Author Archives: michelle
Here is an implementation of clustering and dendrogram display in Javascript, with the help of Google Spreadsheets, YQL, Web Workers, node.js, Heroku, and Cloud9IDE. For the Magic the Gathering fans – there’s a shiny new tree of dragons, and also this old thing (with its original tree) which you may find amusing :)
The Royal Institution have kindly posted many of their Christmas Lectures online as free webcasts. The lectures have been taking place since 1825, and on tv since 1966; the collection on the RI site is not complete but there are plenty to watch. For convenience we’ve collected links to the episodes that we could find, […]
There are several ways to show generated graphical content on web pages. Macromedia’s Adobe’s Flash has been threatening ubiquity for years, while open alternatives like SVG have not yet really found their stride (although Inkscape is nifty!). Microsoft’s Silverlight is under rapid development, although people seem generally wary of it and cross-platform support is weak. […]
It’s surprising how much you can do with CSS these days. If you ignore IE < 9 anyway. One thing and another led to this HTC Desire in CSS3.
From an idea, to SVG, to Ponoko, to holding up a mug of tea and entertaining the mathematicians. A very small taste of the maker revolution ;) Here is a little story of our Escher lizards coasters.
This is the new home for our project writeups and peculiar ramblings. There’s a bit of a backlog of stuff which will be appearing over the next few weeks. Expect a mixture of code, craft, and fish :)