The Firefox Unicorn

2015-05-09, post № 26

games, #animated, #browser, #color, #Firefox, #internet, #internet browser, #module, #monochrome, #moz://a, #Mozilla Firefox, #spinning unicorn, #task, #taskbar, #unicorn

Using Firefox as my main browser^[1] and often surfing in the internet I surely spend a lot of time with this piece of software. Maybe a bit too long… In an incident of pure boredom I decided to remove every module out of the task bar (positioned on the right). And what then happened was unexpected.

When you remove every module, a monochrome unicorn appears.

If you then put your mouse cursor onto the surface, the unicorn shows its real beauty.

Being really risky you can also click and the unicorn will show its happiness by spinning in circles.

It is just a funny little gag I found out and wanted to share.

Circle splatter

2015-05-03, post № 25

programming, Pygame, Python, #around, #around the center, #black, #center, #change, #changing, #circle, #color, #cursor, #mouse, #mouse position, #red, #repel

Continuing to work with vectors (see ‘Circle Crawler’), I thought to include the mouse cursor. In this simulation there are 𝟣 ⨉ 𝟣-sized entities (𝟦𝟢𝟢 of them) which create a circle around the center. By going near the entities with your mouse cursor, you push them away. Every entity has the urge to go back to its original position.

Rain

2015-05-02, post № 24

programming, Pygame, Python, #black, #black and blue, #blue, #chill, #dripping, #drops, #peaceful, #quiet, #rain, #raindrop, #raindrops, #rainy, #simulation, #weather

Inspired by the current weather — my favourite weather, the rain — I made this simple simulation. There are no controls, just look at it quietly and peacefully.

Star

2015-05-01, post № 23

programming, Pygame, Python, #around the center, #black, #black and white, #blue, #change, #changing, #circle, #color, #controlled, #creating, #degree, #shape, #shape shifting, #shift, #simulation, #star, #star shape

I had an idea to make a simulation which generates stars. Using my getCirclePos() function, two radii — an inner and an outer one — and a number of points I realized the idea in this program.

Worldwide Pinhole Day

2015-04-26, post № 22

art, #anim, #animated, #animated gif, #day, #gif, #photo, #photography, #pinhole, #pinhole day, #worldwide, #WW Pinhole Day

Get out your pinhole camera and take a photo!

Bouncing

2015-04-25, post № 21

programming, Pygame, Python, #3D, #background, #ball, #balls, #bounce off, #bounce off ground, #bouncing balls, #change, #changing, #circle, #circles, #circular, #collision, #color, #color change, #colors, #controlled, #creating, #fade, #fade away, #fade to, #fading, #orange, #round, #three-dimensional, #yellow

This simulation lets you spawn in circular entities which then bounce off the groung and fade into the background. You can toggle if they are moving, the screen gets refilled and if they have a black border around them. The three-dimensional illusion comes from the balls getting slowly smaller and blending to the background color. Eventually the balls will ‘die’ (be removed), when they have reached a minimum size.

Circle crawler

2015-04-19, post № 20

programming, Pygame, Python, #around, #around the center, #black, #center, #change, #changing, #circle, #distance, #fill, #filling, #move, #movement, #moving, #red, #relation, #vec, #vector

In this program there are entities equally positioned around the center. As the entities begin to move, they can either go toward the center, away from the center or stay. You can toggle if the entities move and if the screen gets refilled. The code is based on ‘Circle Walk II’, but the calculation for the entities to move in relation to the center is achieved by using vectors.

Plant mimic

2015-04-18, post № 19

programming, Pygame, Python, #behavior, #black, #black and white, #growing, #growth, #mimic, #offspring, #plant, #plant behavior, #pseudo random, #random, #root, #roots, #simulation, #white

I was trying to mimic plant root-growth behavior. It all starts with one root, which then has a chance to get offspring (𝟢 to 𝟦). If it gets offspring, the offspring also gets a chance for more offspring. To reduce lag there is a maximum to the currently growing roots (𝟣𝟢𝟢). Due to the random behavior, it is possible for the plant to die at the start or — theoretically — in an advanced state.