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Schweinsteiger looks on in concern..

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My buddy Steve wasn’t feeling so great, so I made this poster for him.
Maybe you’re also in need of a good cheering up, in which case..

enjoy!

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/**
* Noise1D.
*
* Using 1D Perlin Noise to assign location.
*/

float xoff = 0.0;
float xincrement = 0.01;

void setup() {
size(200,200);
background(255);
frameRate(30);
smooth();
noStroke();
}

void draw()
{
// Create an alpha blended background
fill(255, 10);
rect(0,0,width,height);

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Here’s another mini sketch, using the tester from the wordpress processingjs plugin. Bear with me, folks..

//Info: http://processingjs.org/reference
void setup() {
size(200, 200);
frameRate(10);
}
void draw() {
background(#ffffff);
ellipse(100, 100, random(50), random(50));
}

Here is the latest in a small series of tests, embedding processing sketches on this blog. This one uses the wonders of processingjs, John Resig’s fantastic port of processing to javascript. This animation is nicked directly from the processingjs website, so please don’t hold that against me. Some oddities notices so far [...]

This post is more for my benefit than others, but you may in the end find it useful anyway. I’ve recently come across a handy batch conversion technique for switching image formats in a snap;
1. Put a load of images in a folder
2. Open the Terminal
3. cd to the current directory
4. type in
mkdir jpgs; [...]

This might come in handy to some of you, it has made life remarkably easier for me in recent months;
Steps involved;
1. navigate to a desired location in google maps
2. paste this script into the url bar + hit enter
javascript:void(prompt(”,gApplication.getMap().getCenter()));
3. a window will pop up showing you the gps coordinates of that location
4. done!
Hope it helps!

Shouldn’t a URL ’shortener’ service make the URL shorter? perhaps even a google search term would have been appropriate, but then again that might have used up enough energy to boil a kettle*.
* I’ll have to explain this one later..

You should use GREP.
If you haven’t heard of grep before, it’s a very fancy pattern search tool for text editors. Think of the ‘find’ function but with more advanced capabilities such as searches for whitespace characters, end of line/file or particular character patterns.
I’ve become accustomed to some of the more trivial but useful tricks [...]

I’m really enjoying the work in Michæl.Paukner’s Flickr photostream, which includes some of the most fantastical analytical graphics, illustrating scientific/theoretical concepts. Most of his work is just gorgeous, bringing clarity and simplicity to what could otherwise be convoluted diagrams. Some of my favourites are the solar eclipse and the circular periodic table of [...]

Today I spent some time going through earlier posts, making small tweaks or edits to image sizes – bringing the site back up to date with the new theme (courtesy of subtraction.com). Something that came to mind during this was that I haven’t been using this site as a sketchpad or notebook as much [...]

I just came across Alex Bamford’s flickr images, via Russell Davies.  His images are lovely, his light fight set is worth checking out.  Take a look for yourself;

Rock Me Again & Again & Again & Again & Again & Again http://bit.ly/jamesbrownradio #
Lord of War, not so great. From Gattaca and The Truman Show to this? A smug Nic Cage is almost bearable, but I can only take so much! #

right now I have one of the following – a UFO, an X-Files episode or an industrial rescue mission – taking place outside my front door #
Web browser solar system built to scale http://bit.ly/4qdK5m get scrolling! #
possibly the most fun road trip movie I've seen; http://bit.ly/5czso, see also http://bit.ly/SyObA, both by the great Dan Meth [...]