eclipse smoke and gay dreams. queer, trans. i like music, art, geometry, and combinations thereof. "if we can challenge the gender binary, we can challenge prisons" -- Dr. Angela Davis
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@shoofle my advice from these sorts of projects is to invest in visual / tactile tooling as early as u can, but prioritize a hacky design that lets u be expressive quickly over a more flexible/robust one with a deferred payoff
if the project survives long enough, u can come back and do things the "right" way, but i find the expected longevity of a project jumps immensely the second it hits the threshold where i can easily generate and "see" a lot of test examples
@shoofle fun fact: take any (possibly infinite, etc) surface. consider the group of closed paths on it. pick any set of generators for the group.
the growth rate of the number of distinct possible paths by taking the product of n generators depends (up to constant factor) only on the surface, not on the generators u chose.
(in particular, it will be either polynomial or exponential, depending on whether the surface is hyperbolic)
