Irgendwas geht da vor sich und ich will natürlich mit von der Partie sein. Im Newsreader ist heute diese Meldung aufgetaucht und natürlich mach ich da mit. Also nochmal für alle:

• Grab the nearest book.
• Open it to page 56.
• Find the fifth sentence.
• Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
• Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

Und hier ist mein Satz aus dem Buch “Fliegende Fetzen” vom Goldmann-Verlag, das Buch lag als vorderstes im Bücherregal:

"Nun ... ich meine ... du weißt schon ... Frauen und so ..."

Last week I came across several IT news articles announcing the final release of the programming environment Processing 1.0.

This environment/language has the goal to bring simple programming and data visualization to everyone, even the not-so-technical folks.

My first attempt to create something with Processing was inspired by my current work on physics at campus: A simulation of charged particles and their interaction through the Coulomb force. Particles can be created by a simple click in the simulation window and they will have a random mass and charge assigned. If at least two particles are present in the simulation, they will start to attract each other and will gain momentum towards. Each further particle adds it's own force to all the other particles, creating a dynamic system of moving particles.

The latest source is available through Subversion at http://subversion.fladi.at/scratchpad/FladischerMichael/trunk/MagnetTest/.