The Dice Man

The Dice Man was originaly a program written in OPL for the Psion Series 3 to roll an animated dice across the screen. The dice animations were developed with Pete Lyons (Team 17) and reuse only 36 frames rotating through all possible upturned faces on a dice. This allows the program to start the animation on different frame numbers depending on the desired outcome

I later ported the code to run as a Java Applet on an old personal website and it is this code that I have recovered and ported to Javascript as JVMs to run applets are now a dying resource.

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AGL

AGL is a simple graphics language that was developed to draw interesting geometric patterns. The original code was written in C++ and was intended to not just draw the patterns but to try and draw them in an interesting way. This is done by allowing a shape to be drawn in one primary colour but with a secondary colour specified. The routines would then draw with the primary colour until the screen pixel already matched in which case it would use the secondary colour.

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Oblique

Oblique Strategies was a set of inspirational cards created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt in 1975. This was a simple Javascript App to pick a random card from the deck and display it on the screen.

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Mondrian

Mondrian is a simple javascript app to draw pictures in the style of Piet Mondrian. It has been an idea that has gestated a while and existed in partially finished formats in a number of languages but this will be the first time it has been completed.

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CA

CA is a 1D celular automata. It is a simple pre-cursor to 2D Automata like Conways Game of Life.

Each row of the output represents a generation of the CA that has been calculated from the previous generation using the set of rules that determine if the subsequent cell is alive or dead.

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Life

A simple implementation of Conway's Game of Life to follow on from the simple 1D celular automata implementation. The rules follow the traditional rule set of the game of Life.

• If a live cell has less than two neighbours it dies
• If a live cell has two or three neighbours it lives
• If a live cell has more than three neighbouts it dies
• If a dead cell has thre neighbours it becomes alive
• The world wraps around the edges to count neighbours

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