick out of the story around this stuff… When Knuth shows the notation for surreal numbers I suddenly remembered a weird program I’d written awhile back.

OVM

I had been out drawing in my sketchbook one sunday (almost 2 years ago) and found myself creating a tiny little system of symbols:

A few days later I speed coded a version of the system. Apparently I had posted a screenshot on FB while I was working on it:

See if you can figure out how it works. I’m sure the code could be cleaned up a bit…

While OVM has little/nothing to do with Surreal Numbers - I’m glad the video reminded me it…

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