It seems there are a lot of buggy positions which clear themselves given enough time. I managed to make it to 1,000,000 iterations without any permanent lockups (but some lasted a while)
The neat thing about this is that it's self-balancing: if one side grows smaller, the ball bounces more often and increases how quickly it regains territory.
Sorry for the tangential, but as a non-native English speaker, and still learning... this really caught my attention: "grows smaller". It looks like a kind of contradiction. Is it common to use that instead of, say, "shrink"?
This was posted a while back. I thought it was beautiful:
https://yoavg.github.io/eternal/
Oh, I missed that! Here's the post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45086020
Lazy browser console hack to speed it up without locking the browser completely or rehosting:
It seems there are a lot of buggy positions which clear themselves given enough time. I managed to make it to 1,000,000 iterations without any permanent lockups (but some lasted a while)The neat thing about this is that it's self-balancing: if one side grows smaller, the ball bounces more often and increases how quickly it regains territory.
Sorry for the tangential, but as a non-native English speaker, and still learning... this really caught my attention: "grows smaller". It looks like a kind of contradiction. Is it common to use that instead of, say, "shrink"?
“Grows” is sometimes used as a synonym for “becomes” or “becomes more”.
“Becomes smaller”
Thanks, TIL.
Wasn't there a version of this with the yin and yang symbol posted recently? (Also there's a 2 year old hn post of this same thing)
This is fun!
Mine got stuck in a cycle for a bit, but broke the cycle just after I stopped screen recording: https://i.moveything.com/c1d941787599.mp4
Is there a version of this that works in a terminal and is 2-player?
(Likely vibe-codeable...)
I like it!
Quick question, is the Day Pong a Master of Karate and friendship For Everyone?
Would love if there were some screenshots in the readme! Just my two cents :)
Demo at https://pong-wars.koenvangilst.nl/
Is it that the video is .mov and not playing on your device or something?
That’s my mistake, the link opened my GitHub app which doesn’t seem to show any video at all. Should’ve checked before commenting
On my phone, the video just shows a play button, no title card. Mobile Safari
What happens if the balls hit each other, singularity event?
this happens (using the speedup JS from another post): https://imgur.com/a/uGm4xH2
But I just switched back to that tab and they've become unstuck.
this appears to be the reverse of the yin yang version someone made like a month or so ago
nice to see variety :)