(fair warning: puzzlehunt puzzles tend to be essentially unsolvable if you aren't familiar with the conventions of how they work. this one is no exception. there is a link to the solution at the top)
Re:Animating Ptolemy's Equant with Python, SVG, and CSS
by sizzzzlerz on Sunday May 26, 2024 @02:47PM
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Running on my Mac and Safari, I can execute the first couple examples and see the static images they produce but the ones that are supposed to be animated, don't animate. Other than an initial message the %pyplot inline is deprecated in favor of %matplotlib inline, there haven't been any errors reported. This article is a couple years old but things shouldn't have morphed enough to break it. Any thoughts on why it isn't animating?
Re:Animating Ptolemy's Equant with Python, SVG, and CSS
by sizzzzlerz on Sunday May 26, 2024 @02:53PM
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Just ran it with Chrome and everything appears to work so it must be something with Safari. I am running an older version of Safari because Apple stopped supplying updates to my older Macbook. I have been encountering other sites that reject Safari because they declare it too old. Must be that.
When I was working through Ptolemy, I did some of this in Blender to visualize things like the phases of the moon as predicted by these models.
(fair warning: puzzlehunt puzzles tend to be essentially unsolvable if you aren't familiar with the conventions of how they work. this one is no exception. there is a link to the solution at the top)