Charles Darwin, born 12th February 1809.
“If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone has ever had, I’d give it to Darwin, ahead of Newton and Einstein and everyone else. In a single stroke, the idea of evolution by natural selection unifies the realm of life, meaning and purpose with the [...]
If you have a modern browser, have a go with my Game of Life implementation in JavaScript, using the HTML5 Canvas element:
(click for the “live” version)
Feel free to leave a comment with your frame rate..
So today is Blog Action Day, and the theme this year is Global Warming. Oops, I mean Climate Change. Or, as the organisers themselves diplomatically and non-specifically put it, the environment. “What would happen,” they ask in the catchline of their website, “if every blog published posts discussing the same issue, on [...]
I am really getting somewhat addicted to Processing. It’s like a sketchbook for programmers – it provides a framework for very easily drawing stuff on the screen and a nice little environment for writing code. It’s great for scientific and artificial life applications, and also for digital art. The very best examples [...]