Understanding my maturing neurons...

[elfs]

It occurs to me that I was fascinated by Canvas Experiment Six's failure, but not fascinated enough to wrap my head around what was going wrong and identify the problem.

It should be obvious that I have an objective for this, a particular visual effect for which all of this is just stepping stones. It's such a ridiculously small visual effect that I can't believe I'm spending this much effort on it, and I thank everyone for peeking in while I do it.

Once upon a time, I would have found the relationship between a line's slop, and the inverse of its slope, fascinating as the two secant lines oscillated around the animated circle I was drawing. I was fascinated, but once I would have been fascinated enough to delve into the problem and actually grasped, hard, the relationship between polar and cartesian coordinates enough to intrinsically understand them, rather than mechanistically, as I do now.

But it seems that ADHD, perhaps even sub-clinical aspy, part of me has mellowed out with age, family, maturity, manhood, perhaps even with alcohol and exercise. Sad, but true.

p.s. in case anyone cares, I've updated the projects/raphael_arcs folder with the Coffeescript and HAML versions of the project, as well as the Makefile.

Comments

[shunra.livejournal.com]

Sufficient doses of oxytocin probably destroyed the aspiness. Aspiness looks a lot like ADD (not ADHD) due to the tendency to hyperfocus.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_candide_/]

Personally, I say it's that you have more interests now than just the mathematical one. You also have less time. Combine the two, and that means you have to start prioritizing where you're going to expend your energy.

If you're on a day-hike, you can't stop and look at every stepping-stone and analyze it, or you'll never get where you're going.