It’s all done!

Re-worked from the ground up in ActionScript 3, this release should be much less CPU intensive, and has had heaps of new features added. Read all about it at it’s new permanent home.

PolarClock Home

I’m currently working on sorting some issues with the current release of the Polar Clock. From comments feedback, it seems be an issue that the processor is under heavy use when the clock is running. Hopefully this will be aided by the porting of the existing code to AS3.

I’m looking into the following:

Using Chromoâ„¢ colours
Adding an options panel to allow turning on/off a millisecond ring, choosing different colour schemes, and lastly, choosing a locale. Also making the logo fade out after a while.

I want to add as many languages as I can get together. Help from you out there would be great.
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Version 3 is now available here
I’ve made a few changes to my polar clock to make it clearer to read, and now there’s also a PC installer

UPDATE:
Version 3 is now available here

View Polar Clock

Download Screensaver for Mac OS X only.

I’ve just put this together as a bit of a test of some drawing API extensions I wrote a while ago. All the shapes are drawn with code, corner rounding curves are achieved using the ‘capStyle’ argument when setting the lineStyle, easy as that! The colour of each ring is based on an HSL colourwheel.

I was looking about for a C64 soundtrack today, from Last Ninja, and I found this.

First, you need SIDPlay (Universal for OSX) (c64 music was stored as .sid files), then download the massive High Voltage SID Collection.

SIDPlay will export to MP3/AIFF and even C64 executables (PRG).

Brings back some memories!!

Computers Behind Blogs pool on flickr.

Just found this http://lab.mathieu-badimon.com/

Some serious work has gone into the vector-renderer under the bonnet of this one! Good stuff

I went down to the tate modern today, and spent quite a few hours playing on the slides, they are brilliant!

For more info, visit the Tate Modern site