Just about every weekend I go to my favorite local restaurant, China Fun, for one of the traditional meals I got accustomed to long ago in Taiwan: 鹹豆漿 xián dòujiāng — “salty” soybean milk, meaning hot soybean milk with sliced-up 油條 yóutiáo (“oil-stick,” i.e. fried cruller), dried baby shrimp, pickled veg, cilantro, etc, as opposed to . . . → Read More: The usual?
In Flash we can HARNESS THE POWER OF BITMAPDATA (as it might be put in a conference session blurb) to grow Voronoi regions under differing conditions, without doing any algebra. Click on the image to launch the Voronoi Generator.
Variations on Voronoi Diagrams, from Geometry in Action:
Jim Armstrong, the Flash community’s primary math whiz, has encouraged me in the past, and today he did so publicly. I’m very grateful for this recommendation.
Here’s the crass part: I’m available for contract or permanent work, locally or remotely. I live in New York City. CV, references, and samples of my work . . . → Read More: Props from the Master
I’ve rendered some images using the Voronoi Toy from my last post.
I’ve used my logo 結 (as in 結點 “node”) as the input image, run Sakri Rosenstrom’s image segmentation algorithm on it, dropped 10,000 random points into the segments, and drawn the minimum spanning tree of each set of points, thus creating a sort of space-filling . . . → Read More: The Name of the Node: Image Fill with Spanning Trees
… in which it is revealed that Bender’s Big Score was actually to provide full floating-point precision to the DisplacementMapFilter! . . . → Read More: Displace My Shiny Metal Ass
He supports an expansion of stem-cell research. He’s made nuclear nonproliferation a priority. He favors combating global warming with a “cap and trade” system. He supported a bill to expand the government’s eavesdropping authority and to protect telephone companies that cooperated with the program from being sued. He embraces the idea of continuing Bush’s faith-based initiative. He said he was picked last on a sports team as a boy. He said it taught him to work hard and persevere. His favorite childhood Halloween costume was a pirate. . . . → Read More: Have you seen this man?