Hello, I am the author of Sound as Pure Form and SuperCollider. I also have a YouTube channel for my video synthesis experiments (over 2600 videos): https://www.youtube.com/@VideoSynthExperiment

SAPF was originally written in 2011 and only recently made open source.

Great stuff

It doesn't appear in the Readme because I wrote the Readme in 2011 before Sporth existed.

"If you’ve had these symptoms of constipation or sitting on the toilet for a long time for more than three weeks, Monzur said it might be time to bring your concerns to your doctor."

I've never sat for more than three weeks on the toilet, so I'm good.

It's not all it's cracked up to be.

How do they know that the butterflies weren't aboard a ship?

Birds often take a ride or stop to rest for a while, but for insects ships are probably too slow to survive without any food.

Here's a 352 sq ft house with a 4400 sq ft lot that sold for $1.7M on April 2. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/420-Franklin-St-Mountain-...

"stepped foot" -> "set foot" please. http://www.stephenhprovost.com/on-writing/set-foot

That's fine. Intelligence is an evolutionary dead end. It leads to unsustainable behavior. Maybe there are space-faring creatures, but I think they are more likely to be bacteria or maybe a tardigrade-like being that are hitching rides on comets or planetary ejecta.

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This person is not a sailor. Sailing orthogonal to the wind, a "beam reach", is the fastest point of sail due to the lift of the sail.

I knew someone would make this comment. I love HN for this kind of pedantry when it's specific, accurate and doesn't dismiss the entire article for one inaccurate analogy.

Also, "broad reach" would like a word with lfnoise. (It's complicated.)

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/186515/why-is-a-...

The polar diagram shown there is what should replace the ellipse in TFA. It's far more complicated than a simple geometric shape since it has to account for such practicalities as sail inventory.

I also knew that someone was going to comment the the beam reach was not necessarily the fastest.

I didn't know anything about sailing, but your one comment made me search up point of sail and now you've opened my eyes to something that was a mystery to me for all my life -- how sailboats can "course made good" against the wind. Thank you.. this stuff is amazing, and sailing is an incredible science!

What's interesting is that if you manage to exceed the hull speed doing that you'll end up surfing on your own bow wave!

A beam reach isn't necessarily the fastest point of sail. It depends on the boat, the efficiency (lift/drag ratio) of the sail, and the efficiency of the centreboard/keel (again, lift/drag ratio), but a reach of some kind is likely to be the fastest - it just won't be exactly perpendicular to the true wind direction. It'll also vary with the wind speed, wave height, weight distribution, etc.

What does the "circle" look like with correct assumptions?

Taking ships over vast distances to new worlds, meeting alien cultures, imperial conquests. That was the age of sail. It will never happen again like that.