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S. Heslop:

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--- Quote from: S. Heslop on August 14, 2018, 11:17:12 AM ---I'm not great at programming.
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Gives me something to think about while I type out this stupid function 15 more times.

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Number one rule of programming: Avoid duplication. :)

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At college the first thing I ever wrote was a calculator that was entirely if statements. I was pretty proud of myself. So proud that i've continued the theme and now when I occasionally write something I just come up with a big block of if statements to cover every possibility.

I do think something along the lines of an array that stores all the keypresses then does a for statement for each while checking for changes might be more elegant. There's probably something even better too.

vtsteam:
Sorry I missed the first assembly and use on this one, Simon -- don't know how. Congrats!!! Looks great, and seems to work that way, too! :clap: :bow:

S. Heslop:

--- Quote from: vtsteam on August 20, 2018, 01:10:17 PM ---Sorry I missed the first assembly and use on this one, Simon -- don't know how. Congrats!!! Looks great, and seems to work that way, too! :clap: :bow:

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Thanks very much! I've also used it a couple of times to ink pictures. I'm still not great at inking but being able to follow the sketch lines on screen really does help.

S. Heslop:
Had a busy day yesterday driving all about. Managed to return that CPU though with no fuss. I'm a little annoyed they sold me a broken CPU in a paper bag but returning it was fairly painless. Although they've gone paperless so the guy taking the chip and telling me that it's all sorted and the receipt was emailed was a little concerning. As much as I don't care for modern smartphones I guess you really need one to function these days.

S. Heslop:
Here's something i've been working on.

I did a digital painting, since that's very convenient. I think it turned out alright.

It's fairly corny but I like corny.

Then it was projected onto a canvas with... a projector. So I could transfer the lines.

And i've begun painting it in acrylics. I think I need new brushes since these ones i've got don't seem so great. Very bristly and hard to control the flow.

But something that bothers me is that I spend more time mixing colours than I do actually trying to slap down paint. From what i've heard that isn't unusual even for experienced painters. Another side is that trying to match colours to those on a monitor is tricky since monitors can of course produce way brighter and more vivid colours, and as the day goes on the lighting in this room changes.

So i'm thinking about some sort of dispenser that squirts out blobs of paint in the right proportions to match the selected colour on a display. I really like the idea of automating out all the tedium and skill in painting. It'd be great to come up with some sort of system so you're effectively painting by numbers but fooling everyone.

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