OT: Haskell desktop wallpaper?

Magnus Therning

8 Oct 2008 8 Oct '08

5:12 a.m.

This morning I got tired of my desktop wallpaper (one that ships with Debian's Gnome packages). Typing "haskell desktop wallpaper" yeilded a lot of links to wallpapers with Colleen Haskell, while she's a beautiful lady it wasn't exactly what I was hoping to find. Hence this email. Where can I find some nice wallpapers inspired by Haskell, or maybe even created by Haskell code? Oh yes, wallpapers related to XMonad would do, I suppose ;-) /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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Svein Ove Aas

8 Oct 8 Oct

5:46 a.m.

2008/10/8 Magnus Therning :

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This morning I got tired of my desktop wallpaper (one that ships with Debian's Gnome packages). Typing "haskell desktop wallpaper" yeilded a lot of links to wallpapers with Colleen Haskell, while she's a beautiful lady it wasn't exactly what I was hoping to find. Hence this email. Where can I find some nice wallpapers inspired by Haskell, or maybe even created by Haskell code?

It's not quite what you asked for, but http://arcanux.org/lambdacats.html does contain my current wallpaper. Close enough?

Dougal Stanton

5:49 a.m.

2008/10/8 Magnus Therning :

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This morning I got tired of my desktop wallpaper (one that ships with Debian's Gnome packages). Typing "haskell desktop wallpaper" yeilded a lot of links to wallpapers with Colleen Haskell, while she's a beautiful lady it wasn't exactly what I was hoping to find. Hence this email. Where can I find some nice wallpapers inspired by Haskell, or maybe even created by Haskell code?

It shouldn't be too difficult to generate some wallpapers. Look at the examples included with the Diagrams package [1]. You could take the Ford circles and have different coloured circles at every startup. You could even have a range of palettes depending on season ;-) [1]: http://code.haskell.org/diagrams/example/examples.html Cheers, D

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH

11:54 a.m.

On Oct 8, 2008, at 05:12 , Magnus Therning wrote:

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This morning I got tired of my desktop wallpaper (one that ships with Debian's Gnome packages). Typing "haskell desktop wallpaper" yeilded a lot of links to wallpapers with Colleen Haskell, while she's a beautiful lady it wasn't exactly what I was hoping to find. Hence this email. Where can I find some nice wallpapers inspired by Haskell, or maybe even created by Haskell code?

Haskell-created: http://www.frank-buss.de/haskell/OlympicRings.hs.txt http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/nymphaea -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH

Derek Elkins

5:23 p.m.

On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 10:12 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:

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This morning I got tired of my desktop wallpaper (one that ships with Debian's Gnome packages). Typing "haskell desktop wallpaper" yeilded a lot of links to wallpapers with Colleen Haskell, while she's a beautiful lady it wasn't exactly what I was hoping to find. Hence this email. Where can I find some nice wallpapers inspired by Haskell, or maybe even created by Haskell code?

Oh yes, wallpapers related to XMonad would do, I suppose ;-)

Since I always run xmonad fullscreen and with no borders (i.e. there is absolutely nothing on the screen from the window manager ever,) I've considered having a screen shot of the Windows desktop as my background.

R. Emre Başar

5:28 p.m.

Hi, I created a wallpaper from The.Monad.Reader logo. You can find two versions here: http://tonguc.name/images/lambda-1280x800.png http://tonguc.name/images/lambda-1024x768.png Magnus Therning der ki:

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This morning I got tired of my desktop wallpaper (one that ships with Debian's Gnome packages). Typing "haskell desktop wallpaper" yeilded a lot of links to wallpapers with Colleen Haskell, while she's a beautiful lady it wasn't exactly what I was hoping to find. Hence this email. Where can I find some nice wallpapers inspired by Haskell, or maybe even created by Haskell code?

Oh yes, wallpapers related to XMonad would do, I suppose ;-)

/M

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Cale Gibbard

9 Oct 9 Oct

3:24 a.m.

Hello! I worked on this for a few minutes in the GIMP. Thought it might look nice spraypainted on asphalt. http://cale.yi.org/LambdaAsphalt.jpg (this one's at 1280x1024) - Cale 2008/10/8 R. Emre Başar :

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Hi,

I created a wallpaper from The.Monad.Reader logo. You can find two versions here:

http://tonguc.name/images/lambda-1280x800.png http://tonguc.name/images/lambda-1024x768.png

Magnus Therning der ki:

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This morning I got tired of my desktop wallpaper (one that ships with Debian's Gnome packages). Typing "haskell desktop wallpaper" yeilded a lot of links to wallpapers with Colleen Haskell, while she's a beautiful lady it wasn't exactly what I was hoping to find. Hence this email. Where can I find some nice wallpapers inspired by Haskell, or maybe even created by Haskell code?

Oh yes, wallpapers related to XMonad would do, I suppose ;-)

/M

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Magnus Therning

5:28 a.m.

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Cale Gibbard wrote:

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Hello!

I worked on this for a few minutes in the GIMP. Thought it might look nice spraypainted on asphalt.

http://cale.yi.org/LambdaAsphalt.jpg (this one's at 1280x1024)

This one is nice. Any chance of getting it in aspect ration 8x5? (My screen is 1920x1200.) /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

Cale Gibbard

10 p.m.

Sure thing: http://cale.yi.org/LambdaAsphalt-1920x1200.jpg cheers! - Cale 2008/10/9 Magnus Therning :

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On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Cale Gibbard wrote:

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Hello!

I worked on this for a few minutes in the GIMP. Thought it might look nice spraypainted on asphalt.

http://cale.yi.org/LambdaAsphalt.jpg (this one's at 1280x1024)

This one is nice. Any chance of getting it in aspect ration 8x5? (My screen is 1920x1200.)

/M

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George Pollard

11:49 p.m.

Needs text in Haskell's official font ;) http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/haskell-tutorial/TasteOfHaskel... http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/ndp/NdpSlides.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/marktoberdorf/Marktoberdorf.pp...

Jim Snow

2:32 a.m.

Ray tracing about a million spheres in a regular grid with reflections: lattice = let n = 50 :: Flt in bih [sphere (vec x y z) 0.2 | x <- [(-n)..n], y <- [(-n)..n], z <- [(-n)..n]] http://syn.cs.pdx.edu/~jsnow/glome/Glome.hs-lattice-1e6-720p.png I don't remember if I disabled shadows for that particular render. There are some more screenshots on the Glome web page, but most of them were rendered in my Ocaml ray tracer and are low resolution: http://syn.cs.pdx.edu/~jsnow/glome I just now rendered a level 5 sphereflake (a standard benchmark scene from Eric Haine's standard procedural database): http://syn.cs.pdx.edu/~jsnow/glome/sphereflake5-720p.png It took about a minute and a half to parse, sort, and render with about 98k spheres. -jim Magnus Therning wrote:

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This morning I got tired of my desktop wallpaper (one that ships with Debian's Gnome packages). Typing "haskell desktop wallpaper" yeilded a lot of links to wallpapers with Colleen Haskell, while she's a beautiful lady it wasn't exactly what I was hoping to find. Hence this email. Where can I find some nice wallpapers inspired by Haskell, or maybe even created by Haskell code?

Oh yes, wallpapers related to XMonad would do, I suppose ;-)

/M

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Magnus Therning

5:33 a.m.

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Jim Snow wrote:

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Ray tracing about a million spheres in a regular grid with reflections:

lattice = let n = 50 :: Flt in bih [sphere (vec x y z) 0.2 | x <- [(-n)..n], y <- [(-n)..n], z <- [(-n)..n]]

http://syn.cs.pdx.edu/~jsnow/glome/Glome.hs-lattice-1e6-720p.png I don't remember if I disabled shadows for that particular render.

There are some more screenshots on the Glome web page, but most of them were rendered in my Ocaml ray tracer and are low resolution:

http://syn.cs.pdx.edu/~jsnow/glome

I just now rendered a level 5 sphereflake (a standard benchmark scene from Eric Haine's standard procedural database):

http://syn.cs.pdx.edu/~jsnow/glome/sphereflake5-720p.png

Very nice indeed. You don't have any images in aspect 8x5 that don't include the window decorations? ;-) (Yes, I'm lazy!)

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It took about a minute and a half to parse, sort, and render with about 98k spheres.

I'm afraid it'd take me considerably longer, since I have to first get all the software compiled and installed and then I'll have to read up on how to generate the graphics. I suspect the latter will take a long time since the closest I've ever come to rendering something is watching Elephants Dream. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

Jim Snow

3:40 p.m.

Magnus Therning wrote:

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Very nice indeed. You don't have any images in aspect 8x5 that don't include the window decorations? ;-) (Yes, I'm lazy!)

I replaced the sphereflake image with one without window decorations: http://syn.cs.pdx.edu/~jsnow/glome/sphereflake5-720p.png I don't have any sort of image export functionality, so I just do a screen capture.

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It took about a minute and a half to parse, sort, and render with about 98k spheres.

I'm afraid it'd take me considerably longer, since I have to first get all the software compiled and installed and then I'll have to read up on how to generate the graphics. I suspect the latter will take a long time since the closest I've ever come to rendering something is watching Elephants Dream.

/M

Glome doesn't have any particularly weird dependencies (assuming you have a recent ghc and a working OpenGL setup and GLUT), so it shouldn't be a big deal to compile it. In case you want to give it a try, here's the steps I do to generate a sphereflake from a tarball: tar xvfz glome-hs-0.51.tar.gz cd glome-hs-0.51 runhaskell Setup.lhs configure --prefix=$HOME --user runhaskell Setup.lhs build ./dist/build/glome/glome -n balls3.spd (balls3.spd is included in the glome tarball and is the output of the SPD program "spd/balls -r 1 -s 4". SPD is available from http://tog.acm.org/resources/SPD/ ) If it works, you should see an OpenGL window with a sphereflake in it. Alternatively, if you omit a scene file, Glome will render whatever it finds in TestScene.hs. There is a hastily written and somewhat out-of-date tutorial here: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Glome_tutorial If you don't get an image (note: the demo scene in TestScene.hs takes a while to render; about 20 seconds on my middle-of-the-road computer) or glome segfaults, try commenting out the line that enables pointSmooth in Glome.hs. If that still doesn't work, send me an email. I'd be interested to know what systems glome does or does not work on. -jim

Albert Y. C. Lai

11 Oct 11 Oct

7:15 p.m.

Magnus Therning wrote:

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Where can I find some nice wallpapers inspired by Haskell, or maybe even created by Haskell code?

I once suggested a futuristic feature for xmonad or xmonad plugin: screensaver that randomly picks a haskell lecture video to play or a haskell tutorial page to display. The idea is that your colleagues do not know haskell yet, but they pass by your screen and learn haskell. Perhaps it can be extended to wallpaper as well.

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Albert Y. C. Lai
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
Cale Gibbard
Derek Elkins
Dougal Stanton
George Pollard
Jim Snow
Magnus Therning
R. Emre Başar
Svein Ove Aas