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@@ -54,45 +54,48 @@ than it needed to be.</p>
</video>
<p>Moved phosphor decay into the 4th byte of the RGB union–should’ve done this
-in 2022. What was I thinking.</p>
+in 2022; What was I thinking.</p>
<p>Keeping the RGB union despite portability concerns. All my systems are
little-endian and the code is cleaner this way.</p>
<p>Fixed Unicode by introducing a charset array. UNICODE(min, max) packs Unicode
-ranges into uint64–low four bytes for start, high four bytes for end.
+ranges into uint64: low four bytes for start, high four bytes for end.
insert_code() unpacks a random block and picks a character from it:</p>
-<div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>static uint64_t glyphs[] = {
+<div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>#define UNICODE(min, max) (((uint64_t)max &lt;&lt; 32) | min)
+
+static uint64_t glyphs[] = {
UNICODE(0x0021, 0x007E), /* ASCII */
UNICODE(0xFF65, 0xFF9F), /* Half-width Katakana */
};
-</code></pre></div></div>
-
-<p>Full-width Katakana breaks column alignment. Stick to half-width
-(U+FF61-U+FF9F) range. Compile with -DNOKANA to disable Katakana altogether.</p>
-<p>blend() simulates phosphor decay by eroding RGB channels toward
-background color:</p>
-
-<div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>static inline void blend(matrix *mat, size_t row, size_t col)
+static inline void insert_code(matrix *mat,
+ size_t row, size_t col)
{
- unsigned char *color = mat-&gt;rgb[index(mat, row, col)].color;
- color[R] = color[R] - (color[R] - RGB_BG_RED) / DECAY_MPLIER;
- color[G] = color[G] - (color[G] - RGB_BG_GRN) / DECAY_MPLIER;
- color[B] = color[B] - (color[B] - RGB_BG_BLU) / DECAY_MPLIER;
+ uint64_t blk;
+ uint32_t min, max;
+
+ blk = glyphs[(rand() % glyphlen)];
+ min = (uint32_t)blk;
+ max = (uint32_t)(blk &gt;&gt; 32);
+ mat-&gt;code[index(mat, row, col)] = rand() % (max - min) + min;
}
</code></pre></div></div>
-<p>That’s still good. Leaving it alone.</p>
+<p>Full-width Katakana breaks column alignment. Stick to half-width
+(U+FF61-U+FF9F) range. Compile with -DNOKANA to disable Katakana altogether.</p>
+
+<p>blend() is still good. Leaving it alone.</p>
<p>Tossed license and automake cruft. Just <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">cc -O3 main.c -o matrix</code> now. Don’t
need the ceremony.</p>
-<p>Runs at 2-3% CPU on OpenBSD (T490). No regressions. Fans are quiet.</p>
+<p>Runs at 2-3% CPU on OpenBSD (T490). No cause to measure performance more
+precisely. No regressions. Fans are quiet.</p>
<p>Commit:
-<a href="https://git.asciimx.com/matrix-digital-rain/commit/?id=03f8d87ba7c2e46bd3f3cc4c772fb3a2ac740c92">03f8d87</a></p>
+<a href="https://git.asciimx.com/matrix-digital-rain/commit/main.c?id=69a888a5b0bc4ef4bce4f86c1556a06f0f131fda">69a888a</a></p>
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<p class="post-author right">by W. D. Sadeep Madurange</p>
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