daniel shiffman

My “safe for space travel” blue ant farm is alive and kicking only sadly, I’m still waiting for actual crawly ants to arrive in the mail. But the software is ready: a Processing app saves an image of the ants every 5 seconds (which i hope to dump in some uber ant farm [...]

Michael Schneider, Chris Ault, and I are installing some interactive works in a new health clinic at the Harlem Children’s Zone which is set to open next week.

If you look at my nature of code flocking example, you’ll notice that the algorithm involves calculating the distance between all of the system’s elements, i.e. for every “boid”, check and see how far away it is from every other boid. This works quite well for, say, around 100 elements.
100 x 100 = 10,000 [...]