#code as art

[ayearincode]

Code creates a bunch of critters that "eat" and  "leave behind" certain color values and combinations. Food source is a cheeseburger pizza!

https://github.com/yearoftheglitch/aYearInCode/tree/master/pixelCritters

image source: http://blogchef.net/cheeseburger-pizza-recipe/

[ayearincode]

Code to view code:

https://github.com/kerchen/LoomPreview

Pictured above: Fragments of the Calc.exe binary from Windows 8

Interesting problem: recovering source code from the compiled binary output.

[liz-baillie-blog]

Flatiron Students Present! with Liz Baillie and Luke Demarest

Above is a video of my presentation with Luke Demarest on the Ruby Processing Gem from 7/15/2014, which I wrote about in an earlier post. In this presentation, we speak on the origins of the Processing programming language, and some basics on how to use the Ruby Processing Gem to achieve similar results.

This is followed by a few really cool demos, including my favorite that utilizes the Twitter streaming API in tandem with the gem to create an awesome live video made of tweets (watch it to see what I mean)! 

If you're at all interested in the intersection of visual art and programming, I encourage you to check out both Processing and the Ruby Processing Gem. 

[jpfuentes2-blog]

A letter to my daughter, Augusta, in Ruby

I wanted to creatively express my affection for my daughter, Augusta, in a way I know best. I chose Ruby for its flexibility and elegance. My hope is to introduce her to its boundless beauty someday soon using this composition.  This is a real, working, program which outputs "Augusta, we <3 you!" when executed. Be sure to read the [love.rb](https://github.com/jpfuentes2/a-letter-to-Augusta/blob/master/love.rb) file which supports the letter's syntax. I tried to keep it symmetrical and legible so that the source closely resembles the letter's content. View the source on [github](https://github.com/jpfuentes2/a-letter-to-Augusta#the-letter).

[fyeahcomputing]

amazing!

not exp log srand xor s qq qx xor s x x length uc ord and print chr ord for qw q join use sub tied qx xor eval xor print qq q q xor int eval lc q m cos and print chr ord for qw y abs ne open tied hex exp ref y m xor scalar srand print qq q q xor int eval lc qq y sqrt cos and print chr ord for qw x printf each return local x y or print qq s s and eval q s undef or oct xor time xor ref print chr int ord lc foreach qw y hex alarm chdir kill exec return y s gt sin sort split

Run this as a perl program and it prints "just another perl hacker"

Found here

[fyeahcomputing]

kind of fun