Dev
This page contains a brief synopsis of each of my completed projects to date. Each project has its own dedicated page with a more in depth explanation of the project, some development history and help or instructions on how you can operate them yourself.
If you're having trouble running any of my projects you should check out this quick guide.
This project, or a project like it, has been at the back of my mind for a very long time now. The oldest project on this website is a testament to that.
The project simulates many individual "swimmers" each with a genome dictating their senses and abilities, competing for food. Swimmers can move about and interact with any other entity in the simulation, and are only capable of reacting to information they can sense, including information about themselves.
Please note that the animated GIFs may take a while to load in the images below.
More Information & Development Log.
Source Code: Github
This website is both a platform through which to display my work and also an example in itself. Apart from the inclusion of JQuery.js and lightbox.js, it is all my own work.
The website uses HTML and CSS for the content and style, JavaScript to add an interactive element to the site and PHP, mainly for code reuse but also for a small quantity of server-side logic.
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Source Code: Github
This project represents the fluid portion of a marine plankton ecological model I worked on for my dissertation. The project shows a 2D simulation of an incompressible fluid. The user can interact with the fluid in a similar manner to putting your hand in water and sloshing it about.
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Try it yourself: FluidApp.jar
Source code (MIT License): Github
This project creates an image which contains exactly one pixel of each 255 RGB colour, then you load an image of your own and it evolves the every RGB image to match your own image as closely as possible.
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Try it yourself: allRGB.jar
Source code (MIT License): Github
The program is a complex genetic algorithm where the fitness function is represented by how many offspring a plant can have in a simulated environment. The result is a dynamic field of growing and reproducing plants that gradually evolve into forms which allow them to outcompete their neighbours.
The more recent builds are experimental and may contain bugs but if you're interested they can be downloaded from the 'Development Log' section.
More Information, Help & Development Log.
Try it yourself: Evolving-Plants.jar
Source code (MIT License): Github
This project tackles the famous travelling salesman problem. The aim is to work out the shortest way to travel between a number of cities, visiting each only once. This is one of my more simple projects, the code is highly documented and it is quick and easy to interact with.
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Try it yourself: Salesman.jar
Source code (MIT License): Github
This project combines the hiding of information in images alongside the encryption of information. Using a neural network it hashes each character in a message and then integrates the binary data into the image in a way that doesn't noticeably disrupt the image colours. The nature of the hashing attempts to disguise the data as random noise, which in theory makes the hidden message undetectable. Unfortunately, due to image compression, the lack of uniformity or pattern can actually make it obvious, i.e. the presence of random noise where there should be none is suspicious.
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Try it yourself: Encrypt.jar
Source code (MIT License): Github
This project is based on the classic arcade game PONG and came about as a 1 hour programming challenge.
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Try it yourself: Pong.jar
Source code (MIT License): Github
>This is one of my oldest Java projects and has gone through a number of large changes. It is my most ambitious game based project to date and it still has some way to go.
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Try it yourself: HexNations.jar
Source code (MIT License): Github
Coming soon.