Recently
geojson.io grew into a new stage of maturity. I tinkered with new interfaces and algorithms for feature extraction, camped and ran in Virginia with Kevin, and worked on quite a few fun projects at work.
Reading
- Doing with Images Makes Symbols by Alan Kay via rsms
- Forced Exposure
- People Simply Empty Out
- Seamus Heaney passed, so a poem like Postscript is required reading.
- Pale Fire
Listening
Recently it’s all rap, centering around Odd Future and Tyler The Creator’s pretty incredible trilogy.
- Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
- Tyler the Creator - Goblin
- Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid M.A.A.D. City
- Man Plan Demos
- Why? Alopecia
Turtle
turtle was written in an hour or so after watching yet another Alan Kay video. Like mistakes.io and geojson.io it uses GitHub Gist as a backend storage mechanism.
The formula is simple: you provide a function that takes an argument ‘t’, for the step (0 to 30000), and it returns a direction, in degrees, or an array of functions that return either a degree direction or other functions. In a way, it’s a bit like tail recursion.
It hits a similar need as Turtle graphics, but I wanted to simplify one of the surfaces: drawings are coded functionally, as one number value to another and first-class functions can be used for branching, recursion, and so on.