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@Haskear Spartacus managed to get out of his #ludus with many units. Luckily, while plundering local villages near #vesuvius his army was eradicated. He himself escaped, but good luck next time encountering a whole roman camp. #wargaming #wargames #ancientrome #history #onustraianus

Build Your Own Offensive Security Lab A Step-by-Step Guide with Ludus

Dive into setting up an Offensive Security Lab to simulate cyber attacks and sharpen penetration testing skills for advanced security research

https://xphantom.nl/posts/Offensive-Security-Lab/

#lab #ludus

xcellent exhibition of Linder Sterling's work at the Hayward Gallery on the Southbank this afternoon. Great to see her original collages from The Secret Public fanzine she did with Jon Savage plus of course the Buzzcocks and Ludus originals. Go see!

#Linder
#Lindersterling
#haywardgallery
#buzzcocks
#ludus
#collage
#thesecretpublic

Build Your Own Offensive Security Lab A Step-by-Step Guide with Ludus: https://xphantom.nl/posts/Offensive-Security-Lab/

#ludus #offensivesecurity #lab

Build your own offensive #security lab - A step-by-step guide with #Ludus #GOAD #SIEM #Proxmox #Debian #Linux https://xphantom.nl/posts/Offensive-Security-Lab/

🏺 In his work "The Republic" from around 380 BC, Plato compares Socrates' opponents to "weak Petteia players, who are eventually cornered and immobilized by the more intelligent ones." Aristotle said that "a citizen without a state can be compared to an isolated piece in a game of Petteia."

🏺 From the fact that they used such metaphors we can imagine that Plato and Aristotle were big fans of Petteia (a name that translates to "pebbles"). This was a strategy board game which was highly esteemed by the intellectuals of ancient Greece, because you didn't move your pieces with the help of dice (not leaving the game to the will of fate, mind you).

🏺 Petteia was quite similar to another Roman game called Latrunculi (or Ludus Latrunculorum), equally strategic. So up to this point, we understand the rules quite well, and you can read a bit about them here:

➡️ http://www.cyningstan.com/game/63/petteia ⬅️

🏺 As for its origin, Plato claimed that it came from Egypt. In fact, the game may be even older than the Trojan War (according to Kyppo Jorma, in his book "Board Games: Throughout History and Multidimensional Spaces") which, as far as we know, took place in about 1190 BC. We suspect this because we have pottery dating from 550-500 BC that depicts Achilles and Ajax playing Petteia (see image), and Homer mentions this game in his works.

#Petteia #Polis #Greece #BoardGames #BoardGameStudies #History #Culture #Plato #Aristotle #Ludus #Ludo #Games

On the left, a Petteia board, on the right, pottery that depict Ajax and Achilles playing Petteia.

Back on my bullshit after travelling, writing, and an RSI break. #genuary #genuary2025 #genuary13: Only triangles. In #ludus.

https://web.ludus.dev/?code=let+squiggle_segments+%3D+10%0A%0Afn+squiggle%21+%28len%2C+factor%29+-%3E+%7B%0A++let+segment_len+%3D+div+%28len%2C+squiggle_segments%29%0A++repeat+squiggle_segments+%7B%0A++++fd%21+%28segment_len%29%0A++++rt%21+%28random+%28neg+%28factor%29%2C+factor%29%29%0A++%7D%0A%7D%0A%0Afn+squiggle_tri%21+%28side_len%2C+factor%29+-%3E+%7B%0A++repeat+3+%7B%0A++++squiggle%21+%28side_len%2C+factor%29%0A++++lt%21+%28inv+%283%29%29%0A++%7D%0A%7D%0A%0Apenwidth%21+%286%29%0Apencolor%21+%28%2850%2C+180%2C+255%29%29%0Abackground%21+%28%2880%2C+0%2C+30%29%29%0Art%21+%280.25%29%0A%0Afn+the_grid%21+%7B%0A++%280%2C+_%29+-%3E+%3Aok%0A++%28iter%2C+factor%29+-%3E+%7B%0A++++repeat+15+%7B%0A++++++let+mystate+%3D+unbox+%28turtle_state%29%0A++++++squiggle_tri%21+%28100%2C+factor%29%0A++++++pu%21+%28%29%0A++++++loadstate%21+%28mystate%29%0A++++++pu%21+%28%29%0A++++++fd%21+%28110%29%0A++++++pd%21+%28%29%0A++++%7D%0A++++pu%21+%28%29%0A++++lt%21+%280.5%29%0A++++fd%21+%28mult+%2815%2C+105%29%29%0A++++lt%21+%280.25%29%0A++++fd%21+%28100%29%0A++++lt%21+%280.25%29%0A++++pd%21+%28%29%0A++++the_grid%21+%28dec+%28iter%29%2C+mult+%28factor%2C+1.1%29%29%0A++%7D%0A%7D%0A%0Athe_grid%21+%2815%2C+0.005%29%0A

A slanted grid of triangles, light blue on a dark red background. Each row gets more and more unhinged until they're barely triangles anymore.

Still catching up on #genuary: #genuary10 #ludus: The only number you may use in your code is tau (twice pi). Back to my fuchsia-on-purple colour scheme. Playing with organic forms.

https://web.ludus.dev/?code=fn+twice+%28n%29+-%3E+add+%28n%2C+n%29%0Alet+tau+%3D+twice+%28pi%29%0A%0Afn+pow+%7B%0A++%28n%2C+0%29+-%3E+1%0A++%28n%2C+1%29+-%3E+n%0A++%28n%2C+exp%29+-%3E+mult+%28n%2C+pow+%28n%2C+dec+%28exp%29%29%29%0A%7D%0A%0Alet+one+%3D+div+%28tau%2C+tau%29%0Alet+two+%3D+add+%28one%2C+one%29%0Alet+half+%3D+div+%28one%2C+two%29%0A%0Alet+twicetau+%3D+twice+%28tau%29%0A%0Apenwidth%21+%28twice+%28tau%29%29%0A%0Alet+rand_factor+%3D+do+tau+%3E+twice+%3E+square+%3E+inv%0A%0Afn+squiggle%21+%28len%29+-%3E+%7B%0A++let+segment_len+%3D+div+%28len%2C+twicetau%29%0A++repeat+twicetau+%7B%0A++++fd%21+%28segment_len%29%0A++++rt%21+%28random+%28neg+%28rand_factor%29%2C+rand_factor%29%29+%0A++%7D%0A%7D%0A%0Apencolor%21+%28colors+%3Afuchsia%29%0Alet+mytimes+%3D+do+twicetau+%3E+twice+%3E+twice+%3E+twice%0Alet+spoke+%3D+do+tau+%3E+twice+%3E+twice+%3E+square%0A%0Afn+firework%21+%28%29+-%3E+repeat+mytimes+%7B%0A++squiggle%21+%28spoke%29%0A++pu%21+%28%29%0A++back%21+%28spoke%29%0A++pd%21+%28%29%0A++rt%21+%28inv+%28twicetau%29%29%0A%7D%0A%0Arepeat+tau+%7B%0A++firework%21+%28%29%0A++rt%21+%28random+%28%29%29%0A++pu%21+%28%29%0A++fd%21+%28twice+%28spoke%29%29%0A++pd%21+%28%29%0A%7D%0A%0Ahideturtle%21+%28%29%0Abackground%21+%28colors+%3Apurple%29

Six organic, fuchsia shapes in a purple field. They resemble dandelion seeds, or fireworks, or maybe jellyfish. Each one has many seemingly hand-drawn lines radiating outwards from a rough centre.

Catching up (a bit): #genuary9 #genuary #ludus: Public transport textile design. Main thought: exorbitant colour story. Also: sometimes geometry is annoying.

A late midcentury-ish never-show-a-stain public transit textile design, in a checkerboard style. Each cell has a square described by diagonal stripes, with a circle on top described by diagonal stripes at right angles. The background is olive. One set of cells is aqua circles on maroon squares; the other is navy circles on fuchsia squares.

1 MILLION SOMETHINGS: #genuary8 #genuary #ludus: 1,000,000 line segments. Decided on simplicity (7 lines of code!), both because I don't have a lot of time today and because Ludus is so very, very slow that it takes many minutes to do anything that many times. (I'm working on a fast[er] interpreter! But it's not done yet!)

https://web.ludus.dev/?code=background%21+%28%28100%2C+0%2C+0%2C+255%29%29%0Apencolor%21+%28%28255%2C+0%2C+255%2C+100%29%29%0A%0Arepeat+1000000+%7B%0A++fd%21+%28random_int+%281%2C+50%29%29%0A++rt%21+%280.25%29%0A%7D

A fuchsia cloud on a maroon background, made up of 1,000,000 line segments of random lengths, all at right angles. Maybe it's a biological structure instead of a cloud? It's a vague shape, and pretty enough.

I've decided to take Genuary 7th off; the prompt is to use something not intended for art. But my genuary goal is to work things out with #ludus. While Ludus isn't exactly *intended* to make art, well, I have papers from last semester to grade and I don't wanna. See you all tomorrow for 1 MILLION SOMETHINGS.

#genuary #genuary6 #ludus #turtlegraphics: Make a landscape using only primitive shapes. Only lines! Purple hazy mountains.
https://web.ludus.dev/?code=let+gap+%3D+3%0Alet+bars+%3D+300%0Alet+bar_height+%3D+50%0A%0Afn+terrain%21+%7B%0A++%28len%2C+0%29+-%3E+%3Aok%0A++%28len%2C+iter%29+-%3E+%7B%0A++++fd%21+%28len%29%0A++++bk%21+%28len%29%0A++++rt%21+%280.25%29%0A++++pu%21+%28%29%0A++++fd%21+%28gap%29%0A++++pd%21+%28%29%0A++++lt%21+%280.25%29%0A++++let+alter+%3D+random+%280.95%2C+1.05%29%0A++++terrain%21+%28mult+%28alter%2C+len%29%2C+dec+%28iter%29%29%0A++%7D%0A%7D%0A%0Abackground%21+%28%28200%2C+180%2C+200%2C+255%29%29%0Abox+color+%3D+%28195%2C+160%2C+195%2C+255%29%0A%0Afn+fade_out+%28%28r%2C+g%2C+b%2C+a%29%29+-%3E+%28%0A++sub+%28r%2C+5%29%0A++sub+%28g%2C+20%29%0A++sub+%28b%2C+5%29%0A++a%0A%29%0A%0Afn+fade_in+%28%28r%2C+g%2C+b%2C+a%29%29+-%3E+%28%0A++add+%28r%2C+5%29%0A++g%0A++add+%28b%2C+5%29%0A++a%0A%29%0A%0Arepeat+20+%7B%0A++pd%21+%28%29%0A++pencolor%21+%28update%21+%28color%2C+fade_out%29%29%0A++terrain%21+%2850%2C+bars%29%0A++pu%21+%28%29%0A++lt%21+%280.25%29%0A++fd%21+%28inc+%28mult+%28gap%2C+bars%29%29%29%0A++lt%21+%280.25%29%0A++fd%21+%28mult+%28bar_height%2C+0.75%29%29%0A++rt%21+%280.5%29%0A%7D

An abstract landscape that resembles many lines of mountains receding into aerial depth, fading from nearly grey in the far background to saturated dark purple in the foreground. The mountains are formed with thin lines of varying lengths placed next to one another.

Oh, hell. I broke the thread. Here's my #genuary5 in #ludus: https://assemblag.es/@scr/113777620426716764 #turtlegraphics

#genuary #genuary5 in #ludus: Isometric (no vanishing points). Reprising my #genuary3: many cubes, with random deletions. This time they're tessellated, and what's deleted are faces, not edges.

A field of blue cubes on a maroon background, with shading indicated by parallel lines. Cube faces are randomly there, or not.

A field of blue cubes on a dark pink background, with shading indicated by parallel lines. Cube faces are randomly there, or not.

A field of dark blue cubes on a dark background, with shading indicated by parallel lines. Cube faces are randomly there, or not.

A field of dark blue cubes on a bright pink background, with shading indicated by parallel lines. Cube faces are randomly there, or not.

My #ludus lines of code rules:

1. Empty lines are lines.
2. So are lines that consist only of closing braces.
2. You may (even must) group multiple turtle commands together on a single line, but all other language constructs require their own lines.
3. But, you may split up very long lines.

#genuary #genuary2: Layers upon layers. #ludus has only lines (yay turtle graphics!). But instead of using fat lines as layers, I was inspired by yesterday's vertical-or-horizontal only to create "translucent" layers of many lines.

https://web.ludus.dev/?code=fn+random_red+%28%29+-%3E+%28%0A++random_int+%28100%2C+255%29%0A++random_int+%280%2C+50%29%0A++random_int+%280%2C+50%29%0A++200%29%0A%0Afn+lines%21+%28len%2C+width%2C+num_lines%29+-%3E+%7B%0A++let+gap+%3D+div+%28width%2C+num_lines%29%0A++pencolor%21+%28random_red+%28%29%29%0A++repeat+num_lines+%7B++%0A++++pendown%21+%28%29%0A++++forward%21+%28len%29%0A++++penup%21+%28%29%0A++++back%21+%28len%29%0A++++rt%21+%280.25%29%0A++++fd%21+%28gap%29%0A++++lt%21+%280.25%29%0A++%7D%0A++left%21+%280.25%29%0A++forward%21+%28width%29%0A++right%21+%280.25%29%0A%7D%0A%0Arepeat+20+%7B%0A++lines%21+%28200%2C+200%2C+80%29%0A++rt%21+%280.010%29%0A%7D%0A%0Abackground%21+%28colors+%3Asilver%29%0Ahideturtle%21+%28%29%0A

An abstract graphical drawing in Ludus, with many squares of varying colours of red, fanned out like playing cards, on a light grey background. The squares themselves are made up of many parallel lines.

#genuary in #ludus. Ludus is the little programming language & environment we're building in the Thinking with Computers project at U of T. https://web.ludus.dev (although it's yet not really ready for prime time, it is getting close).

I'll be doing as many genuary prompts as possible in Ludus. Some won't be possible, thought perhaps I'll do my best to come up with slant rhymes.

Today's #genuary1 post, on theme: only horizontal or vertical lines. Feeling midcentury.