Imaging the Mandelbrot Set
Playing around with fractal images

Recently I had some spare time, and used it to create a program to render the Mandelbrot Set fractal. It has been a very cool problem to write a quick application for. I want to share what I have learned in case someone else wants to build something similar or just wants to know how cool fractal images can be created. The program itself is written in C# with WPF. It will run faster if done in C, and I am not using any features for the image generation that WPF is necessary for. The reason I chose C# with WPF was that I wanted to get some practice with them before I start my new job.

The inclusion of any complex number C in the Mandelbrot set is determined by applying the following algorithm to that point:
1. Set a complex number Z to 0
2. Square Z and ...

Instant Web Gallery
An easy static photograh site

For the last 15 years, my family has put their pictures up on a web server so that friends and families can browse through them. Unfortunately, the images that were put up were not well catalogued, and it was difficult ...

Caerphilly and London
Second part of the UK trip
Fun with Diff
and using Python to render Bitmaps

I was playing around with the Longest Common Subsequence algorithm (which is used, among other things, for the Diff utility) for another project that I hope to write about soon, and I noticed some interesting patterns. The LCS problem has ...