A world in dk(decay/denmark)

Having toyed around with J2ME for the freeVibes, I got a bit hooked on coding for the mobile phone.

So I started to recreate the classic oldskool game Xonix, it’s a game I really like. So simple and addictive. It’s not the first time I’m coding it, I have made it as an applet about a year ago (Xonix applet). As well as being a fun game to play I find it a fun game to code too. Though I have had my share of frustrations. The basic functionality is a fillalgorithm, that has to fill an area on both sides of the line / trail you make with the ‘pilot’. This has to be fast and efficient – nobody likes a game where you have to wait for updates.

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Finally the summer-holiday arrived, now its time to do some fun coding.

I bought myself a new mobile, a Nokia 6300, it’s got all the bells and whistles. Hmm well at least those I could afford. I choose this mobile because it has : Java, mp3 -player, bluetooth and memorycard.

• specifications from nokia
• review from mobilereview.com

I must admit that i might be a bit of a nerd, so I just had to code something for it. And after “hello world” I found a small and some would say useless application to code.

FreeVibes

I must say I got inspired by vibelet and the article in wired ( Hold the Phone, It’s a Sex Toy ). As the title suggest, its well vibrating. I think that vibelet – though i haven’t seen their program, must be making quite an profit. Because getting a java-enabled phone to vibrate constantly, is quite easy.

So now its Time for FreeVibes, a free software version.

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As mentioned before I’ve made a one dimensional Cellular Automata(CA). And although it was intriguing they quickly became very predictive. Actually it was in two dimensions. As the a y-coordinate represented time, but since the states were only depending an the adjacent neighbor’s to the right or left its considered to be one-dimensional.

But they are not as fascinating as CA’s where you expand the neighborhood to include all the eight adjacent cells. That’s called the Moore Neighborhood.

Representing the time dimension. As the intersting part is the evolution of the system, representing time is essential. With a two-dimensional CA it has to be done using animations, and who doesn’t like blinking pixels. This makes CA’s makes even more fun. Continue reading ‘Cellular Automata II’ »