Chapter 6 of the Coding Curves Series Another physical device which renders complex curves that we can simulate! This one is called a Pintograph, and I’ve actually built one of these myself. We’ll start with a video – this is…
Chapter 5 of the Coding Curves Series This installment builds on Chapter 4’s discussion of Lissajous curves. Actually, a harmonograph is not a type of curve, it’s a device used to draw Lissajous (and similar) curves. And when I say…
Chapter 4 in the Coding Curves Series Make sure you are familiar with at least the first chapter, to understand how the code samples work. Lissajous curves have always been one of my favorite techniques. They are useful for many…
Chapter 3 in the Coding Curves Series In this installment we’ll look at how to draw arcs, circles and ellipses. (And wander off on some tangents before we get done.) It’s likely that your platform’s drawing api has at least…
Chapter 2 in the Coding Curves Series This is going to be a relatively simple one, but we’ll get into a few different applications. I’m not going to take a deep dive into what trigonometry is, there will be no…
Background For a number of years, I’ve been wanting to writing a book called “Coding Curves”. There are all kinds of really fascinating curves that are fun to code and understand and create very interesting images. I’ve started this book…
Yesterday I created a little Go library to manage ANSI escape codes in Go. I’ve been working on a command line app that will have a user selecting items from a list and asking a few questions in order to…
Anyone who follows me on twitter has seen what I’ve been up to in the last month and a half or so. But to hop on a meme from last year… How it started: How it’s going: Not bad for…
https://github.com/bit101/bufkill Background I’ve been using vim full time for about 5 years now, and was semi-comfortable with it for a while before that. It’s one of those technologies that you can go really deep on. And once you get used…
In a recent post I shared some thoughts about art and included a few, somewhat tongue-in-cheek comments about the use of random number generation. Specifically, Random is evil. Random is lazy. Random is OK when you’re starting a new piece.…