Archive for April, 2008

The Random Strut

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Henceforth I will stop apologizing for my exuberance in my advances in sub-basic computer programming, and simply take pleasure in my own accomplishments. I am of the age now where I need to get over it and stop worrying about you, the non=existent audience. So that being said, I would like to share with you my latest cretins: Random Walk Visualizations!

Digital Walk:

Analog Walk:

Basically for those of you requiring more information. Random walks are used in physics to guess the movement of quantum particles. In this case they are determined by the computer’s sudo-random generation of a number between 1 and 4 and then making a movement corresponding to the number selected. The Analog walk does pretty much the same thing, but instead of the four cardinal directions it uses radians to move points around the field.

They are pretty fun programs to play around with. I have written them in Python (like most everything I’ve done to this point) and will soon put up the source code, but I am also trying to figure out how to make these interactive on the site as well.

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Terminal Cancer

Monday, April 14th, 2008

So I’ve begun the long slow process (if you’re a lummox) of implementing an interactive command line terminal on the new CODE page. Ideally and eventually this will be a way to access some of programming projects I’ve been cooking up lately. The major obstacle at the moment is that they are all written in Python and they need to be in JavaScript, so I’m working on that, but someday you may have access to my Space Trip Planner, my Storm Calculator, and my secret Encoder/ Decoder, plus many more to come in the future. It should be pretty clear that I don’t really know what I’m doing when it comes to this stuff, but I’m making an attempt to learn, and I’m finding it to be great fun.

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