[HN Gopher] Grok {Shan, Shui}*: Advent of understanding the gene...
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       Grok {Shan, Shui}*: Advent of understanding the generative art
        
       Author : abetusk
       Score  : 73 points
       Date   : 2021-12-28 20:08 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | dmitrygr wrote:
       | I grokked it too over a few weeks a few months ago, then rewrote
       | it all in a sane language: C. There are also a few mistakes in
       | the code, where it is clear what the author intended, but it is
       | not what he wrote. After fixing them, the fences around
       | buildings, for example, look correct. I then replaced a lot of
       | the O(n^4) algorithms with faster ones for that one: O(n^2logn).
       | This made it go from needing ~1e10 floating ops to render an
       | image to 1e7, allowing me to do it on a small microcontroller,
       | producing this:
       | https://twitter.com/dmitrygr/status/1470934354712928257
        
         | adiM wrote:
         | Is your C code available? I could not find it in the linked
         | twitter thread.
        
       | 58x14 wrote:
       | This is an inspiring series of writing. After reading the intro,
       | I expected to read the first and last post as suggested by the
       | author for 'impatient' people like me.
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       | However, after reading the first post, I'm wondering, should I
       | read one post a day, at the tempo the author has written, and see
       | if I can grok all (or some) of what they have?
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       | Yes, yes I should.
       | 
       | There's something particularly impressive about any creator who
       | comfortably exposes their journey, not only their destination.
       | This is something I'm trying to work on, being okay with
       | incompleteness. Maybe it's something we all struggle with.
        
       | chrisux wrote:
       | It generated a pizza shop for me :D
       | 
       | Seed: 1640730920030, view: 200, and I went right a few clicks.
       | 
       | Uploaded svg: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chris-
       | ux/images/ea0801790f...
        
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