{"id":8693,"date":"2019-03-03T02:13:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T02:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=8693"},"modified":"2019-03-03T02:13:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T02:13:18","slug":"getting-there-on-recursion-there-on-recursion-on-recursion-recursion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=8693","title":{"rendered":"Getting there on recursion, there on recursion, on recursion, recursion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I still have a lot of details to figure out but I almost have recursion nailed. It&#8217;s a pretty brutal mental exercise to combine it with the existing radial symmetry &amp; tessellations. As I&#8217;ve said before, one of the effects I seek in particular is that of a growing plant. In fact, I plan on dedicating a facet of Mandalagaba to guided drawing for just that. The adjustment of parameters which is very specific for getting a plant will be taken care of, and only the fun parts will remain. A perfect tool for the slacktivists who wants to feel like they&#8217;re helping greening up the world while staying glued to their screen.<\/p>\n<p>I sometimes feel bad that so many people find stress, anxiety and even depression relief drawing mandalas on Mandalagaba. I feel like an enabler for giving them such a meaningless escape valve, on a screen at that. As much as I love a plant growing effect, I&#8217;m worried people will use it to get their virtual green fix while further removing themselves from nature. Get off your screens, grow an actual plant if you want to grow a virtual one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-02-at-8.37.51-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8694\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-02-at-8.37.51-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"782\" height=\"1160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still have a lot of details to figure out but I almost have recursion nailed. It&#8217;s a pretty brutal mental exercise to combine it with the existing radial symmetry &amp; tessellations. As I&#8217;ve said before, one of the effects I seek in particular is that of a growing plant. In fact, I plan on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=8693\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Getting there on recursion, there on recursion, on recursion, recursion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,21],"tags":[165,194,210,212],"class_list":["post-8693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-t","category-web-development","tag-mamdalagaba","tag-plant","tag-recursion","tag-recursive-drawing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}