http://store.wolfram.com/view/misc/index.str#heart-spikey-mu...
I’ve been thinking about writing about some of these details and how other languages and editors could be inspired.
Anybody who thinks there might be interest?
Modifying the Mathematica code after its written, however, is very tricky.
Shameless plug: https://scrollto.com/the-generalized-mean-an-algorithmic-app...
The code could maybe be written in another language but the fact that Mathematica allows for unbound variables and has beautiful functional library calls like Fold, make it very elegant to write once and work with almost any arguments. Wolfram Cloud is free and Mathematica has a trial, if you did want to fool around.
Mathematica is written in C++, it would be nice to see Wolfram head in the direction of having it produce binaries. It could become a major language of general development if that ever became the case. But Wolfram has always been very "particular" with his goals. One can dream...
(it must have been a pain to hand type those expressions...great job!)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-flashlight-is...
That article says you can get about 5 milliwatts using a Peltier converter, so working backwards based on Peltier converters being ~10% efficient that's only 50 milliwatts radiated by your hands. Even with an ideal 100% efficient converter that turns 100% of that energy into electricity, combined with a 100% efficient step up converter to raise the voltage that's not a lot to work with, that's barely enough power to light a couple of blue LEDs, much less a display and a microcontroller capable of rendering 3D graphics.
https://github.com/patriciogonzalezvivo/PixelSpiritDeck/blob...
