I discovered a little something called Processing. It’s math and art all at once!
Sample program - draws an ‘N’ - right ‘ere:
int h = 200;
int w = 200;
int thickness = 50;
void setup() {
size(w, h);
background(0);
stroke(255);
}
void draw() {
for(int i = 0; i < thickness; i++) {
// left vertical
line(i, 0, i, h);
// diagonal
line((i + 1), 0, (w - thickness + i + 1), h);
// right vertical
line((w - i - 1), 0, (w - i - 1), h);
}
}
Hello there.
You may have noticed some technical difficulties here recently, notably on Wednesday. I know I did - my virtual machine (VPS) OOM‘d.
To be blunt, I blame Matt Mullenweg (of WordPress fame).
See, a little while ago I was bored and made this. And then I sent the link to Matt, hoping for a chuckle, maybe. Nothing more, really. But it turns out Matt uses Twitter, and you know how those crazy tweeters (twitterers?) are.
Well, in a sneaky attempt to start garnering support ahead of time, Mr. Mullenweg twittered the link, and all 6500+ of his supporters flocked to my humble web abode. (Okay, so it may have been notably fewer than all of them, but enough to crash my VM.)
So yeah, thanks to Matt I now have fame and fortune! Well, more like just fame. Or neither, really. I have a few hundred hits and 2 comments more than I had before. (And a first-person experience with an improperly configured webserver.)
But it was fun nonetheless.
And educational, too. I learned that one shouldn’t slack off on one’s own web presence while pretending to be some sort of a web developer/designer. Thus I plan on redesigning sw33t.net in the weeks to come (winter break has perfect timing this year), and maybe even doing something with curvybox.com.
I might also expand upon the “Mullenweg’08″ idea as well. ;)
Obama ‘08 - Vote For Hope from MC Yogi on Vimeo.
Go vote.
