iestyn.net » application http://www.iestyn.net/wp "the concrete world is starting to get ya." Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:27:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Weather Pro – iPhone http://www.iestyn.net/wp/2009/07/08/weather-pro-iphone http://www.iestyn.net/wp/2009/07/08/weather-pro-iphone#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:44:52 +0000 Iestyn http://www.iestyn.net/wp/?p=500 Since I was young I’ve always been interested in the weather, no doubt instilled by my father’s experience at the Met Office. I fondly remember poring over cloud charts, and having isobars, warm fronts, and cold fronts explained, although I must admit I haven’t retained much knowledge of that. When a  storm-chasing colleage of mine recently showed me Weather Pro, I was rather taken by the satellite and radar views of Europe. Sadly no isobars here, but there are rather nice animated satellite and radar maps:

Satellite Radar

It’s also a pretty handy gague of the weather each day, with a forecast for your location every 3 hours:

Weather Pro

I’ve recently found this app very handy, what with our typical unsettled British summer! My iPhone wakes me up in the morning, I check Twitter, check BBC News, check my email, check the weather so I know what to wear, then get up. I’d be lost without my iPhone..

So in summary, Weather pro is OK. It’s nothing special, only covers Europe, and the satellite and radar views are chronologcally a little short. It does the job though. I wouldn’t mind finding a better weather app. If you know of one, let me know!

]]> http://www.iestyn.net/wp/2009/07/08/weather-pro-iphone/feed 0 Generative art application – project screenshots http://www.iestyn.net/wp/2009/05/04/generative-art-application-screenshots http://www.iestyn.net/wp/2009/05/04/generative-art-application-screenshots#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 16:54:27 +0000 Iestyn http://www.iestyn.net/wp/?p=362 Since being inspired by Matt’s generative art session at Flashbrighton a while back,  I’ve been occasionally working on a personal project. It’s a Flex application where you can generate interesting abstract images and animations. It’s tricky to describe exactly what it is and what it does, so you can see for yourselves when I release it.

It was initially a simple idea of mine to see what something looked like when manipulated in a certain way. After playing around with it for a while and adding more functionality, I began finding myself entranced by the things I/it was accidentally creating. When I’ve added a bit more functionality I’ll release it and see if anyone else finds it as intriguing as I do :)

If you’re interested in helping me alpha-test this, then let me know.

[Edit: By the way, it's using Papervision]

Here’s some screenshots:

Red
red

 

Lines
lines 

 

Rainbow
rainbow

 

Distribution
distribution 

 

Browns
browns 

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