After seeing this talk by Will Wright and Brian Eno on generative systems, I started playing around with Cellular Automata. I remembered this post on using flash's bitmap filters to do all the calculations for Cellular Automata, so I wrote my own version, just for the hell of it.

A couple of gotcha's that held me up:

• When setting pixel values in a BitmapData object with transparency enabled, the color will be set to 0x000000 when the alpha is 0, no matter what color you actually passed in.
• On the other hand, with transparency disabled, the alpha value of pixels will always be set to 0xFF.
  

Alrighty then, the site is finally back up after my former host imploded. I lost about 6 months of data, but since I hardly ever update, that was only like 1 or 2 posts. I'm now hosting with logjamming, who have been pretty sweet so far.

Anyway, I'll slowly be adding the old sections back in. Some of the links in older posts might not work for a while.

This time around, I'm using several libraries instead of building everything from scratch. The site is now built on CakePHP, an MVC framework for PHP. To bring some sanity to javascript, I'm using the MooTools javascript library. I'm also using tinyMCE for rich text editing and reCaptcha for fighting those pesky spam bots.

One new section I've added is CityGuesser, a game where you try to guess the US city based on a satellite photo. It was created using the Google Maps API.

Here's a little game mechanic I've been playing with.

PlaneLoader has been updated to version 1.1. There's now a tutorial and a couple more sorting methods.

I also added Big McLargeHuge, which will be lost on anyone who doesn't watch MSTSK MST3K.

I just finish PlaneLoader, and wouldn' t you know it, Someone copied me. In the past. Also, I am stupid because I am not smart. And my farts smell bad. I would appreciate it if everyone posted about how much they hate me. Thank you. My brother is a big fat jerk.