Matt DesLauriers mattdesl

"the cloud"

I wish we had real cloud computers. I want to be able to write some code and deploy it to the ether, without having to maintain it. If other people find the program useful, they can tap in and run my code without me having to manage the application's uptime, bandwidth, and costs. The less control I have over it, the better. In fact, I'd love if the mere act of uploading the program also relinquishes it from my control, placing the burden on the users who will operate and use it. And, importantly, I'd like this system to be a web primitive—something that lives in a shared and open spec, like the way that HTTPS and HTML works, rather than relying on a single private company to manage everything (*cough* Amazon).

vending machines in the sky

One analogy I can think of might be a network of floating vending machines. You s

WebGPU in Deno and the browser (with canvas-sketch)

This is a canvas-sketch demo that can render an image with WebGPU in both the browser and deno.

requirements

This requires deno 1.8 or higher (tested on 1.31.3) and a recent version of node/npm to install canvas-sketch-cli. If you want to run the browser version, you'll need a browser with WebGPU support, which is most likely going to be Chrome Canary with WebGPU enabled.

graphics toolkit wishlist

Specifically for 2D graphics and art. Not ideally suited for real-time purposes.

Hardware acceleration is not strictly necessary but would be ideal for faster iteration & feedback loops.

Main features:

Works on the Web (either pure JS or compiles to WASM)
Works outside of the Web (either Nodejs or native)

Using data and code from: https://graphics.geometrian.com/research/spectral-primaries.html

See their reference implementation for details (MIT license): https://github.com/geometrian/simple-spectral

This converts sRGB triplet into spectral reflectance, then combines two curves with weighted geometric mean to produce a "mixed" colour.

Installation

training a neural net to learn mixbox's latent space (encoding RGB to latent vector). the rest can be mixed and decoded without a neural net.

license

note this source code has no license associated with it and should be used for personal use only, as Mixbox has a commercial license and it isn't entirely clear whether this type of usage would infringe on it or not.

	// Static artwork

	const randomRange = (min, max) => Math.random() * (max - min) + min;

	export default ({ width, height, data }) => {
	const baseHue = Math.random() * 360;

	const newColor = () => {
	const hue = baseHue + randomRange(-1, 1) * 5;
	const sat = 50 + randomRange(-1, 1) * 10;



	export function pluginGrid(fn) {
	return (props) => {
	const { context, width, height, data = {} } = props;
	const { background = "white" } = data;
	const cells = gridTiles(width, height, data).map((tile) => {
	context.save();
	context.translate(tile.x, tile.y);
	const cellProps = {

	% data taken from Excel sheet described in:
	% http://scottburns.us/reflectance-curves-from-srgb-10/
	T = [
	0.0000646936115727633 0.000219415369171578 0.00112060228414359 0.00376670730427686 0.0118808497572766 0.0232870228938867 0.0345602796797156 0.0372247180152918 0.0324191842208867 0.0212337349018611 0.0104912522835777 0.00329591973705558 0.000507047802540891 0.000948697853868474 0.00627387448845597 0.0168650445840847 0.0286903641895679 0.0426758762490725 0.0562561504260008 0.0694721289967602 0.0830552220141023 0.0861282432155783 0.0904683927868683 0.0850059839999687 0.0709084366392777 0.0506301536932269 0.0354748461653679 0.0214687454102844 0.0125167687669176 0.00680475126078526 0.00346465215790157 0.00149764708248624 0.000769719667700118 0.000407378212832335 0.000169014616182123 0.0000952268887534793;
	0.00000184433541764457 0.0000062054782702308 0.0000310103776744139 0.000104750996050908 0.000353649345357243 0.000951495123526191 0.00228232006613489 0.00420743392201395 0.00668896510747318 0.0098886425131619

	# Generating Reflectance Curves from sRGB Triplets
	# http://scottburns.us/reflectance-curves-from-srgb-10/

	# Original Matlab code & article:
	# http://scottburns.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/LHTSS-text-file.txt
	# http://scottburns.us/reflectance-curves-from-srgb-10/

	# Note: This file was transpiled from Matlab by GPT-4 with
	# some additional human help by @mattdesl to fix bugs. There
	# may still be crucial errors—notably, it cannot solve due to "Singular matrix" error.

	// Using mixbox latent vectors without
	// actually pulling mixbox dependency into the code
	// Useful in two ways:
	// 1. To bring file size down (e.g. on-chain art)
	// 2. (Legal gray area) To potentially create something that is not restricted by mixbox license. Not clear yet whether this would circumvent the need for a license.

	// EDIT: After discussion with them, this would indeed invalidate their license and be considered infringement. Code exists for educational purpose only.

	// note this file includes some licensed code (evalPolynomial) from mixbox's source
	// so I have not put a license on this