Month: February 2012
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Three.js
Bloody hell! Three.js is cool. And CSG. What can’t you do in the browser these days?
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Bret Victor's Code / Drawing IDE
Excellent video I’ll have more to say and think about this.
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Wat
This is very funny. A survey of bizarre behaviours of non-things in Javascript.
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Rails Off The Rails
Seems like the same thing has happened with Ruby on Rails as happened with, say, Zope. Giles does a pretty good analysis. The key point is that as frameworks mature they start supporting legacy users and applications who, in turn, have different requirements and values from those looking for a quick way to build new…
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Permutations with Python Generators
Here’s something neat. I wanted to experiment creating different permutations of a collection of items. (In fact I’m working on some code for laying out shapes on a surface.) Prototyping in Python to get my ideas straight I came up with this neat generator solution. def perm(xs) : if xs == [] : yield []…
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SpimeScript
These days, I’m thinking a lot about 3D printers, desktop manufacturing and software to create physical things. Last year I did some art pieces using software to generate drawings for laser cutters and 3D printers, and I’m continuing along the same line. I want to move this stuff into the browser, and the combination of…