exploration: accounts of success and misadventure
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Where We Were…
A spatial/visual exploration. My students in the Web Media class at Moore College of Art and Design are conducting an experiment in spatial/visual relationships. We will explore the social/spacial aspects of the modern web, using geotagging to keep a visual log of our travels over the next few weeks. We’re using Flickr’s group and mapping […]
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Golden Cheetah releases a new version!
Finally, the new work is public. Download available at http://www.goldencheetah.org/download.html. The biggest change is that the application now includes BikeScore. A metric developed by Dr. Phil Skiba based on TRIMPS and Andy Coggan’s TSS. These metrics aim to provide a way to quantify training load. It’s useful to help getting an appropriate amount of work […]
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I Like Math…
…which doesn’t mean that I understand it. However, it does seem to have the uncanny ability to predict how some things will behave and certainly can make come cool looking stuff. Expanding on the spirographs from the other day, here’s a modified version which will iterate through a range of .1-10.0 for r and R. […]
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Oh! The Places You’ll Go…
I was messing around with generative drawing for the Processing class I’m teaching…and started playing with spirographs (my bigger brain, ie. Google and Wikipedia, reveals that they are called hypotrochoids). The algorithms are quite simple: x = (R – r) * cos(theta) + d * cos((((R-r)/r)*theta)); y = (R – r) * sin(theta) – d […]
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Moving Forward
What a week. Really busy with projects under deadline, but it’s over…for the moment. Golden Cheetah has only a couple more features that we’re looking to include before the release. I also finally got on my bike with regular frequency this week. I’m looking forward to focusing more on my classes and riding in the […]
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Fun-A-Day 4
The fourth annual fun-a-day show was last night at Studio 34 Yoga in West Philadelphia. As always, it was a mad rush to get ready, a blur of an evening then an exhausted aftermath. Here’s what it looked like compressed to 30 seconds. Get the Flash Player to see this content.
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More features
I noticed a thread on the Wattage forum that mentioned a new format for Ergomo CSV files. The poster also mentioned that they hadn’t used Golden Cheetah because they thought it was for Linux only. Anyway, I got a copy of an Ergomo CSV file and got to work on making GC. It was pretty […]
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Universal!
Golden Cheetah is universal! (i hope) I spent most of the evening setting up my development environment to get Golden Cheetah to compile as a universal OS X application. This would be made easier if I actually knew what I was doing. In the end, I recompiled Qt4.3.1 and QWT5.0.2 as universal before I could […]
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Almost there…
Golden Cheetah is on the verge of a new release. Sean’s committed Justin and my changes for BikeScore and metric/english preference into the svn trunk. I’ve cleaned up some of the user interface and have compiled an OS X Intel version. More importantly, we now have a desktop icon for the application under OS X…it’s […]
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Golden Cheetah
We sorted out the build issues largely, however I still haven’t been able to confirm if the problem was isolated to the target machine or to 10.4 in general. Regardless, the Dr. Phil Skiba’s BikeScore algorithm has been incorporated by Justin Knotzke using a bit of the code I had originally developed for Dr. Coggan’s […]