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Mathematician's Raycast (23 patterrns, 0 meta-evals used): This code can completely replace any code that'd normally do a standard Archer's + Architect's raycast. It saves you a little media sometimes, in exchange for needing 23 patterns instead of 9 or 11. A worthwhile trade, though, assuming you ...

Bit Selector Hexcasting's set operations do bitwise math if you apply them to numbers. Here's one practical way to use that in a hex. Let's say you want a function which returns either True or False depending on what number you pass it, using this table: 0 = False 1 = False 2 = True 3 = True 4 = Fa...

Optimized Archer's + Architect's raycast The standard way of doing an "Archer's + Architect's" raycast (11 patterns): [pat=qaq dir=ne color=purple] [pat=aa dir=e color=purple] [pat=qaq dir=ne color=purple] [pat=wa dir=ne color=purple] [pat=wqaawdd dir=e color=blue] [pat=qaq dir=ne color=p...

This thread is for any interesting small tidbits I find that aren't worthy of making an entire thread for. (Feel free to talk in the thread if you like - I'll be building an index of my posts here to make them easy to find while still allowing folks to talk.) INDEX: Optimized Archer's + Architect's ...