So, I thought it would be a fun idea for my first ever Lisp/Scheme program to implement Alan Turing’s original a-machines from his paper, On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem (paper available to public). Fun? Oh, I hadn’t any idea…
Preamble; choice of implementation
I decided to go with the latest and greatest version [...]
This is in reference to the current ‘Twitter image encoding challenge’ running on StackOverflow.
If we want to restrict ourselves to assigned, non-control, non-private Unicode characters, then by my reckoning that gives us 129,775 available characters.
wget http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt
awk -F ‘;’ UnicodeData.txt -f countUnichars.awk | bc
countUnichars.awk source:
BEGIN { print "ibase=16" } # set bc to hex mode
$2 ~ [...]
I have wanted this for a while, and my brother linking me to this post was the last straw.
So here is a very quick and simple plugin; it simply puts a button on the toolbar that you can click when you want to stop playback after the current song. I based the toolbar button code [...]
Maya’s python interface leaves something to be desired, as it seems like a straight port of their existing MEL interface with no additional thought put into designing a nice OO interface. For example, here is how to set or get the ‘radius’ attribute of a sphere:
s = cmds.sphere()
r = cmds.sphere(s, query=True, radius=True)
cmds.sphere(s, edit=True, radius=10)
Nasty.
So, here [...]
