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In the late 2000's I was really into 3D animation and making 3D games. I was primarily using a free program called Anim8or. The program saved its files as a readable text file that could easily be edited. Also, to program had some simple methods for morphing model animation. I decided to do a few experiments dynamically creating animation by combining the output of another program I was using at the time Game Maker.
About a week ago I wrote an article where I hypothesized that I could find the length of a coast-line using an algorithm based on a map or satellite image.
This is part 3 of the programming part of that series.
The task here was to find individual sections of the image that represent islands or land-masses. This way I can target a specific land-mass to be measured and discard the rest. (Ireland, France, The Isle of Mann,...etc).
About a week ago I wrote an article where I hypothesized that I could find the length of a coast-line using an algorithm based on a map or satellite image.
This is part 2 of the programming part of that series.
About a week ago I wrote an article where I hypothesized that I could find the length of a coast-line using an algorithm based on a map or satellite image.
Inspired by this video I decided to make a good ole' spriograph program. It's true that I was playing around with these types of programs when I was like, 15...well to be fair I guess I started playing around with recursive for loops and writing vectors when I was like ... "8". But, I really didn't have a real understanding on what I was doing until my teen years after taking my first programming classes in junior high. Mr. Jones...Big guy.
So, I was watching a Numberfile video on YouTube about finding the length of the British coast line.
The end conclusion in the video was that mathematically, it was impossible.
In the comments another poster suggested that a physicist would simply lay down a string along the coast and stretch it out to measure it as a single line.
Well, this got me to thinking about how I might approach this as a programmer.
For the longest time I was under the impression that multiple HTML5 canvases would translate to faster performance.
Decided to start experimenting with Python. I see plenty of jobs available using the language and I am interested so why not.
As usual when learning a new language I start by following the documentation learning how to print, concatenate,...do a little math. Then I see how I might port some of the basic things I might normally do.
View the source code here: https://github.com/061375/Wes.Mantooth/tree/master/wip/rpg
See The demo here: http://wesmantooth.jeremyheminger.com/wip/rpg/simple.php
Use your computers arrow keys to control the player.
For fun on occasion I will build a simple animation for the 404 "document not found" page of a website I am building. Over the last few years working for Geographics I built a few. There is an office cat named Zip who is often my muse and is the subject of all of these animations. Unfortunately I do these on my spare time and I tended to quit before they were finished.