Made the kinda constellation animation you see sometimes in the backgrounds of things.

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(surprisingly easy on resources given the O(n2) complexity

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    3 months ago

    thank you! seems someone else already tagged you, but here’s the link to source just in case: https://codeberg.org/aketawi-study/rust-constellation-bgr/

    The basic idea is that I spawn a bunch of nodes with rando m velocitins and check the distance between each other at every frame. If the distance is within a certain radius, draw a line.

    To display it in the background I just have a script that launches it on startup, and a couple of rules in AwesomeWM and picom to make it transparent, unfocusable and borderless