Made the website for the viewer! very minimalist design but im ok with that, I’ve decided to try and make the preview switch you to a different tab where that runs the web assembly, which I think is more clean.
It’s a pretty small site but I had to remake it like 3 times because I didn’t like it. I feel like just having this is enough.
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Now that I’m using Tauri I have to rewrite all of the autoclicking code in Rust, which I did after learning the bare minimum and barely scraping by, but the code works and I can autoclick now!
In addition, I made a brand new UI design style which I am kind of happy with, and I’m working on a customization screen too.
I’m planning out how to implement macros, although it seems to be going to be a lot more difficult
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Took ~6 hours and ended up ruining 3 of my drv8833 drivers, but I finally got one working and the motor spinning! I also found out that the polarity on my battery was switched so I had to flip that around.
In terms of CAD, I redesigned the fish fin to be more flexible by making the bridges snappable, and made a simple program to make the motor spin back and forth. I’m going to test if it has enough torque soon. Then i’ll test waterproofing and the camera.
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However, something that I do need to do is make a better point selector for the Julia set, I think I’d want to make a little mandelbrot texture and then let the user drag a point to choose instead of using regular entering, would be more intuitive.
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sorry idk why everything is so big
Finalized design of the popups, and also fixed sensitivity issues. These popups are supposed to give you more information about how to use the viewer, web limitations, crash reports etc, because a lot of people generally don’t like reading readmes anyways.
I also started working on a julia set implementation! Right now everything breaks with values other than 0 0 2, but it is progress regardless! picture attached, I need to make a better viewer to how to chose this, probably what im gonna do next.
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Remade the loading screen and fixed bugs about it!! in the previous version of this I didn’t really know what i was doing and vibe coded everything, but now it works well now!
Brought back mouse movement too, but still can’t get zooming right.
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First devlog in over a week! I had finals so I had to put off a lot of this coding stuff, but im excited because I’m almost done with this project and I can ship with ~45 hours maybe?
So sad that i’m slowing down…
The biggest thing that I did was a custom function in UI that can create a popup to show information (For ex, nudging to switch to arbitrary precision, general info when first loaded)
Heres more some little stuff I did:
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I just wrote like 4 paragraphs and i dropped a video on the page which deleted the entire thing and im really unhappy so Im just going to write a way shorter version
tldr:
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The video shows the project in Raylib which I later changed. I have no UI for the tauri version yet
Made it so that the autoclicker can change the time it spends clicking, number of clicks, and click interval
I’ve also realized that I really dont need electron to do this, im going to turn this into pure c++ code later because electron brings all of chromium and IPC is annoying I’m not too sure why I decided to do this, so that’s the big thing that I’m gonna be working on
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its autoclicking for sure but i cant exit it because i forgot to add that functionality hlep
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Made it open
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Moved all of the rendering stuff (INCLUDING arbitrary precision) to renderBrot to further cut down on space in the main file which I am quite happy with this change took off ~200 more lines. Worked on the website more and then also organized my code.
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Created a mold design and 3d printed it, its going to be made out of silicone resin and use phase lag to create the wiggling effect rather than actuators. Ribcage inside meant to stabilize it
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Started relearning web design to make a website for the viewer, setting up emscripten to get raylib working. Threading and gmp doesnt work because of wasm limitations…
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Short readme to relax
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Low detail mode and uldm mode for 4x and 16x faster rendering since the pixels are bigger, useful when arbitrary precision library is used. Mouse zooming now responds to how strongly you scroll not just if youre scrolling up or down. Inputs now use strings instead of c strings and an option for using keyboard / mouse interchangably
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Cut down the UI into this bit and main file went from ~900 lines to now 600
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Zooming with mouse is fixed because it was buggy, but most importantly the checkboxes and positioning drawing is now in a different file! saved a lot of space in my main file but the text input ones arent in yet
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Timing and detail level functionalities. Timer is to give the user time to zoom in or adjust the frame to what they want to see so they dont have to move nonstop, detail level reduces detail which is good for slower computers or arbitrary complexity
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Added functionality that allows mouse movement and zooming to also register as offset input, that didn’t take me too long but I tried two times to try and split my main file into two separate files and no matter what I tried to do it wouldn’t work because I’m not smart… my main file is getting close to some thousand lines
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Stretchable window, better ui. made it so that selecting one option deselects the others stuff like that. Collapsing window
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Arbitrary precision libraries implemented. Now technically there is infinite zoom for the viewer. If you have it on, you could technically zoom in forever albeit it will get very slow very quickly.
The effective limit for this program used to be a zoom of e+16 because thats where long double precision ends, but GMP extends this technically indefinitely I think…
There are a lot of issues with optimization and performance though, after zoom exceeds e+30 the program starts taking up like 700%+ of my macs cpu usage and ends up taking ~30-40 seconds to render one screen. I’ll see what I can do to make it better.
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Cleaner UI and customizable amount of threads being used, dynamic iteration changing for the best experience
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I just multithreaded so hard I made the mistake of going in raw and just trying to do without any help or tutorials so I struggled a little but now it works and its quite a bit faster so I am happy with it
It’s hardcoded at four threads right now because I wanted simplicity but I’m going to make it customizable
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Also my mouse doesnt do the rainbow wheel once its super zoomed in now so that is a win
from what little I know from c++ this is really impressive! Love the commitment!
Set up the 3D printer that had appeared from under the tree for some reason…
I’ve decided to use a non connected rib system with a thickness gradient inside a silicone mold rather than using hinges because that was stupid and the silicone rubber would probably get into the hinges so hopefully something like this works
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GOT COLORS!!!!!! 😸😸
Coloring rectangles based on how many iterations it takes them to escape the mandelbrot set
Also added a zooming rectangle when you press m so that you can actually see where you’re about to go in terms of zooming
Things to work on are probably UI, an option to turn up the detail, access arbitrary precision libraries, sharing position, and maybe a little built in game that would encourage you to find the different locations in the mandelbrot set…
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Better zooming UI (the blue square) to show where exactly it is, performance improvements, fixed the periodicity checking because it didnt work. Better information in the top corner.
Considering designing a better ui, adding a slider for detail amount, and then finally making the heat map thing! been putting off that for a while. maybe then an option to switch to arbitrary precision libraries because as you can see in the video theres a limit
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i think performance is better but fps is lower compared to last devlog because i set target at 120
there’s audio in your video btw
really cool and very fast! I wonder if you can do some sort of dynamic precision thing to get more zoom
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made the mandelbrot set show up!! issue is is that its incredibly slow and movement slows down a lot, the zooming feature that I tried to get working also literally doesn’t work so I’ll have to figure that out, but the thing shows up now! That’s huge
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Sorry, nothing impressive yet!! :(
Set up the raylib environment and made basic movement, this is my second time using raylib so I’m kind of clueless but thats ok (Crossed lines are the origin)
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partially refactored the code (I will finish tomorrow) because I didn’t know how to use global updating variables properly, which is necessary for the next step of making it say in progress when I click on it
Still havent figured out why the banner/header isnt going to the top shits driving me insane
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Redrew tail fin, organized structure through a flow chart for how I want the fish to operate in figma, and started working on basic code for the buoy movement in VS (even though i dont even have it yet)
still waiting for those parts and the 3D printer to come in, when that time comes I’ll be happy and that means that I can actually start building the thing and testing it out
There’s about ~30 minutes of time in here that was supposed to be for a different project (My raylib mandelbrot set viewer) but I forgot to open a new workspace in my ide or something so now all of the time is allocated here… whatever… :(
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Added functionality for the first three menu buttons and trying to get the header to work properly as an image, for some reason the thing is allergic to the dynamic island area I will figure that out later
Actually made it so that you could select answers, but I still need to add functionality so that it can submit and mark for correctness.
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Made a rough draft for a back fin for the fish which is going to be a silicone mold rather than a 3D printed hard part, also made a quick thing for the pectoral fins, still waiting for the parts to come so I can test out their movement
Making the fins are really hard because im buns at making things look smoothy, I’m not going to try too hard on the fins I just need to make sure it doesnt sink in the water
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Made VSCode project for the thing (Empty as of now because I don’t have the components to make anything and I spent way too long messing around with wakatime trying to figure stuff out)
In onshape, made the sub body and pectoral fins, no idea how to work on the back fins though I’m terrified of that
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this proj sounds so cool pls finish it :D
Designed an app UI in Figma and started working on actually making it in swift, I think Im getting more used to using swift. no functionality in the buttons at all yet btw lol, I think I’m gonna make a question page next after the buttons start working and stuff
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Basic UI, homepage and daily problem page. ZERO functionality yet because it’s been close to year since I’ve used swift and I’m washed (I was always buns at swift in the first place anyways)
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