DooM WAD Level Selector
I was going through old CDs and came across some doom wads, levels for the old DooM. So I fired up GZdoom and tried a few but it got kind of tiring going through command line so I had AI (mostly) write a WAD file loader. The result is the aptly named Doom PWAD Manager. It can load pwads and display a preview and give you info.
You can define multiple engines and multiple directories. You can have directory specific command line terms or based on the engine. The WAD files MUST be unzipped into subdirectories in whatever directories you choose, it will not read from a zip.
Below is the download, I took the liberty of making it an EXE if you like, source is there too though.
https://www.smackaay.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/PWADManager.zip
enjoy.
03.2.25Texture Generator and Claude 3.7 Sonnet
So, I was at the mall, waiting, and I was thinking about the old Wolfenstein 3D. I was thinking about the textures and wondering if you could algorithmically generate textures to make a game like that. I decided to ask Claude 3.7 Sonnet to make a program to do just that. Well, it made a 2800 line program in JS. Amazing.
Not much to say about it aside from the fact that it seems to work. Enjoy!
Oh, also, here is a sound generator too!
Ripping an image based PDF to text (and old TurboBASIC commands)
Recently, I wanted to pull text from a PDF that was scanned in from an old manual, namely the Borland Turbo Basic manual. The text that was in the document was garbage, nothing there to be done, so I decided to write something that would allow me to:
1. Load a PDF
2. Rip the images from the PDF
3. OCR the images to generate the text
So, here it is.
import fitz # PyMuPDF
from PIL import Image
import pytesseract
import io
# Set the path to the Tesseract executable
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r"C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe"
def pdf_to_text(pdf_path: str):
# Open the PDF file
pdf_document = fitz.open(pdf_path)
text_output = []
# Iterate through each page in the PDF
for page_num in range(pdf_document.page_count):
print(f"Processing page {page_num + 1} of {pdf_document.page_count}...")
# Get the page object
page = pdf_document.load_page(page_num)
# Convert the page to a pixmap (image)
pix = page.get_pixmap()
# Convert the pixmap into a PIL image
img = Image.open(io.BytesIO(pix.tobytes("png")))
# Run OCR on the image using pytesseract
page_text = pytesseract.image_to_string(img)
# Append the extracted text to the list
text_output.append(f"Page {page_num + 1}:\n{page_text}\n")
# Close the document after processing
pdf_document.close()
# Join all pages' text into a single string
return "\n".join(text_output)
if __name__ == "__main__":
pdf_path = "BorTurboBasic.pdf" # Replace with the path to your PDF file
extracted_text = pdf_to_text(pdf_path)
# Save the text to a file
with open("output_text.txt", "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
f.write(extracted_text)
print("OCR complete. Text extracted and saved to 'output_text.txt'.")You need to install Tesseract in order to rip the text and put the location into the pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd variable. Also, it’s not perfect and it’s not great but it’s better than nothing. If the text is super garbled then it works to simply dump the text into something like Google Gemini and have it rip info you need from it.
Speaking of which, here is a cheat-sheet formatted and parsed from an old Turbo Basic manual.
Turbo Basic Commands (smackaay.com)
Enjoy!
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Demographic charts
So, I’m pretty interested in the state of the world and how populations in wealthier countries are starting to fall. I was kind of looking at charts, population pyramid charts to be exact and I found that population pyramids, while interesting don’t show the decline in as interesting way as a line graph. So I took it upon myself to grab the info and change them into line graphs that can be viewed more easily. Below are a bunch for your perusal.
Working age population – WorldWorking age population – Canada
Working age population – Japan
Working age population – Least Developed Countries
Working age population – More Developed Countries
Working age population – Russian Federation
Working age population – United Kingdom
Working age population – United States
Population – World
Population – Canada
Population – Japan
Population – Least Developed Countries
Population – More Developed Countries
Population – Russian Federation
Population – United Kingdom
Population – United States
Population Percentage – World
Population Percentage – Canada
Population Percentage – Japan
Population Percentage – Least Developed Countries
Population Percentage – More Developed Countries
Population Percentage – Russian Federation
Population Percentage – United Kingdom
Population Percentage – United States
Working Population Percentage – World
Working Population Percentage – Canada
Working Population Percentage – Japan
Working Population Percentage – Least Developed Countries
Working Population Percentage – More Developed Countries
Working Population Percentage – Russian Federation
Working Population Percentage – United Kingdom
Working Population Percentage – United States
There we go, it’s pretty straightforward. You can click the labels on the side to turn on/off certain lines to highlight what you want to see. Clicking on a link will open new window, also, if you change the windows size, please refresh to make it fit your window. To explain we have a number of data sets here, population of a given region, percentage of population of a given region, population of people of working age of a given region and finally a percentage of the working population of a given region. I chose regions/countries that made sense to me. I could’ve picked China but I don’t trust their numbers on anything, even bad numbers. Enjoy!
I think one of the neat things to look at as a Canadian is the percentage based charts, particularly those of working age. I separated the charts out as a basis of percentage in groups from 0-14, 15-64 and 65+. You look at these things and you can see why we’re having some issues. For example, we here in Canada have 45% of the children we had in 1960 on a per capita basis. We also crossed the threshold of having more 65+ people than working age people back in 2010, the line was crossed for women back in 1988.
Another thing I see is that, for Canada, the percentage of adults goes up in bumps over the years but not so much for children. I suspect that is because despite having so much immigration in certain spots, even they are not having that many children either. That’s interesting to me as well.
Anyways, hope you enjoy. These charts are an interesting way to look at demographics in a different way from pyramid charts.
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New prompt permutation script
A while back I made a prompt permutation script for generating large numbers of image prompts for use in automatic1111. I updated it with a new operator, the incremental operator ‘&’ so it will cycle through the list items instead of choosing random ones. Here is a sample prompt and output. Basically a fancy search and replace but I use it quite often.
photo, a %SIZE brutalist &BUILDING on a sunny day (this is the base prompt)
photo, painting
brutalist, post-modern, deconstructivism
sunny day, night time
%SIZE, small, medium, large, huge
&BUILDING, house, tower, factory, schoolOutput:
photo, a small brutalist house on a sunny day
photo, a huge brutalist tower on a night time
photo, a medium post-modern factory on a sunny day
photo, a medium post-modern school on a night time
photo, a medium deconstructivism house on a sunny day
photo, a large deconstructivism tower on a night time
painting, a medium brutalist factory on a sunny day
painting, a small brutalist school on a night time
painting, a huge post-modern house on a sunny day
painting, a small post-modern tower on a night time
painting, a large deconstructivism factory on a sunny day
painting, a medium deconstructivism school on a night timeAnyways, here is the python script along with an html version so you can use it with an interface of sorts.
http://smackaay.com/files/ppermute/ppermute.html The little webpage for it.
Here is the python script.
import itertools
import random
# File path assignments
INPUT_FILE_PATH = 'img5.txt' # Change this to the path of your input file
OUTPUT_FILE_PATH = 'output.txt' # Change this to the desired path for the output file
def load_file(file_path):
with open(file_path, 'r') as file:
lines = file.readlines()
return [line.strip() for line in lines]
def generate_permutations(prompt, modifiers, random_modifiers, increment_modifiers):
all_combinations = list(itertools.product(*modifiers))
permutations = []
increment_counters = {key: 0 for key in increment_modifiers.keys()}
for combination in all_combinations:
new_prompt = prompt
for original, replacement in zip(modifiers, combination):
new_prompt = replace_first(new_prompt, original[0], replacement)
# Handle random modifiers
for placeholder, values in random_modifiers.items():
if placeholder in new_prompt:
replacement = random.choice(values)
new_prompt = new_prompt.replace(placeholder, replacement, 1)
# Handle increment modifiers
for placeholder, values in increment_modifiers.items():
if placeholder in new_prompt:
replacement = values[increment_counters[placeholder] % len(values)]
new_prompt = new_prompt.replace(placeholder, replacement, 1)
increment_counters[placeholder] += 1
# Remove placeholders from the final prompt
new_prompt = remove_placeholders(new_prompt, random_modifiers.keys() | increment_modifiers.keys())
permutations.append(new_prompt)
return permutations
def replace_first(text, search, replacement):
if search not in text:
raise ValueError(f"Term '{search}' not found in the prompt.")
return text.replace(search, replacement, 1)
def remove_placeholders(text, placeholders):
for placeholder in placeholders:
text = text.replace(placeholder, "")
return text
def save_to_file(output_path, permutations):
with open(output_path, 'w') as file:
for permutation in permutations:
file.write(permutation + '\n')
def main():
lines = load_file(INPUT_FILE_PATH)
if not lines:
print("The input file is empty.")
return
prompt = lines[0]
modifiers = [line.split(', ') for line in lines[1:] if not line.startswith('%') and not line.startswith('&')]
random_modifiers = {}
increment_modifiers = {}
for line in lines[1:]:
if line.startswith('%'):
parts = line.split(', ')
key = parts[0]
values = parts[1:]
random_modifiers[key] = values
elif line.startswith('&'):
parts = line.split(', ')
key = parts[0]
values = parts[1:]
increment_modifiers[key] = values
try:
all_permutations = generate_permutations(prompt, modifiers, random_modifiers, increment_modifiers)
save_to_file(OUTPUT_FILE_PATH, all_permutations)
print(f"Generated prompts have been saved to {OUTPUT_FILE_PATH}")
print(f"Total number of permutations: {len(all_permutations)}")
except ValueError as e:
print(f"Error: {e}")
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
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Gage Block Buildup Calculator
So, I have that Python source code on the side of my site there for calculating gage block buildups. I figured it was time to turn it into a JS program so that people can just access it from the web. Not super complicated but useful nonetheless.
http://smackaay.com/files/gbcalc/gbcalc.html
Features as follows:
- Imperial 81, 28, 34, 36 and 92 pc sets
- Metric 88, 47 and 112 pc sets
- Multiple ( as many as you want) results
- The ability to remove blocks from the list if they are either missing or used in a previous buildup. This is handy.
Anyways, hope somebody out there enjoys this!
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The YouTube Recycle Bin
I was watching a video from a youtuber KVN AUST. The video: https://youtu.be/8uHFm6LK6PE?si=SLIaCEzNBx_iL97V It featured a map for looking at and searching for odd videos across YouTube. It’s pretty fun just to see little slices of life or weird things people would bother uploading so I made a little JS proggy to generate the most common search terms.
Select the prefix and the type of random term you want to find, click on Generate Search Term and then click Search on YouTube. You can select No Spaces or With Quotes if certain things don’t work. The random date is anything in the last 20 years. Enjoy!
YouTube Recycle Bin Search Generator
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A visit from an old friend, the boreGauge
A few years back we made a gauge for measuring large bores in hydraulic cylinders. Seems the company that bought it from us needed the software for it again. I had to dig through my old source code and see if I had a recent version, turns out I did. On this project I did the electronics, software and commissioned it.
What the device does is, you place it in the bore, set your zeros and then measure the bore all the way down. This way you can see if there are any high spots, low spots or waviness. The software keeps track of the position as well and provides a csv file of the data and plots it on the screen.
This was a pretty fun project, I might redesign it and make a more substantial attempt at monetizing it later.
StableDiffusion Permutation Script Update
So, like a week ago I wrote a script to make permutations for SD prompts. I’ve updated the script to allow for random terms as well. This allows one to add variance in the prompt but to not add to the number of permutations. Everything is explained in the code block comment. just change the filenames near the end of the script and run.
"""
Script: prompt_permutator.py
Description:
This script generates permutations of a given prompt with various modifiers.
The script reads an input file that contains a base prompt and lists of modifiers.
It creates all possible combinations of the modifiers and generates new prompts
based on these combinations. Additionally, it handles placeholders that are randomly
replaced with specified values and ensures these placeholders are not included in the final output.
Input File Format:
- The first line contains the base prompt.
- Subsequent lines contain comma-separated lists of modifiers.
- Lines starting with a placeholder (e.g., %1) are treated as random modifiers and are replaced
with random values from the list provided.
Example Input File (test2.txt):
A %1 flower on a hill, photorealistic
on a hill, in a vase, on a bed
photorealistic, manga
%1, Red, Green, Blue
In this example:
- The base prompt is: "A %1 flower on a hill, photorealistic"
- The modifiers are: ["on a hill", "in a vase", "on a bed"] and ["photorealistic", "manga"]
- The placeholder %1 will be replaced with a random choice from ["Red", "Green", "Blue"]
Output:
The script generates all permutations of the prompt with the modifiers and replaces
the placeholder with a random value. The results are saved to an output file.
Usage:
1. Prepare an input file (e.g., 'test2.txt') following the described format.
2. Specify the input and output file paths in the script or pass them as arguments.
3. Run the script to generate the permutations and save them to the output file.
Example Execution:
$ python prompt_permutator.py
Dependencies:
- itertools
- random
Author:
Steven M
Date:
May 28, 2024
"""
import itertools
import random
def load_file(file_path):
with open(file_path, 'r') as file:
lines = file.readlines()
return [line.strip() for line in lines]
def generate_permutations(prompt, modifiers, random_modifiers):
# Create all combinations of modifiers
all_combinations = list(itertools.product(*modifiers))
permutations = []
for combination in all_combinations:
new_prompt = prompt
for original, replacement in zip(modifiers, combination):
new_prompt = replace_first(new_prompt, original[0], replacement)
# Handle random modifiers
for placeholder, values in random_modifiers.items():
if placeholder in new_prompt:
replacement = random.choice(values)
new_prompt = new_prompt.replace(placeholder, replacement, 1)
# Remove placeholders from the final prompt
new_prompt = remove_placeholders(new_prompt, random_modifiers.keys())
permutations.append(new_prompt)
return permutations
def replace_first(text, search, replacement):
# Helper function to replace only the first occurrence of a term
if search not in text:
raise ValueError(f"Term '{search}' not found in the prompt.")
return text.replace(search, replacement, 1)
def remove_placeholders(text, placeholders):
for placeholder in placeholders:
text = text.replace(placeholder, "")
return text
def save_to_file(output_path, permutations):
with open(output_path, 'w') as file:
for permutation in permutations:
file.write(permutation + '\n')
def main(input_file_path, output_file_path):
lines = load_file(input_file_path)
if not lines:
print("The input file is empty.")
return
prompt = lines[0]
modifiers = [line.split(', ') for line in lines[1:] if not line.startswith('%')]
random_modifiers = {}
for line in lines[1:]:
if line.startswith('%'):
parts = line.split(', ')
key = parts[0]
values = parts[1:]
random_modifiers[key] = values
try:
all_permutations = generate_permutations(prompt, modifiers, random_modifiers)
save_to_file(output_file_path, all_permutations)
print(f"Generated prompts have been saved to {output_file_path}")
print(f"Total number of permutations: {len(all_permutations)}")
except ValueError as e:
print(f"Error: {e}")
if __name__ == "__main__":
input_file_path = 'test2.txt' # Change this to the path of your input file
output_file_path = 'output.txt' # Change this to the desired path for the output file
main(input_file_path, output_file_path)So, in essence, anything with a % at the beginning of the line will be processed differently and the term will be matched up. As always, I guarantee nothing.
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Pong-2024
I was bored and made a quick Pong game. It’s not great, not terribly well finished but I wanted to see how good the tools are these days. It’s been a while since I wrote a game. It was fun to make. Give it a shot.
https://smackaay.com/webgames/pong2024/index.html
It’s output in HTML5 so no installation is required.
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