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Aug

12
2009

Random Space invader

Try it out!

A quick snippit of code that generates a random space invader! Earth will tremble before our 36 byte visages! Now with colour!

Code:(Download)

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Jul

21
2009

Heightmap in pygame (python)

Procedurally generated heightmap program in python with the pygame libraries.

Generates a set of islands and landmasses randomly and smooths it out so it looks more like real land (in pixelated form)

(download python code)

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Mar

20
2009

Langford Adventure

http://www.langfordadventure.com/

Design by Adam Winick

Build by Thomas Girard

Site includes:

Full back end functionality to change almost anything on the site.
News section with tags
Two layers of order (Category>Adventure Region>Adventure) and functionality to skip over sections with just one item inside.

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Mar

6
2009

Colour based Captcha

I’ve been playing around with this little script. A ’Captcha’ based on colours. I’m not sure about the progression of Captcha cracking but since it functions differently from the norm it might provide an upper hand.

It works by generating a random string of letters and numbers and assigning them random colours and the user is asked to type in only the characters of a certain colour. The only problem is this may stump colourblind users as well as bots.

It’s not completely foolproof but just something I was playing around with.

Anyways it’s free to use, modify and whatnot but in the spirit of GNU, you cannot charge for it or else!

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Feb

4
2009

The Scarborough Hospital foundation

Full build of the Scarborough Hospital foundation website.

Features I was responsible for:

*Full featured back end system that allows copy to be changed, videos to to be uploaded, events to be added
*SEO friendly URLs
*Page structure and CSS

Design By Adam Winick

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About me

I am an artist for lack of a better word. I hate the term "artist" because it conjures up the vision of a holier-than-thou hipster type who makes up profound meanings for a blue canvas. Post modernism is rarely art. I’m not really an artsy person either. My wife studied art history and I enjoy things like that. I mostly subscribe to the "I may not know art, but I know what I like" philosophy.

I prefer terms like "Tinkerer", "Creator", "Maker" and "Builder". Constructive terms.

I like to make new things out of junk, bits, pieces and various miscellania. I recently decided this compulsion to build complex compilations of simple parts has roots in my childhood obsession with LEGO. My father made me a LEGO table from an old door and steel brackets that sat in our basement. I think I spent more time seated at that table bushing aside an ocean of coloured bricks searching for the specific one I needed than most people spent outside in their childhood.