Thursday, Jan 16
Flattening quadratic Béziers
made by Raph, submitted by porterjamesj
Raph explains how to render Bézier curves by turning them into a sequence of straight lines.
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Raph’s posts on Joy of Computing
Bio: I'm an independent developer working on a music synthesis game. A lot of my focus these days is making Rust a great platform for creative work.
Saturday, Nov 30
Towards a unified theory of reactive UI
made by Raph, submitted by porterjamesj
An overview of how different frameworks implement reactive UI, their similarities, and sometimes surprising differences.
Thursday, Aug 1
CIE HLC colorspace explorer
made and submitted by Raph
A little interactive explorer for the CIE HLC colorspace, which has been suggested (by the freiefarbe.de people among others) as colorimetrically sound colorspace that's also well suited for communication.
Monday, Jul 1
Xi, a fast, native text editor
Xi (pronounced "Zigh") is cross platform, but it has a native UI on every operating system that it runs on. Text is rendered on the GPU, so it's blazing fast.
Sunday, May 12
2D Graphics on Modern GPU
made by Raph, submitted by davidbalbert
Original research on implementing a performant 2D imaging model on the GPU.
Sunday, Jan 13
Phil, a crossword maker
made by Raph, submitted by nicholasbs
My favorite thing about Phil is that incorporates both beautiful and novel ideas in its UI *and* its puzzle-solving engine.
Thursday, Dec 13
Secrets of smooth Béziers revealed
made and submitted by Raph
An interactive visualization of the space of Euler spiral segments and their optimal conversion to cubic Béziers.
Friday, Nov 23
23kbps is possible – an exploration of "high speed" data transfer to an Apple IIe
made by Raph, submitted by nicholasbs
An in-depth exploration and discussion of how to more efficiently transfer data to an Apple IIe via its audio interface.
Wednesday, Nov 21
A few of my favorite sigmoids
made and submitted by Raph
This is an exploration into which sigmoid curves are most suitable for music synthesis. An ideal curve should have a nice clean spectrum, and of course be lightning fast to compute.
