Generative ebook covers

A fun article on generative graphics.

PStricks and TeX

Graphics in Tex can do some amazing things: here's a library that builds figures for chemical lab setups (that are beautiful!) and here is a graphical description language for embedding in TeX.

Using D3 to produce SVG

More graphics stuff.

OpenCV

http://opencv.org/ is the open-source computer vision library I keep hearing about. There's currently a Kickstarter up for using it to interpret hand drawings of a mobile UI and generate the UI skeleton, which begs the question - couldn't I use it for sketches and concept maps?

I don't see why not!

svg.js

A lightweight library for manipulating SVG in JS.

RRDTool

A useful utility for working with and graphing time series.

Random Turing machine simulator

This is really cool (the link goes to a configuration I like a lot, but you can randomly generate your own as well).

Here are some more I like: this, this, this, this, this, this, this!, this, this.  This.  This, this, this.

There's a thin range between excessive order and sheer chaos that makes the best patterns.

Geometee

Cool. Parameterized drawings and knobs to twiddle the parameters.

Cmx.io

A cartoon renderer for the generation of XKCD-style comics.

Mouse path smoothing in JS

This kind of article is always cool.

Census dotmap

A guy took the recent census data (by block) and plotted one dot in the United States (except Puerto Rico) for each person.  Randomly located within the block in question, because the census data is no more accurate than that.

The result is a pretty cool map.

IBNIZ

Very weird stack-based video/audio generator tool.

Regexper.com

Neat! Regexper.com lets you enter a regexp and it shows you a really nice graphical rendering of the language it matches.  I like everything about it!

Moonbase: animation builder

This looks cute!

Fun with graphics and music

Exhibit one, the Aphex face. Exhibit two, some music I like better, with an oscilloscope.

SVGO SVG optimizer

This is kinda neat.

Understanding Fourier transforms

An intuitive explanation of Fourier transforms, with comments contributing two different animations.  That's the kind of thing I like to see humanity doing!

JavaScript goodies

I love this stuff.

• Organic motion in bubbles using various trig functions
• Scrubby lets you adjust numeric constants in code and see the results immediately.  Very fun!

MathBox

Another in-depth article from Steve Wittens, about animation, GL, and JavaScript.

Factorization diagrams

Remember those factorization diagrams in Haskell a couple weeks ago?  These guys animated them, which makes them much, much cooler.

Oh, Zemanta, very nice!  The followup article by the guy who wrote the Haskell article, listing all the zany things the Internet did with them!  Zemanta seems to be pretty liberal about "related articles", and I really don't like how they format related articles if you let them do it for you - but once in a while they find something extremely relevant.