Esoteric Update #123 - This But A Dream

This week things managed to both get back on track and get sidetracked by something else!

Firstly, the lore for this week:

Lore: The Magic Circle
Lore: The Body: a Canvas

And now, what have I been up to? Several things actually, let's start with the more tedious and technical details. I went down the rabbit hole on a particular specific topic. All that I'll say about it for the moment is that I've not managed to achieve what I wanted so far, and I'll save showing that off for when it's ready. In trying to get this working, I added a few things to the API. 

This being:

• a few random distributions: Gauss, Beta, Bates;
• LERP and LERP⁻¹;
• Schlick's Fast Alternatives to Perlin's Bias and Gain Functions;
• Barron's Convenient Generalization of Schlick's Bias and Gain Functions.

All of this in service of a single idea, trying different angles from which this can be tackled. In the end, it's more tools to use for later development. Even if this idea doesn't pan out.

Next, I ended up actually cleaning up the magic circle code. Specifically, I broke up into specific states/tools that accomplish specific goals. The current coding allows it to be used for various purposes. Apart from serving as a map of the dreamlands, it will also now be easy to generate specific circles for books, or even make a circle interface for ritual magic in the future.

Here, since I didn't show off that much in terms of the new symbols last time, I'll post a few today:

That's enough I'd say. 

Furthermore, I did some work on the consistency flags, and I'm strongly considering making a consistency flag interface to make it easier to work with. At the moment, it requires looking at a separate document to fully grasp, and I don't like leaving things hanging like that.

Next up, and basically, the final note for this update is that the sleep sub-module got re-written. In addition to just cleaning the code up and breaking the interface off from the textual output (and this make it easier to do something like, say, falling asleep together with someone and not just in your bed for the purpose of rest) I implemented a lot of new textual features. There are now texts for falling asleep and waking up, transitions into dreams and dreams. It's just the start, but there's a bit of interesting stuff in there already. We'll be working more on it over the next week. This time I've only written the minority of these texts, most of them were written by the two other people on the team.

Having cleared this digression up, I currently intend to go back to what I was doing and work on that.