What type of light do people recommend one purchase to counteract this?
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Give you can create them from any cubic curve and it gives you offsets from it.
https://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/distfunctions2d/dist...
If you offset in both direction from a curve, you can pick a start and end threshold to fill an outline. This only gives you rounded outline strokes. If you had separable tangential versus normal SDFs you could vary your end cap types.
Now how do you handle an arbitrary set of knots/control points in one shader? That is a separate problems for which there are a bunch of solutions.
But then do not target desktop. You should target tablets and the pen-based interface on them.
I am unsure why we are talking about GPU-based tesselation again. I said do it on the CPU in my comment you are referencing.
> Counter-intuitively, stroked paths are harder to render than filled ones.
I would if it could be rendered via a 2D SDF? Similar to how you can do resolution independent fonts/decals via SDFs... basically use a cutoff distance from stroke midline or similar.
> Also, the code in general is slow compared to C++, C# and many other statically typed languages. It’s incredibly hard to generate fast code from very dynamic languages like JS or Python, where everything is a hash map.
The above is 100% incorrect. The trick is to not use slow hashmaps and then your code is near the speed of C++. Use ArrayBuffers instead for everything. I said this in my earlier comment.
I'd like to understand why my comment is being downvoted by you and others?
Did you think the comment wasn't relevant to this overall post?
It feels like it is simply because I mentioned Jordan Peterson and anything that mentions him must be downvoted because he has been declared bad. Okay then.
Given I mentioned Jordan Peterson again, you should probably downvote this comment as well as a thoughtcrime.
You can modify the vertices on the CPU, update the tessellation points and update those to the GPU. Get 60fps should be possible even when updating 1Ks of vertices (probably more) per second. Do this for whatever changed using dirty lists or something so you do not update everything to the GPU on each frame. This should be relatively fast if you using ArrayBuffers.
100% this can be done in JavaScript in a very fast fashion. It may only seem like it can not be done if you are doing JS poorly. Maybe people make the mistake of not using ArrayBuffers for everything and that makes it slow. The main limitation in JS is the lack of really great multithreading, but I do not think you need it here.
If you want ultimate speed use WASM for the CPU-based updating of your geometry structures.
Anyhow, you are mistaken in your current beliefs and it will hurt you going forward.
Please switch your approach ASAP or you will be beaten by a web-based app that does this exact thing, someone else will be the Figma to your Sketch.
This specific use-case doesn't require the large amount of resources that would necessitate a desktop app.
Does it meet the 10 characteristics here?https://simplicable.com/new/money
I think that few are using BTC as a currency because it doesn't make sense as a currency, rather 99.9% of people are using it as a speculative investment asset.
This encourages people to hold BTC because its relative value increases over time. Thus BTC by being deflationary encourages holding and not spending. It will lead to a less dynamic economy than if we had an inflationary currency which encouraged spending/investment.
I think you want a binary world where things are either A or B and not somewhere in between. BTC is being used as a currency in El Salvador and it is government mandated as a currency. Thus it is a currency by that definition. But my argument is that it isn't a good currency based on its properties (which I listed some and also linked to an article on desirable principles of a currency), rather it has the qualities of an asset.
I think I haven't changed what I am arguing, but I think you misunderstood my argument as something much more simplistic than what I was actually saying.
It doesn't meet the requirements of a good currency. There is hyper inflation and they have redenominated it a few times now and are planning on doing it again.
Is a boat with a huge hole in its hull a good boat? Technically it is probably a boat, but it isn't what one would consider a good and desirable boat and it doesn't allow one to do what one can usually do with boats.
This is the same with BTC. You can call it a currency, but if you use it as a currency it doesn't currently exhibit the properties that one wants from a currency.
Your example above shows a 1% swing -- which is nothing. Yesterday BTC dropped by 14-18% depending on how you define it.
Imaging buying a Tesla and you budgeted for $40K but today it jumped $45K. That would throw off your plans and you wouldn't probably buy it, hoping for things to change. This means that the thing you are using for the transaction is actually preventing commerce because now timing matters. This is a hinderance to commerce and those using it will not have the liquidity/dynamic economy as compared to those using a stable currency.
This is a sign you are not using a currency for the transaction but rather an asset.
Now USD is stable in parts because it is accepted widely and everything is denominated in it. If everything was denominated in BTC, then it would have similar stability. Basically the more things are denominated in a particular currency/asset, the more stable it becomes.
If the new high didn't hold, it was speculative, if it did hold and it went up further, it was its normal pricing.
Was it a "crash" though in scope?
Black Friday in 1987 was a 22% drop in the stock market. Yesterday was a 14% to 18% drop depending on how you calculate it. Close to what was considered a prototypical "crash": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monday_(1987)
Basically BTC is highly volatile, thus it probably crashes all the time based on standard definitions.
Currencies need stability of value so that everyone doesn't have to update their prices ever few hours: https://simplicable.com/new/money
But maybe in the new world, all prices can be in digital and thus ever changing?
Unless you control the whole market via price controls but those eventually break as well. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/price-controls.asp
I think you are thinking of silicon dioxide which does get into the chitin of insects: http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/degen.html
Boric acid still makes nervous but it is completely safe?