Debern

Context

2011-07-13T22:16:00.001+02:00

Chicken finger

2011-07-12T20:54:00.000+02:00

Fucking Monday Strip

2011-07-12T19:36:00.001+02:00

Officer E. and Dr. C.

2011-07-10T20:58:00.001+02:00

Sad Worm

2011-07-09T10:03:00.003+02:00

This was long overdue: Fan art for DeBern from the skilled artist "Tr4d0r". Thank you very much!

TLJ - Nero

2011-07-07T21:40:00.001+02:00

Monsieur La Marguerite Et L'Abeille

2011-04-26T23:28:00.002+02:00

Mr Horse Sketches

2011-04-14T23:10:00.001+02:00

Deadpool sketch

2011-04-11T20:03:00.000+02:00

Friends of Cintiq

2011-03-09T20:58:00.001+01:00

Today's contribution. Not. Mine.

Bombadour

2011-03-03T23:39:00.002+01:00

Molino De Viento

2011-03-03T22:14:00.000+01:00

Transitional Fun

2011-03-03T12:45:00.001+01:00

Bad Ninja Philosophy 2

2010-12-29T12:05:00.001+01:00

At least it's in color!

Bad Philosophy With Ninja

2010-12-29T01:42:00.001+01:00

Once in a while, you need worse comics.

Sloppy Marlow

2010-12-19T22:34:00.002+01:00

Hot skies

2010-12-02T22:34:00.003+01:00

A romance

2010-11-22T23:20:00.003+01:00

The carret

2010-08-26T23:42:00.001+02:00

Mosquitoes

2010-07-09T20:28:00.005+02:00

Today's biology topic are mosquitoes and their apparently unevolved nature. I'd like to point out that mosquitos can't possible have evolved by natural selection and are rather the product of a malevolent god. The argumentation can be broken down into 3 major points:

1. They are slow

Unlike flies, mosquitos are very slow and, when spotted by human with a news paper roll, dead. They are a lot more annoying than flies, and hence humans have more incentive to kill them. Therefore they should be a victim more often and evolve the ninja skills of flies. But as we all know, they are dead slow.

2. They are loud

As a parasite you need to be discrete and sneaky, so that the host doesn't notice you cashing in on his work. The mosquito, being, yes, a parasite, but also unnervingly annoying and loud when flying around, completely contradicts the parasite principle. More so, the noise they generate is not one monotonous sound but rather like a learner trying to pull off from a standstill.

3. They don't understand humans

Another important fact for a parasite is of course to (explictly or implicitly) know the host's body, that is, which parts are dangerous and which are useful. As if on purpose, the mosquito choses the worst time of the day, to feast on its victim: bedtime. A human trying to fall asleep turns off the lamp and calms down. That's when the time has come for the mosquito. As inconspicuous as an ambulance ambushing a gazelle with the sirens in full gear, the mosquito slowly approaches the face of the victim, to make sure that it is properly heard. The mosquito flies its circles around the head, only pleased with a human beside himself with rage. Drawn attention to itself in a such a way, the mosquito is happily smashed against the wall by anything that comes into the human's hands or waits for a second round, as soon as the lights turn off.

I think, it doesn't seem too far-fetched, that mosquitos can't have possibly evolved by natural selection. The suicidal behaviour of those insects should lead to a quick and merciless extinction. So I have to postulate a malevolent god, who constantly generates mosquitos to torment us on our bedtime.

Besides that, I'm an atheist, of course.

Doppler Effect

2010-07-04T18:35:00.003+02:00

By an idea of Hans-Herrmann Staruss!

3TV

2010-06-04T21:59:00.006+02:00

Last time I checked my brain it told me to build a holographic TV. So I will present to you my newest invention: THE 3TV!
In order to get a holographic image we need to cheat the eye into thinking that something is floating in front of the screen.

As one can see in the image above, we want to make the eye think that there is something at x1. To simulate the rays of the object we can send the same pixel information from x2 at the right angle and from the right position (the projection of (eye, x1) on the screen). We can do that for as many points of Stuff as we want will so get the image of it.
If we move the eye around we will have to calculate different positions and angles on the screen for every point we want to display of Stuff. This results in having multiple colors on one pixel position.
So on the technical side we basically need a new kind of pixels. Convential TV screens are composed of pixels which don't shine into a particular direction. They rather carry their color information on a semisphere so that the same image can be seen from any angle from the screen.
The 3TV, however, is composed of a different kind of pixels. Every pixel can direct its light in several directions. Furthermore for every direction the pixel can change it's color. An example of such a pixel is shown in the image below.
But how would tape a movie for such a screen? The simplest (maybe not cheapest) solution would be to mount a bunch of cameras on a semisphere and film the scene with all cameras simultaneously.
So the screen would mostly make sense for 3D applications (and games?) rather than for movies.

PS: Watch this!

Badumm

2010-05-08T14:29:00.002+02:00

More silly randomness.

The King's Quest

2010-05-08T14:28:00.002+02:00

Silly randomness. All for you.

House of Cards

2010-05-08T14:24:00.001+02:00

I did this a while ago, order from Hans-Hermann Staruss. Another installment of the Life of Julien.

The Delivery

2010-03-28T21:16:00.002+02:00

The Life of Julien

2010-03-05T19:41:00.002+01:00

Debern moves

2009-10-26T20:07:00.002+01:00

Hi guys, it's more than a year now and deBern has to find a new home.

I'm semiback

2009-10-18T13:37:00.001+02:00

I need to use my tablet more.

2009-07-14T07:40:00.000+02:00

#3 Forya!

Looney Toons

2009-07-11T20:40:00.002+02:00

Today the classic drama #2:

The game is on

2009-07-11T05:01:00.002+02:00

Today I present the contestant #1!

You like dags?

2009-07-02T03:40:00.005+02:00

Hello and welcome back, dear debern reader. Due to the lack of a decent scanner I had to photograph this in the ghetto:

As you can see there are no speech bubbles, and that's where you come in!
YES, it's a CONTEST and you can win a ripe fruit of your choice, sent to you by mail!
To participate you can either take the image above and insert speech bubbles OR you can send in the dialogs (counting panels from left to right, top to bottom, beginning with zero). Send the comic to

losorsos rat gmail pot com

until July 9th!

And now, chop chop, see you next week!

Long no see

2009-05-13T08:59:00.008+02:00

It's once again Doodle Time!

And something reminding me of Switzerland:

And finally M.O.J.O!!!

That's all folks!

2009-04-24T06:57:00.000+02:00

Just a quick hint to a game, I'd love

Numb Ers

2009-04-07T06:05:00.004+02:00

So, today we will look at numbers in Babedepupi!

In the last post we used numbers as if they were a construct of the language, i.e. 432 would stand for fourhundredthirtytwo. While it's convenient, it's a special construct. Which is stupid and ugly!
Indeed we want numbers to be real objects. We can look at numbers being just sets with a certain number of elements. So we define:

UnaryNumber LinkedList
 + number
     number iterate
         add  self

 - number
     number iterate
         remove
 * number
     number iterate
         + self
 print
  
     iterate
         result =  result + "1"

print just prints the number in an unary representation. You might wonder, what self is. It is indeed the equivalent to the self of Smalltalk. While it looks like a keyword, we will see that we can define it in the language (?). This notation is of course quite unhandy, so we want at least to define binary numbers. We will bootstrap them with the UnaryNumbers. (A change to the syntax from the last time is that the last line of the method is the return value, so no need for a methodName = ... -statement (thx toon). Also I have to rethink blocks. Now they are just indendations without parameters. It would be cool to bootstrap as such that we don't need special syntax for classes and methods. But let's now close this parenthesis).

One UnaryNumber
 new
     UnaryNumber new
     list add
 0
     BinaryNumber new
 1
     BinaryNumber new + one

0 = UnaryNumber new
1 = One new

BinaryNumber UnaryNumber
 print
     result = "0"
     iterate
         space = ""
         result [  result count ] = "0" ?
             result [  result count ] = "1"
         else
             result += "0"
         realResult = ""
         space = ""
         result iterate
             realResult =  space + item
             space = " "
 0
     *  1 + 1
 1
     *  1 + 1  + 1

Now we can redefine 0 and 1:

1 = BinaryNumber new  + 1
0 = BinaryNumber new

And finally we can do arithmetics with binary numbers:

1 0 1 0 1 0 +  1 0 1 1

Similarly to the above procedure we can implement decimal numbers. I won't do that here, because I'm lazy.

As I got from the comments from the last post, some people think, parentheses are so great (yeah, I mean you). We can add working parenthesis to our language by just defining them in the mother of all classes, Object:

Object
 (  expr  )
     expr

We have to introduce new syntax, naminly prefixes for methods. Notice the delay after the (. It designates a prefix. The next argument (here expr) is always self! So in this statement we just return self. With this definition we can write:

( ( 1 0 0 1 +  1 1 1 ) *  1 0 )

Now how do we model strings? We could do the same thing like with numbers, just defining characters as global variables and being able to concatenate them (for instance 'a' 'b' would be the messaga 'b' sent to the variable 'a', obviously representing the character a). But I don't see a purely object oriented way of representing characters themselves - at most as numbers (?).

Next time, we will bootstrap the system, or something. You know that crazy stuff with the meta thing! And the fireworks.

That's all, have a good N 1 0 0 0.

PS: Performance? What?

Doodles

2009-04-06T08:06:00.004+02:00

Today just some random doodles.

and

Cheers.

A printer ink friend language

2009-03-28T02:42:00.036+01:00

Good news, everyone!

If you are interested in a cool game and not at all in computer science, then skip to the end right now. Otherwise eat a banana.

Since you don't have enough printer ink anymore, you should start programming in Babedepupi!
Babedepupi ist a great language in the sense that it doesn't have keywords. That's good, since you don't like keywords. They are stupid and ugly.

It is an object oriented language like Smalltalk or Schemetalk and not like Java or Eiffel.
But let's take a look at how it looks, looking at us, a simple arithmetic operation:

1 + 2

Here '+' is a message passed to the object '1' with the argument '2', returning a new object ('3'). So nothing new or special. What about parentheses? Since no non-white-space character is allowed, we have to do it differently. The expression '2 * (1 + 3)' would translate to:

2 *  1 + 3

As '*' expects one argument, it would consume the '1' and we would lose our parenthesis. So we have to delay the multiplication and we do that with a double space (did you notice? You should buy new glasses). In this example * waits for the rest to execute and then consumes the result.
A more comple exa8mple?

(3 * 4 - 8 * 9) / 2

translates to

3 * 4 +  8 * 9  / 2

It will be executed as follows: first 3 * 4 is executed, since there is no delay. Then a delay occurs, so '+' is delayed and 8 * 9 is executed (as there is no delay after 8 *). After that we get a delay, this time not after a message but after an object. This means that the last delay is resolved, the one after '-'. Finally we end up with / 2 and the result is given.
Now, how are classes defined, let's implement a Boolean class.

Boolean
  then block  end
      System print "Not my responsibility, muaha!"
  then thenBlock  else elseBlock  end
      System print "Not my responsibility either!"
True Boolean
  then block  end
      block execute
  then thenBlock  else elseBlock  end
      thenBlock execute
False Boolean
  then block  end
  then thenBlock  else elseBlock  end
      elseBlock execute

So we first define Boolean and two methods which should be implemented by inheriting classes. It helps us to define the if then and the if then else. The then else block is special. 'else' is not an argument and belongs to the method definition (note the two spaces). True and False are implemented straightforwardly.
An easy example is:

0 = 1 then

   System print "0=1!"
end

A block is written with an indendation. The first line holds all the block variables (none here). After this line, still indendated, we will have the commands of the block.
Similarly we can write:

block =
  System print "I am a block, LOL"

Now we will look at how the work in action. We will use a Fibonacci class.

Fibonacci
fib n
 n = 0 then

     fib = 0
 else

     n = 1 then
  
         fib = 1
     else
  
         fib = fib  n - 1  +  fib  n - 2
     end
 end

Now you may get confused by the '=' which is used on one hand as equality check like in 'n = 0' and on the other hand as assignment 'fib = 1'. '0' works as equality, iff there is no message send after it, which belongs to Boolean. Finally we find the 'fib = ' statement. The name of the method is always the result variable (like in Pascal). Alternatively it could work like in C/Java and directly jump out of the method.
How about a more complex class, for instance a linked list?

LinkedList
  new
      first = Container new
      last = first
  add item
      last nextItem item
      last =  Container new item item
  removeAt i
      at i nextItem  at i nextItem nextItem
  [ i  ]
      [ =  at i
  at i
      at = atRec i first
  atRec i current
      i = 0 then
          atRec = current
      else
          atRec = atRec  i - 1  current
      end
Container
  item item
      data = item
  nextItem container
      next = container

Yeah, that's all for now. It's obvious that Babedepupi still has flaws, just wanted to write it down for the afterworld.
If you read till here, you are brave indeed. And you'll get a cake (if you didn't see it already): BACK THROUGH TIME!"
That's all folks, next time a drawing again? Who knows? Who? Yeah you there, in the back? No, I don't want your Bible, thank you very much.

PS: No Scheme/LISP-trolling please.

I'm blue

2009-03-25T04:40:00.002+01:00

Yes, the thing in the right bottom corner is meat.

I love Honking In Connecticut

2009-03-25T04:36:00.001+01:00

Magic

2009-03-21T04:02:00.002+01:00

And now for Mr. R. S. of N. in S. and his magical trick!

How I Got My Driver's Licence

2009-03-11T04:01:00.008+01:00

Today I got my drivers license.

Many of my dear readers will ask themselves, why in god's name someone like me should be even considered to be driving on any street or any vehicle. Well this article is not about that. Rather I will explain the most efficient and fun way of learning how to drive.
First thing you will have to do, is to buy or "buy" a copy of Grand Theft Auto. Preferrably a version above GTA 3, since you want to have a realistic simulation! Install it and begin with the 10 step learning plan:

1. Find a car and start it. You will see the accelerator as well as the decelarator at your foot. Just step hard on the accelerator until you reach maximal speed.

2. Do not get angry and do not show it to your fellow drivers.

3. If you encounter any vehicles in front of you, you are safe to change lanes. Try to push slow drivers off the street, if they take too much space. It is not advised to cut off the street turning left, when a big truck is involved. Unless you are the truck.

4. Please stay calm, if the techno hippies with their loud cars and disco lights appear in your rear mirror.

Make sure you keep pace with them, otherwise they will run you the fuck down.

5. Sometimes you need to drive slower, even though just in rare cases. In that case you quickly step on and off the accelerator. The higher your frequency, the faster. If you really have to brake, step on the decelerator. It is advised to keep pressing the decelerator to move backwards to preserve fuel.

6. It is not advised to drive on sideways. Pedestrians may slow you down.

7. Driving with damaged cars is unsafe; make sure your car is always maintained. Otherwise take another car.

8. Crossings are dangerous. To avoid damage, drive through the crossing very fast.

9. Do not shoot firearms on a highway or at traffic signs. You may miss.

10. Put your seatbelt on.

What are you waiting for? Get your driver's license now!

2009-03-05T08:12:00.003+01:00

Today I dropped a glas of water over my computer. That's when I fell through a portal in the other dimension.

Greetings.

Stumble2

2009-03-04T07:46:00.002+01:00

In the last post I talked about the game idea of playing a game only with sound.
Someone did something very similar.

That's all folks. Perhaps next time Super Mario.

Cheers
Super Black Coat Rabbit 3

Stumble

2009-02-25T04:18:00.004+01:00

Hay

I had this game idea lately, seeing many games focusing a lot on nice graphics, cool shaders, realism and so forth.
Why not build a game, where you have to navigate by hearing and not by sight. Instead of the graphics engine we would need a sound renderer, working somehow like a ray tracer. Of course sound comes form every direction and has to be somehow adapted so you can hear from where it comes. I think some sort of raytracing could be helpful. The equivalent to shaders would be different acoustic properties of materials.
Since you can only "see" your environment by making sounds, this might be interesting for a first person shooter. By walking or shooting, you produce sound which helps you identify the surroundings, unluckily the enemy will be able to identify you.
It might be helpful to have sound "lights" that emmit sound all the time, so that you don't have to produce sounds all the time.
Here below you see a mock up prototype of how the game could look like:

Honestly, I would be quite interested in a game like that.

Baibai
LeLapin

She kidnapped herself?

2009-02-22T22:05:00.001+01:00

My girlfriend

2009-02-21T08:42:00.002+01:00

She is hot sometimes.
She likes to cook.
I know where to push the buttons.
She doesn't wear fancy clothes.
When she drinks, she smokes.
She is shiny.
When she's ready, she goes ca-clunk.

Who is she?

2009-02-17T09:00:00.002+01:00

A quick sketch of my new girlfriend:

Ok, I go to bed already!

Harz

2009-02-17T06:06:00.004+01:00

I've seen this post and of course had to do it.

Unluckily I was too lazy to do it right. Of course someone will take my crappy code and uncrap it. Have fun!

int width=1200; int height=800;
int saize = 800;
int depth = 5
float rotx, roty;

void setup() {
size(width,height);
background(0);
frameRate(2);
}

void draw() {
drawHeart(width/2, 0, saize/2, depth, false, false);
}

void drawHeart(int x, int y, int s, int depth, boolean down, boolean right) {
if (depth <= 0) {
return;
}
int r = (int)(s*0.25);
int dy = (int)(s/2);
int dx = s/2;
Point p1 = new Point(x-dx, y + dy);
Point p2 = new Point(x+dx, y + dy);
Point p3 = new Point(x, y);
//myline(p1, p2, 128);
myline(p2, p3, 128);
myline(p3, p1, 128);
float angle = PI/6;
int xr = (int)(cos(angle)*r);
int yr = (int)(sin(angle)*r);
noFill();
int a = 20;
int b = 9;
arc(x + dx - xr, y + dy + yr, 2*r, 2*r, -PI/6, PI/2);
arc(x + dx - xr, y + dy + yr, a*(dx-xr)/b, 2*r, PI/2, PI-PI/7);

arc(x - dx + xr, y + dy + yr, 2*r, 2*r, PI/2, PI + PI/6);
arc(x - dx + xr, y + dy + yr, a*(dx-xr)/b, 2*r, PI/7, PI/2);
//arc(x + r/8, y + h, r/4, r/4, 0, PI);

drawHeart(x, y + dy + yr + r/2, 2*s/5, depth-1, true, false);
if (down) {
drawHeart(x + 2*(dx-xr), y + 3*dy/5, s/5, depth -1, false, true);
drawHeart(x - 2*(dx-xr), y + 3*dy/5, s/5, depth -1, false, false);
}
else
{
if (right) {
drawHeart(x + (dx +r/2), y, s/2, depth -1, false, true);
drawHeart(x - (dx +r/2), y, s/2, depth -1, false, false);
}
else //if left
{
drawHeart(x + (dx +r/2), y, s/2, depth -1, false, true);
drawHeart(x - (dx +r/2), y, s/2, depth -1, false, false);
}
}
}

void myline(Point p1, Point p2, int colour) {
line(p1.x, p1.y, p2.x, p2.y);
stroke(colour);
}

2009-02-14T23:13:00.002+01:00

Hello every bodies!

No comic, but a very cool game concept: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/480006

2008-11-30T22:20:00.007+01:00

And answers ensue!

Yes! That brown thing you see is not what you think.

In a hurry

2008-11-29T14:23:00.003+01:00

My train leaves in 2 minutes!

Game of Chess

2008-11-16T18:24:00.004+01:00

Since this comic is founded on the three principles ninjas, trees and Fine Art Graphite, now new comic. The lack of an appropriate verb in the latter sentence is due to. The lack of an appropriate reason in latter sentence on the other hand has nothing to do with the comic, that is: enjoy.

And no! the woman is not naked, she wears a very tight costume, that's all! You perverts!
You can go now.

//EDIT: The one who can tell me the name of that chess game, gets a free drink of my choosing!

Alibaba

2008-10-25T21:05:00.001+02:00

a*

2008-10-21T23:08:00.003+02:00

What happens if you plot the number of hits in google for all strings with an increasing number of 'a's?

Please also consider, that after 128 'a's lazy google doesn't hold any results anymore.

Big Man

2008-10-13T00:13:00.004+02:00

I should buy a new pencil. I will do that tomorrow!

happy birthday ninja!

2008-10-08T22:47:00.002+02:00

ninjas don't like ducks

Ninja on a mountain

2008-10-08T08:00:00.001+02:00

If you enjoyed this, there will be even more on sunday!

Bad Day Ninja

2008-10-01T22:11:00.004+02:00

This has been made with a dead caribou

Universal

2008-09-21T21:19:00.001+02:00

Bonus: The last words of the truth teller

Black Ballet

2008-09-17T22:26:00.001+02:00

Crab Canon

2008-09-07T20:21:00.003+02:00

bonus: crab cannon!

Don't Mess With The Dress

2008-09-03T21:38:00.001+02:00

It is Ninja Wednesday, once more!

Truthiness

2008-08-31T21:11:00.001+02:00

El doppio comico!

Wallace and Vomit

2008-08-31T21:09:00.002+02:00

miss suora elections

2008-08-27T22:51:00.004+02:00

Well after that last weekend, the ninja had to find a new job, drug-abuser was not his destiny. he found peace at the miss-suora-elections. may "god" forgive him for whatever he used to do. (if "god"-dude has time for such things..)

what the hell?? ninja on drugs? oh well, ex-ninja..

2008-08-25T11:16:00.001+02:00

Well ok, it is monday... Ninjas only show up on wednesdays, isn't it? Dude, what the hell?? stop using drugs, you fucking confuse me. anyway, this ninja is not a monkey baby no more! you hear me?! he is NOT a monkey! So no more ninjas on mondays!

Cleaning Ninja

2008-08-21T13:12:00.002+02:00

Prison Break

2008-08-17T13:00:00.000+02:00

Jesus Ninja

2008-08-13T12:00:00.000+02:00

Depression

2008-08-10T21:53:00.000+02:00

Think out of the box ninja!

2008-06-25T23:37:00.000+02:00

Well at least your thoughts are still free.. somehow..

Btw. the ninja didn't like his job as a prisoner.

The Virus

2008-06-22T13:52:00.000+02:00

Freelance antenna

2008-06-18T18:49:00.000+02:00

The lonely cactus

2008-06-15T15:04:00.000+02:00

Ninjas even had to dance! dance ninja, dance!

2008-06-12T22:31:00.000+02:00

Paris Hilton exposed

2008-06-08T14:11:00.000+02:00

2008-04-19T19:19:00.000+02:00

Hello and welcome to deBern!

This blog is mainly dedicated to ninjas, trees and Fine Art Graphite.
Enjoy this first ninja, who lost his job.

Like all the other ninjas!