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PyPlants — Now with added dimensions

PyPlants has come on in leaps and bounds over the past few days (well, even­ings), and now from its new home as PyPlants on bit­bucket sports a com­pletely rewrit­ten ren­der­ing backend which is more mod­u­lar, should be really easy to plug into, and now sup­ports POV-Ray out of the box.
What’s that you say? A 3-D ray-tracer? …

Fri November 20, 2009 – 1:58 | By seb | Posted in Featured Articles, ideas, programming | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Procedural Plants in Python — Part 2

In the pre­vi­ous part of this art­icle we looked at the back­ground to L-Systems, and how they could be used for describ­ing self-similar bio­lo­gical sys­tems. In this part we’ll look at a sample imple­ment­a­tion of a very basic 2D L-System in Python, together with a basic PNG ren­derer using PyCairo.
This is an imple­ment­a­tion of a …

Mon November 16, 2009 – 0:43 | By seb | Posted in programming | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (1)

Procedural Plants in Python — Part 1

For a fledgling pro­ject idea, I’ve recently needed to work out how to draw plants pro­ced­ur­ally, and of course Python is my lan­guage of choice for some rapid pro­to­typ­ing. Whilst some richly-featured pro­fes­sional applic­a­tions exist for gen­er­at­ing flora in a pro­ced­ural fash­ion for high-end ren­der­ing, there are pre­cious few sys­tems avail­able for the kind of …

Sun November 15, 2009 – 22:17 | By seb | Posted in programming | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Django Decorator for View Rate Limits

This is a handy little snip­pet that allows you to set rate lim­its for views in Django.

Thu September 25, 2008 – 2:05 | By seb | Posted in programming | Tagged , , | Comments Off