Exploding Apple
Posted on Aug 4th, 2008
An experiment with morphing effects using an apple.
What's this all about?
The term "kushaura" comes from Shona music, and it refers to the leading melody line in a song. I thought the term would be appropriate for the type of programming I do, because I'm mostly interested in the stuff that pushes the boundaries of what we can do with code.
This is a small site dedicated to programming, both conceptual and practically, with a slight lean towards the visually appealling. That's not to say that I'm only interested in the eye-pleasing aspects of code, it just so happens that the web is a particularlly useful deliver mechanism for visual projects. Hopefully I'll eventually get some more interesting and broader projects up here.
Some of the tools/languages I most like to use include flash, processing, mootools, and good old html.
Featured Projects
Petals 2
Posted on May 29th, 2008
Expansion on petals 1, including the introduction of a swirling effect.
Petals 1
Posted on May 29th, 2008
A simple exploration of interference patterns created by combining oval shapes.
Growth 6
Posted on May 20th, 2008
Biological growth system resembling a tree or even certain types of coral. I've always wanted to do something like this since my tree generator.
Snowflake System
Posted on May 16th, 2008
A snowflake generator based on a random walk in polar coordinates (r, theta).
Spinning Dots
Posted on Dec 20th, 2007
This is my first attempt at a simple project in processing. Overall I think the language is pretty nice since it simplifies many of the concepts associated with graphics programming in Java, like animations (via frames), accelerate graphics, bezier curves (and others), etc.
Latest Snippets From the Web
on Oct 10th, 2008
An example using the HTTP_REQUEST Pear package for making REST calls to a web service.
on Oct 10th, 2008
A templating engine based entirely in javascript - moving view rendering completely to the client-side.
on Oct 10th, 2008
An interesting look at creating web applications without the traditional server-side MVC framework.
on Sep 17th, 2008
Directly compile actionscript from your java application - makes sense since I believe the flex compiler is encapsulated in a jar.
on Sep 2nd, 2008
After seeing the example, I prefer the second method at the top-most directory.
on Sep 1st, 2008
This is a huge problem -- issues like this make AS3 seem more script-like and less enterprise-level.