Digital Art

Snurkel

davidw — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:12:06 GMT

From Arnaud, a fun program that shows you how scroll text can be made to follow a user defined path ... make it curvy for extra fun!

Around 250 lines of code

MandelbrotTria

davidw — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:51:01 GMT

From MichaelH, this programs designs a glowing, and continuously changing image of the Mandelbrot fractal

Pas de Deux, from Jamey

davidw — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 00:35:32 GMT

Another nice program from Jamey, winner of our January contest! Also install the fur elise .wav file for the soundover.

Spinning Orbs Digital Art

Walt Morrison — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 02:22:39 GMT

This program was created by Larry Serflaten and is a great example of cool digital art

Graffiti, put your mark on the wall

Walt Morrison — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:59:35 GMT

Thanks Jamey, another great toy that is very interesting and fun!

Phrogram Slideshow Program

JonS — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:26:51 GMT

Jamey just sent me a great followup to this example - thanks again, Jamey! This simpler example uses a text file to define the list of images to load and display - a much better way to do it than just hardcoding the file names in the program!

Here's her code. Check it out: a slide show program in 11 simple, english-language instructions! Jamey is the master of maximum function with minimum, simple code!

Program Slideshow

Method Main ( )

Define Slide As Sprite

Define List As TextInputFile

Define Title As String

List = OpenTextFile ( "List.txt" )

While Not List.EndOfFile

Title = List.ReadLine ( )

Slide.Load ( Title )

Slide.Show ( )

Delay ( 3000 )

End While

List.Close ( )

End Method

End Program

So - anyone have time to put Jamey's file list enhancement into the ImageViewer example and upload it?

Phrogram Image Viewer Example

JonS — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:24:20 GMT

This is a program that displays a series of image files - photos or digital art. It allows the viewer to control moving between the images, to zoom in or out, and pan around the image.

KPL version: Phrogram
Difficulty: Intermediate
Concepts: Arrays, Sprites, mouse handling, pushable buttons
Lines of code: 175
Author: Jon Schwartz

For the moment, the image filenames need to be listed in code, and the array of filenames sized to match.

The zip file with source code is 2 megs in size mainly because I've included 21 thumbnail images of Charles Csuri's cool digital art - see csuri.com/. The phrogram also works very well with high-quality digital photos, which allow lots of room for zooming and panning. I didn't use those with this example because they're so large they made the ZIP file huge, even with only 3 photos!

The idea, of course, is for you to be able to put your own images or photos in here and play with them - you can do that by

1) copying your files into the folder where you unzip this phrogram,

2) changing the filenames to match yours, and then

3) changing the length of the array to match the number of images you want to use.

4) Click run, and you can play with your own art or photos!

Future additions to the Phrogram libraries will make this an even more interesting example:

First, we'll add a "directory" object to the class library, which will mean that we can detect the images files automatically rather than hard-code them in the phrogram as this example does.

Second, we'll allow a programmer to choose whether or not to embed image and other resources within a KPL exe file. At the moment, as in this example, those are usable only as files external to the EXE.

Phrogram: Shakespearean Insult Generator

Admin — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:20:47 GMT

214,000 unique insults, from The Bard to you!