Ian Henry

I had another idea for a musical instrument, and I think it worked out pretty well.

One of my favorite SDF techniques is domain repetition: (def eye-center [35 82 62]) (def eyes (ball 39 | move eye-center | mirror x :r 10)) (def eye-angle [0 0 0]) (defn pupils [target] (def left-pupil (ball 15 | shade black | move [39 0 0] | align x targ…

Worley noise is a type of noise used for procedural texturing in computer graphics.

I made something that I think is pretty neat, and I want to tell you about it.

You’ve probably seen this Python 101 thing before: @memoized def fib(n): if n <= 1: return n return fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2) Leaving aside the absurdity of computing Fibonacci numbers recursively, it’s a common first introduction to Python decorators and…

The reason I discovered an ancient blog post the other day was that I had something new to say about Nix for the first time in over two years.

Note: I wrote the vast majority of this post on August 24, 2022, but I decided that it was a whiny rant that I didn’t want to publish.

When you think about the Fibonacci sequence, you probably imagine a swirling vortex of oscillating points stretching outwards to infinity: Okay, no, obviously you don’t.

I want to tell you about an idea that has had a huge influence on the way that I write software.

I’ve been writing a lot of Janet lately, and I’ve been especially enjoying my time with the macro system.