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no_reason

I've got a few ideas which I think are really cool.

I was trying to program them, do it myself, but I've given up. So I've decided to give away my ideas, just because I'd like to see the idea in real life, not just as an idea in my head!

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Idea 1 "The 1D Word Explorer": A user writes their handwriting on a page of white paper, scans it into their computer, uploads it to the "1D Word Explorer" game/program. When they load their image they are able to explore the text from between and around the letters. Sound crazy? It probably is. But hopefully it's possible. I think if you had a sort of 2D to 1D stereographic projection system and some way to give the different parts of each letter some distinctive colour it could work. If the user, instead of scanning stuff in, actually used a paint editor like ...paint, then you could code your program to shade the different parts of each letter as though there were a light source in the plain (yes, strange! - a 2D light... cool!) Or you could just leave it to the user to paint things that were different colours.

There are a few things I would strongly recommend for this "game" (after playing this game: http://shaunlebron.github.io/bl1nd-ld28/ ), one thing would be to have an option to press a button and view where you were from a "bird's eye view", looking down on the paper with an indicator of where the retina and you were. One other thing would be to have a bird's eye view with only the retina visible, like in the game on the page I have posted the link for... BUT! Please put grid lines to show how you are moving. Just grid lines to show coordinates in space, so when you move you know you moving. As a last hope for this program, I would say the icing on the cake would be if there were slide controls - controls that let you move without rotating, like left/right... you know. [Edit - You would have to make the white in the 2D scanned image effectively transparent, otherwise you would find that you just saw white most of the time!]

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Idea 2 "Thue-Morse and other sound":

If you don't know what the Thue-Morse sequence is, you basically write down a 0, swap it for a 1, put the one after the 0, so you get 01. Then you swap both these number respectively, so the 0 becomes a 1 and the 1 becomes a 0 (a not-operation), you then add this to the end. You now have 0110, swap all these and add THAT to the end, you get, 0110100110010110. You can keep going for as long as you please, or if you can code, even longer :P What if we mappped the 0 to a low speaker position and the 1 to a higher speaker position? What would it sound like? You could do this with pi, but I think that might sound rubbish, this one has a more simple and musically similar structure.

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Idea 3 "Infinte(ly) Strange Yin-Yang Symbol":

To make a Yin-Yang symbol you put two circles of equal radius (r) horizontally next to one another, then you select the point where they touch and draw a circle of radius 2r. You cut the top of the first circle off, and the bottom of the second circle off. Then you put some dots in, you hopefully understand at this point, some colour filling is now required... Now, what if there were circles of radius r that touched at the point where the first two touch, but the furthest points on these new circles was 90 degrees from the first two circles to make a sort of petal formation? Well, you wouldn't get very excited is my guess. But! ...If you put two circles vertically next to each other inside the two most recent circles, then you can cut bits of each side like before and fill it with colour. If you happen to do this right, then you get a black yin that fits inside the white yang and a white yang that fits inside a black yin on the other side. You might be able to repeat this process with the smaller yins and yangs such that there could theoretically be infinite detail and infinitely many strange yins and yangs. Now, you could leave it at this, or you could set it zooming in to the correct location to get it to demonstrate the infinite detail.

Did all that make sense?

I hope so.

Please tell me how any of these projects go ;)

:)

Chrisir

Thank you for sharing!

In idea 1 I think you mean 3D, because 1D is just a dot?

I like the idea a lot.

no_reason

1D, in my understanding, is a anything that can be represented groups of one coodinate. You know like with an x-y graph on paper, you need two coodinates to represent points. Well, 1D is more like a line, although I think technically this line could be curved and still be considered 1D in some sense.

Chrisir

1D is a line, 2D is a plane (x,y) and 3D a box or inside a box (x,y,z)

Chrisir

But never mind, thanks for sharing!

wit221

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