Hello World! In case anyone is checking or looking at this site and hasn’t managed to stumble upon the root domain: I don’t post here any more. All new stuff goes on kazitor.com. The archives are still here, and will be moved there, Eventually™. A litany of spam finally coaxed me to log in, so […]
read moreInktober is a thing where anyone interested attempts to make an ink drawing every day of October, or at least a once a week, or anything else in line with the main goal of making good habits. I’m more of the pixeling persuasion, so this year I did indeed produce an assortment of monochromatic pixels […]
read moreSomeone was looking to set up some LED panels, and I insisted they should form an icosahedron net for no particular purpose, as is my wont. Long story short, I tricked myself into learning a few things.
read moreA story going around at the moment is how Microsoft Exchange ran into a problem with the new year – somewhere the time was being stored as an integer that reads in base 10 like YYMMDDHHMM, so once YY became 22 it exceeded the maximum of 2147483647 available to a signed 32-bit integer, drama ensued. […]
read moreAs a quick interlude to the colour stuff, because there’s more where that came from… Last year wasn’t great for my arbitrary “at least once a month” posting schedule, but was rather productive in terms of drawing. Below is a collection of most of those doodles and art-adjacent depictions, arranged roughly chronologically in English reading […]
read moreWhere “alternate” pretty unambiguously means “better,” but I couldn’t pass up the alliteration. Previously I’ve shown how human cone cells certainly do not peak at red, green and blue frequencies. But those colours are only associated with the peaks; what would it mean to depict the entire range of responses as a single colour? The […]
read moreObservation: red and green lights make yellow; green and blue lights make greenish-blue… Hypothesis: additive mixtures of lights average out the wavelengths to an intermediate colour. Prediction: red and blue together will produce green. Experimental: nope – it made purple. Now, audience participation time – choose your own Conclusion! colours add by a mechanism somewhat […]
read moreInternet assertion: Humans see colour with red, green, and blue cone cells, named for the colours they best detect. Human cone peak sensitivities: This is part of the reason why the labels L, M, and S (for “long”, “medium”, and “short”) are used exclusively in the literature: the traditional names for cone cells have almost […]
read moreInktober is a yearly event where participants are encouraged to spend the month of October making an inked artwork every day. Or every week, or anything else really – it’s nothing official and there’s nothing to penalise, but the idea is to work on “positive drawing habits” and frequency is almost all of that. Last […]
read moreA common, if not ubiquitous, necessity in platformers or other real-time videogamey applications with a vertical dimension is some sort of jumping mechanic. The essence of a jump is straightforward – press a button and launch upwards, reaching an apex and returning to the ground. Was that introduction even required? In terms of the engine […]
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