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Elm Town

Elm Town 41 – Confetti and Waterfalls

Jan 30, 2019
34:07

Brian Hicks stops by to talk about elm-particle, a handy particle physics simulation you can use to throw confetti across your users' screens!

Thank you to our sponsors, Ellie, Culture Amp and Joel Clermont.

Special thanks to Xavier Ho (@Xavier_Ho) for editing and production of this episode!

Recording date: 2019-01-19

Guests

Show Notes

00:00:00 Introduction

00:01:32 Guest intro

00:02:12 Project origin

00:06:13 Particle Physics

00:08:20 Library Overview

00:11:21 Getting started with the API

00:12:36 Normal distribution of random numbers

00:14:37 Opaque types and 'with' functions

00:17:21 SVG vs WebGL

00:21:39 Weighted randomness and Markov chains

00:24:25 Dynamic generators via subscription function

00:28:42 Generating GitHub site with make

00:30:56 Future work

00:33:17 Oslo Elm Day

00:33:51 Thank You

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