I only managed to get out kayaking once but it was worth it bring the kayaks to Long Beach. I wanted to get out more but it just didn’t work out. The latest trip was added to the kayaking map.
Continue readingI was just playing around with my circle art graphic script and thought that an interesting program might be one that uses a genetic parent child and genetic mutation mechanism to “decide” on the shape and style of the graphics. I would do this with reproduction mechanisms like…
Continue readingI am sitting in a giant conference room listening to a presentation about RNA something or other. The presenter is giving a presentation using PowerPoint and I see people taking pictures of the giant screen. My idea is to build in a feature to any wifi device where…
Continue readingI’m in Long Beach California at the annual ISMB conference. Most of the conference is about biology and/or bioinformatics. Although I write computer programs for a living, my day job is for a company that makes tools for the biotech industry. I’m sitting in a special interest group…
Continue readingI was sitting here trying to come up with a topic for a blog post. I could post about how the Windows Phone project is coming along and how cool it was to add a splash screen that says “Microsoft” on it. But having Microsoft use my app…
Continue readingI have been using a screen capture utility to create animations from my linkage mechanism simulator. It worked ok but creating the animation directly is a better choice. Fortunately, Windows provides all of the tools necessary to add this directly into the program. I added a Save Video…
Continue readingI am adding an alignment feature to the Linkage program. So far, I have three ways to align connectors. Right Angle Before and after alignment three connectors to form a right angle. When three connectors are selected, a right angle can be made by moving the third…
Continue readingI was sitting around last night and my boredom led me to implement another new feature in the Linkage program. Download the Windows installation file for the Linkage program to run it on your Windows computer. The editor now supports snapping. Snapping is when an element is being…
Continue readingI recently added a new feature to the Linkage program. The new feature allows an input to be manually controlled during an animated simulation. There are currently four types of simulations: Animated Simulation The simulation is run in real time and the animation of the moving mechanism is…
Continue readingI found this animation of a simulator on the web. It came from http://gtrebaol.free.fr/doc/flash/four_bar/doc/. The interesting thing about it is the little twist that happens during the simulation. I quickly created a version of this mechanism using my Linkage editor/simulator program and found that I could not make…
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