Connect Four

2016-05-14, post № 123

BASIC, games, programming, TI-84 Plus, #four in a row, #four wins, #graphing calculators, #GTR, #Texas Instruments, #TI

Using the programming features given on Texas Instruments’ graphing calculator TI-84 Plus, I created this text-base connect four game.
The code is written in BASIC and can be seen below.
To transfer code to and from the graphing calculator, I used Texas Instruments’ TI Connect™ CE Software^[1].

Colors

2016-05-07, post № 122

art, #animated, #animated gif, #animation, #color, #colored world, #colorful, #coloring, #gif, #guy, #pixel, #pixel guy

The little pixel guy comes across a grey world and starts coloring it.

Koch Snowflake

2016-04-30, post № 121

mathematics, programming, Pygame, Python, #animated fractal, #flake, #fractal, #fractal generating, #fractal gif, #generate

In my collection of programs generating fractals this famous one cannot miss.
The Koch snowflake is generated by starting with an equilateral triangle. Every side of the triangle then gets cut into three equal pieces and the center one gets replaced with yet another equilateral triangle.
To get the perfect fractal, you would need to repeat this process infinitely many times.
More information on the snowflake can be found in this Wikipedia entry.

Pinhole Photograph

2016-04-27, post № 120

art, #digital, #digital photo, #flower, #image, #photo, #photography, #photography day, #pinhole day, #red, #red tulip, #tulip, #worldwide pinhole day, #yellow

Last sunday I posted an animated gif to celebrate the Worldwide Pinhole Day. On that day I also took pinhole photographs. My favourite, ‘Red Tulip’ can also be found on the official Worldwide Pinhole Day’s website.

Other photographs I took include white flowers, the same tulip in another light and a yellow flower.

Worldwide Pinhole Day II

2016-04-24, post № 119

art, #animated, #animated gif, #camera, #gif, #pinhole camera, #WWPD

Today it is worldwide pinhole day. Build a camera and take a photo!

Jhat

2016-04-23, post № 118

programming, Python, #chat, #j-chat, #LAN, #LAN chat, #socket, #sockets

Playing around with python’s sockets, I created this shell-based chat. It works via LAN and lets you communicate through text messages.
Type $help for a help menu.

Sliding Puzzle

2016-04-16, post № 117

games, programming, Pygame, Python, #apple, #piece, #tile, #tile game, #tile sliding, #tiles

This is my version of a sliding puzzle.
A sliding puzzle is based on a number of tiles (15 in this case) which are scrambled.
The objective of the game then is to slide the tiles around and get back to the original image.
As an image I took a photo of an apple in front of a black background.For more information on sliding puzzles, check this Wikipedia entry.

Factorization

2016-04-09, post № 116

mathematics, programming, Python, #factor, #factorize, #factors, #prime, #prime factorization, #unique factors

Playing around with prime numbers, I created this simple factorization program.
The interesting thing about prime factors is that they are unique. There can only be one way to multiply prime numbers to get 𝑛 where and (excluding the commutative property).For example, and that is the only way to multiply prime numbers to get to 𝟦𝟤.