Software, hardware, art – a blog of process and findings
Sometimes I consider myself a fisherman. Computer programs and ideas are the hooks, rods, and reels. Computer pictures are the trophies and delicious meals. A fisherman does not always know what the waters will yield… Often the specific catch is a surprise.
In 2nd grade, I participated in an after school mentoring program and learned some Logo. I found this gem recently, a workbook that I filled out as I wrote code. I really like the mix of printed page, code, and hand-drawn… a lot like my work now, actually.
Here’s the full workbook, if you’re interested.
Another neon idea…
Yesterday I released three Twitter bots into the world:
Punch cards, divided into sections (via Wikipedia user Mehul Panchal).
A dark Processing theme for 2.0, available for download on Github.
“We write all of our own tools, no matter what project we’re building. Pretty much anything that we’re doing requires some sort of design tool that didn’t exist before. In fact, the design tools that we write to do the projects that we’re doing are a sort of product in and of themselves. I think in reality, today, if you use the same tools as everyone else, you kind of build the same products. If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.”
Saul Griffith, Wired magazine
Discovered today, quite by accident, that Photoshop has a “custom” filter module (Filters > Other > Custom…) – using kernel processing one can make edge detection, blur, and other simple image filters. Above is a directional blur that works similar to an all-over Gaussian blur but in just side-to-side.
For some details and examples, see Ian Albert’s “Custom Filters” post.
All possible words in the English language that can be formed by Western musical notes (A-G):
A: aa, ab, aba, abaca, abba, abbe, abed, accede, acceded, ace, aced, ad, adage, add, added, ae, aga, age, aged, agee
B: ba, baa, baaed, baba, babe, bacca, bad, bade, badge, baff, baffed, bag, baggage, bagged, be, bead, beaded, bed, bedad, bedded, bede, bee, beef, beefed, beg, begad, begged
C: cab, cabbage, cad, cade, cadee, cadge, cadged, caeca, cafe, caff, cage, caged, ceca, cede, ceded, cee
D: da, dab, dabbed, dace, dad, dae, daff, dag, dagaba, dagga, dagged, dead, deaf, deb, debag, debagged, decad, decade, decaff, dee, deed, deeded, def, deface, defaced, degage
E: ebb, ebbed, ecad, ecce, edge, edged, ef, eff, efface, effaced, effed, egad, egg, egged
F: fa, fab, facade, face, faced, fad, fade, faded, fadge, fadged, faff, faffed, fag, fagged, fed, fee, feed
G: gab, gabbed, gad, gadded, gade, gadge, gae, gaed, gaff, gaffe, gaffed, gag, gaga, gage, gaged, gagged, ged, gee, geed
Created using this word list (not comprehensive, but easy to find and free):
http://dreamsteep.com/projects/the-english-open-word-list.html
And with a rather simple Processing sketch:
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/* EVERY WORD FROM MUSICAL NOTES Jeff Thompson | 2012 | www.jeffreythompson.org A list of every word that contains letters from the musical notes (A,B,C,D,E,F,G) and not any of the others. Repeats allowed, as are ommissions. Source file is the English Open Word List: http://dreamsteep.com/projects/the-english-open-word-list.html */ boolean printWords = false; void setup() { String[] ignore = { "h", "i", "j", "k", "l", "m", "n", "o", "p", "q", "r", "s", "t", "u", "v", "w", "x", "y", "z" }; boolean store; // read each file one by one // capital A (65) to capital G (72) in ASCII - no point in reading the other letters! for (int i=65; i<72; i++) { try { // variables to read the file String filename = char(i) + " Words.csv"; BufferedReader reader = createReader(filename); println(filename + "..."); PrintWriter writer = createWriter("words_" + char(i) + ".txt"); String word; // go through all lines while ( (word = reader.readLine ()) != null) { // reset variable for next word store = true; // check against blacklist of letters to ignore for (String s : ignore) { if (word.contains(s)) { store = false; } continue; // stop looking (faster though not necessary) } // if we've passed unscathed, store the word and continue if (store) { if (printWords) { println(word); } writer.println(word); } } // end read file while loop // close PrintWriter writer.flush(); writer.close(); } // end read file try catch (Exception e) { println("Error reading file: " + e); } } // end letter-file loop exit(); } |
Following an interesting comment on the NYC Resistor blog, the above is a “programmer’s switch” for a 1984 Macintosh. The plastic piece is inserted into the air vents in the side of the computer to make hitting the interrupt and reset switches easier, both used for debugging code.
Via: eBay
