2025 1

Mapscii Rendering

I asked Claude Sonnet 4.5 on GitHub Copilot: How does mapscii render vector tiles as text blocks on the terminal? What are the libraries it uses and how does it use them? Explain as a detailed tutorial with examples so that I can learn how to rasterize vector shapes on the terminal. Below’s the explanation. What’s noteworthy to me is: How it uses Braille characters to get 8 pixels per character cell (2x4 grid). How it fills polygons using (a) triangulation and (b) getting all edge points using Bresenham’s algorithm, then (c) filling horizontal spans between edge pairs. I’ll help you understand how mapscii renders vector tiles as text blocks on the terminal. Let me search through the repository to find the relevant code and understand the architecture. Now let me get more specific files to understand the rendering pipeline better:# How MapSCII Renders Vector Tiles as Text Blocks on the Terminal ...

2021 2

The #HarryPotter Screen Time video featured a bar chart race made in PowerPoint. Many of you asked how I made it. Here’s a step-by-step tutorial. https://youtu.be/E1SeoUV8awI (BTW, there are just 9 people on LinkedIn who match “bar chart race” and #powerpoint. This is for you, friends!) Gramener converted this feature into a product, SlideSense.ai. But more on that later 🙂 The original video is at https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6801138072068214784/ LinkedIn

Programming Minecraft with Websockets

Minecraft lets you connect to a websocket server when you’re in a game. The server can receive and send any commands. This lets you build a bot that you can … (well, I don’t know what it can do, let’s explore.) Minecraft has commands you can type on a chat window. For example, type / to start a command and type setblock ~1 ~0 ~0 grass changes the block 1 north of you into grass. (~ means relative to you. Coordinates are specified as X, Y and Z.) ...

2005 1

Photoshop comic effect

Adobe Photoshop comic art effect.

2002 2

Pen-spinning

The art of pen-spinning. A site dedicated to teaching you about twirling pens on your fingers.

2000 2

Tutorial find

Find tutorials with tutorialfind.

How Stuff Works

HowStuffWorks and Learn2 are great places to learn something new on the Net. I learnt how to tie a necktie at Learn2.