May 2009
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March 2009
5 posts
“Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses...”
A Picture is Worth 1000 Words
OK, so it was 3AM and I had this unrelenting urge to create something. I’d recently been doing some work on a simple script that converted an image into a coloured HTML render, using text instead of pixels. Not a new idea, but still quite a fun one. Taking the existing code I had already written, I modified my script. Now, instead of exporting to HTML, it exported the same data to an image...
Ubuntu Cola on Sale at University!
As I walked out of my Network Security lecture at University today, I checked my phone to see the following message from my friend, that read:
“I just bought Ubuntu cola from the canteen. Possibly the geekiest drink ever. Tasty though.”
I hurried down to the canteen and bought myself the bottle of Fairtrade Ubuntu cola seen below:
I’m going back to University on Monday to...
February 2009
6 posts
Compressing Superfluous Data in my HTML Art
I mentioned in an earlier blog post concerning the Image to HTML compiler I had built, that the compiler was wildly inefficient, and I had planned various ways of truncating the superfluous code to improve browser rendering time. Well, I just wanted to give away some clues as to how I’m approaching this. 8)
Below is a composite of Sia Furler; the left image is the original and the right...
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HTML ASCII art using Python (Part 1)
So I decided to sit down and write a simple script to generate a xHTML version of a supplied source image. You pass the script a text file pointer, and that text file will be used as the text for your image. The example below shows a disgustingly fuzzy image of my favourite artist (Sia Furler), and a close-up look at the individual character styling respectively:
While the results from this...
Surviving a Zombie Attack! →
This t-shirt, combined with my sense of direction and people skills will be of great use to me when I’m forced to lead the human race to sanctity. Come the time of the Zombie assimilation, I’ll rename myself to Neomoses and yell: “Follow me, Hebrews humans!”