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# Chaining Lasers In Submission Tools for LJ
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Alright everybody, ready for some fun? Here comes The Piping And Plumbing Your Way To The Top Show!
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You're going to push so many points to this laser it will hog and cry...
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BOOM | WIIIIIZ :: PHHHHHRACKRACKRACK ~~ WOOP ~~###~~ WIIT
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## The basic loop
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python3 generators/dummy.py -f 2 | python3 filters/kaleidoscope.py | python3 exports/toRedis.py -v
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\/ \/ \/
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Generator Filter Export
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```
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### 1. The Generator
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Use it to produce some points in any manner, orderly or total chaos.
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Don't be that boring Sinusoids bugger! Flash Maps of Dooms, Disbitnic sprites, Dismorphic HexaFonts all over the walls!
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### 2. The Filter(s)
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These babies will modify data on the wire by passing around the points and modifying them in sequence.
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Want your Double Heavy Laser Cannons to Bounce Together Like They Been Drinking Jagerbombs For Two Hours? That's the place.
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### 3. The Exporter
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Now, this IS the most boring part. Send your points to whatever output system. Yawn. Are we there yet?
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## Hacking around
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Say what!? Why, this is exactly the place for that!
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Take a seat and copy paste the "dummy.py" files, they present the basic structure you need to play around.
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Just be cautious to use the `debug` method if you're the kind of miss that debugs by outputing data structures (who does not, yah know, sometimes?). Or you'll break the chain.
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### Generators
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They must send list of points to standard out. Don't forget the "flush" argument, or the piping will be breaking, ain't no Mario lazering.
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* dummy.py : sends always the same list of points. The Monomaniac.
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* @todo : read texts from redis and others
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### Filters
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These do listen and read on STDIN and do the same print'n'flush on STDOUT.
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* kaleidoscope.py : mirrors the points based on a pivot
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* @todo : fourier analysis and other realtime reaction
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### Export
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Read from STDIN and send to redis mostly
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* toRedis.py : provide a key, server IP, etc.
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### Common parameters
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Every command can be called with a `-h/--help` flag to get some help
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Every command has a `-v/--verbose` flag to send debug info to STDERR.
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Generators have a `-f/--fps` param for FPS, to be fast but not so furious on your machine
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Filters and Exports are their own beasts
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