new Mini Micro features I'm working on

jstrout

Hi gang,

I've been hard at work today on my backlog of small but important features I want to add for the next release (v0.9) of Mini Micro:

new color.lerp function lets you easily interpolate between two colors
new Image.pixel and Image.setPixel methods let you do pixel-level editing of images at runtime
new Sound.loop property (defaults to false) lets you make a sound loop rather than stop when it reaches the end
you can now use your mouse to select text anywhere on the default Text display, and copy it with cmd-C or ctrl-C (whenever you are in input mode, i.e. at the prompt or in an input statement)

This last feature is really handy! When reading the online help, you can select any of the suggested commands and just copy/paste rather than retyping them. Or select a URL and paste it into your browser. Or select an error message you don't understand, and paste into a forum post or Discord message.

There's still plenty more on my to-do list, but these are some pretty important items that have been on my to-do list for a while, so it feels great to finally cross them off. 😁

SynapticBytes

Sounds like a good collection of functions.

Are you just lerping based on pure RGB? I tried to makemy own lerp function in CMYK space, so you could do the blue+yellow = green type thing, but after a week of trying I just gave up, as it seems it's almost impossible to do algorithmically.

jstrout

Yes, I'm just linearly interpolating the red, green, and blue values. I realize that doesn't exactly map linearly to human color perception, but it's simple, and anything that attempts to be perceptually savvy is crazy complex.

There must be some way to do pigment- (as opposed to light-) based color mixing algorithmically. If you ever want to revisit that project, hit me up; I'd enjoy digging into it with you.

SynapticBytes

OK, if I ever get there, I’ll let you know. I kind of stopped when I found a 40 page university paper trying to figure it out, without complete success....