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Processing
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Processing is a Java-based language, designed to create graphical interfaces. It's great for cobbling together neat visual effects.
Python
The US, as seen by GOES-East
Live view of the USA

Python is a fun, simple language to write in. Without any extentions, Python excels at text manipulation, but modules such as Pygame extend Python to do almost anything.
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Linux
Enter Puck

World's worst RNG.

By Ben Nitkin on

I've been working on a USA medallion recently, and wanted to add a flickering effect. Something to make the lights twinkle randomly. That's not too hard on a real PC, where resources are cheap. But the ATTiny 44 I'm working on has only 128 bytes of ram. (That's 1/8th of a kilobyte, which is 1/1000th of a megabyte, which is itself 1/1000th of a gigabyte, which is what your computer has.)

Most of the RNG's around need 4 bytes or so for storage, and more for calculation. Mine doesn't! (It's also not very random, but you can't have everything for free.)

Just a little kludge

By Ben Nitkin on

[ben@Puck ~]$ curl -ff nitkin.net/play && find Public/iTunes\ Music -iname "*`curl nitkin.net/help`*.*" -exec open -a itunes '{}' \;

Nothing much - just a script that I threw together in 30 minutes. If you speak computer, it'll be simple enough to read. But it's going to be a secret for now.