https://github.com/deifactor/lost-purpose

A skeuomorphic tarot webapp.
https://github.com/deifactor/lost-purpose

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A skeuomorphic tarot webapp.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/deifactor/lost-purpose
• Owner: deifactor
• License: mit
• Created: 2018-06-25T21:33:59.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-03-02T01:23:49.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-06T13:42:20.787Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Topics: tarot, webapp
• Language: TypeScript
• Homepage: https://synthetic.zone/lost-purpose
• Size: 1.88 MB
• Stars: 11
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 3
• Open Issues: 13
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Tarot of the Lost Purpose

**NOT MAINTAINED**

This was an experiment back in 2019 to learn React. Unfortunately, the nature

of modern webdev means severay of the 'best practices' here are no longer

valid. One day I'd like to rewrite this in the 'modern' recommended style,

possibly with Preact or even without any framework at all. But until then,

consider this code bit-rotten.

If you want to try the Tarot of the Lost Purpose out for yourself, see [the

official instance](https://synthetic.zone/lost-purpose).

Tarot of the Lost Purpose (or just Lost Purpose) is a

[skeuomorphic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph) tarot deck web

application: it simulates tarot decks in significantly more detail than is

necessary, and makes several design decisions with the explicit purpose of

*feeling* like a tarot deck.

* It uses a [linear-feedback shift

  register](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear-feedback_shift_register) for

  random number generation, seeded using a user-provided string with

  [CRC32](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_redundancy_check) repeatedly

  applied. It does this in order to simulate the fact that humans are quite bad

  at 'randomly' shuffling.

* Instead of implementing a perfect [Fisher-Yates

  shuffle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%E2%80%93Yates_shuffle), it

  implements a 'chunked riffle shuffle' where the deck is randomly cut and

  randomly-sized chunks from each half are interleaved.

For a more rambly about page, read [the about page](frontend/src/components/About.md).

## Silicon Dawn

Lost Purpose also supports the [Tarot of the Silicon

Dawn](http://egypt.urnash.com/tarot/), which augments the traditional tarot deck

with:

* Five extra major arcana

* The (VOID) suit, with five ranks (including a 0).

* The 99s of all four traditional suits

* Two extra cards that defy categorization.

The deck is worth a shot if you're queer/transhuman/generally Weird, but sadly

out of print (as of August 2018) and unreasonably expensive to buy second-hand.

Egypt Urnash has kindly given me permission to use the art assets and her

interpretations.

## Licensing

All of my own work (everything outside of `frontend/assets`) is licensed under

the MIT license found in `LICENSE`. The assets are licensed using the

per-directory `LICENSE` files.