I wondered how mspaint did the curves, and decided to implement my own — without internet as a reference

my code is in C and on GitHub

one sec

this was in the days when I had dialup and my online time was limited

https://github.com/segin/segin-utils/blob/master/bezier/bezier.c

I read this Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9zier_curve

didn't understand a word

then saw the animated GIFs

and based that code solely on what those GIFs showed me

the idea of a bezier curve, or any other similar curve, is that it's really two separate curves, one for "X over time", and one for "Y overtime"

when you take values from the two curves for (X,Y) over time

you get the curve itself

I took the most complex Bézier curve exampled, the fifth-order one, and extracted the coordinates for it's control points

and plugged that into the crap code that I guessed up from the example GIFs

and miraculously it gave me the curve from that GIF

bezier is pointless above order 4

which taught me two things

it grows in complexity faster than it grows in detail

1. a well-prepared GIF or five can be quite useful to teach a concept

whcih is why you normally use multiple bezier segments

2. drugs do not necessarily impair one's ability to code

they do however impair the ability to think of what you are coding ;P

Possibly

at least you wrote bezier, and didn't reprogram your car to kill you, and then forgot about it

but still, I wrote code that I've been completely unable to understand sober, even starting just hours after writing it

and that code has proven itself valid

which has me partially convinced that the ballmer peak is a real thing

ofc it is, it just changes per person and per drug

hell, the first generation (v1.x) of PsyMP3 was written during Spring Break 2009, my senior year of high school... and I spent that entire week completely drunk, stoned, and high on ecstasy

actually helped a lot

although, I agree, it's a very personal effect, that requires careful calibration

and most folks should stay fully sober

Samuel Serapion (https://jira.reactos.org/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=encoded) resolved CORE-5822 - Real Desktop Setup - Delphi Exception / Version mismatch as 'Cannot Reproduce' https://jira.reactos.org/browse/CORE-5822

Samuel Serapion (https://jira.reactos.org/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=encoded) resolved CORE-3566 - NtReplyWaitReceivePort failed, STATUS_REPLY_MESSAGE_MISMATCH as 'Incomplete' https://jira.reactos.org/browse/CORE-3566 No debug logs, no additional information in 8 years. Please try again.

Samuel Serapion (https://jira.reactos.org/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=encoded) resolved CORE-7256 - YTD Downloader causes various BSODs which look like memory corruption as 'Fixed' https://jira.reactos.org/browse/CORE-7256 r72509, system seemingly slowed down to a crawl(possibly because of debug spam and/or network stack contention) But otherwise it downloads videos and doesn't crash the system. Must retry with new network stack when implemented! Will open new bug for Read more (https://jira.reactos.org/browse/CORE-7256?focusedCommentId=81928&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-81928)

Hack reactos

victor martinez calvo (https://jira.reactos.org/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=vicmarcal) resolved CORE-11862 - Random BSOD on Startup as 'Cannot Reproduce' https://jira.reactos.org/browse/CORE-11862

jimtabor (https://jira.reactos.org/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=jimtabor) resolved CORE-2338 - Window Menu Problem as 'Fixed' https://jira.reactos.org/browse/CORE-2338

;-))

Вообще у нас русский сайт есть

Тьфу, чат

А тут на английском

@reactos_ru

Yes оф кос

i guess this must be mainly a european project?

international

ru

Russia, Italy, Canada, US

(I counted)

Germany \o/

Germany \o/

Exactly! Daniel is from Germany!

(@ dreimer)

Russia is shit

3,2,1...

Netherlands

Amine Khaldi (https://jira.reactos.org/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=aminekhaldi) resolved CORE-11800 - Present "Is ReactOS legal" in ReactOS readme file as 'Fixed' https://jira.reactos.org/browse/CORE-11800 Committed in r72524 with minor changes by me. Cheers.

Mark Jansen (https://jira.reactos.org/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=learn_more) resolved CORE-11897 - [shell32] Drive Properties: disable some controls when a network drive is selected as 'Fixed' https://jira.reactos.org/browse/CORE-11897

Finnaly it is possible to run Windows 3.11 in ReactOS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH0n88vdnxs

Slovakia too

This group is i10l!

Korea here

jezz, almost asked which one

🌚Do not abuse Unicode RTL mark.

I don't want to, but I can't change the effing nickname

dafuq

Stupid bug that TG doesn't want to fix

Colin Finck (https://jira.reactos.org/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=colin+finck) resolved ONLINE-635 - PATCH: Fix Winetests and Apitest path resolution as 'Fixed' https://jira.reactos.org/browse/ONLINE-635

Spain here :)

Neat! My fix went through

Now Testman is almost fixed :)

From India 🌏

Argentina too!

italy 🏎

Toay i tried this OSt but didnt liked it. Because i cant run my pirated windows software.

How is your os running?

Now?

Guys, I'm planning to reserve next summer for mini filter driver development. Do you have any suggestion for this topic? (Books, pdf, documentation, any help will be appreciated)