Hi all! Discussing siteswaps on a forum like this can be difficult when you have to run off and see what a siteswap looks like. So I created a bot for /r/juggling on reddit a while ago which makes gifs out of siteswaps. Of course, this was tooled for reddit, but now I've updated it to make it work here. If you want a gif of a siteswap, simply create a link to siteswapbot.com/[your_siteswap_here]. So you can do https://siteswapbot.com/97531 or https://siteswapbot.com/(6x,4)*. It's new so working out the kinks, but feel free to check it out and let me know if there are any glaring issues.
Note that if you request a siteswap that nobody has ever requested before, it will take a few seconds to render the gif the first time you visit the page, but after that first visit, it will be pretty much immediate for every other visitor.
Little Paul - - Parent #
"Resource id #4Curl error: malformedProblem uploading to imgur...sorry"
Sounds like I hit a kink
loganstafman - - Parent #
Lol sorry I just was messing around. It's fixed now.
loganstafman - - Parent #
I hope :)
Or:
https://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/juggle/images/5/55/97531_200.gif/revision/latest?cb=20120911170450
https://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/juggle/images/f/ff/6x4_200.gif/revision/latest?cb=20120916191521
(Image sources from there: https://juggle.wikia.com/wiki/97531 and https://juggle.wikia.com/wiki/%286x,4%29*) View with settings option "embed images" checked when logged in and java enabled in the browser.
or:
https://jugglinglab.sourceforge.net/siteswap.php?97531
https://jugglinglab.sourceforge.net/siteswap.php?(6x,4)*
See also "JL" bookmarklet under "Run it in a browser" on: https://jugglinglab.sourceforge.net/ Mark a siteswap in text (digits) format in your browser (that browser feature "mark text" should then be enabled in the browser settings). Then, with text-siteswap marked, click the bookmarklet in your favorites \linkbar. Stickman will then show up.
It's not that hard on forums like this because you have the option to highlight siteswaps which turns them into links to JugglingLab :P
...however, I know a lot of people don't use java any more, so this could be a useful fallback option.
I assume you have a table of pre-rendered siteswaps which you add to as new requests come in? How long has your bot been active on Reddit & how many unique siteswaps have been posted?
loganstafman - - Parent #
Yes, I made this because Chrome no longer supports Java so that's pretty much dead (also I didn't know about that feature, haha!). As you can probably tell, my bot uses a hacked up version of JugglingLab itself.
Each request simply creates the gif and uploads it to imgur, and I keep a db of ones I've already seen. I've had it on reddit for about 6 months with ~350 images, but in the reddit bot form, I don't have a DB of known images for complicated reasons, so the DB is starting now.
I wonder if your list is similar to my list. I think a lot of those were posted by accident though!
Daniel Simu - - Parent #
Wow... On that list, I am sure the first 19 (nr 19 happens to be siteswap 19, haha) are all accidental... Just those 19 accidental ones already make up over 50% of all linked siteswaps... Perhaps that system needs a fix? Especially since a lot of users are not even using Java anyway...
Even before looking at java support most users (a fraction under 80%) don't enable siteswap highlighting so I don't think it is an issue. Certainly not worth the NLP required to fix it!
Daniel Simu - - Parent #
I should have known there was a setting >.< (@7bwiz, that is a smiley, not some kind of linguistic code.)
Turned it off now!
(( @ Daniel .. yeowh thx! .. I indeed thought it the chinese signs for "The dragon takes one step back as the elephant drops back-down on the keyboard". ))
loganstafman - - Parent #
Hmm, my list isn't available like that because of silly reasons, but if you're interested, I think this is the album they're being posted to on imgur.
Daniel Simu - - Parent #
Yeah, my java plugin is never ever up to date, so it never ever loads the edge siteswaps... I care too little..
Brook Roberts - - Parent #
Is it wrong that I treated this as a sort of siteswap bingo, and tried to find the simplest ones not yet generated?
I'm guessing it's not seen super heavy use, as first I got 663, and then to mild amusement, 2, which took a pleasing long time first time round to generate a static image :)
Little Paul - - Parent #
The siteswap I was prodding at when I got the error messages was '3'
loganstafman - - Parent #
It's always going to be pretty easy, because I do nothing to try to determine if two siteswaps are the same, so even if 3 has been generated, 33 probably won't have been.
Little Paul - - Parent #
You might want to fix your input validation.
this really shouldn't work
loganstafman - - Parent #
Haha thanks for the note!
Little Paul - - Parent #
It might be more serious than my example. Think there might be a php injection vuln (based on some of the errors I was able to tickle out of it)
Security is worth taking seriously...
loganstafman - - Parent #
Oh yeah it should be fixed now. After you posted that, I actually tested and was able to cause some serious damage with the siteswap (6x,4)*" rm -rf "/ but it's fixed now.
Daniel Simu - - Parent #
How to throw the -," and /'s ?
- is a Hurry.
, is a Late.
/ is whilst leaning.
" is whilst naming the throw aloud.
Daniel Simu - - Parent #
actually I wasn't curious about the ",", the comma served as a separator, like, a comma :p. But thanks anyway!