tabatkins/efmath

Fork of Erich Friedman's repo to turn all the gifs into svgs

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Packing attack plan

So the first project is converting the Packing projects to SVG. I presume we'll start with the square-in-square, as it's both simple and just barely non-trivial enough to explore the solution space well (and the angled squares are so ugly in the current gifs).

Proposed plan:

• Add a script folder to root that'll hold our Python
• Add a JSON file to the packing sqinsq folder, with some standardized name
  • It's a list of objects, which list a filename, a background shape, and any number of foreground shapes, in some compact format
• The script finds the JSONs, and produces a bunch of SVGs out of them in the given folder.
• It also rewrites all instances of the .gif filename to the .svg filename in the associated HTML files? Or we just replace the gifs directly, and end up with a bunch of SVGs with a .gif extension - confusing, but whatever. Or generate each file with both a .gif and .svg extension, and don't modify any HTML?

Instead of JSON, maybe we can use KDL? It's a better config language than JSON, and I'm the author of a Python KDL-parsing library (kdl-py on pip), so I'd like an excuse to try it out in a real-world example and find friction points to fix. ^_^