Top-rated recipes by FB36 http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172570/top/2017-06-06T03:48:09-07:00ActiveState Code RecipesA-star Shortest Path Algorithm (C++)
2010-12-25T23:36:35-08:00FB36http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172570/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577457-a-star-shortest-path-algorithm/
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C++
recipe 577457
by <a href="/recipes/users/4172570/">FB36</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/algorithm/">algorithm</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/algorithms/">algorithms</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/game/">game</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/graph/">graph</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/graphs/">graphs</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/routes/">routes</a>).
Revision 4.
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<p>A-star (A*) is a shortest path algorithm widely used for RTS games, GPS navigation etc.</p>
Convert CSV to XML (Python)
2010-10-11T06:20:19-07:00FB36http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172570/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577423-convert-csv-to-xml/
<p style="color: grey">
Python
recipe 577423
by <a href="/recipes/users/4172570/">FB36</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/csv/">csv</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/xml/">xml</a>).
</p>
<p>Convert CSV to XML.</p>
Mandelbrot fractal using PIL (Python)
2010-03-26T04:39:46-07:00FB36http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172570/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577111-mandelbrot-fractal-using-pil/
<p style="color: grey">
Python
recipe 577111
by <a href="/recipes/users/4172570/">FB36</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/fractal/">fractal</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/graphics/">graphics</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/image/">image</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/math/">math</a>).
Revision 2.
</p>
<p>Mandelbrot fractal using Python Image Library (PIL).</p>
Archimedes method for calculating PI (Python)
2009-12-09T15:13:09-08:00FB36http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172570/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576981-archimedes-method-for-calculating-pi/
<p style="color: grey">
Python
recipe 576981
by <a href="/recipes/users/4172570/">FB36</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/math/">math</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pi/">pi</a>).
</p>
<p>Archimedes method for calculating PI.</p>
Interactive Mandelbrot Fractal Using HTML5 Canvas (JavaScript)
2017-06-06T03:48:09-07:00FB36http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172570/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580804-interactive-mandelbrot-fractal-using-html5-canvas/
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JavaScript
recipe 580804
by <a href="/recipes/users/4172570/">FB36</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/canvas/">canvas</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/fractal/">fractal</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/graphics/">graphics</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/math/">math</a>).
</p>
<p>Interactive Mandelbrot Fractal Using HTML5 Canvas.</p>
<p>(Download and save as html file and open it.)</p>
<p>(Tested only using Firefox browser.)</p>
Quasicrystal Pattern Generator (Python)
2015-08-08T20:50:23-07:00FB36http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172570/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/579094-quasicrystal-pattern-generator/
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Python
recipe 579094
by <a href="/recipes/users/4172570/">FB36</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/fractal/">fractal</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/graphics/">graphics</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/image/">image</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/images/">images</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/math/">math</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/mathematics/">mathematics</a>).
</p>
<p>Quasicrystal Pattern Generator</p>
Random Spiral Fractals (Python)
2013-09-29T05:35:20-07:00FB36http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172570/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578658-random-spiral-fractals/
<p style="color: grey">
Python
recipe 578658
by <a href="/recipes/users/4172570/">FB36</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/fractal/">fractal</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/math/">math</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/mathematics/">mathematics</a>).
Revision 2.
</p>
<p>This based on another of my posted codes, titled "Spiral IFS Fractals".</p>
Bilinear Interpolation (Python)
2013-02-23T04:00:52-08:00FB36http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172570/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578469-bilinear-interpolation/
<p style="color: grey">
Python
recipe 578469
by <a href="/recipes/users/4172570/">FB36</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/graphics/">graphics</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/image/">image</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/math/">math</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/mathematics/">mathematics</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pil/">pil</a>).
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<p>Creates a surface from a grid of random numbers using Bilinear Interpolation.</p>
Bezier Curve using De Casteljau algorithm (Python)
2011-11-25T02:33:54-08:00FB36http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172570/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577961-bezier-curve-using-de-casteljau-algorithm/
<p style="color: grey">
Python
recipe 577961
by <a href="/recipes/users/4172570/">FB36</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/graphics/">graphics</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/image/">image</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/math/">math</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/mathematics/">mathematics</a>).
</p>
<p>Draws a random Bezier Curve using De Casteljau algorithm.</p>
Tetration Fractal (Python)
2011-10-24T02:55:08-07:00FB36http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172570/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577917-tetration-fractal/
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Python
recipe 577917
by <a href="/recipes/users/4172570/">FB36</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/fractal/">fractal</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/math/">math</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/mathematics/">mathematics</a>).
</p>
<p>Tetration Fractal.</p>
Multi-threaded Mandelbrot Fractal (Python)
2011-05-01T17:33:20-07:00FB36http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172570/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577680-multi-threaded-mandelbrot-fractal/
<p style="color: grey">
Python
recipe 577680
by <a href="/recipes/users/4172570/">FB36</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/fractal/">fractal</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/graphics/">graphics</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/image/">image</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/math/">math</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/mathematics/">mathematics</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/thread/">thread</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/threading/">threading</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/threads/">threads</a>).
Revision 3.
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<p>Multi-threaded Mandelbrot Fractal.</p>
Shannon Entropy Calculation (Python)
2010-11-29T08:37:34-08:00FB36http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172570/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577476-shannon-entropy-calculation/
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Python
recipe 577476
by <a href="/recipes/users/4172570/">FB36</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/math/">math</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/mathematics/">mathematics</a>).
</p>
<p>Shannon entropy of a string indicates minimum average number of bits per symbol required for encoding (compressing) the string.</p>
Image Downloader (Python)
2014-02-24T03:49:51-08:00FB36http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172570/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577385-image-downloader/
<p style="color: grey">
Python
recipe 577385
by <a href="/recipes/users/4172570/">FB36</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/html/">html</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/http/">http</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/url/">url</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/urllib2/">urllib2</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/web/">web</a>).
Revision 4.
</p>
<p>Finds and downloads all images from any given URL.</p>
<p>Important note:</p>
<p>If your download location path has spaces then put quotes around it!</p>
Sierpinski Triangle Fractal using HTML5 Canvas (JavaScript)
2010-07-07T15:07:30-07:00FB36http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172570/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577294-sierpinski-triangle-fractal-using-html5-canvas/
<p style="color: grey">
JavaScript
recipe 577294
by <a href="/recipes/users/4172570/">FB36</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/fractal/">fractal</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/image/">image</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/math/">math</a>).
</p>
<p>Sierpinski Triangle Fractal using Line Automaton (1D CA).
The 1D CA rule used is actually Pascal's Triangle Mod 2.
Tested only using Firefox 3.5.</p>
Image to ASCII Art Converter (Python)
2016-09-25T21:24:12-07:00FB36http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172570/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580702-image-to-ascii-art-converter/
<p style="color: grey">
Python
recipe 580702
by <a href="/recipes/users/4172570/">FB36</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/graphics/">graphics</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/image/">image</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/images/">images</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pil/">pil</a>).
</p>
<p>ASCII Art Generator (Image to ASCII Art Converter)</p>
<p>Input file maybe JPG, PNG, GIF etc.
Output file name maybe output.txt etc.</p>
Reversi Othello (Python)
2016-09-19T18:03:09-07:00FB36http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172570/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580698-reversi-othello/
<p style="color: grey">
Python
recipe 580698
by <a href="/recipes/users/4172570/">FB36</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/ai/">ai</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/algorithm/">algorithm</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/algorithms/">algorithms</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/game/">game</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/games/">games</a>).
</p>
<p>Reversi/Othello Board Game using Minimax, Alpha-Beta Pruning, Negamax, Negascout algorithms.</p>
Image Projection Onto Sphere (Python)
2016-07-31T22:50:28-07:00FB36http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172570/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580695-image-projection-onto-sphere/
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Python
recipe 580695
by <a href="/recipes/users/4172570/">FB36</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/graphics/">graphics</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/image/">image</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/images/">images</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/image_processing/">image_processing</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/imaging/">imaging</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/math/">math</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/mathematics/">mathematics</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pil/">pil</a>).
</p>
<p>Image projection onto sphere using Equirectangular map projection.</p>
<p>Download the test image from the Wikipedia page!</p>
Hamming Error Correction Code (Python)
2016-07-23T07:58:14-07:00FB36http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172570/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580691-hamming-error-correction-code/
<p style="color: grey">
Python
recipe 580691
by <a href="/recipes/users/4172570/">FB36</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/encoding/">encoding</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/engineering/">engineering</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/math/">math</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/mathematics/">mathematics</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/utility/">utility</a>).
</p>
<p>Hamming(7,4) Error Correction Code (ECC).</p>
Infix Expression Evaluation (Python)
2015-11-08T05:08:26-08:00FB36http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172570/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/579123-infix-expression-evaluation/
<p style="color: grey">
Python
recipe 579123
by <a href="/recipes/users/4172570/">FB36</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/algorithm/">algorithm</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/algorithms/">algorithms</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/math/">math</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/mathematics/">mathematics</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/stack/">stack</a>).
</p>
<p>Infix expression evaluation using two stacks.</p>
Mandelbrot Fractal image output to ppm file (Python)
2015-01-17T19:21:47-08:00FB36http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172570/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/579006-mandelbrot-fractal-image-output-to-ppm-file/
<p style="color: grey">
Python
recipe 579006
by <a href="/recipes/users/4172570/">FB36</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/fractal/">fractal</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/image/">image</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/images/">images</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/math/">math</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/mathematics/">mathematics</a>).
</p>
<p>It creates image output without using any external library.</p>
<p>PPM image files can be viewed and converted to other image file formats using many applications, GIMP or IrfanView for example.</p>