Posted on October 15th, 2007 by headwedge
A couple of Data Flow Diagrams quickly showed me that the extreme pull method for pixel subscriber results in way too much coupling and that the extreme push model for pixel data using an intelligent data wrapper in the form of PixelSpace remains the best approach.
But, when large pixel arrays are displayed at the single [...]
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Posted on October 4th, 2007 by headwedge
Any non-trivial application needs to examine concurrency with a data flow diagram (DFD) [link], [link] and it seems the requirments of meeting the spec are turning the pixel viewer into a ‘real’ application that presents mini versions of of classical ‘real world’ problems :)
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Posted on October 2nd, 2007 by headwedge
Background
I blame A.K.Dewdney or rather his regular ‘Mathematical Recreations’ section at the back of Scientific American in the late 1980’s. The concepts were accesible and the coding required managable. Thus, I became quite obsessed with writing Cellular Automata code. For the same reasons I think it’s time to resurrect my interest and translate those early [...]
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