Pete Hindle

I realised today that I could have titled this “Life, the University, and Everything”, which would have worked a lot better. Hey ho. The grandiose title of this piece could be read as a sign that I’m going to write about things other than relevant to the course. In general, I’m going to steer clear [...]

I’m putting this up because my mum told me she liked it. Thanks! It’s a video made with the programming language Processing, inspired by the work of Douglas Coupland.

I’m eating a lot of pop tarts at the minute. So let’s have a quick diversion into the history of pop tarts. Pop tarts are a form of sugary pastry sold by Kellogg’s. The achieved a small amount of notoriety in the early 1990’s, in the UK at least, for burning the hands of a [...]

The current state of my Basic Techniques project is this: It doesn’t work. However, this is a defeatist attitude. Not quite as defeatist as I’ve been considering (it doesn’t work, I’m never going to understand regex, and I’m going to stop bothering with programming being the other considered viewpoint). On the other hand, sometimes the [...]

Again, this blog post is part of my basic techniques module, so you might not find this thrilling… casual readers might want to skip this blog post and come back later. As part of my basic techniques module I wanted to work on something quite simple. I’ve broken it down into lots of smaller chunks, [...]

As part of my coursework, I’m creating a text analysis tool. The coursework also states that blog posts are part of the working progress. Therefore, if you’re not on my course or working with Processing in some form, I doubt the post would be interesting to you. What is the best way of storing a [...]

James Hugonin is an artist who lives in Northumbria, and makes paintings that reflect his surroundings by taking the predominant colour for each day and painting a square in that colour. This is very procedural art, and therefore it lends itself very well to make a computer program that does the same thing. This would [...]

This is a small amusement (it’s not a game, it’s too stupid) where you click the mouse to make something happen. This stems from Jamie asking us how we could make the exercise of drawing a five-pointed pentagram ‘more evil’. Actually, correct me if I’m wrong, but I do believe that (in the West) the [...]

(click image to see large/download) Following on from the last post, I just quickly wanted to post this image of the last database and spreadsheet work I did, which was featured in a magazine called ‘Esc’. This is a list of the average temperatures of all the Critical Mass locations in the USA, which I [...]

I’ve just finished writing a small program that generates our website banner. I’m not a great programmer, by any means, but I’m pretty proud of this program. It’s been a long evening where I could have blamed my lack of programming skills on a stinking cold and slouched off to bed at any point, but [...]