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this little sketch was developed more on chance than on purpose, I was playing around with sin waves and visualizations of fft-spectra when I came up with this - It reminds me a bit on my first experiments with sine and cosine on my old Atari ST.

Just click on the sketch move the mouse

click here to start the sketch or download the sourcecode.

I made some aimated neon 3d linegrid in processing, very retro-style.

It uses no openGL - only lines, just as i would have coded it in Basic on my Atari :-)

click here to see it!

For todays 30daysOfCreativity-Project I wanted to use a tool, that I haven't used so far. So I went back to the first programming language I have learned 20 years ago - Logo.

I used the kde KTurtle programm to write some logo code, which looks more like a modern IDE that the logo interpreter I remember :-)

reset
clear
$l = 1
repeat 64 {
  pu
  fw $l*2
    pd
  repeat 4 {
        fw $l
        tr 90
    }
  pu
  bw $l*2
    $l = $l + 1
    tr 360/32
}

Today i was visiting the Technical Museum of Vienna and while standing in front of favourite exhibit - the Mailüfterl which is
the first european full transistorized computer - i thought it would be cool to see some code running on this machine.

back home i googled a bit and - tata - someone has written a emulator of the mailüfterl!

note: the image is from Wikipedia and was shot by Florian Staudacher and was licenced under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported