bespokealgo's comments

On: Show HN: Superblocks – IDE for Internal Apps, APIs and Cron Jobs

[bespokealgo]

(One of the developers of Superblocks here)

Thanks for the feedback - our docs are more text heavy and might be better suited for skimming. Our quick start guide might be a good starting point: https://docs.superblocks.com/getting-started/5-min-quickstar...

There isn't any drag and drop when it comes to programming in Superblocks. You can write good ol' regular Python/JS to create APIs and program your event handlers in the UI!

[andybak → bespokealgo]

Yep. That's exactly the thing I would have liked to have seen near the top.

To my mind, an amalgam of the gifs on that quickstart should be on your home page as the hero image.

On: 4D Toys: how objects bounce and roll in 4D – paper accepted to SIGGRAPH 2020

[bespokealgo]

What we (3D beings) see is a 2D projection of the world around us, 2D beings would indeed see a 1D projection of their 2D world (e.g. we only really see a circle when looking at a sphere). Just as we use depth perception to differentiate 3D objects from 2D ones, 2D beings would also be able to discern a circle from a line in a 2D world.