4th August

August 4th, 2007

Following the creation of a sort of aviary enclosure for the dovecote, and the subsequent danger of cats managing to get over the top, plans for a higher and improved part on top were made. Only they couldn’t work out what angle the frame uprights for the top section would lean at. I was posed the trigonometric puzzle and instead of trying to remember GCSE maths I simply went back to my MSN convo which happened to contain two maths students, one attending UCL and the other Bath University.

Needless to say I got a quick and easy answer by simply drawing a triangle and labelling some lengths using the Handwriting Tool usually reserved for drawing moronic pictures. But afterwards a thought occured to me that maybe, like the really boring app I made for AI and matrices and vectors I could make one for working out any angle or length of a triangle if you provide some others.

So there we are, a flash challenge to complete before I start a placement. http://www.clarku.edu/~djoyce/trig/oblique.html

While ‘exploring’ flickr pictures I came across a web designer’s blog http://www.distractedmind.com/ which was well worth reading. For example three posts that were immediately prominent were one about grunge effect vector graphics (design interest),

and 404 error pages (which should interest me).

Cool application:midi keyboard simulator thing from download.com