Toby Schachman electronicwhisper

Totem

Date Submitted: 3 Feb 2012

Elevator Statement

Develop the next generation of programming tools for the next generation of computer programmers.

Brief Description

Explorable Explanations Design Patterns

Experiencing (First Person + Third Person)

Play the algorithm. Put the reader in the "mind" of the algorithm (first person) while also seeing the algorithm's high level behavior (third person).

Prime Numbers (Philipp Legner, World of Mathematics) see "The Sieve of Eratosthenes"
A visual proof that neural nets can compute any function (Michael Nielsen, Neural Networks and Deep Learning) see "get as many peaks as we want"

	#!/usr/bin/ruby

	mp3s = `mdfind kMDItemContentType=public.mp3`
	mp3s = mp3s.split("\n")
	mp3s.shuffle!

	count = 0
	mp3s.each do \|mp3\|
	puts "(#{count += 1}/#{mp3s.length}) #{mp3}"
	system "afplay -v 0.1 \"#{mp3}\" &"

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	Systems

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	system "World",
	state:
	worldWidth: 800
	worldHeight: 600

	// Quasicrystal in Core Image
	// port of http://mainisusuallyafunction.blogspot.com/2011/10/quasicrystals-as-sums-of-waves-in-plane.html


	// HSV conversion
	// adapted from http://shapeof.com/archives/2010/07/making_a_color_wheel_in_core_image.html
	bool isOdd(int v) {
	float dividend = float(v) / 2.0;
	return dividend != floor(dividend);
	}

	precision mediump float;

	varying vec2 position;

	void main() {
	vec2 c = position;
	vec2 z = c;

	float escape = 0.;
	const float iter = 50.;

	/**
	* Dabblet Test
	*/

	background: #f06;
	background: linear-gradient(45deg, #f06, green);
	min-height: 100%;