from glob import glob
from os.path import join

from pygame import Color, PixelArray
from pygame.image import load

from lib.pgfw.pgfw.GameChild import GameChild

class View(GameChild):

    MAX_ALPHA = 255

    def __init__(self, parent):
        GameChild.__init__(self, parent)
        self.index = 0
        self.alpha = self.MAX_ALPHA
        self.frame_index = 1
        self.display_surface = self.get_display_surface()
        self.load_configuration()
        self.set_frames()

    def load_configuration(self):
        config = self.get_configuration("view")
        self.coordinates = config["coordinates"]
        self.root = config["path"]
        self.alpha_step = config["alpha-step"]

    def set_frames(self):
        frames = []
        for path in sorted(glob(join(self.get_resource(self.root), "[0-9]*"))):
            frames.append(load(path).convert())
        self.frames = frames

    def update(self):
        self.decrement_alpha()
        self.draw()

    def decrement_alpha(self):
        alpha = self.alpha - self.alpha_step
        if alpha <= 0:
            alpha = self.MAX_ALPHA
            self.get_previous_frame().set_alpha(alpha)
            self.increment_frame_index()
        self.get_previous_frame().set_alpha(alpha)
        self.alpha = alpha

    def get_current_frame(self):
        return self.frames[self.frame_index]

    def increment_frame_index(self):
        index = self.frame_index + 1
        if index >= len(self.frames):
            index = 0
        self.frame_index = index

    def draw(self):
        display_surface = self.display_surface
        coordinates = self.coordinates
        display_surface.blit(self.get_current_frame(), coordinates)
        display_surface.blit(self.get_previous_frame(), coordinates)

    def get_previous_frame(self):
        frames = self.frames
        index = self.frame_index - 1
        if index < 0:
            index = len(frames) - 1
        return frames[index]
from pygame import Rect

from lib.pgfw.pgfw.GameChild import GameChild

class Collection(GameChild, Rect):

    def __init__(self, parent):
        GameChild.__init__(self, parent)
        self.load_configuration()
        self.init_rect()

    def load_configuration(self):
        config = self.get_configuration("collection")
        self.coordinates = config["coordinates"]
        self.size = config["size"]

    def init_rect(self):
        Rect.__init__(self, self.coordinates, self.size)
from os.path import join
from glob import glob

from pygame import Surface
from pygame.image import load

from lib.pgfw.pgfw.GameChild import GameChild
from food_spring.gaia.Swapper import Swapper

class Gaia(GameChild):

    def __init__(self, parent):
        GameChild.__init__(self, parent)
        self.offset = self.get_configuration("gaia", "offset")
        self.set_images()
        self.swapper = Swapper(self)

    def set_images(self):
        images = []
        for path in sorted(glob(join(self.get_resource("gaia", "path"),
                                     "*.png"))):
            images.append(load(path).convert_alpha())
        self.images = images
from random import shuffle, choice

from pygame import Surface
from pygame.time import get_ticks
from pygame.locals import *

from lib.pgfw.pgfw.GameChild import GameChild
from lib.pgfw.pgfw.Sprite import Sprite

class Swapper(GameChild, Surface):

    def __init__(self, parent):
        GameChild.__init__(self, parent)
        self.load_configuration()
        self.init_surface()
        self.set_segments()

    def load_configuration(self):
        config = self.get_configuration("introduction")
        self.segment_count = config["segments"]
        self.transition_time = config["transition"]

    def init_surface(self):
        parent = self.parent
        offset = parent.offset
        line, spread  = parent.images
        Surface.__init__(self, (line.get_width(), line.get_height() + offset),
                         SRCALPHA)
        self.blit(line, (0, 0))
        self.blit(spread, (0, offset))
        rect = self.get_rect()
        rect.left = self.get_display_surface().get_width() / 2 - \
                    self.get_width() / 2
        self.rect = rect

    def set_segments(self):
        width, height = self.get_size()
        count = self.segment_count
        segment_width = width / count
        remainder = width % count
        x = 0
        segments = []
        for _ in xrange(count):
            adjusted_width = segment_width + (remainder > 0)
            segments.append(Segment(self, x, 0, adjusted_width, height))
            x += adjusted_width
            remainder -= 1
        self.segments = segments

    def swap(self, p, q):
        if isinstance(p, int):
            p, q = self.segments[p], self.segments[q]
        if not (p.moving() or q.moving()):
            p.set_destination(q.location.right)
            q.set_destination(p.location.right)

    def update(self):
        for segment in self.segments:
            segment.update()
        self.swap(choice(self.segments), choice(self.segments))


class Segment(Sprite):

    def __init__(self, parent, *args):
        Sprite.__init__(self, parent)
        self.add_frame(self.parent.subsurface(args).copy())
        self.location.topleft = args[0] + self.parent.rect.left, args[1]
        self.destination = self.location.right

    def moving(self):
        return self.destination != self.location.right

    def set_destination(self, right):
        self.destination = right
        self.distance = abs(self.location.right - right)
        self.last_ticks = get_ticks()

    def update(self):
        right = self.location.right
        destination = self.destination
        ticks = get_ticks()
        if self.moving():
            elapsed = float(ticks - self.last_ticks)
            step = int(self.distance * elapsed / self.parent.transition_time) \
                   or 1
            if destination < right:
                step = -step
            self.move(step)
            if abs(step) >= abs(self.location.right - destination):
                self.location.right = destination
        self.last_ticks = ticks
        Sprite.update(self)
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December 3, 2013

Where in the mind's prism does light shine, inward, outward, or backward, and where in a plane does it intersect, experientially and literally, while possessing itself in a dripping wet phantasm?


Fig 1.1 What happens after you turn on a video game and before it appears?

The taxonomy of fun contains the difference between gasps of desperation and exaltation, simultaneously identical and opposite; one inspires you to have sex, while the other to ejaculate perpetually. A destruction and its procession are effervescent, while free play is an inseminated shimmer hatching inside you. Unlikely to be resolved, however, in such a way, are the climaxes of transitions between isolated, consecutive game states.

You walk through a door or long-jump face first (your face, not Mario's) into a painting. A moment passes for eternity, viscerally fading from your ego, corpus, chakra, gaia, the basis of your soul. It happens when you kill too, and especially when you precisely maim or obliterate something. It's a reason to live, a replicating stasis.


Fig 1.2 Sequence in a video game

Video games are death reanimated. You recurse through the underworld toward an illusion. Everything in a decision and logic attaches permanently to your fingerprint. At the core, you use its energy to soar, comatose, back into the biosphere, possibly because the formal structure of a mind by human standards is useful in the next world.