Elm Town 41 – Confetti and Waterfalls from Elm Town

Elm Town 41 – Confetti and Waterfalls

34 minutes Posted Jan 30, 2019 at 9:55 am.

Introduction

Guest intro

Project origin

Particle Physics

Library Overview

Getting started with the API

Normal distribution of random numbers

Opaque types and 'with' functions

SVG vs WebGL

Weighted randomness and Markov chains

Dynamic generators via subscription function

Generating GitHub site with make

Future work

Oslo Elm Day

Thank You

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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

Brian Hicks (@brianhicks)

Show Notes

00:00:00 Introduction

00:01:32 Guest intro

00:02:12 Project origin

Elm-particle 1.0.1: create visual flourishes in SVG

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

Random.Float.normal in Random.Extra

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