Pete Hindle

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Tag: Processing

Processing Exercise – Click, Mortal!

This is a small amusement (it’s not a game, it’s too stupid) where you click the mouse to make something happen. This stems from Jamie asking us how we could make the exercise of drawing a five-pointed pentagram ‘more evil’. Actually, correct me if I’m wrong, but I do believe that (in the West) the pentagram was originally a Christian symbol that represented a man standing looking at the stars, but it’s connection with Venus – the Morningstar – in Eastern philosophies later caused the symbol to change meanings.

Anyway, I’ve ‘eviled’ things up a bit. Download the correct version for your operating system (Windows users, you’ll need to have Java installed) after the jump.

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Time Passes without Updates…

Unnamed Signage

I’ve just finished writing a small program that generates our website banner. I’m not a great programmer, by any means, but I’m pretty proud of this program. It’s been a long evening where I could have blamed my lack of programming skills on a stinking cold and slouched off to bed at any point, but by creating a program to make the above banner I think hope I’ve saved work later on.

For now, you can refresh to see the subtle yet intricate changes, or download the program yourself to dissect how it works.

unnamed_signage (Processing Sketch)

Bug 863, Kernel Panics, and the Dog Days of my Laptop

Happily minding somebody else’s business, I was filling a bug report on Processing when my laptop finally up’d and died. I’ve been expecting it for a while though, but I thought I had a while left yet.

I’d recommend reading the bug report for a clearer picture on what happened.

Wallpaper Scales

wallpaper scales, originally uploaded by Pete Hindle.

Cross-posted from over on my Flickr page; I’m waiting for a train in Liverpool and my knee has written to it’s MP to complain about overuse.

Not Yet…

Not Yet…, originally uploaded by Pete Hindle.

I’m still using Processing for making stuff – this is an image from one of my latest batch of sketches.

Drawing a Circle (with Processing)

See that, above? That’s something I’ve wanted to do for years.

If you understand Processing, the programming language that pretty much foremost amongst the art/coding subset, you usually have a pretty good grasp of mathematics. Personally, despite my grade B at GCSE, I’m pretty shakey. That’s why it took me at least two years to be able to draw a bunch of dots in a circle, using Processing.

I am happy I’ve done it though; it means that I’m no longer banging my head against it as a problem that is beyond me. One more thing I can cross of my list of things that I want to do with Processing.

I’ve written in more depth about the mathematics behind the program, and posted a video of it in action, at my vimeo page. If you’d like to find out about what it’s about, read that. I’ve also uploaded the source code and the program itself as a stand-alone application for Windows, OS X and Linux, and you can download that below.

draw_a_circle2 (source files and apps)

UPDATE: The Vimeo page seems to have completely failed me (again) and so I’ve put a version up on Flickr using their new video function. If it doesn’t embed in the RSS feed, check out my photo page over there.

I LIVE!

I LIVE!, originally uploaded by Pete Hindle.

I’m unable to do most things at the minute, as I’m recovering from an injury to my leg. This means that I’m in bed, in Whitburn, mostly without the internet.

Latest Processing: combinant_dots