Wow, didn't know this one (just added to my lecture notes!) thanks

"Just getting started", I feel the same with the guitar. Been playing since I was 12, 40 years on with quite a few breaks still love it and having fun will never be a pro! I work with loads of great artists, I really can't draw (but am according to the deeds of my apprenticeship a qualified draftsman!) but still love to doodle and sketch. The awesome artists I teach and work with always amaze me, mostly the really good ones always have a sketch book with them and always doodle. This is the key, love it, practice it and enjoy :-)

Most likely a combination of asciinema https://asciinema.org/ and https://github.com/cirocosta/asciinema-edit (You can do it by hand as well, but the tools are easier). Use the Quantize and speed options

Have a look at OpenImageIO it may help. The otool can do lots, and if not you may be able to use the API's (C++ or Python) https://openimageio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Thanks, so many tools to try. On MacOS I ran:

% brew install openimageio

But have not yet put it to task with my large files.

This is going to be useful for many things in my teaching. I've just got my students to install Rich / textual for my python coding course as I've featured it as one of my Modules of the week. https://nccastaff.bournemouth.ac.uk/jmacey/msc/PipeLineAndTD... So this will come in handy. Great work.

Thanks. Hope your students also enjoy it!

One thing that may be nice is a pager mode. If you feed into more or less with a pipe you loose the syntax highlight.

You can add —force-terminal to avoid stripping ANSI codes. But you’re right, a built in pager would be nice.

I've watched several that i've thought have been written by AI / GPT.

wow, this is amazing, I wonder if std::make_unique<audio> would be better as it aligns the bytes as well ;-)

SeExpr is great and used a lot in animation / shader development in things like Renderman from Pixar, it was great to see it in Krita https://wdas.github.io/SeExpr/

If you like SciFi this is a good take on that question. The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/48643567-the-doors-of...

I think you might have confused it with "West of Eden" by Harry Harrison?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_of_Eden

also "Evolution" by Steven Baxter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_(Baxter_novel)

Years ago we took one of the happy birthday tune cards and connected it to the floppy drive hinge on a PC, the developer was convinced we had installed a TSR program to play it every time he inserted a floppy, not realising it was a hardware hack. Weeks of fun until he found out.