Feb 20 2006
So Many Bees
I set up a Trac page for the handful of projects I’ve released out to the world. The one I’ve been messing with most recently is a Rails implementation of my favorite “make a bunch of bees fly around and gather nectar” project that I’ve part-way implemented in Perl and Python.
The overall projects page is at http://projects.lonelylion.com
One of the somewhat clever things I’m trying to do with this latest Rails’d version of Bees, is to use the Firefox / Safari canvas object.
I can’t believe how much basic geometry I’m forgotten. How do I find the distance between two points? How do I find the angle between two points? Given an angle and a distance, what’s the second point?
Yikes. I’ve been scouring the internet looking for a free resource to catch me up, but I can’t find any. If anyone has any advice, I’m all ears. Otherwise, I’m going to hit the used bookstore to see if they have any 8th grade geometry books.
