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Category: Programming

  • Clifford Pickover “million-point” structures in PHP

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    David Faden
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    Back in 2004, I wrote some PHP to render the “million-point” structures Clifford Pickover described in his book “Computers and the Imagination”. I’ve got a project coming up that may require PHP so I decided to give it another look. Code is here: https://github.com/fadend/pickover-dots-php/blob/main/pickover_dots.php You can play with it here: https://revfad.com/cgi-bin/pickover_dots.php. A couple references I…

  • Static photo album creator

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    David Faden
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    I’ve published a utility for creating a static photo album (no server-side stuff, just HTML + photos) given a folder of photos: https://github.com/fadend/go-photos. I was inspired to do this because in looking for costs to cut, I decided to stop paying for Photobucket. Whatever you used to find under https://s114.photobucket.com/user/dfaden (broken link), you can now…

  • Mandelbrot Set in Autoplot

    Mandelbrot Set in Autoplot

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    David Faden
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    My older brother Jeremy was the first person to help me with programming. (And I’ve never stopped asking him for programming advice since then!) My first computer was a Commodore 128 that my mom picked up at a garage sale (it turns out from one of Jeremy’s high school friends); it was quite ancient even…