asciilifeform: e.g., 'fuck you i ain't running no PROGRAMS embedded in no stinkin' music file'☟︎
asciilifeform: but, granted, it is VERY difficult to digest for folks still viewing the ~possible~ through the shit-glasses of the ~extant~.
asciilifeform: at any rate, all of this is old hat to folks who read my www.
asciilifeform: e.g., that 'will calculate arithmetical answer in C or fewer cycles, and no side effects'
asciilifeform: the beauty is that you can impose hard limits on the evaluating environments for these 'programs', them being non-turingcomplete, and thus you can make mechanical hard pronouncements re their properties.☟︎
asciilifeform: (the correct way to include the decompressor is via v linkage. that is to say, a signed hash thereof, i.e. an index into a wotronic cryptographic global namespace.)
asciilifeform: .. consisting of a multitude of Ts and Vs - or fewer, if you include a decompressor of one kind or another
asciilifeform: so, e.g., a sinusoid, will be a very short one
asciilifeform: (for stereo, quadrangular, etc. recordings - you simply need 2+ of these!)
asciilifeform: the SANE way to transport audio is ALSO as a compactified lisp proggy, which takes time T and returns a rational multiplicand for the maximum DAC voltage to be present at that time !
asciilifeform: it is simply reduced to what it really is - simply a viewport blit.
asciilifeform: per the above scheme, 'glyph' is no longer a 'special' animal. 'mona lisa' can be a glyph, and so can a mandelbrot zoom generated for one particular occasion.
asciilifeform: it is important to realize the full implications.
asciilifeform: 'postscript' was a much earlier attempt.
asciilifeform: the only, afaik, currently extant one
asciilifeform: (svg is a braindamaged monkey implementation of some of the above principles.)☟︎
asciilifeform: sorta what mircea_popescu was getting at, i suspect, when he mentioned svg.
asciilifeform: the beauty is that affine transforms , you get for free.
asciilifeform: and there are not so many of these, and necessary language is a quite limited subset of henderson's lisp
asciilifeform: but in actuality a sane definition of a glyph is: program, which takes a point in a region of 2d plane and tells you if said point is darkened by said glyph.
asciilifeform: the 'army boot' quandry comes from having to standardize the glyph as a bitmap.
