exploration: accounts of success and misadventure
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encoding…
another headache with GoldenCheetah. trying to implement a new feature – support for iBike CSV files. these files have a bunch of configuration data at the top, which is easy enough to skip, but for some reason the QTextStream::readLine() function is loading the entire file rather than line 1 (at least according to what i […]
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openGL in a browser
i enjoyed reading about lissajous curves in brendan dawes’ “analog in, digital out”. specifically he was speaking about iteration and how altering one of the parameters of the algorithm can create vastly different output. inspired by that here’s a sketch expanding the algorithm into 3d. not groundbreaking but it certainly looks pretty. following other’s example […]
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iteration
playing with the 3d game of life sketch. i’m still looking to get the rules right, but in the meantime i’ve added a mutation. occasionally the upper rule changes which causes the cells to birth/die in sometimes drastically different ways. also, the colors reflect the age of each cell; they progress from red to blue […]
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infectious…
I am coming to believe that the atmosphere at ITP is infectious. Every time I pass through there I come away with this bug to work on another project. I stopped by yesterday while I was in New York, ran into someone I had met at the spring show and had a good chat about […]
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home again
Back home now, and realize just how much stuff we have. Now that we have an idea of the space we’re moving into we (I) have to dispose of many of my things. Some of it will be relatively easy – the junk that I collect because it MIGHT be useful one day. Harder will […]
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finally, some progress…
we found a new place in brooklyn. it was quite exhausting to keep searching daily, away from home…but we’re happy with the new apartment. now it’s time to get packed up to move…just a few more days before i have to think about that. i have my NYU id and have gotten notice that my […]
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deep thoughts…
i’m far too distracted to maintain a respectable blog….i never aim to sit down and write a proper article….but i can bust out the one-liners like nobody’s business (well, that’s probably not even true, either). thank goodness for something like twitter….perfect for someone like me that needs to have an audience for every inane witticism…even […]
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hunting…
spent the past two days hunting for apartments in brooklyn…this has been a rough process made more difficult by the current heat wave…smarmy. the iphone and it’s access to craigslist and google maps has really helped, but the battery dies about the same time that my stamina goes out…so i suppose it’s only fair. another […]
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i’m going slightly mad…
…sitting here looking for apartments 100 miles away. i suppose it could be worse – it could be 200 or 2000 miles away. regardless, weeks of filtering out all the noise in the available listings is taking it’s toll. understanding the situation in my neighborhood i fully expect brooklyn to be similar in that things […]