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Category Archives: Dusted Off
Dusted off – Troposphere word cloud renderer
Troposphere is a word-cloud rendering plugin built in Javascript on Canvas using Fabric. https://github.com/scipilot/troposphere It has a few artistic options such as the “jumbliness”, “tightness” and “cuddling” of the words, how they scale with word-rankings, colour and brightness. It also … Continue reading
Dusted off: God Options
God Options – (c) Pip 2007
Dusted off – Behemoth Cottontail Dynamo
Behemoth Cottontail Dynamo In memory of silent storms The sky is full of fire tonight The passive clouds stage the show Openmouth eyes flash with light Behemoth cottontail dynamo Drifting north along the shore A silent minstrel’s midnight chore As … Continue reading
Dusted off – A 90’s IDEa
Today I found this note on an old hard-drive in a file simply named “THOUGHTS”. In 1995 I was tired of the manual debug process in writing (Borland) C programs and imagined a graphical debugger which allowed you to visualise … Continue reading
Dusted off – “Evolute Laboratory”
Ever since coding up my first “biomorphs” program on a friend’s BBC micro in 1987, I’ve loved the idea of genetic programming. The idea is akin to how our DNA works and is aimed to solve the problem of not … Continue reading
Dusted off – 4D games
Hopefully I’m not infringing any trademarks with the term 4D games, but many years ago I was fascinated with the idea of why the human brain (except Stephen Hawking’s) cannot think in more than three dimensions. I’d seen a number … Continue reading
Flash Invaders – Dusted Off
As the first of a series of dusted off games and trinkets, here’s a game I wrote a few years ago, which never got the final graphical treatment but the gameplay works up to about level 50 something. I drew … Continue reading
Dusted Off
Family distractions. Hard drive crashes. Unexplained bouts of actually going outside. These things are all likely to cause “codus interruptus” – something both annoying and embarrassing that we developers tend not to discuss nor even admit too. Find out more … Continue reading
