A blog of Python-related topics and code.
Penrose Tiling #1
Posted by: christian on 23 May 2015
Penrose tiles are any of a set of plane figures which can be combined to tile the plane aperiodically (without translational symmetry). They were described by the British mathematician Roger Penrose in the 1970s.
Computer-generated Mondrian art #2
Posted by: christian on 15 May 2015
This is the second post on generating images which resemble Mondrian paintings. The first post described a procedural algorithm; here I'll introduce an object-oriented approach.
Computer-generated Mondrian art #1
Posted by: christian on 11 May 2015
Inspired by Michael Fogleman's blog post from 2011, here is a Python implementation of his algorithm for generating images which resemble the paintings of Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872 - 1944). A slightly different, object-oriented approach will be presented in a subsequent post.
Parenthesis matching in Python
Posted by: christian on 4 May 2015
Great language though it is, Python code can lead to statements with many, deeply-nested parentheses. Here's a little program with two functions to check that the parentheses in a string match and to find the locations of the matching parentheses.