Tag:  Python

Rainbow Tunnel: Vanishing Colors Illusion

A couple of years ago, while experimenting with my program Viplex, I have come across an optical phenomenon: When creating what could be best described as a rainbow tunnel, looking at its center, and zooming out the view continuously for a couple of seconds, I got the impression the colors of the rainbow vanished. Instead of colors the whole view was shades of grey!

01.08.23

Setting up a statically-typed Python programming environment with mypy and Poetry

Recent versions of Python allow optional type annotations to be added to the source code. In this short guide I show how the type checker mypy can be integrated into the programming environment using the dependency management utility Poetry to enable gradual static type enforcement of Python programs.

30.12.22