Tag: Common Lisp

  • Drawing with img-genner

    I talked about img-genner’s glitch functions last time. Now you get to see the messier part of the library, as of (january 15th 2022), the part that needs refactoring and reconsideration. For one thing it is enormously picky in terms of types. So much so that much of the code broke regularly with only slightly…

  • Introducing img-genner, a Common Lisp Image Synthesis Library

    I have been working on the img-genner library(repo here) for quite a long time now, over three years if my memory serves me correctly. It contains a number of different modules, and frankly, it is a bit of a Frankenstein. At first it was about polygon graphics, then it became about pixel ‘glitch’ effects, such…

  • SB-SIMD, Early and Promising

    Common lisp is a dream. Not always a great dream(such as when using strings), but it’s sufficient and SBCL is a remarkably interesting compiler. One that tells you how you might let it make the code faster, such as adding type hints, etc. More recently, I’ve had the opportunity to work with sb-simd, a library…