Old Man By the Sea

  MOO SHALL NOT PASS!!! A trip to Llyn Bargof can be quite an experience. The rules of the walk to the lake are thus: The cows will determine whether you proceed. See rule 1. Suffice to say, we turned around and went the other way!

  I didn't! On a walk around Aberdyfi village in the summer a couple of years ago I stumbled across the Tides Inn bin. This old geezer doesn't always follow the rules, but this time he did! I kind of feared the consequences somewhat!

Earth Disco! Sometimes the Earth is just one big party! let x = 200; let y = 200; let size; let palette = ['#1cb9e4','#e4d086','#142c44','#5b64b1','#d0aed8', '#34291c']; let p; function setup() { createCanvas(400, 400); frameRate(5); angleMode(DEGREES); } function draw() { background(0); noStroke(); p = floor(random(palette.length)); for (let k = 7; k

An example of the Motion Binding Illusion. The below animation looks like it is four lines moving but is actually one square moving in a circle! You can see for yourself by hovering over the animation and holding down your left mouse button And here is the code: let x = 200; let y = 200; let t = 0 function setup() { createCanvas(400, 400); rectMode(CENTER); } function draw() { background(255); strokeWeight(10); stroke('blue'); x = 200 + 10 * cos(t); y = 200 + 10 * sin(t); rect(x,y,100,100); if(!mouseIsPressed){ noStroke(); fill(255); rect(150,150, 50,50); rect(250,150, 50, 50); rect(150,250, 50, 50); rect(250, 250, 50, 50); }

The View from the Shelter On a fine day you will often find my wife and I sitting in the shelter in Penhelig Park Gardens, adjacent to Penhelig Terrace, eating a picnic and sipping wine before strolling down to the beach for a walk along the dunes.   

In the late 1970s, and early 1980s, kids science programmes were filled with these kind of animations. They were always hyped as "The Future of Computer Graphics". Fifty years later and we have 8K screens showing bazillions of pixels, graphics that blow you away and some even think FDVR is around the corner. But, for nostalgia, nothing beats the feeling that these kind of things invoked in me all those years ago. If you want to see the code:  https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2858706

When I'm not walking along the beach at Aberdyfi, I like to code in p5js . This is an example of White's Illusion. The two squares are the same colour. Below is the code to make it yourself. function setup() { createCanvas(400, 400); noStroke(); } function draw() { background(0); fill('blue'); rect(250,50, 100,100); fill(255); rect(0,200,400,200); fill('blue'); rect(50, 250, 100, 100); for (let i=0; i < 210; i+=20){ fill(255); rect(0,i, 400, 10); } for (let i = 210; i< 400; i+=20){ fill(0); rect(0,i, 400, 10); } }

A Winter's Sunset On a mild December afternoon along the Dyfi estuary - a place known for its striking winter sunsets - I was lucky enough to capture this stunning moment. The beach walk from Aberdyfi to Tywyn can often be windy and chilly during the winter months, but conditions that day were just right. A bottle of wine to salute the sunset was the perfect addition.