Thi.ng – open-source building blocks for computational design and art

p0w3n3d an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I see very nasty GPU bugs on this page. never witnessed it before. My laptop is macbook m3.

I managed to record them https://youtu.be/9EpfeUbkPT8

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lioeters 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Main monorepo: https://codeberg.org/thi.ng/umbrella

Looks like a collection of many useful general-purpose dependency-free modules written in TypeScript.

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modemuser an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

When the five cubes a bit down on the page spin diagonally, my whole browser window including address bar and tab bar starts glitching. Chrome on macOS.

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uxcolumbo 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I believe the new libs are now all in TS and not Clojure anymore.

Does that mean TS is better suited for computational art?

Or are there other reasons why this lib was moved to TS?

	▲	geokon 14 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You can find his talk about it a bit on Twitter and in the Github issues. But as far as I remember it mostly boils down to the fact that thing/geom got very little traction and external contributions. He developed this huge ecosystem on his own to make digital art but it wasn't being really picked up by others. Digital art is typically quite collaborative with people giving workshops and stuff. The switch to TS was so that other's would join up and develop the library together. Note that part of the problem was that the library was written in a highly unusual literate style. So you had to clone the repo, then use Emac's Orgmode to tangle it to get the Clojure source code. This created a lot of friction for people to contribute. Also before deps.edn (Clojure built-in dependency management) was added to the language you had to use leiningen which didn't make using a locally cloned fork as easy as it is now (now you just point to the library file directory and it "just works")
	▲	simongray 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> Or are there other reasons why this lib was moved to TS? I'm pretty sure reach was the motivation. The author basically wrote his own TypeScript libraries duplicating a bunch of Clojure stuff, so the code is quite Clojure-like still.

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hamburgererror 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Is there a particular motivation for chosing Clojure?

	▲	OtomotO 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		https://github.com/thi-ng/ there doesn't seem to be a lot of clojure anymore? Unless clojurescript is tagged as typescript in github that is?!

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dimovich 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

thi-ng/geom is my favorite Clojure project.

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uxcolumbo 3 hours ago | parent [-]

What makes it your favorite Clojure project?

	▲	geokon 20 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It's extremely modular and simple and extensible. It's a collecting of small libaries that makes generating arbitrary vector graphics extremely fun. You have a base SVG layer and on top you have a charting library, 3D models and other stuff. It also comes with a ton of cool math mini libraries. If something is missing it's very easy to write your own. All the pieces are very decoupled and in pure Clojure (unlike a lot of the heavier scicloj stuff that's being use nowadays)