Sometimes we want a little color in our lives. Our BASH scripts might seem a little dull with white text on a black background. And, we can get tired of adding color manually to each script we make. So, I made a BASH color library to enhance scripts with colored text and colored text backgrounds. Not only is color fun, […]
Figlet – An Awesome Application for ASCII Word Art
Let’s say you are writing a script of some sort and you want to create a large text graphic in the header of your file. You think to yourself, self, I can use ASCII characters to draw it (ASCII art). Then you realize it takes a lot of time and effort to do. There has got to be a better […]
MAME: Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator – Download to Live Your Gaming Childhood
MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is an game emulation package that allows one to play legacy games from their childhood days. You must first download (install) a few things to get it to work. The mainstream versions are for Windows, MacOS, and Linux. We will focus on the Ubuntu/Linuxmint version. First, go to the MAME download page and setup to […]
L-System: Grow Complex Plants with Computer Graphics
In 1968, Aristid Lindenmayer, a Hungarian theoretical biologist and botanist, developed a model on how plants grow. The concept is simple but the expansion of a system can become complex. Here is the idea. A set of rules are used to “grow” the system. A –> ABA B–>BAC C–>AC We start with A. For the next iteration we get ABA […]