Elm Town 41 – Confetti and Waterfalls

Brian Hicks stops by to talk about elm-particle, a handy particle physics simulation you can use to throw confetti across your users' screens! Thank you to our sponsors, Ellie, Culture Amp and Joel Clermont. Special thanks to Xavier Ho (@Xavier_Ho) for editing and production of this episode! Recording date: 2019-01-19 Guests Brian Hicks (@brianhicks) Show Notes 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:32 Guest intro 00:02:12 Project origin Elm-particle 1.0.1: create visual flourishes in SVG 00:06:13 Particle Physics 00:08:20 Library Overview 00:11:21 Getting started with the API 00:12:36 Normal distribution of random numbers Random.Float.normal in Random.Extra 00:14:37 Opaque types and 'with' functions 00:17:21 SVG vs WebGL 00:21:39 Weighted randomness and Markov chains 00:24:25 Dynamic generators via subscription function 00:28:42 Generating GitHub site with make 00:30:56 Future work 00:33:17 Oslo Elm Day 00:33:51 Thank You