Still speed-coding shorts for youtube these last few months… – move your mouse over the codepen below – click and hold to zoom out 😀
Latest snippets
Recent Shorts
Been speed coding some new stuff and showcasing some old stuff as shorts on youtube – here is a recent one:
Check out the rest here: https://www.youtube.com/@shapevent/shorts
Updates Shorts and Rbn… snippet.zone zapp.codes etc…
I started making youtube shorts using a monaco-powered micro-editor I created called https://zapp.codes. Check them out here: https://www.youtube.com/@shapevent/shorts
I don’t think I ever mentioned https://snippet.zone here. It’s just another actionsnippet-like site I created a few years ago… I don’t update it all that frequently but it has many snippets mostly written in js.
recent fork of a snippet.zone that I used in a short…
Here’s a short showing something I did for genuary 2022…
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Pathtracer Research
I spent awhile a few months ago learning about Pathtracers… After I good deal of research I ended up forking Evan Wallace’s Path Tracer and added a few new features and shapes – some of which I learned from Erich Loftis’s Three.js PathTracing Renderer.
Been wanting to get back to this and do optimizations and boolean shapes – but so far I haven’t gotten around to it.
Proxy – (object always defined)
This uses a proxy to make sure all keys/props of an object are always defined.
let spec = {
get: (o, key) => {
return o[key] != null ? o[key] : o[key] = O();
},
set: (o, key, v) => {
o[key] = v;
}
};
let O = () => {
return new Proxy({}, spec);
};
let dynamic = O();
dynamic.prop.creation = 'is interesting';
dynamic.prop.stuff.not.clear.what.this.could.be.used.for = 123;
// log out full structure
let f = (o) => {
for (let i in o) {
console.log(o[i]);
if (typeof o[i] === 'object') f(o[i]);
}
};
f(dynamic);
Outputs:
Proxy {creation: "is interesting", stuff: Proxy}
is interesting
Proxy {not: Proxy}
Proxy {clear: Proxy}
Proxy {what: Proxy}
Proxy {this: Proxy}
Proxy {could: Proxy}
Proxy {be: Proxy}
Proxy {used: Proxy}
Proxy {for: 123}
123
es6 concat trick
let a = [1], b = [2], c = [3],
d = [...a, ...b, ...c];
console.log(d);
// outputs: [1, 2, 3]
Zeta Pictograms
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:
Dictionary with ES6 Symbol
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?
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: