I’ve been meaning to make a “pretty” implementation of an Xscreensaver hack for ages. It’s called “demon”, and it features a random grid of colored cells that end up in swirling color patterns. I finally got around to trying it out, and used it as an opportunity to play with Mac OS X’s graphics APIs.… Continue reading Demon
Month: March 2008
Demon Preview
In order to get Dion off my back, I am posting this screenshot of the next mini-project I’ve been working on. It’s an implementation of the cellular automaton from the xscreensaver module “demon”. A full writeup and code will follow.
Dice Rolling 2
In the last piece I wrote, I was describing how I was trying to make a tool to efficiently calculate the probability of rolling or exceeding a particular sum on a number of dice. I had gotten as far as a recursive solution which allowed me to roll any number of `s`-sided dice, but which… Continue reading Dice Rolling 2