Experimenting with Pypy, I wanted to try Panda3D - while its WHL builds OK,

attempting to install it generates an error about the platform -

$ pip install ./panda3d-1.10.0-cp35-cp35m-linux_x86_64.whl
panda3d-1.10.0-cp35-cp35m-linux_x86_64.whl is not a supported wheel on this platform.

Pypys CPython support keeps improving so I wanted to …

Started a script to download Pypy nightly builds and create virtualenvs for them.

https://gist.github.com/stuaxo/5d4c0363317a875617271a6d424abbba

Virtualenvs are at \~/.virtualenvs where virtualenvwrapper can find them and named by pypy branch - e.g.

pypy-nightly-trunk
pypy-nightly-py3.5

Downloads only happen when there are new builds, and will resume if …

Here is a pic from my first VJ outing, for Dronetronics, in Taipei, back in December.

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Lars from Dronetronics got in contact 2 hours before the gig, to see if I had anything for a gig at a studio not far away.   I …

Initial versions of all the parts of my music vis / VJ tool are now in place:

The midi controller connected to a python program, which sends OSC to the separate music vis (still the smilies).

Now, I need to go back and rebuild/polish some of the more prototypey bits …

I've been pretty busy so far doing laying the groundwork for my audiovisual project. I've got the architecture worked out, so ones this stage 0 is complete I can start coding it.

Uploaded, 2 videos using shoebot... 4 others waiting to be uploaded.

Soft Released:

vext

https://github.com/stuaxo …

Todays daily graphic I'm getting familiar with grids (in shoebot), Vector maths from the planar library .. this started from the grid example from shoebot / nodebox.

Shoebot Code Below the fold

``` {: .brush:python} """ Grid of arrows that point towards the mouse pointer.

Uses planar library for Vec2, angles. """

Based on grid- …

Not sure how practical it is, but will try and upload a new graphic everyday .. to start with will probably be quite basic :) Here is the first, some moving granular thingies..

Shoebot code:

``` {: .brush:python} import random from math import sin, cos

size(800, 800) colours=ximport("colors")

def draw …

Note to self - to install LLVMPY, you need to use LLVM 3.3 still

$ LLVM_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/bin/llvm-config-3.3 pip install llvmpy

Playing with python, zeromq and Gtk, I made this code to send graphics commands to several windows.

Commands are sent over a zeromq PUB socket, the windows recieve them using zeromq SUB.

Only a few commands are wrapped as it's a proof of concept.

I'll clean it up and abstract …

Perlin noise is pretty cool, you can use it to generate realistic looking clouds or mountains.

Here's a bot for shoebot I made a while back that uses perlin noise to generate some nice circles.

You'll need shoebot and the lib "noise" installed into your environment for it to work …