The Juggler3D "screensaver" https://linux.die.net/man/6/juggler3d can also be run manually with a pattern, and it will attempt to show a stick figure juggling with that pattern.
I hadn't seen this in OpenGL... it's nice to see some good open source simulators. I do remember a much older (than 2009 or even 2002) version called Juggle that ran on HPUX, but it may have been written in pascal and it certainly didn't render the man.
I first saw this through xscreensaver and was very impressed. At least as it's packaged for Arch, xscreensaver brings in loads of weird, fun, mind-expanding screensavers. It's always a surprise. I'm not sure if other distributions' packages pull in the full set of screensavers by default, but I imagine you can find them regardless.
Hey, maybe we'll get one of the originators on here?
One interesting thing that happened when jugglers discovered siteswap was a proliferation in new patterns as they discovered the full space of (hand position independent) patterns. Some are more difficult to time/think than they are to throw/catch.
BTW I'm fairly sure I wrote the siteswap -> on-screen simulation, in 1988. In Pascal. A few years later three of us wrote http://www.juggling.org/programs/java/MAGNUS/juggler.html in now-ancient Java, which did a ton more stuff.
Is there an intersection between HNers and jugglers? I've been teaching myself contact juggling for... quite some time. I picked it because it was so far out of my comfort zone.
Probably. When I lived in the bay area, I juggled at the San Francisco circus center: http://circuscenter.org/juggling
and there's also a juggling club in Berkeley: https://berkeleyjuggling.org/
Many jugglers I've met there worked in IT/software-related jobs.
I spent hours a day juggling for ~4 years in my mid teens (in my 30s now) and got up to juggling 8 balls.
I find numbers juggling (say 5 or more) to be almost therapeutic. It requires a reasonable amount of physical exertion, and it just pulls you into a flow state. All of your mental and physical focus is concentrated on maintaining this ephemeral pattern, and there's no room for anything else... until the pattern falls apart :-)
This website is unchanged from 1993 (the web archive first crawled it in 1997), yet it looks great in my 4K screen. I wouldn't be able to tell if it was written yesterday or 20 years ago. Completely unlike the experience you are getting from something like this http://web.archive.org/web/19961112181513/http://www.nytimes...
It doesn't look great on my screen and I need to turn on reader-mode (which breaks the graphs) or zoom and scroll horizontally in order to read the content
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It's a little like spinning plates. You hang a bag in the air, leave it for a bit, and grab it before it hits the ground. Now interleave 3 of these:
Start:
- Hang bag A with right hand.
- Hang bag B with left hand.
- Hang bag C with right hand and grab bag A with left hand.
Process:
- Hang bag A with left hand and grab bag B with right hand.
- Hang bag B with right hand and grab bag C with left hand.
- Hang bag C with left hand and grab bag A with right hand.
- Hang bag A with right hand and grab bag B with left hand.
- Hang bag B with left hand and grab bag C with right hand.
- Hang bag C with right hand and grab bag A with left hand.
End:
- Grab bag B with right hand.
- Grab bag C with left hand, while still holding bag A.
OR
- Allow all bags to fall on floor, then collect them.
One interesting thing that happened when jugglers discovered siteswap was a proliferation in new patterns as they discovered the full space of (hand position independent) patterns. Some are more difficult to time/think than they are to throw/catch.
For more history see the wiki... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siteswap
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I find numbers juggling (say 5 or more) to be almost therapeutic. It requires a reasonable amount of physical exertion, and it just pulls you into a flow state. All of your mental and physical focus is concentrated on maintaining this ephemeral pattern, and there's no room for anything else... until the pattern falls apart :-)