My Sunday after­noon pro­ject wasn’t some­thing that I could just let lie and it didn’t take long for work to start on it again. Using the list of improve­ments I had iden­ti­fied, I began with the aes­thet­ics and then moved on to other, more num­ber intens­ive areas of research.
Before even touch­ing the code I subsumed […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• algorithm,
• avatars,
• Code,
• conways game of life,
• game of life,
• Geekery,
• gravatars,
• john horton conway,
• optimisation,
• php

On a quiet Sunday after­noon of a Bank hol­i­day week­end, a pro­ject is born mar­ry­ing the cel­lu­lar auto­mata of John Hor­ton Conway’s Game of Life and the auto­matic gen­er­a­tion of avatars. While not entirely suc­cess­ful, the found­a­tion has been laid for fur­ther improvement.

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Organised with care and attention into:

• algorithm,
• animated gif,
• animation,
• automata,
• avatar,
• cellular automata,
• Code,
• conways game of life,
• game of life,
• gd,
• Geekery,
• gravatar,
• life,
• php

An emphatic and gush­ing review about the second in the series of new films for the Evan­gelion fran­chise: Evan­gelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance. Writ­ten shortly after watch­ing the film, the review stays clear of spoil­ers and wild speculation.

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Organised with care and attention into:

• 1.0,
• Anime,
• asuka,
• evangelion,
• evangelion 1.0,
• evangelion 2.0,
• film,
• franchise,
• gainax,
• gendou,
• mari,
• mecha,
• misato,
• movie,
• review,
• shinji,
• you are not alone,
• you can not advance

The new­est addi­tion to chaostangent.com is the carou­sel nest­ling com­fort­ably at the foot of every page. Sport­ing a vari­ety of “social media” feeds as well as other morsels, it show­cases a num­ber of inter­est­ing tech­no­lo­gies and tech­niques includ­ing: a fully loop­ing carou­sel (JavaS­cript and CSS), integ­ra­tion with numer­ous external APIs (PHP, Zend Frame­work), screen-scraping and […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• carousel,
• component,
• delicious,
• feed,
• framework,
• google,
• javascript,
• last.fm,
• lastfm,
• library,
• lovefilm,
• php,
• prototype,
• rest,
• rss,
• scriptaculous,
• xmlrpc,
• youtube,
• zend,
• zend framework

Explor­ing some parts of the code behind gallery.chaostangent.com includ­ing data­base func­tions for deal­ing with mod­i­fied pre­order tree tra­versal mod­els, image res­iz­ing in PHP and JavaS­cript numer­acy functions.

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Organised with care and attention into:

• database,
• firebug,
• framework,
• functions,
• gallery.chaostangent.com,
• gd,
• image,
• imagemagick,
• javascript,
• mysql,
• php,
• resizing,
• sql,
• swfupload,
• zend framework