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maximecb.github.io is a personal blog at maximecb.github.io about programming and math. Since 2013, 48 different Hacker News readers have linked it 109 times, most often “Turing Drawings”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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- Turing Drawings3 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2013-11-08
- Turing Drawings (2012)2 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2018-09-11
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What got me when I first started learning is to understand the difference between sound synthesis (which this link is basically for) and music composition. Maybe you're asking for something in between the basics of sound synthesis and full music composition. There's also all the different aspects of composition like drum arrangement, chord progression, melody creation, general music theory, etc. I've collected some…
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on “Learning Synths”Submitted Turing Drawings as a story · 45 points
HN discussionI'm getting all verklempt reading this! - - - - I just want to add that Maxime is the genius who wrote Turing Drawings, one of my personal all-time favorite uses of the computer ever. https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/ https://pointersgonewild.com/2012/12/31/turing-drawings/ It's worth looking at the code too, IMO. It made me realize that JS could be beautiful. https://github.com/maximecb/Turing-Drawings -…
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on “The internet changed my life”Submitted Drawing with randomly generated Turing Machines as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's a toy, but I remember being very impressed with the implementation of Turing Drawings: http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/ https://github.com/maximecb/Turing-Drawings
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on “Ask HN: What are the “best” codebases that you've encountered?”Submitted Show HN: I built one of the most advanced web-based drum/beat sequencers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionVery enjoyable, thanks: http://maximecb.github.io/MusicToy/#babababaaaaaaaaababababa... https://mt2.musictools.live/#1259
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on “Music Grid”Submitted Turing Drawings (2012) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI too feel a little cynical, because I built basically exactly this back in 2012. Before Google, and before Ableton. AFAIK, it was the first grid sequencer online. The first version used the Mozilla audio API, before Web Audio was even a thing. I wish I was credited for the inspiration somewhere, but I guess it's very possible that this is an independent reinvention. I called it MusicToy: http://maximecb.github.io/M…
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on “Music Grid”Submitted Turing Drawings (2012) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionUnison, the rsync-like tool, has an awesome interface. ( https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ ) Prolog. There's a reason it's been king of the Logical Paradigm for decades. Oberon OS. Turing Drawings. ( https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/ ) procmail ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procmail ) one of the most beautiful (yet hideous) programs I have ever read.
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on “Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of elegant software?”That's really cool! Many of these end up looking like random noise. (So maybe they're PRNGs?) I love the way this one starts out before it devolves into noise: http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#5,3,3,2,3,1,2,2,1...
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on “2020 Mathematical Art Exhibition”Certainly Turing Drawings should count? http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/ (no pun intended.)
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on “2020 Mathematical Art Exhibition”There's also Turing Tunes, based on the same idea: http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Tunes/
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on “Turing Drawings”As with randomly generated CA, I think the most interesting are the ones that exhibit some large scale characteristic which persists while micro states continue to evolve unpredictably, as for example: https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,4,1,3,2,3,2,0,... I wonder if Stephen Wolfram has opined on the applicability of his 4 classes of CA behaviour (fixed, periodic, random, complexly structured) to this type…
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on “Turing-Drawings”I'll share some of the interesting ones I found! https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#8,3,6,1,0,0,1,1,... https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#8,3,3,1,1,3,1,3,... https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#2,22,1,2,3,1,16,...
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on “Turing-Drawings”here are some of my best finds: - https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,1,2,3,3,1,0,... - https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#6,3,2,1,0,4,1,1,... - https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#7,3,4,1,2,6,1,3,... - https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#7,3,5,1,1,6,2,3,...
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on “Turing-Drawings”Some I liked and/or found interesting: - https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,2,1,1,2,0,... - https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#6,6,4,2,3,0,4,2,... - https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#6,6,0,5,2,4,3,1,... - https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#3,6,2,5,1,2,3,3,...
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on “Turing-Drawings”This one has a few satisfying phases: https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#5,3,4,2,2,0,2,1,... a short film: https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#7,3,5,2,0,6,2,1,... long time to reach NESS (if it does at all): https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#7,3,3,1,0,0,2,3,... Cool glyphs: https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,4,0,2,1,3,1,0,...
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on “Turing-Drawings”Very cool! Stumbled upon this curious ‘phase separation’. There’s something natural and familiar in the chaos, complexity and decay. https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#2,10,1,6,1,0,2,0...
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on “Turing-Drawings”This one leaves a nice impression on your eyes if you stare at it: https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,5,2,3,3,0,3,1,...
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on “Turing-Drawings”This is interesting, looks like different patterns at different levels of zoom. https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#20,2,16,1,2,9,1,...
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on “Turing-Drawings”This is my favorite [1]. These are a fun exercise to program yourself. Fairly straightforward but also insightful and easy to create fun variations with. [1]: https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#2,10,0,2,1,0,6,1...
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on “Turing-Drawings”Why does this look like a perfect representation of TV static? https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,3,1,0,3,1,1,...
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on “Turing-Drawings”See also Turing Drawings http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/
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on “Creative Code-Generated Art”From the same genius who created Turing Drawings: https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/
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on “NoiseCraft: Browser-Based Visual Programming Language for Sound and Music”(OMGOMGOMG Dude, Dr. Kay, sir, your excellency, sir! I'm a huge fan! HUGE! You have made my day. I'm going to be telling random strangers in the street "Alan Kay responded to m'comment on the intertubes today!" and whistling and dancing on lampposts. Okay, deep breath, calming down...) Apologies for my glibness, I meant no disrespect. I knew it was someone I should remember. (He of BitBlt fame, damn I'm getting old…
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on “Lisp for the Web (2008)”http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/ > Turing Drawings uses randomly generated Turing machines to produce drawings on a canvas, as a form of generative art.
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on “Cellular Automata in the Browser”i spent an hour finding the most unique animated ones. the longer I experimented, the more unique the patterns became. http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#9,3,2,2,2,1,1,2,5... http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#9,3,6,2,2,6,2,3,6... http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#9,3,6,1,0,1,1,2,6... http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#9,3,4,1,0,5,2,0,5... http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#2…
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on “Turing Drawings”The most "Life" like one I came across: http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#3,3,1,1,1,2,2,2,1...
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